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#DesiBooks10QA: Aravind Jayan on respecting the reader’s time and getting on with the story
Aravind Jayan discusses his debut novel, Teen Couple Have Fun Outdoors, and his own favorite desi books on #DesiBooks10QA.
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#DesiCraftChat: N. Kalyan Raman on translating Vaasanthi’s Breaking Free and all that a translator brings to a text
Hello and welcome to Episode 83 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 Kalyan Raman discussing his latest Tamil-to-English translation of Vaasanthi’s novel, Breaking Free. We also discuss how he chooses the works to translate,…
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#DesiCraftChat: Nandita Dinesh on how the hybrid, nonlinear novel form helped her write about the effects of war
Hello and welcome to Episode 82 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 Nandita Dinesh discussing her debut novel, This Place That Place, and how the hybrid, nonlinear novel form helped her write about the…
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#DesiReads: Namrata Patel reads from her debut novel, The Candid Life of Meena Dave
Hello and welcome to Episode 81 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 Namrata Patel reading from her debut novel, The Candid Life of Meena Dave.
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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: 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)
