#DesiBooksReview 4: Editor’s Note
Editor's Note by Jenny Bhatt for the fourth edition of #DesiBooksReview
Jenny Bhatt is a writer, literary translator, book critic, and creative writing instructor. She is the founder of Desi Books. Her latest book is a literary translation, The Shehnai Virtuoso and Other Stories by Dhumketu. Find her at: https://jennybhattwriter.com.
#DesiBooksReview 4: Aanchal Malhotra on Literary Lineage
#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.]
#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.
#DesiReads: Geetanjali Shree reads from her novel, Ret Samadhi, and Daisy Rockwell reads from her translation of it, Tomb of Sand
Hello and welcome to Episode 54 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 Geetanjali Shree and Daisy Rockwell in the #DesiReads segment. They're reading from both the Hindi original novel, Ret Samadhi, and its English translation, Tomb of Sand. Thank you for listening.
#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, how he approached the required research, why writing this book changed him as a writer, what he'd like readers to take away from it, and more.
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