Varsha Chitnis

oppression that benefit us.
If you’re interested in understanding how caste, an institution of socio-political and economic inequality, got reframed as a cultural identity, see 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐂𝐮𝐥𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐳𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐨𝐟 𝐂𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐈𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐚: 𝐈𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐈𝐧𝐞𝐪𝐮𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐢𝐧 𝐚 𝐌𝐮𝐥𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐮𝐥𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐚𝐥 𝐀𝐠𝐞 by Balmurli Natrajan

It is my firm belief that if we’re not critically engaging with systems of oppression within our own cultures, shouting about how global yt supremacy oppresses us is hypocrisy at its best.
And this is why not all own voices stories are the same because some of us are invested in upholding systems of

There are nuances in every culture that might not be immediately evident to those outside the said culture. Caste and casteism is one such nuance in Indian stories that’s often obfuscated under the label of culture or customs or traditions—made invisible, even appealing to the unacquainted.

This is the premise of my debut novel The Art of Taking Second Chances.

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he’s determined to win you back. There is one small hurdle: you have an adoring boyfriend and he’s about to be engaged to a real estate heiress. Will you risk throwing away a certain future only to follow your heart? But more importantly, will he?

Imagine you’re Tara, an art consultant and aspiring artist. You come to Dallas for an opportunity of a lifetime, only to realize that the person who bought your painting anonymously is none other than your ex who disappeared from your life thirteen years ago. Now a powerful man,

When my Mother Prevented Me from Marrying Wrong — Varsha Chitnis The incident that inspired Tara’s story in The Art of Taking Second Chances.

New blog post now up

Are Romance Novels Political? — Varsha Chitnis Because romantic love has always been political. If it weren’t, society wouldn’t have spent an inordinate amount of energy trying to define what kind of love is acceptable.

New blog post that was designed to be a reel but I never got around to recording it.

Are Romance Novels Political? — Varsha Chitnis

2 days until release! At this point, it feels surreal. What do you mean I wrote four books? 😮
I had much to prove with The Ex Factor because the characters were my readers’ favorites and I needed to give them a satisfying HEA on their own terms. See early reviews👇
A big thank you my ARC readers 🫶

Last two days to get these beauties on sale
#romancereaders

The Ex Factor: A Billionaire Romance (The Dallas Connection Book 3) The Ex Factor: A Billionaire Romance (The Dallas Connection Book 3) - Kindle edition by Chitnis, Varsha. Contemporary Romance Kindle eBooks @ Amazon.com.

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I don’t have a big pre-order goal. It’s a rather humble one. You can help me reach it by pre-ordering my book now.
What happens when you fall in love with your ex’s lover’s ex?
The Ex Factor is a slow burn billionaire romance, that critiques unrestricted wealth accumulation, and class elitism.

UN/BOUND is a 🌶️ romance you should be reading this weekend 😆
#spicybooks

Thank you!

I just got a public death threat from a few folks who noticed I am doing a library event to talk about my career and my books. They called me all the familiar names, then “I won’t be sad if someone shoots her in the face.” And a woman’s reply, “Right between the eyes.”

I am a children’s author.

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This is Winston Churchill visiting the White House during World War II.

Funny how he isn’t wearing a suit either. Almost like he was a wartime leader defending his country from being slaughtered and wiped out by an authoritarian aggressor.

Mark Cuban says yes. These are the kind of millionaires and billionaires we need more of. Not the narcissist who’s trying to control our lives.
This is the kind of billionaire that my hero is in my next book. Pay your fair share of taxes, he says.

Fascist leaders around the wondering who’s kissing whose ass and whose ass they need to kiss next. All roads currently lead to the big billionaire stinkhouse who’s waiting for the fascist squid games to begin.

Normalize pronouncing DOGE as DOUCHE.

In the least, we could acknowledge our own complicities in upholding a system that has brought us to this moment in history.

This is one of the central reasons why only specific immigrants are being targeted for deportation under the current administration. There are good/worthy immigrants, and there are bad immigrants, and their skin color+country of origins plays a huge role in determining their worth.

as immigrants of colors we are taught to censure our own kind and make fun of them if they fail at assimilating. See how many second gen stand up comics have built their careers on making fun of their parents' accents and ways of life.

Almost every European who doesn't speak English will botch words and butcher the English language but it is never seen as a problem. Their accents are adorable. Ours are the stuff of jokes. And the problem is more insidious because

Now imagine the same scene with a white immigrant speaking in British English, or a white immigrant speaking in a French accent. Where all European accents and mispronunciations are seen as cute or at least not problematic, brown and black immigrants are asked to "go learn English first."

An Indian grad student TA asks for rubber in the classroom leading to a lot of ridicule, guffawing, with Kal Penn's (an American Indian) character finally correcting him with the words, "Yo, bhaisaab, it's called an eraser, dawg."

*Immigrants of Color and Language*
Last night during my doom scrolling sesh, I came across a funny reel that compared US vs UK terminologies. One of those words was eraser (US) vs rubber (UK) and I was reminded of the scene in the 2001 movie American Desi.

I’m writing my first Gujarati FMC and she’s as kickass as I wanted. I’m so flipping proud of her. And before you ask, yes there’s thepla, but also sukhdi and farsi puri 🥰

Love it! Did you see the latest bs? Google results for U.S. Presidents in order omits Biden completely. Bing shows the right order