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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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#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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#DesiBooks10QA: Rejimon Kuttappan on the serious risks of telling stories about undocumented migrants
Rejimon Kuttappan discusses his new book, Undocumented: Stories of Indian Migrants in the Arab Gulf, and his own favorite desi books on #DesiBooks10QA.
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#DesiBooksReview 1: Creating Myths to Recreate Our Selves
Niyati Bhat reviews Shrayana Bhattacharya’s Desperately Seeking Shah Rukh.
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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.)
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#DesiCraftChat: Manu Pillai on spotlighting those who’ve been footnoted in history
Hello and welcome to Episode 64 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 Manu Pillai discussing his latest book: False Allies: India’s Maharajahs in the Age of Ravi Varma. In this conversation, we talked about…
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#DesiCraftChat: Rafia Zakaria on how feminism can be more egalitarian and diverse
Hello and welcome to Episode 61 of Desi Books—news and views about desi literature from the world over. I’m your host, Jenny Bhatt. Thank you for tuning in. This entire week, we have the brilliant ladies from Brown Girl Bookshelf as guest hosts. Today, they’ll be talking with Rafia Zakaria about her groundbreaking book, Against…
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#DesiBooks10QA: Krish Ashok on cooking from first principles and not judging people’s food habits
Krish Ashok discusses his new book, Masala Lab: The Science of Indian Cooking, and his own favorite desi books on #DesiBooks10QA.
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#DesiBooks10QA: Torsa Ghosal on how the literary imagination influences thought and perception
Torsa Ghosal discusses her new book, Out of Mind: Mode, Mediation, and Cognition in Twenty-First-Century Narrative, and her own favorite desi books on #DesiBooks10QA.