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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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#FiveDesiFaves: Vaishnavi Patel on the books that speak to who she is as a reader and writer
Hello and welcome to Episode 78 of Desi Books—news and views about desi literature from the world over. Today, in the #FiveDesiFaves segment, we Vaishnavi Patel, who has a debut book out this year: Kaikeyi: A Novel. She discusses the five desi books that speak to who she is as a reader and writer. Spanning…
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#DesiBooksReview 1: On a Frenzied Night, a Young Woman Finds Transcendence
Rashi Rohatgi reviews Carl de Souza’s Kaya Days (translated by Jeffrey Zuckerman.)
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#DesiBooksReview 1: Dancing Around the Self
Shalvi Shah reviews Shruti Swamy’s The Archer.
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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: Vidhu Aggarwal’s favorite diasporic works of speculative poetics and alternative fantasy
Hello and welcome to Episode 49 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 Vidhu Aggarwal who has a hybrid poetry collection out titled Daughter Isotope. She’s sharing her #FiveDesiFaves: diasporic works of speculative poetics and alternative fantasy by…
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#DesiBooks10QA: Koral Dasgupta on re-visioning the tired stereotypes of motherhood
Koral Dasgupta discusses her latest book, Kunti: The Sati Series II, and her own favorite desi books in #DesiBooks10QA.