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Aruni Kashyap @arunikashyap.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Are you attending the Decatur Book festival?

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Aruni Kashyap @arunikashyap.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

My Indian publisher and some friends in India have informed me that HOW TO DATE A FANATIC IS a #1 Bestseller in India in the LGBTQ books category! So rushed to the site and took a screenshot for posterity! This makes me so happy!! Thank you!

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Aruni Kashyap @arunikashyap.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Are you attending the Decatur Book festival?

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Aruni Kashyap @arunikashyap.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

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Aruni Kashyap @arunikashyap.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

“..brilliantly detailed … mundane and magical” HOW TO DATE A FANATIC receives a STARRED REVIEW from Book Page : www.bookpage.com/reviews/how-...

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Book review of How to Date a Fanatic

Aruni Kashyap’s How to Date a Fanatic follows a group of queer friends in Narendra Modi’s India, as Hindu nationalism is on the rise.

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Aruni Kashyap @arunikashyap.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

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Lit Hub @literaryhub.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

“Before the first Molotov cocktail reached us, before the crowd with knives and machetes and wooden clubs arrived, it was a large rock that invaded our lunch table.” Read from @arunikashyap.bsky.social’s new novel, How to Date a Fanatic.

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How to Date a Fanatic

Before the first Molotov cocktail reached us, before the crowd with knives and machetes and wooden clubs arrived, it was a large rock that invaded our lunch table. It went past my left ear and boun…

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Aruni Kashyap @arunikashyap.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

"Released today, Aruni Kashyap's novel HOW TO DATE A FANATIC follows characters navigating political polarization, state power, and social division in contemporary India. The novel's central questions also inform Kashyap's leadership of the Creative Writing Program at the University of Georgia"

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How Aruni Kashyap helped shape UGA's global creative writing program

Released today, Aruni Kashyap's new novel, “How to Date a Fanatic,” follows characters navigating political polarization, state power, and social division in contemporary India. The novel's central qu...

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Aruni Kashyap @arunikashyap.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Delighted to be in this list : “15 must-read queer books to kick off your summer stack” www.queerty.com/15-must-read...

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Aruni Kashyap @arunikashyap.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Had a wonderful time at Agnes Scott College! They have a beautiful campus!

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Aruni Kashyap @arunikashyap.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Had a wonderful time at Agnes Scott College! They have a beautiful campus!

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Aruni Kashyap @arunikashyap.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

😎 @harpercollins.bsky.social In this compassionate and poignant novel set in contemporary India and written by Aruni Kashyap, a young professor searches for connection & love during a time of political & cultural upheaval. As Neel Mukherjee says, “Read it, laugh, & feel very scared!

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Aruni Kashyap @arunikashyap.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

My translation of Yeshe Dorjee Thongchi’s (who is from the Sherdukpen tribe in Arunachal Pradesh) incredible collection of stories about Indigenous lives in Northeast India will be published by the Modern Library Classics in 2027!!! Thanks to my amazing agent Lucy Cleland for clinching this deal!

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Aruni Kashyap @arunikashyap.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

What an absolute honor to receive this endorsement for my upcoming novel from National Book Award nominated author Susan Power. Her novel The Grass Dancer (1994) is a long time favourite and have been a great fan since I read it. So this advance praise means the world to me! Thank you!

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Aruni Kashyap @arunikashyap.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Immensely grateful and honored to receive this endorsement from the amazing @sonorajha.bsky.social on HOW TO DATE A FANATIC (HarperCollins Publishers) out in July! Thanks a ton, Sonora for your support!!

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Aruni Kashyap @arunikashyap.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

My publisher HarperVia Books is giving away 30 advanced reading copies of HOW TO DATE A FANATIC (July 2026)! Use this link to enter the Goodreads giveaway and get your ARC! lnkd.in/g398K3yn

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Aruni Kashyap @arunikashyap.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

I fell in love with this story by Kaushik Ranjan Borah the moment I read it, and I knew I had to translate it. Here it is, out for the world to read in the wonderful literary magazine SUSPECT, published by Singapore Unbound. Congratulations, Kaushik! singaporeunbound.org/suspect-jour...

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The Different Definitions of Love | এটা অপ্ৰেমৰ গল্প — Singapore Unbound

‘ But later… we didn’t talk about love. We talk about the land and its people.’ – a short story by Kaushik Ranjan Bora, translated from the Assamese by Aruni Kashyap.

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Aruni Kashyap @arunikashyap.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

Scenes from Assam Book Fair 2025 - 2026 ~

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Aruni Kashyap @arunikashyap.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

Very happy to publish a short essay in the new issue of Granta 173, focusing on Indian Literature. I wrote about storytelling aesthetics in Assamese literature or in the literature written in the Indian languages. Excited to be part of this issue!

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Aruni Kashyap @arunikashyap.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

Decatur Book Festival Keynote: Decatur Book Festival Keynote: So excited to be part of this event tomorrow! If you are in Atlanta, please join us!

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Aruni Kashyap @arunikashyap.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

What an honor to be part of this mammoth book of Indian short stories edited by A. J. Thomas and published by Aleph Book Company! I have three entries here : my short story “For the Greater Common Good”, which is about a traditional healer’s family in Assam set against armed insurgency; and two

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Aruni Kashyap @arunikashyap.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

Penguin’s new anthology of stories from Northeast India! My story “Skylark Girl” from the collection THE WAY YOU WANT TO BE LOVED is included here along with two other short stories that I translated : Yeshe Dorjee Thongchi’s “The Smell of Bamboo Blossoms” & Anuradha Sarma Pujari’s “No Man’s Land.”

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Aruni Kashyap @arunikashyap.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

Thank you to Gauri Awasthi and @theoffingmag.bsky.social magazine for publishing this interview

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The Offing @theoffingmag.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

"Is it possible to write in English by remaining acutely aware of and consciously borrowing from Indigenous and vernacular aesthetics?" From a new Q&A with Aruni Kashyap, author of The Way You Want To Be Loved, and editor Gauri Awasthi. @arunikashyap.bsky.social theoffingmag.com/interviews/q...

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Q&A with Aruni Kashyap, author of The Way You Want To Be Loved - The Offing

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Himal Southasian @himalsouthasian.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

📚🎙️ “There is no proper Northeastern story, there are no proper Indian stories, because human life is so diverse and so spectacular and so surprising that there cannot be a certain kind of story from one community.” A conversation with @arunikashyap.bsky.social:

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Aruni Kashyap on stories of queer and displaced lives from Assam: Southasia Review of Books podcast #25

Welcome to the Southasia Review of Books Podcast, where we speak to celebrated authors and emerging literary voices from across Southasia. In this episode, Shwe

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Himal Southasian @himalsouthasian.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

📚🎙️ “I want to see people like me in literature. Where are the people from Northeast? Where are the people from Assam in Asian-American writing? So that was one of the earliest, most basic desires to write.” A conversation with @arunikashyap.bsky.social‬:

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Aruni Kashyap on stories of queer and displaced lives from Assam: Southasia Review of Books podcast #25

Welcome to the Southasia Review of Books Podcast, where we speak to celebrated authors and emerging literary voices from across Southasia. In this episode, Shwe

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