On Friday 23 October, the The South Asia National Outreach Consortium (SANOC) presented the South Asia Book Award. This award exists to celebrate and promote those who portray South Asia or South Asians living abroad and to provide parents, librarians and educators with high quality reading material for young people. This year’s award winners certainly meet… Read More South Asia Book Awards
title: God Loves Hair author: Vivek Shraya Artist: Juliana Neufeld date: Vivek Shraya, 2010 God Loves Hair is a collection of short stories that relates the coming of age of a gay, Indian boy. If his name was given in the story, I completely missed it. Oh, he was called names, ugly names that told… Read More book review: God Loves Hair
Congratulations to Tara and Evelyn, winners of copies of Jazz in Love by Neesha Meminger!! I’m going to combine Male Monday and UndercoverMonday today by featuring the work of a young man of Indian descent who currently lives in Canada. I recently became aware of Vivek Shraya when I posted the 2010 Rainbow Project book… Read More Male Monday: Vivek Shraya
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