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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: Manan Kapoor on writing a biography about the poet, Agha Shahid Ali
Manan Kapoor discusses his latest book, A Map of Longings: The Life and Works of Agha Shahid Ali, and his own favorite desi books in #DesiBooks10QA.
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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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#DesiBooks10QA: Jessica Namakkal on how colonial projects like French India persist beyond decolonization
Jessica Namakkal discusses her latest book, Unsettling Utopia, and her 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: Renuka Singh on the Dalai Lama; #DesiReads: Shaukat Ajmeri reads from his novel, Keepers of the Faith
Hello and welcome to Episode 25 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. Renuka Singh in the #DesiCraftChat segment. She’ll be discussing a book she’s recently edited of quotations from the Dalai…
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