Meena Venkataramanan
@mvenk82
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writing about books, identity, and culture @washingtonpost @latimes @bostonglobe @lareviewofbooks @publicbooks & more. she/her.
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Joined January 2016
Along U.S. highways, roadside Punjabi restaurants called dhabas are popping up to serve American truckers, almost 20% of whom are of Punjabi descent. I visited one along the I-40 in Vega, a small town in the Texas Panhandle. Read the story here:.
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RT @PublicBooks: Brick Lane’s Jamme Masjid, the famed mosque at 59 Brick Lane, used to be a Jewish synagogue; before that, a Methodist chur….
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Jamme Masjid, the famed mosque at 59 Brick Lane, used to be a Jewish synagogue; before that, a Methodist church; and even before that, a Huguenot chapel.
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RT @PublicBooks: “Unlike in the US, where South Asians mostly began to shape the country in the late 20th century and are still making inro….
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Jamme Masjid, the famed mosque at 59 Brick Lane, used to be a Jewish synagogue; before that, a Methodist church; and even before that, a Huguenot chapel.
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RT @PublicBooks: During the rise of the far-right British National Party in the 1980s, London’s predominantly Bangladeshi Brick Lane was ta….
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Jamme Masjid, the famed mosque at 59 Brick Lane, used to be a Jewish synagogue; before that, a Methodist church; and even before that, a Huguenot chapel.
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RT @DrFRajina: “A SAFE HAVEN”: HUGUENOTS, JEWS, AND BANGLADESHIS IN BRICK LANE, LONDON.
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Jamme Masjid, the famed mosque at 59 Brick Lane, used to be a Jewish synagogue; before that, a Methodist church; and even before that, a Huguenot chapel.
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RT @PublicBooks: London’s Brick Lane has a unique Bengali character, featuring curry houses, grocery stores, textile shops, and bilingual s….
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Jamme Masjid, the famed mosque at 59 Brick Lane, used to be a Jewish synagogue; before that, a Methodist church; and even before that, a Huguenot chapel.
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For @PublicBooks, I wrote an essay on Brick Lane and its unique history as a refuge for the Huguenot, Jewish, and Bangladeshi communities, featuring perspectives from @AsmaBegum__ @tajstores @nijjormanush @DrFRajina and Leo Epstein. Read it here:.
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Jamme Masjid, the famed mosque at 59 Brick Lane, used to be a Jewish synagogue; before that, a Methodist church; and even before that, a Huguenot chapel.
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RT @washingtonpost: Review by Meena Venkataramanan: In “Searches,” Vauhini Vara collaborates with a chatbot to write essays on digital tech….
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In ‘Searches,’ Vauhini Vara collaborates with a chatbot to write essays on digital technology, surveillance capitalism and her family’s immigrant experience.
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RT @PublicBooks: In the latest installment in our series Public Streets, Meena Venkataramanan (@mvenk82) explores the multicultural history….
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Jamme Masjid, the famed mosque at 59 Brick Lane, used to be a Jewish synagogue; before that, a Methodist church; and even before that, a Huguenot chapel.
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For @washingtonpost @BookWorld, I reviewed @vauhinivara's compelling, genre-defying essay collection "SEARCHES," recently published by @PantheonBooks @penguinrandom. Read my review here:.
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In ‘Searches,’ Vauhini Vara collaborates with a chatbot to write essays on digital technology, surveillance capitalism and her family’s immigrant experience.
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I reviewed "The Urban Refugee" for @PlacesJournal's fall bookshelf roundup. Read my review here:.
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A seasonal roundup of book reviews on buildings, landscapes, and cities, featuring titles of interest to Places editors and contributing critics.
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RT @bookcritics: NBCC member @mvenk82 created a literary map of South Asian America for @ElectricLit, illustrated by Nuri Bhuiyan. It maps….
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These new writers are expanding the South Asian American canon beyond the coasts
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RT @ElectricLit: Follow Meena Venkataramanan (@mvenk82) on a coast-to-coast journey through the literary landscape of South Asian America h….
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These new writers are expanding the South Asian American canon beyond the coasts
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I hope the map will help reframe the Great American Road Trip — which our immigrant families love — and put South Asians in the driver's seat. There are so many more up-and-coming — and underrated — South Asian American authors writing fiction spanning America beyond the coasts!.
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The literary map of South Asian America features work by @vauhinivara, @ayadakhtar, @smathewss, @SanjenaSathian, @SopanDeb, @ninawyo, @ashathanki, @AmandaJayatissa, @sindyabhanoo, @rishi_reddi, @JaiChakrabarti, Mira Jacob, and Amitava Kumar.
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These new writers are expanding the South Asian American canon beyond the coasts
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I created this literary map of South Asian America, illustrated by @nuribooyah, for @ElectricLit! We map out post-2010 fiction set across the American landscape — beyond just the two major coasts — by South Asian authors.
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These new writers are expanding the South Asian American canon beyond the coasts
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RT @bookcritics: NBCC member @mvenk82 reviewed Nina Sharma's "The Way You Make Me Feel," a debut essay collection on Black and Brown love i….
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RT @qscottjones: ". Sharma’s debut is remarkable for its daring, how unafraid it is to eschew rosy visions of racial solidarity.". - @mve….
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Nina Sharma contemplates the power of Black and Brown love in her essay collection “The Way You Make Me Feel.”
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Thank you!.
An incredible review from @washingtonpost for @nsharmawriter's new essay collection, The Way You Make Me Feel: "Sharma’s debut is remarkable for its daring, how unafraid it is to eschew rosy visions of racial solidarity.”
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