Aruni Kashyap

Assamese ‘Byonjonar otripti describes the opposite of satisfaction. It is a “dissatisfying meal”, a taste that remains or won’t resolve, that continues to tease the taste buds.’ Aruni Kashyap in praise of open...

“In Assam, our storytelling traditions have always celebrated the unfinished, with sudden endings that leave the reader partly frustrated.”

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UGA Creative Writing Program grows global literary community on campus On the top floor of Park Hall, a tight-knit cohort of writers and poets refine their craft in the University of Georgia’s Creative Writing Program. At the UGA Main Library,

Thanks to the UGA student newspaper The Red & Black for featuring the Creative Writing Program ~ www.redandblack.com/culture/uga-...

Very happy to publish a short essay in the new issue of Granta 173, focusing on Indian Literature. I wrote about storytelling aesthetics in Assamese literature or in the literature written in the Indian languages. Excited to be part of this issue!

Thanks, Eric! How are you doing?

July 2026, from Harper Via

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Decatur Book Festival Keynote: Decatur Book Festival Keynote: So excited to be part of this event tomorrow! If you are in Atlanta, please join us!

two short stories I translated : Yeshe Dorjee Thongchi’s haunting story about rat overpopulation and its consequences in Arunachal Pradesh & Abdus Samad’s subversive story about the discrimination faced by a man from the migrant Muslim community in Assam.

What an honor to be part of this mammoth book of Indian short stories edited by A. J. Thomas and published by Aleph Book Company! I have three entries here : my short story “For the Greater Common Good”, which is about a traditional healer’s family in Assam set against armed insurgency; and two

Penguin’s new anthology of stories from Northeast India! My story “Skylark Girl” from the collection THE WAY YOU WANT TO BE LOVED is included here along with two other short stories that I translated : Yeshe Dorjee Thongchi’s “The Smell of Bamboo Blossoms” & Anuradha Sarma Pujari’s “No Man’s Land.”

Thank you to Gauri Awasthi and @theoffingmag.bsky.social magazine for publishing this interview

Q&A with Aruni Kashyap, author of The Way You Want To Be Loved - The Offing Q&A - The Offing Magazine

"Is it possible to write in English by remaining acutely aware of and consciously borrowing from Indigenous and vernacular aesthetics?"

From a new Q&A with Aruni Kashyap, author of The Way You Want To Be Loved, and editor Gauri Awasthi. @arunikashyap.bsky.social

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Aruni Kashyap on stories of queer and displaced lives from Assam: Southasia Review of Books podcast #25 Welcome to the Southasia Review of Books Podcast, where we speak to celebrated authors and emerging literary voices from across Southasia. In this episode, Shwe

📚🎙️ “There is no proper Northeastern story, there are no proper Indian stories, because human life is so diverse and so spectacular and so surprising that there cannot be a certain kind of story from one community.”

A conversation with @arunikashyap.bsky.social:

Aruni Kashyap on stories of queer and displaced lives from Assam: Southasia Review of Books podcast #25 Welcome to the Southasia Review of Books Podcast, where we speak to celebrated authors and emerging literary voices from across Southasia. In this episode, Shwe

📚🎙️ “I want to see people like me in literature. Where are the people from Northeast? Where are the people from Assam in Asian-American writing? So that was one of the earliest, most basic desires to write.”

A conversation with @arunikashyap.bsky.social‬:

Aruni Kashyap on stories of queer and displaced lives from Assam: Southasia Review of Books podcast #25 Welcome to the Southasia Review of Books Podcast, where we speak to celebrated authors and emerging literary voices from across Southasia. In this episode, Shwe

📚🎙️ “There is no proper Northeastern story, there are no proper Indian stories, because human life is so diverse and so spectacular and so surprising that there cannot be a certain kind of story from one community.”

A conversation with @arunikashyap.bsky.social‬:

Aruni Kashyap on stories of queer and displaced lives from Assam: Southasia Review of Books podcast #24 Welcome to the Southasia Review of Books Podcast, where we speak to celebrated authors and emerging literary voices from across Southasia. In this episode, Shwe

📚🎙️ “Literature from Assam challenges what people understand as Indian literature. Because people have seen India as the biggest democracy, but they have not seen India as a force that has brutalised its own people.”

A conversation with @arunikashyap.bsky.social‬:

Aruni Kashyap on stories of queer and displaced lives from Assam: Southasia Review of Books podcast #24 Welcome to the Southasia Review of Books Podcast, where we speak to celebrated authors and emerging literary voices from across Southasia. In this episode, Shwe

📚🎙️ “We see a lot queer stories where the ending is very tragic. I think it keeps on telling us that this is how your life is going to be. So it was my desire to rewrite the ending of these two lovers.”

A conversation with @arunikashyap.bsky.social‬:

Aruni Kashyap on stories of queer and displaced lives from Assam: Southasia Review of Books podcast #24 Welcome to the Southasia Review of Books Podcast, where we speak to celebrated authors and emerging literary voices from across Southasia. In this episode, Shwe

🎙️📚New episode of the #SouthasiaReviewofBooks podcast!

A conversation with the Assamese writer @arunikashyap.bsky.social on crafting stories on love, resistance and belonging set against the long shadow of violence in India’s Northeast: www.himalmag.com/podcast/arun...

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Tune in to our latest Southasia Review of Books episode for the full conversation with @arunikashyap.bsky.social on his new collection of short stories, 'The Way You Want to Be Loved'.

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Aruni Kashyap on stories of queer, displaced lives from Assam: Southasia Review of Books podcast #24 A conversation with the Assamese writer Aruni Kashyap on crafting stories on love, resistance and belonging set against the long shadow of violence in India’...

📚🎙️“Why should I let the state and other horrific forces that are brutalising society take centre stage in my art? I don't want to give the state that much space. It already assumes too much space.”

A conversation with @arunikashyap.bsky.social‬: buff.ly/ehmY7sr

Aruni Kashyap on stories of queer and displaced lives from Assam: Southasia Review of Books podcast #24 Welcome to the Southasia Review of Books Podcast, where we speak to celebrated authors and emerging literary voices from across Southasia. In this episode, Shwe

📚🎙️ “I think the new generation of writers are going to change the conversation about queer writing from Assam. It is small in number, but I think that they are making a significant impact.”

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Desires clash with society's expectations in Aruni Kashyap's new short fiction In his new collection of short stories, UGA creative writing program director Aruni Kashyap comes back time and time again to the tension between individual desires and society’s limits.

Listen to me speaking about my short story collection at the Georgia Public Radio ~

Speaking in New York at this panel at the Rainbow Lit Fest on May 10th! It is a Saturday! Come ask us questions!

2025 Rainbow Book Fair Panel
Asian Love Stories: Romance, Resistance, and Revolution
Saturday, May 10th, 3.00-4.15 PM
208 W 13th Street, New York, NY 10011 (room tba)

We’ve been sitting on this news for a minute and are so delighted to FINALLY share that the brilliant Lucy Cleland has joined The Frances Goldin Agency as VP and Senior Agent! We are enormously lucky to have her on the team 🎉

Speaking in New York at this panel at the Rainbow Lit Fest on May 10th! It is a Saturday! Come ask us questions!

2025 Rainbow Book Fair Panel
Asian Love Stories: Romance, Resistance, and Revolution
Saturday, May 10th, 3.00-4.15 PM
208 W 13th Street, New York, NY 10011 (room tba)

Delighted to share my translation of Anuradha Sarma Pujari's story @wwborders.bsky.social
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A long illuminated hallway with the text “'Colonel Gulchand Singh’s Disputed Property' by Anuradha Sarma Pujari, translated from Assamese by Aruni Kashyap. Finalist for the Armory Square Prize for South Asian Literature in Translation” and the quote “What kept them here? The unhindered freedom of Singh Hostel, the quaint atmosphere, and the strong friendships. And he was nineteen. And free. And away from home. His transition wasn’t that easy even though he was ready for life’s adventures.”

A finalist for the @‌armorysqprize.bsky.social , this story by Anuradha Sarma Pujari (tr. @arunikashyap.bsky.social ) narrates the intense atmoshpere at a student hostel in Delhi. buff.ly/FuK7y0q

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I will be speaking at Yale University tomorrow. Please come if you are around! macmillan.yale.edu/southasia/ev...