Kavita Das’s first book, Poignant Song: The Life and Music of Lakshmi Shankar (Harper Collins India), a biography of the Grammy-nominated Hindustani singer, was published in June 2019. Kavita is at work on her next book, Craft and Conscience: How to Write About Social Issues (forthcoming from Beacon Press in fall 2022). She lives in New York with her husband, toddler, and hound. Find her on Twitter: @kavitamix.
Kavita Das
Articles
“The Shifting Half-Truths We Manage to Glean”: A Conversation with Nawaaz Ahmed
The author discusses his new novel, “Radiant Fugitives,” about what it means to be Muslim and queer in post-9/11 America.
The Trauma of Partition: A Conversation with Anjali Enjeti
Anjali Enjeti discusses her new novel of family life and communal tragedy, “The Parted Earth.”
“We Are Always Revising Our Stories — and Ourselves”: A Conversation with Maya Shanbhag Lang
A new memoir about the challenges of caring for a mother suffering from dementia.
“Either Hyper-Visible or Invisible”: An Interview with Jaquira Díaz
Jaquira Díaz discusses her new memoir, her love of music, and her gratitude for the richness of her Puerto Rican heritage.
Who Gets To Write About Whom: Examining Authority, Authenticity, and Appropriation in Biography
Kavita Das examines the questions of authority and appropriation in literature and biography.
Struggling with a Puzzling Illness, Then Living with Its Answer: A Conversation with Porochista Khakpour
Kavita Das interviews Porochista Khakpour, the author of “Sick: A Memoir.”
Passing and Being Passed Over in the United States
A new anthology on the social pressures of passing.
Red Ink of Revisionist History
Kavita Das discusses James Baldwin’s “Talk for Teachers” and the red ink of revisionist history.
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