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#FiveDesiFaves: Rani Shah on her favorite desi nonfiction
Hello and welcome to Episode 6 of DesiBooks — news and views about Desi literature from the world over. I’m your host, Jenny Bhatt. Thank you for tuning in. In today’s episode, in addition to the usual roundup of new notable desi books, short stories, poems, essays, interviews, awards, and more, we have our monthly…
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DesiCraftChat: Bishakh Som on the art and craft of the graphic memoir
Hello and welcome to Episode 5 of DesiBooks — news and views about Desi literature from the world over. I’m your host, Jenny Bhatt. Thank you for tuning in. In today’s episode, in addition to the usual roundup of new notable desi books, short stories, poems, essays, interviews, awards, and more, we have the graphic…
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#DesiLitBiz: Kamil Ahsan on editing the Desi Road Trips Issue of Barrelhouse Magazine
Hello and welcome to Episode 4 of DesiBooks — news and views about Desi literature from the world over. I’m your host, Jenny Bhatt. Thank you for tuning in. In today’s episode, in addition to the usual roundup of new notable desi books, short stories, poems, essays, interviews, awards, and more, we have Kamil Ahsan…
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Episode 3 General Updates
Hello and welcome to Episode 3 of DesiBooks — news and views about Desi literature from the world over. I’m your host, Jenny Bhatt. Thank you for tuning in. If this is your first listen to this podcast, Desi includes, for our purposes here, South Asian countries like India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bhutan,…
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#FiveDesiFaves: Chaya Bhuvaneswar’s favorite desi books
Hello and welcome to Episode 2 of DesiBooks — news and views about Desi literature from the world over. I’m your host, Jenny Bhatt. Thank you for tuning in. If this is your first listen to this podcast, Desi includes, for our purposes here, South Asian countries like India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bhutan,…
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Desi Books Introduction
Hello and welcome to Episode 1 of DesiBooks — news and views about Desi literature from the world over. I’m your host, Jenny Bhatt. Thank you for tuning in even as a gazillion things are competing for your attention 24/7 during these trying times.
#DesiBooksReco
New and notable books by writers of South Asian origin. Until July 2021, they were listed as part of the podcast episodes. From August 2021-onwards, they’ve been listed separately here.