One Planet, Only One

Category: British India

Thank you, Tyriek White

With prose as wistful as a bardic lament, and yet as sharp as a cyclostyled etching of the souls of black and brown folk, your novel We Are a Haunting, is a must-read for anyone who wants not to forget what it is truly like to be black and brown all over.

February 8, 2024
Imitative Fallacy?

I wrote this today as part of my jottings and reflections on the writer’s craft. Incidentally—or possibly not—this “Imitative Fallacy” topic has interested me awhile because in my current novel, tentatively titled Homeland Blues, I have my South Asian characters whose “English,” in their monologues and voices, would not be “standard” in real life.

January 25, 2024
Washington DC South Asia Literary Festival Panel now on YOUTUBE

One of BUZZFEED News’ “15 Books From Smaller Presses You Won’t Be Able to Put Down!”

June 16, 2022
How to Write a Historical Novel and (MAYBE) not be in it….

Writing the Historical Novel: Reading and Craft talk with Dr. Nandini Bhattacharya–Zoom Nov. 5th 4-5 PM

October 26, 2021
Call for Papers on South Asia and Masculinity

We invite papers that are sensitive to contradictions, ambiguities, and affective dissonances that surface in the fictional depictions of masculinities due to economic, racial, religious, caste, and sexual hierarchies and conflicts.

October 7, 2021