{"id":1495,"date":"2012-02-06T08:44:08","date_gmt":"2012-02-06T13:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fridaynirvana.com\/fiction\/?p=1495"},"modified":"2012-01-28T18:55:21","modified_gmt":"2012-01-28T23:55:21","slug":"south-asian-challenge-for-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fridaynirvana.com\/fiction\/2012\/02\/south-asian-challenge-for-2012.html","title":{"rendered":"South Asian Challenge for 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fridaynirvana.com\/fiction\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/sac-4-2012.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1502\" title=\"South Asian Challenge\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fridaynirvana.com\/fiction\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/sac-4-2012.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"194\" \/><\/a>I read S. Krishna&#8217;s Book Blog often, but this is the first time I&#8217;m taking the <a href=http:\/\/www.skrishnasbooks.com\/2011\/12\/2012-south-asian-challenge-faq-and-sign.html>South Asian Challenge she hosts<\/a>. I am of South-Asian descent so the literary landscape is kind of familiar. I do read South-Asian books once in a while &#8211; I recently read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fridaynirvana.com\/fiction\/2011\/12\/book-review-the-artist-of-disappearance.html\">&#8220;The Artist of Disappearance&#8221; by Anita Desai<\/a> which I liked, but I&#8217;m wary of going full-tilt at them, because the subjects handled tend to be a little melancholy. This year I will read 2 South-Asian books, and they are:<\/p>\n<p>1. The Lilac House by Anita Nair<br \/>\n2. What the Body Remembers by Shauna Singh Baldwin<\/p>\n<p>The first I&#8217;m <a href=http:\/\/www.fridaynirvana.com\/fiction\/2012\/01\/2012-arc-reading-challenge.html>already signed up to read<\/a> via NetGalley, and the second I&#8217;ve been wanting to read for a long time now, simply because I&#8217;ve heard so many great things about it, and it comes highly recommended. Other South-Asian books I&#8217;ve liked are :<\/p>\n<p>1. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fridaynirvana.com\/fiction\/2010\/10\/book-review-the-white-tiger.html\">The White Tiger by Arvind Adiga<\/a><br \/>\n2. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fridaynirvana.com\/fiction\/2010\/03\/book-review-the-marriage-bureau-for-rich-people.html\">The Marriage Bureau for Rich People by Farhad Zama<\/a><br \/>\n3. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fridaynirvana.com\/fiction\/2010\/03\/book-review-the-case-of-the-missing-servant.html\">The Case of the Missing Servant by Tarquin Hall<\/a><br \/>\n4. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fridaynirvana.com\/fiction\/2010\/01\/2009-good-reads.html\">Palace of Illusions by Chitra Divakaruni<\/a><br \/>\n5. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fridaynirvana.com\/fiction\/2005\/03\/flesh-and-blood-and-all-things-indian.html\">Cracking India by Bapsi Sidhwa<\/a><br \/>\n6. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fridaynirvana.com\/fiction\/2005\/03\/flesh-and-blood-and-all-things-indian.html\">The Mango Season by Amulya Malladi<\/a><br \/>\n7. Ladies Coupe by Anita Nair<br \/>\n8. A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I read S. Krishna&#8217;s Book Blog often, but this is the first time I&#8217;m taking the South Asian Challenge she hosts. I am of South-Asian descent so the literary landscape is kind of familiar. I do read South-Asian books once in a while &#8211; I recently read &#8220;The Artist of Disappearance&#8221; by Anita Desai which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"twitter_17000648_17000648":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[68,3,57,28,6,10,66,83,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-68","category-books","category-challenge","category-desi","category-fun-stuff","category-india","category-lists","category-south-asian","category-women"],"aioseo_notices":[],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":false,"thumbnail":false,"medium":false,"medium_large":false,"large":false,"1536x1536":false,"2048x2048":false,"post-thumbnail":false,"sow-carousel-default":false},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"amodini","author_link":"https:\/\/www.fridaynirvana.com\/fiction\/author\/admin"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"I read S. 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