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#DesiReads: Sara Siddiqui Chansarkar reads from her flash collection, Morsels of Purple
Hello and welcome to Episode 58 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 Sara Siddiqui Chansarkar reading from her debut flash fiction collection, Morsels of Purple.
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#DesiBooks10QA: Reshma Ruia on stories that span continents and cultures
Reshma Ruia discusses her new story collection, Mrs. Pinto Drives to Happiness, and her own favorite desi books in #DesiBooks10QA.
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#DesiBooks10QA: Dibyajyoti Sarma on translating Indira Goswami’s Five Novellas About Women
Dibyajyoti Sarma discusses translating Indira Goswami’s Five Novellas About Women and his own favorite desi books in #DesiBooks10QA.
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#DesiBooks10QA: Mona Dash on what desi writers write or want to write about
Mona Dash discusses her latest book, Let Us Look Elsewhere, and her own favorite desi books in #DesiBooks10QA.
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#DesiReads: Hananah Zaheer reads from her story collection, Lovebirds
Hello and welcome to Episode 45 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 Hananah Zaheer reading from a new storycollection titled Lovebirds.
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#DesiCraftChat: Nawaaz Ahmed on unconventional narrators; #FiveDesiFaves: Jyotsna Sreenivasan on her favorite desi works by women in English translation
Hello and welcome to Episode 29 of Desi Books — news and views about desi literature from the world over. In today’s episode, we have Nawaaz Ahmed in the #DesiCraftChat segment. He’ll be discussing his debut fiction, Radiant Fugitives, which was just longlisted for the Center for Fiction’s First Novel award. And we have Jyotsna…
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#DesiCraftChat: Tara Isabel Zambrano on the art and craft of the short and flash story; #DesiBoost: Madi Sinha on her favorite desi works
Hello and welcome to Episode 16 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 Isabel Zambrano in #DesiCraftChat talking about flash fiction. Her new collection, Death, Desire, and Other Destinations, came out on September…
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DesiCraftChat: Bishakh Som on the art and craft of the graphic memoir
Hello and welcome to Episode 5 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, in addition to the usual roundup of new notable desi books, short stories, poems, essays, interviews, awards, and more, we have the graphic…
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#FiveDesiFaves: Chaya Bhuvaneswar’s favorite desi books
Hello and welcome to Episode 2 of DesiBooks — news and views about Desi literature from the world over. I’m your host, Jenny Bhatt. Thank you for tuning in. If this is your first listen to this podcast, Desi includes, for our purposes here, South Asian countries like India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bhutan,…