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#DesiCraftChat: Mayukh Sen on cultural politics and historiography in the American food industry
Hello and welcome to Episode 57 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 Mayukh Sen discussing their new book, Taste Makers: Seven Immigrant Women Who Revolutionized Food in America. In this conversation, we talked about…
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#DesiReads: Anjali Enjeti reads from her essay collection, Southbound
Hello and welcome to Episode 55 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 Anjali Enjeti reading from her essay collection, Southbound.
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#DesiCraftChat: Venkat Srinivasan on the fascinating circumstances of the birth of India’s states and union territories
Hello and welcome to Episode 50 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 Venkat Srinivasan discussing his book, The Origin Story of India’s States. In this conversation, we talked about the genesis of the book,…
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#DesiReads: Shilpi Malinowski reads from Shaw, Ledroit Park and Bloomingdale in Washington, DC: An Oral History
Hello and welcome to Episode 47 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 Shilpi Malinowski reading from her debut book, Shaw, Ledroit Park and Bloomingdale in Washington, DC: An Oral History.
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#DesiCraftChat: Samir Chopra on what Bollywood war movies reveal, inform, and reinforce
Hello and welcome to Episode 46 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 Samir Chopra discussing his book, Bollywood Does Battle: The War Movie and the Indian Popular Imagination. In this conversation, we talked about…
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#DesiCraftChat: Dhruti Shah on why the pandemic is more of a “gray rhino” than a “black swan”
Hello and welcome to Episode 44 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’s episode is a #DesiCraftChat Rewind. This is a new feature that will run time to time when writers featured on Desi Books are back in the…
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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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#DesiReads: Shubnum Khan reads from her essay collection, How I Accidentally Became a Global Stock Photo
Hello and welcome to Episode 43 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 Shubnum Khan reading from a new essay collection titled: How I Accidentally Became a Global Stock Photo And Other Strange…
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#DesiCraftChat: Saumya Roy on writing about real-life characters and their trauma
Hello and welcome to Episode 40 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 #DesiCraftChat segment, we have Saumya Roy, who has a debut nonfiction out this month titled Castaway Mountain: Love and Loss Among the Wastepickers of…
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#DesiBooks10QA: Sushma Subramanian on reconnecting with our sense of touch to live more fully
Sushma Subramanian discusses her latest book, How to Feel: The Science and Meaning of Touch, and her own favorite desi books in #DesiBooks10QA.
