#FiveDesiFaves Roundup: Community Favorites for April 2022

Here’s a look at April’s #FiveDesiFaves that you all, the Desi Books community, made popular. Thank you.

Note: There are two sets below: website features and podcast features. Some may repeat. And, of course, they’re not always the ones published during this particular month.

#FiveDesiFaves — April 2022 community favorites on the website:

#DesiBooks10QA: Aamina Ahmad on how growing up around desi artist communities inspired her

#DesiBooksDiscourse: What SRK Fandom Tells Us About Women in Post-Liberalized India

#DesiBooksReview: Issue 2 Editor’s Note

#DesiBooksReco April 2022

#DesiReads: Buddhisagar reads from his novel, Karnali Blues, and Michael Hutt reads from the English translation

#FiveDesiFaves — April 2022 community favorites on podcast platforms:

#DesiBooksDiscourse: What SRK Fandom Tells Us About Women in Post-Liberalized India

#DesiReads: Geetanjali Shree reads from her novel, Ret Samadhi, and Daisy Rockwell reads from her translation of it, Tomb of Sand

#DesiReads: Buddhisagar reads from his novel, Karnali Blues, and Michael Hutt reads from the English translation

#DesiCraftChat: Tanaïs on creating new pathways to tell stories and histories and honor literary lineage

#FiveDesiFaves: Shafik Meghji shares the desi books that have influenced his travel writing

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