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Read ‘Dreamers’— New Short Fiction By Chaitali Sen
As much as Shoma hated PM kindergarten, a few things delighted her: the size of the classroom, and the flood of sunlight from the windows along the length of the room, and a curved cloakroom hidden...
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An Excerpt From Bombay Blues, Sequel to Tanuja Desai Hidier’s Born Confused
Dimple Lala thought that growing up would give her all the answers, but instead she has more questions than ever. Her boyfriend is distant, her classmates are predictable, and a blue mood has settled...
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New Crowdcreated Book Offers Raw, Authentic Stories From Women in Tech
Vivek Wadhwa and Farai Chideya’s book, Innovating Women: The Changing Face of Technology, is not an ordinary book. I started reading it with the expectation that it would follow the usual format of a...
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Kriti Festival Rocks South Asian Arts in Chicago
Close to 100 South Asian and diaspora writers and artists, including the two writers of this article, converged on the University of Illinois (UIC) Chicago campus for the 2014 Kriti Festival on...
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A Recipe for ‘Heroing': Review of Ms. Marvel #8
Note: This post contains spoilers for those who haven’t read the eighth issue of Ms. Marvel. Issue #8 is available for purchase on Amazon and Comixology, or at your local comic book store. When we last...
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The Great Sari and Mango Novel – Part 7, the Final Installment
Anita Felicelli’s The Great Sari and Mango Novel introduced warring twin brothers Vivek and Anish during a trip they took in their twenties to Johannesburg to attend their cousin Amala’s wedding to...
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Read an Excerpt From Anjali Mitter Duva’s Faint Promise of Rain
It is 1555 in the desert of Rajasthan, an outpost of resistance against a new Mughal emperor. In a family of Hindu temple dancers a daughter, Adhira, must carry on her family’s sacred tradition. Her...
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‘The Coat’— New Short Fiction by Aditi Kay
I liked the coat the moment I saw it. Swinging lightly on its hanger, silver buttons gleaming. I draped it over myself and felt the new confidence surge into me. I wallowed in its warmth. My terribly...
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Women and War: A Review of Rohini Mohan’s The Seasons of Trouble
Rohini Mohan’s first book is a nonfiction account of three people living through postwar Sri Lanka. The book released October 2014 in the UK, US and India. Mohan will be doing a book tour (events...
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The Aerogram Book Club on Nayomi Munaweera’s Island of a Thousand Mirrors
Welcome back to The Aerogram Book Club, where Book Club editor Neelanjana Banerjee brings together writers and thinkers to discuss new South Asian books of significance every other month. Join in with...
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Alone In The Universe: Ms. Marvel Issue #9
Note: This post contains spoilers for those who haven’t read the ninth issue of Ms. Marvel. Issue #9 is available for purchase on Amazon and Comixology, or at your local comic book store. Ms. Marvel #9...
View Article“I have stolen everything” from The Lovers and The Leavers
This poetry video shot in Iceland and edited by Josh Steinbauer has Abeer Hoque reading words from her upcoming novel in stories The Lovers and The Leavers, to be launched this Friday, November 14 in...
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Poetic Writing Takes Flight In Captivating, Devastating Gypsy Goddess
How do you tell the story of a disaster? Poet, activist, and first-time novelist Meena Kandasamy approaches this difficult question in The Gypsy Goddess. A fractured narrative that takes place in...
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Tamil Nadu, 1968. Village landlords rule over a feudal system that forces peasants to break their backs in the fields or suffer beatings as punishment. In the misery of their daily lives it is little...
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Read Original Poetry By Poornima Laxmeshwar
Unknown element The rain dampens The empty swing under the tree And the rejected draft Of my unfinished book Which I forgot By the lonely open window The ink flows With a kiss from each drop The night...
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Read an Excerpt From Bina Shah’s A Season for Martyrs
Pakistani journalist and author Bina Shah has written extensively about Pakistan and Western perceptions of Pakistan in op-eds, including “Not My Homeland” and “The Legacy of Benazir Bhutto” at the New...
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The Aerogram Book Club On Jabeen Akhtar’s Welcome To Americastan
Welcome back to The Aerogram Book Club, where Book Club editor Neelanjana Banerjee brings together writers and thinkers to discuss South Asian books of significance every other month. Join in with your...
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2014’s Most Popular Short Fiction On The Aerogram
As we make our way through the first week of the new year, take some time to savor the short fiction we shared on The Aerogram in 2014. Sweet, sour, spicy, salty, bitter — you’ll find these flavors and...
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The Inventor Gets Interesting: Review of Ms. Marvel #10
Note: This post contains spoilers for those who haven’t read the tenth issue of Ms. Marvel. Issue #10 is available for purchase on Amazon and Comixology, or at your local comic book store. Ms. Marvel...
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Read Flash Fiction Story ‘The Rains Came’
When the rains failed for the third year in a row, Bansi lost all hopes for a good crop. The loan he had taken for new seeds, to lease a second plot of land, and to dig a new tube-well again turned...
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