Tag: Roundup

Here's a look at December's #FiveDesiFaves that you all, the Desi Books community, made popular. Thank you.

Which website and podcast features were the most popular with Desi Books readers and listeners in 2021? Read below with the editor's brief, personal notes.

Here's a look at November's #FiveDesiFaves that you all, the Desi Books community, made popular. Thank you.

This is a new monthly check-in to see which website and podcast features have resonated with the community. Here's a look at October's #FiveDesiFaves that you all, the Desi Books community, made popular. Thank you.

This week's #FiveDesiFaves is a roundup of six recently-featured works of historical fiction: China Room by Sunjeev Sahota; Silent Winds, Dry Seas by Vinod Busjeet; The Begum and the Dastan by Tarana Husain Khan; A Play for the End of the World by Jai Chakrabarti; The Grand Anicut by Veena Muthuraman; The Thinnai by Ari Gautier (tr. by Blake Smith from the French into the English.)

Today’s #FiveDesiFaves is a special roundup of, well, not books. It's a chronological. though non-exhaustive, listing of all the famous additions to the perennial #mangodiscourse about South Asian fiction. And the five favorites shown above are, if you like, a "hall of fame" set of writers who've contributed to this discourse in important ways: Bharati Mukherjee; Meenakshi Mukherjee; Vikram Chandra; Soniah Kamal, Naben Ruthnum.