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#DesiBooksReview 1: Dancing Around the Self
Shalvi Shah reviews Shruti Swamy’s The Archer.
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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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#DesiBooksReview 1: The Psychology of Violence in Fiction
Shalvi Shah reviews Shruti Swamy’s The Archer.
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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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#DesiCraftChat: Kirthana Ramisetti on how journalism helped her write a novel about music and an older woman protagonist
Hello and welcome to Episode 59 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 Kirthana Ramisetti discussing her debut novel, Dava Shastri’s Last Day. In this conversation, we talked about the challenges of creating older women…
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#DesiReads: Sara Siddiqui Chansarkar reads from her flash collection, Morsels of Purple
Hello and welcome to Episode 58 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 Sara Siddiqui Chansarkar reading from her debut flash fiction collection, Morsels of Purple.
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#DesiBooks10QA: Reshma Ruia on stories that span continents and cultures
Reshma Ruia discusses her new story collection, Mrs. Pinto Drives to Happiness, and her own favorite desi books in #DesiBooks10QA.
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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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#DesiCraftChat: SJ Sindu on Hindu mythology in contemporary fiction and the loss of religion
Hello and welcome to Episode 53 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 SJ Sindu discussing their new novel, Blue-skinned Gods. In this conversation, we talked about the use of Hindu mythology in contemporary fiction,…
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#FiveDesiFaves: Vaseem Khan shares his favorite desi crime fiction works
Hello and welcome to Episode 52 of Desi Books—news and views about desi literature from the world over. I’m your host, Jenny Bhatt. Today, in the #FiveDesiFaves segment, we have Vaseem Khan who has a new novel out titled The Dying Day. He’s sharing his five favorite desi crime fiction works from these writers: Aravind…
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