Love, InshAllah is a book that dares to discuss one of the most taboo topics of Islamic, or even South Asian, culture Read More »

An orphaned girl raised by her devout grandparents in a house that is as old as her lineage Read More »

As I ran my hand over the cover of When Wings Expand, before I was about to lose myself in the story Read More »

I always love stocking up on South Asian literature when I take trips to India and my relatives there have picked up on this. Read More »

Sometime in November, I picked up Mindy Kaling’s new book, Is everyone hanging out without me (and other concerns). I love Mindy Kaling and since she’s a Boston girl and a Brown Girl, I felt like it was almost my duty to pick up the book, if for nothing more than in an effort to support her. Read More »

It was early December. A Monday and I was frantically working on a presentation for the following day. I was defending my thesis (no big deal). And then I received a text message from my friend, “Mindy is going to be at Brattle Street Theater, FYI”. Read More »

As I boarded the plane from Delhi to New York, I dreaded the 15 hour flight more than anything. The first thing I grabbed was a book I picked up on my trip to Kolkata: ‘Aruna’s Story.’ And so as I reached New York, I couldn’t tell you where the time went, or where my mind was during the time after finishing the book but I knew I would remember the story for a very long time. Read More »

A few of us at the BG Staff were lucky enough to acquire a few copies of the wonderful new audiobook by Kamala Nair titled The Girl in the Garden. Read More »

A couple months ago I was catching up with my cousin in Atlanta about the usual internships and college nonsense when she mentioned she had a book coming out in the near future. Read More »

A while ago, whilst gobbling up anything and everything I could get my hands on that was written by Indian authors, I came across Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni. Read More »