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South Asian American Comedians Stand Up for Jailed Indian Comedian Munawar Faruqui
Indian comedian Munawar Faruqui was arrested for jokes he didn’t even tell.
On January 1, Indian comedian Munawar Faruqui was arrested for jokes he didn’t even tell. One month later, he is still in jail.
According to BBC India correspondent Soutik Biswas, “On the evening of 1 January, he was kicking off a 14-city tour with a ticketed show in a café in the central Indian city of Indore. A leader of a local Hindu fringe group had arrived and stopped the show, complaining that the comic was ‘insulting’ Hindu religious sentiments.”
Jasmin Kaur’s second novel
If I Tell You The Truth follows the intersecting stories of Kiran, a Punjabi Sikh teenager who becomes pregnant after being sexually assaulted by her fiancé’s brother, and, eighteen years later, her daughter Sahaara, who speaks out against the powerful man who raped her mother. The book addresses immigration, rape culture in South Asia and the diaspora, and relationships between girls and women. “Our lives are seldom one topic,” Kaur tells ELLE.com. “We are many things all at once. It s the interlocking nature of all of these different themes that shape our lives. That’s what [the book is] about unraveling the layers of oppression and trauma that shaped the lives of this specific Punjabi mother and daughter, but also so many other families.”
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The Beauty: Poems (Alfred A. Knopf, 2015), which was longlisted for the National Book Award, and
Given Sugar, Given Salt (HarperCollins, 2001), which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Her ninth collection,
Ledger, is forthcoming from Knopf in March 2020. She has edited and cotranslated books with Mariko Aratani and Robert Bly. Hirshfield’s honors include the Poetry Center Book Award, the Donald Hall-Jane Kenyon Prize in American Literature, the Bay Area Book Reviewers Award, Columbia University’s Translation Center Award, and the Commonwealth Club of California Poetry Medal, as well as fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Rockefeller Foundation. Her work has been selected for seven editions of