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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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#FiveDesiFaves: Vidhu Aggarwal’s favorite diasporic works of speculative poetics and alternative fantasy
Hello and welcome to Episode 49 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 Vidhu Aggarwal who has a hybrid poetry collection out titled Daughter Isotope. She’s sharing her #FiveDesiFaves: diasporic works of speculative poetics and alternative fantasy by…
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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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#DesiBooksReco October 2021
This is a #DesiBooksReco roundup of October 2021 new and notable books by writers of South Asian origin.
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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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#DesiBooksReco September 2021
This is a #DesiBooksReco roundup of September 2021 new and notable books by writers of South Asian origin.
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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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#DesiBooksReco August 2021
This is a #DesiBooksReco roundup of August 2021 new and notable books by writers of South Asian origin.
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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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#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…