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#DesiBooks10QA: Sushma Subramanian on reconnecting with our sense of touch to live more fully
Sushma Subramanian discusses her latest book, How to Feel: The Science and Meaning of Touch, and her own favorite desi books in #DesiBooks10QA.
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#DesiBooks10QA: Pallavi Aiyar on taking a personal and journalistic view of Japan
Pallavi Aiyar discusses her latest book, Orienting: An Indian in Japan, and her own favorite desi books in #DesiBooks10QA.
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#DesiBooks10QA: Ari Gautier on going beyond the tourist brochures into Pondicherry’s rich past
Ari Gautier discusses his latest novel, The Thinnai (translated by Blake Smith), and his own favorite desi books in #DesiBooks10QA.
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#DesiBooks10QA: Catherine Menon on writing about secrets that fester through the generations
Catherine Menon discusses her latest novel, Fragile Monsters, and her own favorite desi books in #DesiBooks10QA.
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#DesiBooks10QA: Manan Kapoor on writing a biography about the poet, Agha Shahid Ali
Manan Kapoor discusses his latest book, A Map of Longings: The Life and Works of Agha Shahid Ali, and his own favorite desi books in #DesiBooks10QA.
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#DesiBooks10QA: Tarana Husain Khan on writing about women and girls in small-town India
Tarana Husain Khan discusses her latest book, The Begum and the Dastan, and her own favorite desi books in #DesiBooks10QA.
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#DesiBooks10QA: Rajiv Mohabir on his hybrid memoir and the Caribbean poets and writers who cleared a space for him
Rajiv Mohabir discusses his latest book, Antiman, and his own favorite desi books in #DesiBooks10QA.
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#DesiBooks10QA: Jessica Namakkal on how colonial projects like French India persist beyond decolonization
Jessica Namakkal discusses her latest book, Unsettling Utopia, 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.