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#DesiBooks10QA: Krish Ashok on cooking from first principles and not judging people’s food habits
Krish Ashok discusses his new book, Masala Lab: The Science of Indian Cooking, and his own favorite desi books on #DesiBooks10QA.
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#DesiBooks10QA: Torsa Ghosal on how the literary imagination influences thought and perception
Torsa Ghosal discusses her new book, Out of Mind: Mode, Mediation, and Cognition in Twenty-First-Century Narrative, and her own favorite desi books on #DesiBooks10QA.
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#DesiBooks10QA: Aruni Kashyap on writing to an absence and holding the state accountable
Aruni Kashyap discusses her new poetry collection, There Is No Good Time for Bad News, and his own favorite desi books on #DesiBooks10QA.
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#DesiBooks10QA: Reshma Ruia on stories that span continents and cultures
Reshma Ruia discusses her new story collection, Mrs. Pinto Drives to Happiness, and her own favorite desi books in #DesiBooks10QA.
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#DesiBooks10QA: Dibyajyoti Sarma on translating Indira Goswami’s Five Novellas About Women
Dibyajyoti Sarma discusses translating Indira Goswami’s Five Novellas About Women and his own favorite desi books in #DesiBooks10QA.
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#DesiBooks10QA: Anita Goveas on a new anthology from UK writers of the global majority
Anita Goveas discusses the new anthology, Where We Find Ourselves, and her own favorite desi books in #DesiBooks10QA.
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#DesiBooks10QA: Usman T. Malik on fable, fantasy, and the limitless imagination
Usman T. Malik discusses his latest book, Midnight Doorways: Fables from Pakistan, and his own favorite desi books in #DesiBooks10QA.
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#DesiBooks10QA: Mona Dash on what desi writers write or want to write about
Mona Dash discusses her latest book, Let Us Look Elsewhere, and her own favorite desi books in #DesiBooks10QA.
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#DesiBooks10QA: Sunil Shinde on writing about retracing a 200-year-old journey
Sunil Shinde discusses his latest book, From Cairo to Beirut: In the Footsteps of an 1839 Expedition Through the Holy Land, and his own favorite desi books in #DesiBooks10QA.
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#DesiBooks10QA: Koral Dasgupta on re-visioning the tired stereotypes of motherhood
Koral Dasgupta discusses her latest book, Kunti: The Sati Series II, and her own favorite desi books in #DesiBooks10QA.
#DesiBooks10QA
A text interview series with writers, poets, and translators about their latest books and their favorite desi books. After the ‘By the Book’ New York Times series about writers on literature and the literary life . . . but with a desi twist.