Erotic Stories For Punjabi Widows Tackles the Hard Stuff
At a recent wedding, I caught myself lingering hesitantly near the bar, weighing how I might evade the gaze of aunties and uncles if I walked … Read more
Novelist Arundhati Roy & Her Mission To Inspire In The Ministry of Utmost Happiness
Anjula Gogia, the activist bookseller from Another Story Bookshop in Toronto, had patiently nudged me over a few weeks to introduce and host Arundhati Roy … Read more
Original Poetry by Diya Bose: “The Organ I Grew When You Grew in Me”
When I grew you Inside of me, I grew new limbs. My branches grew new ways To reach for the world And touch it In … Read more
Marriage of a Thousand Lies: Review + Q&A With Debut Novelist SJ Sindu
Marriage of a Thousand Lies (Soho Press), a debut novel by SJ Sindu, is narrated by Lakshmi (called Lucky), a 27-year-old queer Sri Lankan Tamil woman … Read more
Read Original Poetry By Manisha Sharma From The Vanishing
These poems are from my project The Vanishing — a poetry manuscript and art installation that addresses the Indian issue of female feticide, forced elimination of … Read more
Read Short Fiction By Aekta Khubchandani: “Crows And Goodbyes”
I have been taking care of my head as well as of my cigarettes. Our bodies would burn together and we would reunite on sparked … Read more
The New South Asian American Writer Is A Wild Beast
In February 2017, the Chicago Quarterly Review published its South Asian American Issue featuring the work of 38 emerging and established South Asian writers and … Read more
Read Original Poetry By Sara Chansarkar: “Mind Your Language”
Three lovely languages I profess to know: English taught by pious habit-clad nuns Who insisted we speak English at school Or they raised a livid … Read more
Vibrant India — A Tip Of The Hat To Delicious Ingenuity
One of the first photographs in Chitra Agrawal’s Vibrant India: Fresh Vegetarian Recipes From Bangalore to Brooklyn (Ten Speed Press) shows her great aunt, grandmother and … Read more
American Teen Romance, Desi-Style: When Dimple Met Rishi
It doesn’t matter what epoch they’re set in, or what language they’re in — I love romantic comedies. Everything from Pride and Prejudice to Kuch … Read more
