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Category: #DesiBooksReview

A quarterly digital issue of reviews and essays and interviews of recent and not-so-recent desi books by freelance reviewers.

#DesiBooksReview 2: The Gardens of Temsula Ao’s Mind

March 18, 2022March 25, 2022 Jenny Bhatt

Veena Narayan reviews Temsula Ao's The Tombstone in My Garden: Stories from Nagaland.

Posted in #DesiBooksReviewTagged 2022, Fiction, Story Collection

#DesiBooksReview 2: Nikesh Shukla on Literary Lineage

March 18, 2022March 21, 2022 Jenny Bhatt

#DesiBooksReview Issue 2 Feature Essay by Nikesh Shukla on Literary Lineage (excerpted from Your Story Matters)

Posted in #DesiBooksReviewTagged 2022, Memoir, Nonfiction

#DesiBooksReview 2: The Urdu Afsana Meets the Anglophone Short Story in Farah Ali’s Debut

March 18, 2022March 18, 2022 Jenny Bhatt

Talib Jabbar reviews Farah Ali's story collection, People Want to Live.

Posted in #DesiBooksReviewTagged 2022, Fiction, Story Collection

#DesiBooksReview 2: Editor’s Note

March 18, 2022March 21, 2022 Jenny Bhatt

Editor's Note by Jenny Bhatt for the second edition of #DesiBooksReview

Posted in #DesiBooksReviewTagged 2022

#DesiBooksReview 2: Fateema’s House of Her Own

March 15, 2022March 18, 2022 Jenny Bhatt

Varisha Tariq reviews Ila Arab Mehta's Fence, a novel, translated from Gujarati to English by Rita Kothari.

Posted in #DesiBooksReviewTagged 2022, Fiction, Fiction-Translated, Gujarati, Novel, Novel-Translated, Translation

#DesiBooksReview 2: Allan Sealy’s Postmodern Emperor Asoca is a Doubting Buddhist

March 14, 2022March 21, 2022 Jenny Bhatt

Dr. Pravina Cooper reviews Irwin Allan Sealy's Asoca: A Sutra.

Posted in #DesiBooksReviewTagged 2022, Fiction, History, Novel

#DesiBooksReview 2: Anees Salim’s Latest Takes Us Back in Time

March 14, 2022March 19, 2022 Jenny Bhatt

Varisha Tariq reviews Anees Salim's The Odd Book of Baby Names.

Posted in #DesiBooksReviewTagged 2022, Fiction, History, Novel

#DesiBooksReview 2: Caste-crossed Love in Murugan’s Pyre

March 14, 2022March 18, 2022 Jenny Bhatt

Shalvi Shah reviews Perumal Murugan's Pyre (translated by Aniruddhan Vasudevan.)

Posted in #DesiBooksReviewTagged 2022, Fiction, Fiction-Translated, Novel, Novel-Translated, Tamil, Translation

#DesiBooksReview 2: Vaasanthi on What Makes Us Real

March 14, 2022March 25, 2022 Jenny Bhatt

Suhasini Patni reviews Vaasanthi's Ganga's Choice and Other Stories (translated by Sukanya Venkataraman, Gomathi Narayan, Vaasanthi.)

Posted in #DesiBooksReview, #DesiTranslationTagged 2022, Fiction, Fiction-Translated, Story Collection, Story Collection-Translated, Tamil, Translation

#DesiBooksReview 1: Creating Myths to Recreate Our Selves

December 18, 2021April 6, 2022 Jenny Bhatt

Niyati Bhat reviews Shrayana Bhattacharya's Desperately Seeking Shah Rukh.

Posted in #DesiBooksReviewTagged 2021, Nonfiction, Sociology

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