To be held in NYC, May 19th to May 21st this summer, this literary festival promises to be quite an event. Our opening night will feature readings by Amitav...
Many of us have always wanted to perfect the art of cooking, but some of us want to communicate how we feel about the foods we see and taste, write and share...
The *South Asian Women's Creative Collective* and *Marymount Manhattan College* present a *Master Class in the Fundamentals of Narrative Screenwriting with...
Hey, folks. Thanks for your willingness to help out with DesiLit. Some of you have been with us for a while -- some are brand new. We're happy to have you...
Mam Please find my bio data herewith: Â Born on 28th July 1979 at Budaun(U.P.), India, Shaleen Kumar Singh after his post-graduation in English did his...
Hi everyone My name is Farah Aziz, female. I will be 48 this year. My family are Muslim from Punjab, Pakistan. I have been in England since I was 4 years...
Hi everyone, I'm Minal Hajratwala, female, 37, and I have a book coming out in March 2009. I've known Mary Anne for a long time, ever since I interviewed her ...
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Hi all, I am Sweta Vikram, (female) 32, living in New York City. I am of Indian origin and have been living in the US for almost nine years now with my ...
Oh, I forgot to answer the ethnicity bit. I'm Gujarati by way of Fiji. I was born in San Francisco, grew up in New Zealand and suburban Michigan, now live in...
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Hello All, My name is Ashini J. Desai and I'm Indian-American and Gujarati by birth and Maharashtrian by marriage. I currently live in PA and I have an...
Hi everyone, I am Reena Katarya, 31, female, living between Ottawa (I work here) and Toronto (my family lives here) currently (traveling back and forth). I...
Right now, we have three active local chapters: Chicago, Bay Area, and Toronto In those cities, we have book clubs, writing workshops, literary festivals,...
Hi Mary Anne, I'd be interested in managing/helping out with the New York/New Jersey chapter. Thanks, Sweta ... to ... to ... would ... club ... literay ... ...
So I'm going to be sending out a series of e-mails on the various organizational elements that we should develop further. Here's a preview of some areas where...
Hey. So, this is a relatively simple post -- we have a bunch of volunteer bloggers, who were active for a while and then got a bit slack. I got in touch with...
Hello Mary, I can take up one of the admin tasks for the blogs. Sincerely, Srihari On Mon, Aug 4, 2008 at 9:32 AM, Mary Anne Mohanraj ... -- New! Sign Up for...
Okay, so we set up the writing workshop a while back, and a few people were active for a bit, and then it lapsed. There are three problems with it as it...
Great, Srihari. I'm going to wait a day, to see if we get a second volunteer, and then I'll send you the info you need to help fix things! - Mary Anne ... ...
This one is super-simple. We have a basic press list -- and I also have permission to take the press list for SAPAC, a local S. Asian activist group, and...
This is a new idea that we haven't tried before -- so far, our efforts have been focused on supporting authors for the most part, but I'd love us to do more to...
In theory, Raj Bhandari and Kush Tandon signed up to work on fundraising and membership, but I have somehow lost their e-mails, and am not sure if they're...
Mary Anne and Srihari, I'd also be happy to help out with the blogging content. Please let me know what I can do to get started! Thanks, Anandini ... ...
Great -- Anandini and Srihari, let's go with you as Blog Editors for now. You can try it, see what you think! I'm going to be sending you separate e-mails...
So Jaya's written to say she's in (please do feel free to respond directly to the group on these e-mails -- it's easier to keep everyone in the loop that way,...
Hello Everyone, I am Ather Zia, a Kashmiri from Indian administered Kashmir; currently in California, Fullerton (10 minutes from Disneyland in Anaheim)....
Hello Everyone, I was busy this weekend finishing up two finals. My incurable disease is ADD (attention deficit disorder) and that has led to some fascinating...
There are a couple of US-based groups that do literacy/education work in India: http://www.ilpnet.org/ www.ashanet.org Possibly they would have good models to...
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I'm happy to work on this either alone or with someone. I have my own press list too so I can merge it with the two you have and solicit from other SA writers,...
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Yes, part of the issue is that we don't want do just duplicate what Asha for Education or Room to Read already does. We could use some folks to take on this...
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