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#DesiReads: Namrata Patel reads from her debut novel, The Candid Life of Meena Dave
Hello and welcome to Episode 81 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 Namrata Patel reading from her debut novel, The Candid Life of Meena Dave.
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#DesiBooksReview 3: Rama is a danger to foe and friend alike in the new Robert and Sally Goldman translation and the Vaishnavi Patel retelling
Rashi Rohatgi reviews Vaishnavi Patel’s Kaikeyi and The Ramayana of Valmiki, translated by Robert P Goldman and Sally J Sutherland Goldman.
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#DesiBooksReview 3: Microbes are the new frontiers in Tabish Khair’s post-pandemic speculative future
Jey Sushil reviews Tabish Khair’s The Body by the Shore.
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#DesiBooksReview 3: Krishna Sobti shows us the horrors of a country at the brink of change
Suhasini Patni reviews A Gujarat Here, A Gujarat There by Krishna Sobti, translated from the Hindi into English by Daisy Rockwell.
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#DesiBooksReview 3: N Kalyan Raman on Translation
#DesiBooksReview Issue 3 Feature Essay by N Kalyan Raman on Translation (excerpted from Breaking Free)
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#DesiBooksReview 3: Vaasanthi on Literary Lineage
#DesiBooksReview Issue 3 Feature Essay by Vaasanthi on Literary Lineage (excerpted from Breaking Free)
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#DesiBooks10QA: Naheed Phiroze Patel on being stubborn and unswayable to see a project through
Naheed Phiroze Patel discusses her new novel, Mirror Made of Rain, and her own favorite desi books on #DesiBooks10QA.
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#DesiCraftChat: Devi S. Laskar on what’s changed (or not) for older women writers of color
Hello and welcome to Episode 80 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 Devi S. Laskar discussing her new novel, Circa, and writing in the second person, how fiction can show a possible path out…
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#DesiCraftChat: Vauhini Vara on why she ended her novel with a question about human ambition
Hello and welcome to Episode 79 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 Vauhini Vara discussing her debut novel, The Immortal King Rao, how she braided multiple storylines together, why she ended with a question…
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#FiveDesiFaves: Vaishnavi Patel on the books that speak to who she is as a reader and writer
Hello and welcome to Episode 78 of Desi Books—news and views about desi literature from the world over. Today, in the #FiveDesiFaves segment, we Vaishnavi Patel, who has a debut book out this year: Kaikeyi: A Novel. She discusses the five desi books that speak to who she is as a reader and writer. Spanning…
