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#DesiBooksReview 3: Rama is a danger to foe and friend alike in the new Robert and Sally Goldman translation and the Vaishnavi Patel retelling
Rashi Rohatgi reviews Vaishnavi Patel’s Kaikeyi and The Ramayana of Valmiki, translated by Robert P Goldman and Sally J Sutherland Goldman.
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#DesiBooksReview 3: Taking Indian horror fiction further, Chandrima Das reveals what terrifies young, urban India
P.S. Nissim reviews Chandrima Das’ horror story collection, Young Blood: Ten Terrifying College Tales.
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#DesiBooksReview 3: Microbes are the new frontiers in Tabish Khair’s post-pandemic speculative future
Jey Sushil reviews Tabish Khair’s The Body by the Shore.
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#DesiBooksReview 3: Nariman Karkaria and the Gujarati travelogue tradition
Veena Narayan reviews The First World War Adventures of Nariman Karkaria by Nariman Karkaria (tr. by Murali Ranganathan).
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#DesiBooksReview 3: Editor’s Note
Editor’s Note by Jenny Bhatt for the third edition of #DesiBooksReview
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#DesiBooksReview 3: Krishna Sobti shows us the horrors of a country at the brink of change
Suhasini Patni reviews A Gujarat Here, A Gujarat There by Krishna Sobti, translated from the Hindi into English by Daisy Rockwell.
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#DesiBooksReview 3: N Kalyan Raman on Translation
#DesiBooksReview Issue 3 Feature Essay by N Kalyan Raman on Translation (excerpted from Breaking Free)
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#DesiBooksReview 3: Vaasanthi on Literary Lineage
#DesiBooksReview Issue 3 Feature Essay by Vaasanthi on Literary Lineage (excerpted from Breaking Free)
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#DesiBooksReview 2: The Gardens of Temsula Ao’s Mind
Veena Narayan reviews Temsula Ao’s The Tombstone in My Garden: Stories from Nagaland.
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#DesiBooksReview 2: Nikesh Shukla on Literary Lineage
#DesiBooksReview Issue 2 Feature Essay by Nikesh Shukla on Literary Lineage (excerpted from Your Story Matters)
#DesiBooksReview
A quarterly digital issue of reviews and essays and interviews of recent and not-so-recent desi books by freelance reviewers.
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