-
#DesiBooksNews: An Important Update About Desi Books
#DesiBooksNews for February 02, 2023
-
#DesiBooksNews: Rhiya Pau asks what is worth holding onto and reads from her poetry collection, Routes
#DesiBooksNews for January 27, 2023
-
#DesiBooksNews: A poetry reading by Raena Shirali, and . . . where’s our #SlumdogMillionaireDiscourse?
#DesiBooksNews for January 20, 2023
-
#DesiBooksNews: here are ~20 new and notable books for January 2023
It’s that time of year again when we’re inundated with lists of new books. Looking through the usual such lists, you’d think that only two or three books by writers of South Asian origin were published or worth paying attention to. And you would be sadly mistaken.
-
#DesiBooksNews: Happy New Year, a poetry reading by Dipika Mukherjee, and some 2023 plans
A very happy new year to all of you. I hope 2023 brings us all that we strive for and hope for. And what better way to start the year at Desi Books than with a poetry reading? At the end of this newsletter, I mention some of what you might expect in 2023 so…
-
#DesiBooksReview 4: Editor’s Note
Editor’s Note by Jenny Bhatt for the fourth edition of #DesiBooksReview
-
#DesiBooksReview 4: Manju Kapur’s Quiet Novel about Women’s Lives in the Partition Resonates Deeper than Ever
Suhasini Patni reviews Difficult Daughters by Manju Kapur.
-
#DesiBooksReview 4: Lalithambika Antharjanam’s Heroines Fight for the Country but Not for Themselves
Veena Narayan reviews Agnisakshi by Lalithambika Antharjanam; translated by Vasanthi Sankaranarayanan.
-
#DesiBooksReview 4: Seventy-plus Years Later, Gulzar is Still Watching the Trail of Partition
Suswati Basu reviews Gulzar’s Footprints on Zero Line: Writings on the Partition.
-
#DesiBooksReview 4: The Present is But a Mirror Reflection of the Past in Ranbir Sidhu’s Partition Novel
Nidhi Shrivastava Farfaglia reviews Ranbir Sidhu’s novel, Dark Star.
Desi Books 