#DesiBooksReco January 2023
This is a #DesiBooksReco roundup of January 2023 new and notable books by writers of South Asian origin.
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This is a #DesiBooksReco roundup of January 2023 new and notable books by writers of South Asian origin.
Editor's Note by Jenny Bhatt for the fourth edition of #DesiBooksReview
Suhasini Patni reviews Difficult Daughters by Manju Kapur.
Veena Narayan reviews Agnisakshi by Lalithambika Antharjanam; translated by Vasanthi Sankaranarayanan.
Suswati Basu reviews Gulzar's Footprints on Zero Line: Writings on the Partition.
Nidhi Shrivastava Farfaglia reviews Ranbir Sidhu's novel, Dark Star.
Talib Jabbar reviews Fatimah Asghar's If They Come for Us and When We Were Sisters
#DesiBooksReview Issue 4 Feature Essay by Aanchal Malhotra on Literary Lineage [Excerpted with permission from In the Language of Remembering: The Inheritance of Partition by Aanchal Malhotra | HarperCollins India | May 10, 2022. Copyright © 2022 Aanchal Malhotra.]
Saurabh Sharma reviews Seven Heavens by Samim Ahmed; translated by Arunava Sinha.
Nidhi Shrivastava Farfaglia reviews Anjali Gera Roy's Memories and Postmemories of The Partition of India.
Dr. Nidhi Shrivastava's research focuses on the #MeToo movement, Hindi film cinema, censorship, the figure of the abducted and raped women, Indian rape culture, and the 1947 Partition. She grew up in India, Malaysia, and Singapore before migrating to the United States in 2001 with her family. Click through for the full bio and contributions.