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Aruni Kashyap @arunikashyap.bsky.social · 5d

Awwww! You are a Cambridge person now!

Aruni Kashyap @arunikashyap.bsky.social · 8d

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!

Aruni Kashyap @arunikashyap.bsky.social · Aug 27

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.

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Aruni Kashyap @arunikashyap.bsky.social · Aug 27

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

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Aruni Kashyap @arunikashyap.bsky.social · Aug 21

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.”

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Aruni Kashyap @arunikashyap.bsky.social · Jul 9

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

The Offing @theoffingmag.bsky.social · Jun 30

"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

theoffingmag.com/interviews/q...

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

Q&A - The Offing Magazine

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The Offing @theoffingmag.bsky.social · Jun 30

"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

theoffingmag.com/interviews/q...

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

Q&A - The Offing Magazine

theoffingmag.com

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Himal Southasian @himalmag.bsky.social · Jun 19

📚🎙️ “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

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Himal Southasian @himalmag.bsky.social · Jun 5

📚🎙️ “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

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Himal Southasian @himalmag.bsky.social · Jun 4

📚🎙️ “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

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Himal Southasian @himalmag.bsky.social · Jun 3

📚🎙️ “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

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Himal Southasian @himalmag.bsky.social · Jun 3

📚🎙️ “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

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Himal Southasian @himalmag.bsky.social · Jun 2

🎙️📚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...

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

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Himal Southasian @himalmag.bsky.social · Jun 2

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'.

🎧Spotify: spoti.fi/4557fiy
🎧 Apple Podcasts: apple.co/44Z2YNr
🎧Youtube: youtu.be/btapvkwrTxU

Aruni Kashyap on stories of queer and displaced lives from Assam: Southasia Review of Books podcast #24

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Himal Southasian @himalmag.bsky.social · Jun 2

📚🎙️“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, 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’...

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Himal Southasian @himalmag.bsky.social · Jun 3

📚🎙️ “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

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

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Aruni Kashyap @arunikashyap.bsky.social · May 13

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

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.

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Aruni Kashyap @arunikashyap.bsky.social · May 5

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)

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Frances Goldin Literary Agency @goldinagency.bsky.social · May 6

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 🎉

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Aruni Kashyap @arunikashyap.bsky.social · May 5

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)

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Aruni Kashyap @arunikashyap.bsky.social · Apr 29

Delighted to share my translation of Anuradha Sarma Pujari's story @wwborders.bsky.social
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Words Without Borders & WWB Campus @wwborders.bsky.social · Apr 28

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

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.”

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Aruni Kashyap @arunikashyap.bsky.social · Apr 1

😍😍😍 Texted you!!!!!!

Aruni Kashyap @arunikashyap.bsky.social · Mar 31

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

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Aruni Kashyap @arunikashyap.bsky.social · Mar 25

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

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