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#DesiBooksReview 2: Anees Salim’s Latest Takes Us Back in Time
Anandi Mishra reviews Anees Salim’s The Odd Book of Baby Names.
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#DesiBooksReview 2: Caste-crossed Love in Murugan’s Pyre
Shalvi Shah reviews Perumal Murugan’s Pyre (translated by Aniruddhan Vasudevan.)
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#DesiBooksReview 2: Vaasanthi on What Makes Us Real
Suhasini Patni reviews Vaasanthi’s Ganga’s Choice and Other Stories (translated by Sukanya Venkataraman, Gomathi Narayan, Vaasanthi.)
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#DesiCraftChat: Tanaïs on creating new pathways to tell stories and histories and honor literary lineage
Hello and welcome to Episode 69 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 Tanaïs discussing their new memoir, In Sensorium. In this conversation, we talked about creating new pathways to tell our individual stories and…
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#FiveDesiFaves Roundup: Community Favorites for February 2022
Here’s a look at February’s #FiveDesiFaves that you all, the Desi Books community, made popular. Thank you.
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#DesiBooksReco March 2022
This is a #DesiBooksReco roundup of March 2022 new and notable books by writers of South Asian origin.
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#DesiReads: SJ Sindu reads from their hybrid collection, Dominant Genes
Hello and welcome to Episode 68 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 SJ Sindu reading from their latest hybrid collection, Dominant Genes.
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#DesiCraftChat: Rita Kothari on decoding cultural and sociopolitical issues through literary translation
Hello and welcome to Episode 66 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 Rita Kothari discussing a new short story anthology titled The Greatest Gujarati Stories Ever Told, which she has selected, edited, and mostly…
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#FiveDesiFaves Roundup: Community Favorites for January 2022
Here’s a look at January’s #FiveDesiFaves that you all, the Desi Books community, made popular. Thank you.
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#DesiCraftChat: Wajahat Ali on living with one foot in the American dream and one in the American nightmare
Hello and welcome to Episode 66 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 Wajahat Ali discussing his . In this conversation, we talked about how literary translation can help bring languages and cultures closer, the…
