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#DesiBooks10QA: Nishant Batsha on participating in a conversation with desi writers from across the world
Nishant Batsha discusses his debut novel, Mother Earth Father Nation, 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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#DesiBooksReview 3: Nariman Karkaria and the Gujarati travelogue tradition
Veena Narayan reviews The First World War Adventures of Nariman Karkaria by Nariman Karkaria (tr. by Murali Ranganathan).
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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)
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#DesiCraftChat: Vauhini Vara on why she ended her novel with a question about human ambition
Hello and welcome to Episode 79 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 Vauhini Vara discussing her debut novel, The Immortal King Rao, how she braided multiple storylines together, why she ended with a question…
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#DesiBooks10QA: Harini Nagendra on the empowering fellowship of the crime-writing community
Harini Nagendra discusses her new novel, The Bangalore Detectives Club, and her own favorite desi books on #DesiBooks10QA.
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#DesiBooksDiscourse: What SRK Fandom Tells Us About Women in Post-Liberalized India
Hello and welcome to Episode 73 of Desi Books—news and views about desi literature from the world over. Thank you for tuning in. In our first #DesiBooksDiscourse video episode, we have the economist and writer, Shrayana Bhattacharya, discussing her book, Desperately Seeking Shah Rukh, and what SRK fandom tells us about women in post-liberalized India.…
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