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Rashi Rohatgi has a PhD in Languages and Cultures from SOAS. Her fiction can be found in The Misty Review, her poetry in Allegro, and her academic writing in Matatu, Wasafiri, and other journals. Her recent monograph, Fighting Cane and Canon, is about World Literature in Mauritius.

• A Curated New Generation: Review of ‘Eight New-Generation African Poets’

  By Rashi Rohatgi on 11 January , 2016 • ( 2 )

  

    First: these chapbooks are beautiful. Even on an e-reader, sapped of gravitas, Ibibio artist Imo Nse Imeh’s cover art adds a Chagall-ian layer of both modernism and ethnic nostalgia to this box set, to which Peter Akinlabi, Viola Allo,… Read More ›

• Review: Giving Thanks – Natasha Soobramanien’s ‘Genie and Paul’

  By Rashi Rohatgi on 26 November , 2015 • ( 0 )

  

  As a second-generation American, Thanksgiving seemed to me a less-accessible holiday than, say, Halloween: my grandparents weren’t always available and, frankly, turkey and football still both seem pointless. After leaving the country of my birth behind, though, I’ve started to… Read More ›