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#DesiBooksReview 4: Aanchal Malhotra on Literary Lineage
#DesiBooksReview Issue 4 Feature Essay by Aanchal Malhotra on Literary Lineage [Excerpted with permission from In the Language of Remembering: The Inheritance of Partition by Aanchal Malhotra | HarperCollins India | May 10, 2022. Copyright © 2022 Aanchal Malhotra.]
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#DesiBooksReview 4: Interrogating, Remembering, and Forgetting in Anjali Gera Roy’s Latest Partition Exploration
Nidhi Shrivastava Farfaglia reviews Anjali Gera Roy’s Memories and Postmemories of The Partition of India.
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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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#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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#FiveDesiFaves: Shafik Meghji shares the desi books that have influenced his travel writing
Hello and welcome to Episode 71of Desi Books—news and views about desi literature from the world over. I’m your host, Jenny Bhatt. Today, in the #FiveDesiFaves segment, we Shafik Meghji, who has a new book out: Crossed off the Map: Travels in Bolivia. He discusses the five desi books that have influenced and inspired his…
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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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#FiveDesiFaves: Neema Avashia on the five nonfiction books that have shaped her life and work
Hello and welcome to Episode 70 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 Neema Avashia who has a new book out: Another Appalachia: Coming Up Queer and Indian in a Mountain Place. She’s sharing the five desi books…
