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#DesiBooks10QA: Sunil Shinde on writing about retracing a 200-year-old journey
Sunil Shinde discusses his latest book, From Cairo to Beirut: In the Footsteps of an 1839 Expedition Through the Holy Land, and his own favorite desi books in #DesiBooks10QA.
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#DesiBooks10QA: Pallavi Aiyar on taking a personal and journalistic view of Japan
Pallavi Aiyar discusses her latest book, Orienting: An Indian in Japan, and her own favorite desi books in #DesiBooks10QA.
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#DesiReads: Julietta Singh reads from her memoir, The Breaks
Hello and welcome to Episode 35 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 Julietta Singh reading from her new book, The Breaks: An Essay.
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#FiveDesiFaves: Sabba Khan’s favorite graphic fiction and nonfiction
Hello and welcome to Episode 34 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 Sabba Khan who has a new debut graphic novel out in the UK titled The Roles We Play. She’s sharing her five favorite desi graphic…
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#DesiReads: Rajika Bhandari reads from her memoir, America Calling
Hello and welcome to Episode 33 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 episode, we have Dr. Rajika Bhandari reading from her new memoir, America Calling: A Foreign Student in a Country of Possibility, in the #DesiReads segment.…
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#DesiCraftChat: Sunjeev Sahota on braided narratives in historical fiction; #FiveDesiFaves: Gayatri Sethi on her favorite desi books by women writers
Hello and welcome to Episode 31 of Desi Books—news and views about desi literature from the world over. In today’s episode, we have Sunjeev Sahota in the #DesiCraftChat segment. He’ll be discussing his latest Booker-longlisted novel, China Room, And we have Dr. Gayatri Sethi discussing her five favorite books in the #FiveDesiFaves segment. Her new…
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#DesiBooks10QA: Rajiv Mohabir on his hybrid memoir and the Caribbean poets and writers who cleared a space for him
Rajiv Mohabir discusses his latest book, Antiman, and his own favorite desi books in #DesiBooks10QA.
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#DesiCraftChat: Suchitra Vijayan on making the political deeply personal; #DesiReads: Ayesha Chaudhry reads from her memoir, The Color of God
Hello and welcome to Episode 28 of Desi Books — news and views about desi literature from the world over. In today’s episode, we have Suchitra Vijayan in the #DesiCraftChat segment. She’ll be discussing her debut nonfiction, Midnight’s Borders, And we have Dr. Ayesha Chaudhry reading from her profound and moving memoir, The Color of…
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#DesiCraftChat: Shoba Narayan on writing about food and religion in India
Hello and welcome to Episode 24 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 episode, we have Shoba Narayan in the #DesiCraftChat segment. She’ll be discussing her latest book, Food and Faith. We also have Dr. Gayatri…
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#DesiLitBiz: Sarina Prabasi on how activism and writing go together; #DesiBoost: Haider Shahbaz on his favorite desi works
Hello and welcome to Episode 20 of DesiBooks — news and views about desi literature from the world over. I’m your host, Jenny Bhatt. Thank you for tuning in. In today’s episode, we have Sarina Prabasi in our #DesiLitBiz segment. She’s an activist, coffeeshop founder, and writer of the memoir: The Coffeehouse Resistance: Bringing Hope…
