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Learn more about contemporary women's author Nandini Bhattacharya, author of Love’s Garden. Discover her journey, inspiration, and passionate contributions to compelling historical and contemporary women's fiction on the About page. ABOUT NANDINI I was born and raised in India, but I’ve called the United States my second continent for the last thirty-five years. As you see, I do not call either place “home,” because it is that question of where “home” is that my writing, dreaming, and searching are all about. Maybe it’s in books and art, though, because wherever I’ve lived, I have generally turned to them for answers to life’s big questions. In other news, I’m a writer, Professor of English, public speaker, reviewer, and blogger. My first novel Love’s Garden (2020) garnered critical praise as “a fascinating and well-crafted journey into India's complex past” (Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni), and “a sprawling family saga set against a background of some of the most momentous events of twentieth-century Indian history” (Clifford Garstang). Shorter work has appeared or is forthcoming in Bellevue Literary Review , ROOM , Chicago Quarterly Review , Another Chicago Magazine, River Styx , Rumpus , Notre Dame Review, Oyster River Pages , Folio Literary Journal, Sky Island Journal , Bangalore Review , Bombay Review , PANK , the Saturday Evening Post Best Short Stories 2021, Raising Mothers Journal , Funny Pearls , and more. Writing is hard and solitary, and writers are sometimes poor (though I categorically won’t call the writing life–as the English philosopher Thomas Hobbes called much human life–“nasty, brutish, and short”), but I’ve had the luck to enjoy literary community at the Bread Loaf Writers Workshop, the Vermont Studio Center, VONA, and the Centrum and Ragdale Artist Residencies, and most joyously at the Warren Wilson College Program for Writers, of which I am an alumna. I teach Literature and Creative Writing at Texas A&M University, and there I enjoy another community of fiercely dedicated writers and readers. With all this luck and support, my second novel, Something of Me in You–about love, caste, colorism, and violent religious fundamentalism in India, and racism and xenophobia in post-Donald Trump America–is contracted with Ghosh Literary Agency and under submission. I am working on two other novels about the mysteriousness of family and mysterious families. Visit me at Amazon , Author’s Guild , X , Instagram , Facebook , LinkedIn ; Goodreads ; Substack ; Medium ; and my Blog . Happy coming home to reading! VISIT NANDINI Amazon Instagram Linked In Substack Blog X Facebook Good Reads Medium YouTube

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Explore Love’s Garden by Nandini Bhattacharya—contemporary women's fiction author—a captivating historical fiction novel. Read a heartwarming epic saga of resilience, identity, and culture clash on her home page. Nandini Bhattacharya writer | teacher | mother | tree-hugger | rooming with odd humans and marmalade cats Learn More LATEST RELEASE An epic family saga of war, love, friendship, and sacrifice in twentieth-century India during its fight against British rule. 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 is drawn into a terrible deed to save herself from dishonor, but her family will pay dearly for this Faustian bargain. BUY NOW PRAISE FOR LOVE'S GARDEN One of BUZZFEED News' "15 Books From Smaller Presses You Won't Be Able to Put Down! "A fascinating and well-crafted journey into India's complex past with characters that will entice you...." Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni (The Last Queen, The Forest of Enchantment) "A sprawling family saga set against some of the most momentous events of 20th century Indian history." Clifford Garstang (What the Zhang Boys Know, winner of 2013 Library of Virginia Award) Learn More SUBSCRIBE TO NANDINI'S MAILING LIST Email Submit Thanks for submitting! ABOUT NANDINI I was born and raised in India, but I’ve called the United States my second continent for the last thirty-five years. As you see, I do not call either place “home,” because it is that question of where “home” is that my writing, dreaming, and searching are all about. Maybe it’s in books and art, though, because wherever I’ve lived, I have generally turned to them for answers to life’s big questions. Learn More

Read about events by contemporary women's fiction author Nandini Bhattacharya. EVENTS Panel keynote on "Tell Me Your Story" Digital Conversation, June 5, 2021, 9:30 AM CST, on Floods, Suffering, Message and Context in Indian Filmography , (Safari or Chrome preferred) in association with Environmental Humanities Center , Amsterdam—this involves Scope research project student Aditi Thakur, Westview High School Senior, Portland OR Panel keynote on "Tell Me Your Story" Digital Conversation, April 10, 2021, 8 am CST, on MONEY/MOOLAH/THAT THING THAT THEY SAY MAKES THE WORLD GO AROUND , and Colonialism, Gender and Writing Lois Lane Investigates Antonym Magazine Author’s Guild Author Spotlight Critical Flame Tupelo Quarterly Blogspot with Deborah Kalb The Little Creative Interview with Scott Coon, author of Lost Helix

Discover the best contemporary women's fiction authors with books by Nandini Bhattacharya. . Explore Love's Garden and more in contemporary women's writing. Visit now! BOOKS BY NANDINI LOVE'S GARDEN An epic family saga of war, love, friendship, and sacrifice in twentieth-century India during its fight against British rule. 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 is drawn into a terrible deed to save herself from dishonor, but her family will pay dearly for this Faustian bargain. Only extraordinary atonements and strange liaisons in politics and love can help her descendants heal from this traumatic private history. So, though there's NOTHING the widow's daughter, Lady Prem Mitter—unhappy wife of Indian baronet Sir Mitter in Calcutta in the 1920s—won't do to protect her own son and the abandoned daughter of her dead childhood friend, when she's asked to step in to protect also the child of an Englishwoman with a mysterious connection to her husband, can she cope? 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. Shop Now

Read more about scholarly books by contemporary women's author Nandini Bhattacharya Hindi Cinema (Intersections: Colonial and Postcolonial Histories) Hindi Cinema is full of instances of repetition of themes, narratives, plots and characters. By looking at 60 years of Hindi cinema, this book focuses on the phenomenon as a crucial thematic and formal code that is problematic when representing the national and cinematic subject. It reflects on the cinema as motivated by an ongoing crisis of self-formation in modern India. The book looks at how cinema presents liminal and counter-modern identities emerging within repeated modern attempts to re-enact traumatic national events so as to redeem the past and restore a normative structure to happenings. Establishing structure and event as paradigmatic poles of a historical and anthropological spectrum for the individual in society, the book goes on to discuss cinematic portrayals of violence, gender embodiment, religion, economic transformations and new globalised Indianness as events and sites of liminality disrupting structural aspirations. After revealing the impossibility of accurate representation of incommensurable and liminal subjects within the historiography of the nation-state, the book highlights how Hindi cinema as an ongoing engagement with the nation-state as a site of eventfulness draws attention to the problematic nature of the thematic of nation. It is a useful study for academics of Film Studies and South Asian Culture. Reading the Splendid Body: Gender and Consumerism in Eighteenth-Century British Writing on India British fiction, ethnographies, and other travel narratives on eighteenth- and nineteenth-century India are examined in this book. British male and female colonialist discourses that constructed Indian women as spectacular, physical objects of the western gaze and as signifiers of indigenous cultural crisis are compared. The British documents examined are from the early 1600s to the 1830s. Slavery, Colonialism and Connoisseurship: Gender and Eighteenth-Century Literary Transnationalism Colonization, slavery, traffic in women, and connoisseurship seem to have particularly captured the imaginations of circumatlantic writers of the later eighteenth century. In this book, Nandini Bhattacharya examines the works of such writers as Richard Brinsley Sheridan, George Colman Jr., James Cobb and Phillis Wheatley, who redefined ideas about Value and Taste. Writers re-presented the ethical debate on Value and trade through aesthetic metaphors and discourse, thus disguising the distasteful nature of the ownership and exchange of human beings and mitigating the guilt associated with that traffic. Bhattacharya explores the circumatlantic redefinition of Taste and Value as cultural and moral concepts in gender and racial discourses in slave-owning, colonizing, and connoisseurial Britain, and demonstrates how Value and aesthetics were redefined in late eighteenth-century circumatlantic discourses with particular focus on the language of slavery, trade and connoisseurship. She also delineates the workings of transnational consciousness and experience of race, class, gender, slavery, colonialism and connoisseurship in the late eighteenth-century circumatlantic rim. Throughout the study, Bhattacharya rereads late eighteenth-century British literature as a stage for the articulation of theories of difference and domination.

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