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Desi Books: South Asian Literature. Reading; Writing; Conversation; Community. Contact: 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: https://t.co/yjTBvsApsN

[Annie S. @so_you_know]

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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@ShohiniB Thank you, Shohini.

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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: https://t.co/yjTBvsApsN

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@manishaxv That's really gratifying to hear, Manisha. And thank you for the wishes.

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@brownmusings Thank you.

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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: https://t.co/yjTBvsApsN

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@AliaWaheed Here's hoping there will be many others wanting to do something similar . . . better, even. :)

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@FarahAhamed Thanks, Farah.

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@ninoqazi We did include it in the Dec 2021 roundup. https://t.co/pSAACho190

[Jenny Bhatt @jennybhatt]

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.🙏🏾

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@MunimRifat @jennybhatt You're welcome. It looks quite amazing. Terrific lineup.

[Rifat Munim @MunimRifat]

Great to see #TheBangladeshAnthology on this amazing list of Jan 2023 books. Thanks, @DesiBooks and @jennybhatt.

https://t.co/764hCS0FLi

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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: https://t.co/U6CHumlwRl

[Ewan Smith @ewanandsmith]

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.

[Kiran Manral @KiranManral]

Thanks @DesiBooks @jennybhatt for putting #AllThoseWhoWander on a January 2023 books recco list.

https://t.co/K0dviko1Xu

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@KiranManral @jennybhatt You're welcome, Kiran. Congrats on the new book.

[Jenny Bhatt @jennybhatt]

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.

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CC. @ArachnePress

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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: https://t.co/U6CHumlwRl

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