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#FiveDesiFaves Roundup: Community Favorites for 2021
Which website and podcast features were the most popular with Desi Books readers and listeners in 2021? Read below with the editor’s brief, personal notes.
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#DesiCraftChat: Manu Pillai on spotlighting those who’ve been footnoted in history
Hello and welcome to Episode 64 of Desi Books—news and views about desi literature from the world over. I’m your host, Jenny Bhatt. Thank you for tuning in. In today’s #DesiCraftChat, we have Manu Pillai discussing his latest book: False Allies: India’s Maharajahs in the Age of Ravi Varma. In this conversation, we talked about…
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#DesiBooks Guest Host: Brown Girl Bookshelf
Mishika Narula and Srisruthi Ramesh, cofounders of Brown Girl Bookshelf, guest-hosted the week of Dec 6-10, 2021 at Desi Books.
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#DesiBooks10QA: Annika Sharma on how to manage being held to higher standards as a writer of color
Annika Sharma discusses her novel, Live, Chai, and Other Four-Letter Words, and her own favorite desi books on #DesiBooks10QA. (Guest-hosted by Brown Girl Bookshelf)
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#FiveDesiFaves: Mishika Narula and Srisruthi Ramesh of Brown Girl Bookshelf share their recent favorites
Hello and welcome to Episode 63 of Desi Books—news and views about desi literature from the world over. I’m your host, Jenny Bhatt. Thank you for tuning in. In today’s #FiveDesiFaves episode, we have Mishika Narula and Srisruthi Ramesh of Brown Girl Bookshelf sharing their recently-read favorite desi books by Anuk Arudpragasam, Rafia Zakaria, SJ Sindu, and…
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#DesiLitBiz: Mishika Narula and Srisruthi Ramesh, cofounders of Brown Girl Bookshelf, on the work they do to uplift South Asian creators
Mishika Narula and Srisruthi Ramesh of Brown Girl Bookshelf, a platform for sharing books and digital media by South Asian creators, share how and why they founded BGB and the work they do.
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#DesiBooksReco December 2021
This is a #DesiBooksReco roundup of December 2021 new and notable books by writers of South Asian origin.
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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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#DesiCraftChat: Rafia Zakaria on how feminism can be more egalitarian and diverse
Hello and welcome to Episode 61 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. Today, they’ll be talking with Rafia Zakaria about her groundbreaking book, Against…
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#DesiBooks10QA: Krish Ashok on cooking from first principles and not judging people’s food habits
Krish Ashok discusses his new book, Masala Lab: The Science of Indian Cooking, and his own favorite desi books on #DesiBooks10QA.