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A quarterly digital issue of reviews and essays and interviews of recent and not-so-recent desi books by freelance reviewers.
Rashi Rohatgi reviews Vaishnavi Patel’s Kaikeyi and The Ramayana of Valmiki, translated by Robert P Goldman and Sally J Sutherland Goldman.
Veena Narayan reviews The First World War Adventures of Nariman Karkaria by Nariman Karkaria (tr. by Murali Ranganathan).
Jey Sushil reviews Tabish Khair's The Body by the Shore.
Veena Narayan reviews The First World War Adventures of Nariman Karkaria by Nariman Karkaria (tr. by Murali Ranganathan).
Editor's Note by Jenny Bhatt for the third edition of #DesiBooksReview
Suhasini Patni reviews A Gujarat Here, A Gujarat There by Krishna Sobti, translated from the Hindi into English by Daisy Rockwell.
#DesiBooksReview Issue 3 Feature Essay by N Kalyan Raman on Translation (excerpted from Breaking Free)
#DesiBooksReview Issue 3 Feature Essay by Vaasanthi on Literary Lineage (excerpted from Breaking Free)
Veena Narayan reviews Temsula Ao's The Tombstone in My Garden: Stories from Nagaland.
#DesiBooksReview Issue 2 Feature Essay by Nikesh Shukla on Literary Lineage (excerpted from Your Story Matters)