Sunjeev Sahota’s China Room Reclaims Family Generations Later
After reading Sunjeev Sahota's new minimalistic book, China Room, visions of the story and his writing linger and invite revisiting. Not having read his two pre
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The Yin and Yang of Jane Austen Is Alive and Well Thanks to Sonali Dev
Yash Raje, the son of a royal family who’s uncomfortable with privilege, worked his way up the California political ladder. Now, he’s running for governor o
Historical Mysteries of 1921 in India Resonate a Century Later
Oxford-educated Perveen Mistry, Bombay’s first female solicitor, is a clever, spirited young woman working for her father’s respected law firm in 1921 Bomba
Farzana Doctor’s Book, ‘Seven’ Confronts An Abusive Tradition
Trigger Warnings: FGM/C Some Christian denominations believe a seven-year-old can make spiritual choices. Judaism and Islam hold that a seven-year-old boy is ab
Books I Embraced, Devoured, and Loved In 2020
This year—destructive, unrelenting, heartbreaking —has affected everyone differently. From early in the crisis, I’ve repeatedly heard that many people hav
Dancing in Plain Sight
“The world is full of paper. I am writing now. I am writing to me. I am writing to myself and others like me,” author Sejal Shah professes in an essay "The
Fighting Cancer, Choosing Hope
In 2012, Munira Premji was an active woman filled with the joy of life. Her career was satisfying, her marriage was wonderful, and her grown children’s succes
An Accomplished Poetic Life
A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language. – W. H. Auden In reading 16-year-old Uma Menon’s debut collection of po
10 Things I Hate About Pinky!
If you’re ready for summer reading fun, Sandhya Menon’s latest young adult novel, 10 Things I Hate About Pinky, features an ocean of fun and a mountain of l
Tea for Two
In Seeing Ceremony, Meera Ekkanath Klein’s sequel to her 2017 debut novel, My Mother’s Kitchen, the narrator, Meena, is now ready for college and continues
Fierce and Determined: A Pioneering Spirit
Biographies such as Radical Spirits: India’s First Woman Doctor and Her American Champions, Nandini Patwardhan’s engrossing biography of Dr. Anandibai Joshe
Black and White Are Not Colors
The second-generation Bengali woman known as Mother in Devi S. Laskar’s emotionally raw debut novel, The Atlas of Reds and Blues, is forty-three years, six mo
