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#DesiBooksReview 4: Madhur Anand’s partitioned memoir uses science and poetry to explore the legacy of Partition in one family, across continents and generations
Sangamithra Iyer reviews Madhur Anand’s This Red Line Goes Straight to Your Heart
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#FiveDesiFaves: Sorayya Khan on the books to which she owes a substantial debt
Hello and welcome to Episode 84 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 #FiveDesiFaves, we have Sorayya Khan, who has a new memoir out: We Take Our Cities With Us. She discusses the five desi books to which…
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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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#DesiBooksDiscourse: Food/Food Writing as a Social Justice and Resistance Tool
Hello and welcome to Episode 75 of Desi Books—news and views about desi literature from the world over. Thank you for tuning in. In this #DesiBooksDiscourse episode, we have Madhushree Ghosh, Anjali Enjeti, and Aruni Kashyap discussing ‘Food/Food Writing as a Social Justice and Resistance Tool’, including how South Asian writers continue to highlight social…
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#DesiBooksReview 2: Nikesh Shukla on Literary Lineage
#DesiBooksReview Issue 2 Feature Essay by Nikesh Shukla on Literary Lineage (excerpted from Your Story Matters)
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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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#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: 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…
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#DesiBooksReview 1: Literary Lineage Essay by Meenal Shrivastava
Meenal Shrivastava writes an essay about the literary lineages that helped her write her hybrid memoir, Amma’s Daughters.
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#DesiBooksReview 1: The Making of Sane Guruji
Sukhada Tatke reviews Sane Guruji’s Shyamchi Aai (translated by Shanta Gokhale.)
