“Love Letter” Poetry Excerpt From Abeer Hoque
I push and I pull I watch and I wait I tire of being the one who wants I don’t have the courage to speak up and take it I don’t have the wisdom to know it’s not mine but I know this much what’s over...
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Book Review: The Blind Writer Offers Glimpses of Indian-American Dysfunction
As a short story writer myself, I was thrilled at the opportunity to review a short story collection, and one which focuses on the Indian American experience, no less. Sameer Pandya’s The Bind Writer...
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“Let Me See You Get Off”— Original Poetry By Karthik Purushothaman
Cigarette butts squeezed out, tar ejaculate on the marble floor we were talking around laptops six websites open white screen exhibition my friend happy with government decision that put a stop to...
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Read An Excerpt From Nikesh Shukla’s Meatspace
Nikesh Shukla’s new novel Meatspace, is out in the U.S. on September 15, from Harper Collins, and according to The Guardian, “Like Douglas Coupland’s Generation X, this novel captures a cultural...
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Brooklyn Book Festival 2015 Amps Up New York’s Stellar Literary Offerings
Brooklyn Book Festival 2015 The Brooklyn Book Festival is the largest free literary festival in New York. It has over 50 Bookend events flanking either end of the weekend, and tens of thousands of book...
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“Death, A Crow”— Original Poetry by Dipika Mukherjee
Terang bulan menggali ubi, Ubi digali berkarung-karung; Tuan di awan saya di bumi, Berkirim surat di mulut burung. Under the full moon we dig for tubers, We dig enough to fill many sacks; You are in...
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Read Aman Sen’s ‘Elections In India: A Memoir’
When the general elections of 1977 were announced, my father, an itinerant civil engineer with the Public Works Department, was in his third transfer in five years, posted to a remote corner of South...
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Read The Rest Of Aman Sen’s ‘Elections In India: A Memoir’
Catch up with the first part of Aman Sen’s childhood memories and reflections on the 1977 General Elections in India. “What about you?” Mada asked me, “If you were voting today, who would you pick? No...
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Read An Excerpt From Shikhandi, or Other Stories They Don’t Tell You, by...
Shikhandi, or Other Stories They Don’t Tell You, by Devdutt Pattanaik, explains that queerness isn’t only modern, Western, or sexual. Rather, by looking at the vast written and oral traditions of...
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Read An Excerpt From Deepa Iyer’s We Too Sing America
In We Too Sing America (New Press), nationally renowned activist Deepa Iyer catalogs recent racial flashpoints, from the 2012 massacre at the Sikh gurdwara in Oak Creek, Wisconsin, to the violent...
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Fragments of An Unknown Bangladesh in Fragments of Riversong
Short stories fascinate me. The art of weaving a tale in limited words and allowing readers to gain understanding of a topic or theme in a short amount of time is a wonderfully creative thing. In...
View ArticleA Call To Action From Community Activists: 4 Things You Can Do To Counter...
Scores of people crowded into the back of The Booksmith in San Francisco’s Haight Ashbury neighborhood last week to listen to Deepa Iyer discuss her new book, We Too Sing America. Another full house...
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The Aerogram Book Club on Tanwi Nandini Islam’s Bright Lines
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. Join in with your thoughts in the...
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Books For You: Bright Lines Giveaway + Book Club Roundup
To enter our giveaway for a copy of Tanwi Nandini’s debut novel Bright Lines, follow the instructions at the end of this post. The latest installment of The Aerogram’s Book Club featured a discussion...
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“Yesterday’s Poetry”&“Your Song”— Original Poetry by Yuan Changming
Yesterday’s Newspaper Like a small leaf Rolling along From curb to curb Beside or behind Each running wheel You have become Heavy, even heavier Than the headline Of the front page Once the wind stops,...
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“Bodies”— Original Poetry By Sagaree Jain
The boy I loved was so dark, so dense, so soft in the air conditioning, so beautiful with his thick chest and spindle legs and shoulders broadening unconsciously, a strong thing standing for the first...
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Now We Want You To Join The Seahorse Conversation
Over the last two years, Neelanjana Banerjee has been editing The Aerogram Book Club, where she brings engaged readers, writers, and scholars together to discuss South Asian books. The books have run...
View Article“Silver” and “Telepathy”— Original Poetry by Shobhana Kumar
Silver just before festive occasions the gods make do without their silver lamps and paraphernalia. in the ritual cleansing prayers, oxidised from longing are absolved of guilt. some prayers take...
View ArticlePadma Lakshmi On Her New Memoir: “I Am Going To Own My History”
Author, actress, model, TV host and executive producer Padma Lakshmi released a new memoir this week on International Women’s Day. The day is finally here!! Love, Loss and What We Ate is officially out...
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The Aerogram Book Club On Janice Pariat’s Seahorse
Welcome back to The Aerogram Book Club, where editor Neelanjana Banerjee brings together writers and thinkers to discuss South Asian books of significance. Join in with your thoughts in the comments...
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