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#DesiBooksReview 4: Interrogating, Remembering, and Forgetting in Anjali Gera Roy’s Latest Partition Exploration
Nidhi Shrivastava Farfaglia reviews Anjali Gera Roy’s Memories and Postmemories of The Partition of India.
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#DesiBooksDiscourse: What SRK Fandom Tells Us About Women in Post-Liberalized India
Hello and welcome to Episode 73 of Desi Books—news and views about desi literature from the world over. Thank you for tuning in. In our first #DesiBooksDiscourse video episode, we have the economist and writer, Shrayana Bhattacharya, discussing her book, Desperately Seeking Shah Rukh, and what SRK fandom tells us about women in post-liberalized India.…
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#DesiBooks10QA: Rejimon Kuttappan on the serious risks of telling stories about undocumented migrants
Rejimon Kuttappan discusses his new book, Undocumented: Stories of Indian Migrants in the Arab Gulf, and his own favorite desi books on #DesiBooks10QA.
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#DesiBooksReview 1: Creating Myths to Recreate Our Selves
Niyati Bhat reviews Shrayana Bhattacharya’s Desperately Seeking Shah Rukh.
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#DesiCraftChat: Manu Pillai on spotlighting those who’ve been footnoted in history
Hello and welcome to Episode 64 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 Manu Pillai discussing his latest book: False Allies: India’s Maharajahs in the Age of Ravi Varma. In this conversation, we talked about…
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#DesiCraftChat: Rafia Zakaria on how feminism can be more egalitarian and diverse
Hello and welcome to Episode 61 of Desi Books—news and views about desi literature from the world over. I’m your host, Jenny Bhatt. Thank you for tuning in. This entire week, we have the brilliant ladies from Brown Girl Bookshelf as guest hosts. Today, they’ll be talking with Rafia Zakaria about her groundbreaking book, Against…
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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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#DesiCraftChat: Dhruti Shah on why the pandemic is more of a “gray rhino” than a “black swan”
Hello and welcome to Episode 44 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’s episode is a #DesiCraftChat Rewind. This is a new feature that will run time to time when writers featured on Desi Books are back in the…
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#DesiCraftChat: Saumya Roy on writing about real-life characters and their trauma
Hello and welcome to Episode 40 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 #DesiCraftChat segment, we have Saumya Roy, who has a debut nonfiction out this month titled Castaway Mountain: Love and Loss Among the Wastepickers of…
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#DesiLitBiz: Tara Kaushal on narrative journalism; #FiveDesiFaves: Suman Mallick shares his favorite desi works
Hello and welcome to Episode 18 of DesiBooks — news and views about desi literature from the world over. I’m your host, Jenny Bhatt. Thank you for tuning in. In today’s episode, we have Tara Kaushal talking about the undercover investigation she conducted for her new book, Why Men Rape: An Indian Undercover Investigation, in…