Ammi: Letter to a Democratic Mother

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Ammi: Letter to a Democratic Mother is a debut novel by Indian Director and script writer Saeed Akhtar Mirza. It takes the form of a letter written by Mirza to his late mother.


Ammi is a novel wrote upon a left perspective about Gujarat Riot's Immediately after Gujarat Riot's Saeed Akhtar Mirza had a revisit India which taught him about writing a letter to his late mom about his worries of nation, democracy, and existence.

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