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We are very excited about the latest issue and thought to share it with the DesiLit family. We have some lovely pieces in it which we hope you will enjoy!
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DesiLit Magazine announces its 3rd Issue!
Do come and see what we have in store for you with the latest Issue of DesiLit Magazine -
http://www.desilit.org/magazine/
Featuring: Indran Amirthanayagam, Roksana Badrudodja, Aman Batheja, Alka Bhargava, Tua Chaudhuri, Sarita Chouhan, Sunil Hariani, Mita Kapur, Anasuya Krishnaswamy, Amitava Nag, Soham Patel, Mahesh Patidar, Geetha Ravindran, Arun Sagar, Amit Shankar Saha, Mehnaz Sahibzada, Mahendra Shah, Anahita Vossoughi
Come Appreciate some Art by exciting new Artists like Sarita Chouhan, Anahita Vossoughi and Mahesh Patidar
Come read new Fiction, Poetry, Humor, Articles, Reviews:
A taste of Fiction

"Just as the first constellation, Aries, arced to the center of the night sky, Brendan slid his hand down Niv's arm and interlaced his fingers with hers. They fit perfectly. Then came Taurus." Passing at Hyde, Anasuya Krishnaswamy
"Pramod Paanwalla lived a life of reds. His cheeks were red, his wife Urmila's cheeks were red, the Christmas lights outside his restaurant, Bombay Palace, were red, and the incubator of Urmila's culinary productions, an imported tandoori clay oven, was red inside." Pramod Paanwalla's Predicament, Sunil Hariani
A taste of Poetry
"'Why do you always bury the important things?' he asks twisting my hair in his pale hands." Upon Finding Ganesh in the Medicine Cabinet, he asks for Wisdom in Small Doses, Tua Chaudhuri
"I've convinced Mme. Batiste I ride elephants on the streets back home." Elephants, Arun Sagar
A taste of Articles
"This is a story about my pregnancy and what it means to be a pregnant woman. Four years ago, I made an active decision to become pregnant; at least at the time I thought I was making a conscious and independent decision." Contesting Maternal Ideology: The Yonic Myths of Motherhood, Dr. Roksana Badruddoja A taste of Humor
"I think I have a crush on my new psychiatrist..." Chemical Serenity, Alka Bhargava
taste of Reviews
In The Early Works of Buddhadeb Dasgupta, Amitava Nag discusses the great visual artisan and his works. How, like Russian film director Andrei Tarkovsky, he believes that "At its best, cinema comes between music and poetry"...Create or get your
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Editorial October 2007
For the DesiLit staff, a lot has happened in our lives, between having babies and releasing music albums, not to mention graduate school and sabbaticals, but we are back with DesiLit Magazine's Issue Number 3. We feel you will appreciate the various threads, as each department has chosen pieces that they felt went well with their sensibilities. The particular melange of writers, poets and artists from around the world have lent this Issue, like our previous ones, a unique flavor.
The subjects in this Issue range from the harrowingly personal and the inevitably societal to the reverently religious and the erotically mythological, each voice unique and always surprising. Fiction's Digging In is unexpected, Passing at Hyde is a lyrically told coming of age story, while Pramod Paanwalla's Predicament tickles the funny bone. In Poetry, I particularly liked Elephants for the matter-of-fact way the poet starts his yarn right out. Humor has an entertaining little poem, Chemical Serenity that is sure to elicit a response from all. In Articles, Contesting Maternal Ideology: The Yonic Myths of Motherhood , really spoke to me due to the subject matter.
As we go forward, we also wanted to have more comments from our readership and the submitters. Please feel free to drop us a line at [email protected].

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