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#DesiBooksReview 1: The Making of Sane Guruji
Sukhada Tatke reviews Sane Guruji’s Shyamchi Aai (translated by Shanta Gokhale.)
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#DesiBooksReview 1: How to Upend Expectations in Shocking, Transgressive Ways
Suhasini Patni reviews Indu Menon’s The Lesbian Cow and Other Stories (translated by Nandakumar K.)
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#DesiReads: Nandana Sen reads from her English translation of Nabaneeta Dev Sen’s Bengali poetry collection, Acrobat
Hello and welcome to Episode 62 of Desi Books—news and views about desi literature from the world over. I’m your host, Jenny Bhatt. Thank you for tuning in. This entire week, we have the brilliant ladies from Brown Girl Bookshelf as guest hosts. In #DesiReads today, they’re introducing a reading by the writer and translator,…
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#DesiReads: Geetanjali Shree reads from her novel, Ret Samadhi, and Daisy Rockwell reads from her translation of it, Tomb of Sand
Hello and welcome to Episode 54 of Desi Books—news and views about desi literature from the world over. I’m your host, Jenny Bhatt. Thank you for tuning in. Today, in the #DesiReads segment, we have Geetanjali Shree and Daisy Rockwell in the #DesiReads segment. They’re reading from both the Hindi original novel, Ret Samadhi, and…
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#DesiBooks10QA: Dibyajyoti Sarma on translating Indira Goswami’s Five Novellas About Women
Dibyajyoti Sarma discusses translating Indira Goswami’s Five Novellas About Women and his own favorite desi books in #DesiBooks10QA.
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#DesiLitBiz Community Question: On getting starting in literary translation
This is a series within the #DesiLitBiz channel to answer questions from the Desi Books community about writing, translating, publishing, the book biz, the literary life, etc. Where feasible, other desi writers, translators, or publishing professionals will be invited to share their expertise/advice as well. Go to https://bit.ly/desilitbizquestion to send in your question. This week’s…
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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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#DesiLitBiz: Vishes Kothari on Rajasthani Bhasha Academy
Vishes Kothari discusses the work being done by the Rajasthani Bhasha Academy on #DesiLitBiz.
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#DesiLitBiz: Sarina Prabasi on how activism and writing go together; #DesiBoost: Haider Shahbaz on his favorite desi works
Hello and welcome to Episode 20 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, we have Sarina Prabasi in our #DesiLitBiz segment. She’s an activist, coffeeshop founder, and writer of the memoir: The Coffeehouse Resistance: Bringing Hope…
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#FiveDesiFaves: Guruprasad Kaginele on his favorite desi works in translation; #DesiBoost: Saumya Dave on her favorite desi works
Hello and welcome to Episode 15 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, we have Saumya Dave sharing her favorite three works by desi writers in our #DesiBoost segment. And we have Guruprasad Kaginele sharing his…
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