Recs if you like The Ministry of Utmost Happiness...
books your pretentious friend has heard of
Indian books to decentralize the literature canon
A list with (your!) recs ✍🏻📚, because i am tired of searching on social media and finding nothing. We have to solve that.
High Femme Fiction
pink, sophisticated & sometimes fatale <3 (added some essential nonfic & poetry!)
Diljit Dosanjh, everything is political
A book playlist in solidarity for the Jantar Mantar Protests in India. Art is political. Sports is political. Nature is political. I'd rather people have convictions than be neutral.
Queer Indian Stories
Ongoing collection of any representation from the LGBTQIA+ community. I've included all genres in this list to make options ample. Any recommendations most welcome!
PS- I'm yet to read most books and have collected these titles from other lists and social media forums, so if anything is wrongly added, please let me know!
contemporary south asian lit
desi writers writing sometimes weird always amazing desi books that aren’t necessarily immigrant/diaspora books about being desi. would love for this to be turned into a quest!
Outside of the box
Intersex Representation.
Mother mary comes to me-reading list
This is every book mentioned in mother mary comes to me by Arundhati Roy
Left wing India
Junior Literary Seminar Syllabus; What is a Thing?
Theme: “What is a thing? What is the difference between people and things?” with a focus on identity, commodification, alienation, and even AI
List is not yet completed
Books + Films (in order): Gulliver’s Travels - Jonathan Swift Wen Muye, “Dying to Survive” (2018) TBA Spike Jonze, “Her” (2013) Hayao Miyazaki, “The Boy and the Heron” (2023)
