Menaka Raman-Wilms

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Menaka Raman-Wilms is a Canadian writer, whose debut novel The Rooftop Garden was longlisted for the 2023 Giller Prize. [1]

She is a journalist for The Globe and Mail , for whom she currently hosts the daily news podcast The Decibel. [2]

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