The Whole Kahani are delighted to have been awarded the 2024 Eastern Eye Award for Fiction for their anthology, Tongues and Bellies.
Kavita A. Jindal’s essay To Explain or Not, to Italicise or Not is included in The Unheard Stories. The book, published by Peepal Tree Press, celebrates 10 years of the SI Leeds Literary Prize (in which several authors from The Whole Kahani have been longlisted or shortlisted over the years). In the essay, Kavita answers some questions she’s frequently asked by writers working on their manuscripts. Reshma Ruia talks about the writing process and her books in this interview with The Yorkshire Times.
https://yorkshiretimes.co.uk/article/To-See-A-World-In-A-Grain-Of-Sand--Interview-With-Reshma-Ruia / A deeply-felt call to action /
Kavita A. Jindal reviews ‘Ma Is Scared’ by Anjali Kajal, translated by Kavita Bhanot (Comma Press, 2023) for Asian Review of Books https://asianreviewofbooks.com/content/ma-is-scared-by-anjali-kajal/ of bodies / of light / of weightlessness Khadija Rouf reviews Antonyms for Burial by Ellora Sutton (Fourteen Poems, 2022) for The Friday Poem https://thefridaypoem.com/antonyms-for-burial/ We're delighted to announce that our third anthology 'Tongues and Bellies' has been published! These stories play with lies and truth. Chameleon-like characters clutch at worlds that remain just out of reach. An old recipe, a robot, a key – these are clues to the people they once were or hope to be. Appetite and eating are often central in this collection as characters remember childhood meals, a mother’s cooking, meals with lovers and meals that turn out not as expected. Their appetite for food, as for life, is by turns bitter and sweet but never predictable. ‘Rich, incisive and at times magical, this is a collection to be savoured and cherished. A joy from start to finish.’ – Awais Khan, author of No Honour 'Tongues and Bellies' can be purchased at Linen Press. |