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#DesiBooksReview 4: Manju Kapur’s Quiet Novel about Women’s Lives in the Partition Resonates Deeper than Ever
Suhasini Patni reviews Difficult Daughters by Manju Kapur.
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#DesiBooksReview 4: Lalithambika Antharjanam’s Heroines Fight for the Country but Not for Themselves
Veena Narayan reviews Agnisakshi by Lalithambika Antharjanam; translated by Vasanthi Sankaranarayanan.
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#DesiBooksReview 4: The Present is But a Mirror Reflection of the Past in Ranbir Sidhu’s Partition Novel
Nidhi Shrivastava Farfaglia reviews Ranbir Sidhu’s novel, Dark Star.
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#DesiBooksReview 4: The Real and the Metaphysical in Samim Ahmed’s Debut Novel Are Centered on the Bengal Partition
Saurabh Sharma reviews Seven Heavens by Samim Ahmed; translated by Arunava Sinha.
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#DesiBooks10QA: Nishant Batsha on participating in a conversation with desi writers from across the world
Nishant Batsha discusses his debut novel, Mother Earth Father Nation, and his own favorite desi books on #DesiBooks10QA.
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#DesiBooks10QA: Dur e Aziz Amna on writing unfettered from the burden of foreignness
Dur e Aziz Amna discusses her debut novel, American Fever, and her own favorite desi books on #DesiBooks10QA.
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#DesiBooks10QA: Himadri Agarwal on listening as a way to master translation of dialogue and humor
Himadri Agarwal discusses her debut translation of the novel, Banaras Talkies by Satya Vyas, and her own favorite desi books on #DesiBooks10QA.
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#DesiBooks10QA: Aravind Jayan on respecting the reader’s time and getting on with the story
Aravind Jayan discusses his debut novel, Teen Couple Have Fun Outdoors, and his own favorite desi books on #DesiBooks10QA.
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#DesiCraftChat: N. Kalyan Raman on translating Vaasanthi’s Breaking Free and all that a translator brings to a text
Hello and welcome to Episode 83 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 Kalyan Raman discussing his latest Tamil-to-English translation of Vaasanthi’s novel, Breaking Free. We also discuss how he chooses the works to translate,…
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#DesiCraftChat: Nandita Dinesh on how the hybrid, nonlinear novel form helped her write about the effects of war
Hello and welcome to Episode 82 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 Nandita Dinesh discussing her debut novel, This Place That Place, and how the hybrid, nonlinear novel form helped her write about the…
