Desi Books: South Asian Literature. Reading; Writing; Conversation; Community. Contact: https://teapaw.org/t.co/sOjbxFzdOO. Founder: @jennybhatt
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Over the coming month, we will be winding things down with this platform. This is not a decision we have come to lightly. Since March 2020, we have been spotlighting writers of South Asian origin who were not being given their due attention. Read more: buff.ly/3YlM6tD
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I also read *Dialect of Distant Harbors* by Dipika Mukherjee. I learned of this collection thanks to @jennybhatt of @DesiBooks ! I received an extra copy by chance. Happy to mail it someone else...
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Over the coming month, we will be winding things down with this platform. This is not a decision we have come to lightly. Since March 2020, we have been spotlighting writers of South Asian origin who were not being given their due attention. Read more: buff.ly/3YlM6tD
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Some news. Since Mar 2020, @DesiBooks has featured 180 individual authors, 23 contributing writers, and well over 1200 books. But everything has its season. And it is time for me to move on. My mission to keep raising the tide of South Asian literature remains strong as ever.🙏🏾
Over the coming month, we will be winding things down with this platform. This is not a decision we have come to lightly. Since March 2020, we have been spotlighting writers of South Asian origin who were not being given their due attention. Read more: buff.ly/3YlM6tD
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Great to see #TheBangladeshAnthology on this amazing list of Jan 2023 books. Thanks, @DesiBooks and @jennybhatt.
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New #DesiReads with Rhiya Pau reading from her poetry collection, Routes, where she explores the migratory histories of her ancestors and her own East African-Indian heritage with some delightful Gujlish. Listen/read: buff.ly/3Dke7K5
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Loved this collection by Rhiya Pau. 😊
"...yet here we are, being silently groped
on the subway where sleight of hand milks you
like a cow except unlike a cow, you are no longer
sacred."
from On Shame.
New #DesiReads with Rhiya Pau reading from her poetry collection, Routes, where she explores the migratory histories of her ancestors and her own East African-Indian heritage with some delightful Gujlish. Listen/read: buff.ly/3Dke7K5
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Thanks @DesiBooks @jennybhatt for putting #AllThoseWhoWander on a January 2023 books recco list.
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Popping in very briefly to say I love this 2022 poetry collection by Rhiya Pau (cc. @ArachnePress) for many reasons. Even blurbed it (full disclosure in the episode.) Please take a look and give this debut collection a boost. Thanks.
New #DesiReads with Rhiya Pau reading from her poetry collection, Routes, where she explores the migratory histories of her ancestors and her own East African-Indian heritage with some delightful Gujlish. Listen/read: buff.ly/3Dke7K5
New #DesiReads with Rhiya Pau reading from her poetry collection, Routes, where she explores the migratory histories of her ancestors and her own East African-Indian heritage with some delightful Gujlish. Listen/read: buff.ly/3Dke7K5
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DYK we have a free, weekly, no-spam newsletter? 2023-onwards, archives will also be on the website. But we'll be adding some email-exclusive stuff later in 2023 so you can sign up if free if you'd like to get them delivered to your inbox on Fridays. buff.ly/3J8jSOA
DYK we have a free, weekly, no-spam newsletter? 2023-onwards, archives will also be on the website. But we'll be adding some email-exclusive stuff later in 2023 so you can sign up if free if you'd like to get them delivered to your inbox on Fridays. buff.ly/3J8jSOA
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from Bharati Mukherjee’s 1988 essay:
“Perhaps it’s this history-mandated training in seeing myself as ‘the other’ that now heaps on me the fluid identities denied to most of my contemporary American counterparts.”
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A new #DesiReads episode with @raenashirali reading from her latest poetry collection, summonings. Indebted to the docupoetics tradition, these poems investigate the ongoing practice of witch (“daayan”) hunting in India. Listen and read the transcript: buff.ly/3iRwRth
A new #DesiReads episode with @raenashirali reading from her latest poetry collection, summonings. Indebted to the docupoetics tradition, these poems investigate the ongoing practice of witch (“daayan”) hunting in India. Listen and read the transcript: buff.ly/3iRwRth
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Love seeing 🦚 The Dream Builders by @oinkness on @DesiBooks's list of the Best Books of January!✨
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What a beautiful list. Look at those covers! Thanks for including The Dream Builders @jennybhatt
Nearly 20 new+notable books in the Jan #DesiBooksReco. Memoirs, history, meditative travel. Award-winning translations from Hindi, Tamil, Malayalam, & Rajasthani. Crime thrillers, historical fiction, coming-of-age novels, short stories, poetry, & drama. buff.ly/3CHEDNd
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"...I, of east-west, modern-ancient,
wanted to glide
like flying squirrels, from areca to date frond, certain
I caused trees to sway, not the wind..."
Dipika Mukherjee, Dialect of Distant Harbors #DesiReads @DesiBooks #poetry desibooks.co/desireads-dipik…