A family’s journey from 5 villages to 5 continents
Minal Hajratwala spent seven years visiting distant cousins, aunts and uncles to string together this Indian Diaspora narrative.
SAJA hosts discussion on contemporary South Asian poetry
SAJA will be hosting a webcast on Wednesday about contemporary South Asian
poetry, from the Diaspora and around the world. Join acclaimed poets and
editors, Ravi Shankar, Nathalie Handal, Pireeni Sundaralingam and literary
agent Sarah Jane Freymann to discuss the conception and shaping of the
extraordinary anthology, “Language for a New Century: Contemporary Poetry
from Asia, the Middle East and [...]
Abraham Verghese’s “Cutting for Stone” interview
Dr. Abraham Verghese is a rarity – a man who brings the compassion he shows as a doctor into his writings. He has published two non-fiction/autobiographical books My Own Country and The Tennis Partner, which gave him the opportunity to share his experiences as a stateless foreign doctor.
He was born to Indian parents [...]
Karan Mahajan
Author Suketu Mehta has high praise for Family Planning in The Daily Beast and wrote: “I recommend Karan Mahajan’s debut novel Family Planning. It’s the truest portrait of modern New Delhi I’ve read, and the funniest book of the year, about a government minister with 13 children. The author is only 24.”
In this three-part video [...]
