Aruni Kashyap

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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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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.”

A conversation with @arunikashyap.bsky.social‬: buff.ly/S37UkUM #PrideMonth

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...

Thank you for putting this together and organising such a wonderful series of events!

Had a wonderful time at The College of William & Mary’s translation festival. We need to know how the rest of the world lives and imagines; can’t do that without translators. US publishing has a 3% problem which means only 3% of titles are translated; and South Asian Lit in translation? 0.66%!

Trying my best, as you are, as all of us are. Thank you for your words and please take care!

Some Postcards I Never Sent “You can’t wait for the world to be perfect to write. You’d be waiting forever.”

“You can’t wait for the world to be perfect in order to write. You’d be waiting forever.”

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LA Gave More Money to Cops While Cutting Fire Budgets. Now It’s Burning. “Defunding of other city programs in order to give the LAPD billions a year has consequences,” according to a local activist.

“In June, Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass signed an adopted $12.8 billion budget that cut the fire department’s funding by more than $17.5 million, or around 2 percent of the previous year’s budget of $837 million.”

Hear hear! Brutal! Sharp like a knife!

It is so cold here in Cambridge today!! And Peet’s coffee shut at 5:30 😟

In this #podcast for New Books Network, I speak with Professor Arnab Dutta Roy about Global Anglophone Literature, writing in multiple voices, and the commitment to write political fiction : newbooksnetwork.com/the-way-you-...