Author of Stillborn Season (2018) and Of Mothers and Other Perishables. Writer of book reviews and essays. Hopelessly analog. University of East Anglia
Joined June 2009
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The mood is carnage-fuelled in the opening pages of When We Are Strangers. It is 1946; Calcutta, glittering bastion of the British Empire, is ravaged by communal riots. Two characters emerge from the smoky atmosphere — Sita, a student of history, and Mahmud, a photographer. Together, they manage to break into the Indian Museum on Chowringhee Road, to steal, or more precisely, steal back what the British had stolen from them — fragments of a Buddha statue that belongs to Hashtnagar (in Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province).
✍️Radhika Oberoi
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Last Wednesday, Ottessa Moshfegh’s Plimpton Prize–winning story “Bettering Myself” found itself at the center of a lawsuit filed against a Florida college by one of its faculty members. Vinita Prabhakar, the English professor in question, is suing for wrongful termination after being fired for teaching the story, alongside works by Hemingway and Carver, in a unit on unlikable narrators. This week, we’ve unlocked “Bettering Myself,” published in issue no. 204 of the Review, from the archive. theparisreview.org/fiction/6…
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What is it about Delhi’s contradictions that makes it unforgettable in fiction? trib.al/uJTPrEI
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“When we write novels, we can’t choose sides. We have to be on everyone’s side—the woman’s, the man’s, the child’s. That’s what I find marvelous about novels, anyway—that they allow us to hear everyone.” —Marie NDiaye
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Christmas goodies arrived from dear @royallitfund, including a notepad with this quote from James Joyce. I have felt this way many times and RLF has been there for me, as it was for Joyce and is for hundreds of writers today. So glad to be a part of it.
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More visuals from the fantastic @BlrLitFest @Unmana @sunayanaroy @catinitaly @KiranManral @Kulpreetyadav @hypermonk
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« Four Novelists in Search of their Mothers » organized by the Rising Asia Literary Circle, @rajraf2021 , Julie Mehta and Harish Mehta, a conversation with @manishgaekwad, @_saikatmajumdar, @hypermonk
« Like Birds in the Sky » @redriverpress
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Step into worlds woven by the stellar lineup of novelists at #BlrLitFest 2024.
Meet @lakshmiunwomen, @BajajManjul, @NamitaGokhale_, @hypermonk, @rajrao2017, Ranbir Sidhu, @sujatavidu & more this December!
🗓 14-15 Dec 2024
📍 The Lalit Ashok
🕘 9am – 8pm
Stay tuned for more!
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Four Novelists in Search of Their Mothers
@_saikatmajumdar , @manishgaekwad , @hypermonk & @COumhani in conversation with Dr Julie Mehta and other readers, where they shared how their mothers inspired their novels.
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A vivid document, by Radhika Oberoi, on reading On Being Indian in times of upheaval: worldliteraturetoday.org/202…
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On the @htTweets Books page today, reviews of 'Shikwa-e-Hind; The Political Future of Indian Muslims' by @smujibrehman and 'Of Mother's and Other Perishables' by @hypermonk + an interview with @marceldirsus, author, 'How Tyrants Fall: And How Nations Survive'
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Months of reading, zoom calls, meetings, and over 17,000 pages later, here's introducing the 2024 Longlist of #TheJCBPrize . Five books in translation, four books by debut novelists, and all in all ten absolute must reads to add to your #TBRList . bit.ly/4e93Jor
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Warmest congratulations to our authors Radhika Oberoi, Atharva Pandit, and Kynpham Sing Nongkynrih for making it to the longlist of the 2024 JCB Prize for Literature with their outstanding novels!
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We are proud to announce the @TheJCBPrize for Literature 2024 Longlist 'Of Mothers and other Perishbles' by @hypermonk.
#ofmothersandotherperishables #JCBPrize #JCBPrizeForLiterature #JCBPrizeForLiterature2024 #2024longlist #longlisted
