Nandini Bhattacharya
writer, teacher, mother, tree-hugger, rooming with imperious humans and marmalade cats

Events

A WINSOME PANEL OF WRITERS

Readings on the Pike, Facebook Live

December 10 2020 -- 6 PM CST/7 PM EST

Folks, join us for the love of words

FRIENDS, I read on Sunday, November 15, 6 - 8 pm CST, at New York's KGB Bar from my debut novel Love's Garden. and other work. My friends and poets Tori Reynolds and Usha Akella read their astonishingly beautiful work with me.

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LIGHTHOUSE WRITERS WORKSHOP PRESENTS

HAPPY HOUR READING:

CATHERINE HOPE AND NANDINI BHATTACHARYA

Quick Links

"Review of Four Quartets: Poetry in the Pandemic," March 29, 2021

"No Country for Young Women," Sky Island Journal January 17, 2021, Issue 15

"Rowans, Oaks and Other Trees," Saturday Evening Post Best Short Stories from the Great American Fiction Contest Anthology 2021 (forthcoming 2021)

"Something Blue," (excerpt from novel-in-progress Homeland Blues), in Good Cop/Bad Cop Anthology, Forthcoming Flowersong Press, 2020

"Gehenna," Gardan Anthology of the Craigardan Artists Residency, November 2020

"My Body and Other Diagnoses," Funny Pearls, November 2020

"Flight, in terza rima," poem, The Bombay Review, issue 36, November 2020

"Ode to the Young'uns Whose Readings I Attend," Oyedrum, April 2020

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"Luvlee," in Meat for Tea, the Valley Review 14:1 (2020): 26-34 pp.

"The Sale," Raising Mothers Journal, Issue 1

"State of Nature: a Tragedy," Storyscape Journal, Issue 22 (June 2019)

"Grace and Jimmy," The Bangalore Review (August 2016)

"Nakul and the Goddess," Ozone Park Journal (January 2014)

"The Cousin's Wedding," The Bacon Review (December 2012)

Hindi Cinema: Repeating the Subject

Slavery, Colonialism and Connoisseurship: Gender and Eighteenth-Century Literary Transnationalism (Ashgate Press, 2006)

Reading the Splendid Body: Gender and COnsumerism in Eighteenth-century British Writing on India

Authors Guild Directory

A compendium of member websites

Selected Works

Fiction

LOVE'S GARDEN, A NOVEL

It is 1898. India is ruled by the British, and India's women are ruled by British masters as well as Indian men. A desperate young widow makes a tragic sacrifice to save herself from ultimate dishonor. She marries a stranger for security and shelter, but her damaged second family pays dearly for this Faustian bargain. Then, an extraordinary atonement and strange liaisons in politics and love — spanning the two world wars and the Indian independence movement — help her descendants heal from this traumatic private history. Love's Garden demonstrates the strength, resilience, and unbreakable spirit of mothers and daughters navigating layers of oppression, all while the sun is not-so-peacefully setting on British India.