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#DesiCraftChat: Samir Chopra on what Bollywood war movies reveal, inform, and reinforce
Hello and welcome to Episode 46 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 Samir Chopra discussing his book, Bollywood Does Battle: The War Movie and the Indian Popular Imagination. In this conversation, we talked about…
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#DesiBooks10QA: Mona Dash on what desi writers write or want to write about
Mona Dash discusses her latest book, Let Us Look Elsewhere, and her own favorite desi books in #DesiBooks10QA.
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#FiveDesiFaves Roundup: #MangoDiscourse
Today’s #FiveDesiFaves is a special roundup of, well, not books. It’s a chronological. though non-exhaustive, listing of all the famous additions to the perennial #mangodiscourse about South Asian fiction. And the five favorites shown above are, if you like, a “hall of fame” set of writers who’ve contributed to this discourse in important ways: Bharati Mukherjee;…
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#DesiLitBiz Community Question: On writing beyond the usual South Asian themes
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,…
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#DesiReads: Hananah Zaheer reads from her story collection, Lovebirds
Hello and welcome to Episode 45 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 Hananah Zaheer reading from a new storycollection titled Lovebirds.
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#DesiBooksReco October 2021
This is a #DesiBooksReco roundup of October 2021 new and notable books by writers of South Asian origin.
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#DesiCraftChat: Dhruti Shah on why the pandemic is more of a “gray rhino” than a “black swan”
Hello and welcome to Episode 44 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’s episode is a #DesiCraftChat Rewind. This is a new feature that will run time to time when writers featured on Desi Books are back in the…
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#DesiBooks10QA: Sunil Shinde on writing about retracing a 200-year-old journey
Sunil Shinde discusses his latest book, From Cairo to Beirut: In the Footsteps of an 1839 Expedition Through the Holy Land, and his own favorite desi books in #DesiBooks10QA.
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#FiveDesiFaves Roundup: Literary Translations
This week’s #FiveDesiFaves is a roundup of six recently-featured, exceptional literary translations from South Asian languages into English: Moustache by S. Hareesh, translated by Jayasree Kalathil from Malayalam; Shameless by Taslima Nasreen, translated by Arunava Sinha from Bangla; Timeless Tales from Marwar by Vijaydan Detha, translated by Vishes Kothari from Rajasthani; Hijab by Guruprasad Kaginele,…
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#DesiLitBiz: Rohini Malur on the Write in Power anthology from The Hidden Pen Collective
Rohini Malur discusses the work being done by The Hidden Pen Collective, especially with their new anthology, Write in Power, on #DesiLitBiz.
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