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Jenny Bhatt

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Author. Literary Translator. Writing Instructor. NEA Fellow (Translation; 2025.) Ph.D. Candidate @UTDallasArts. Founder @DesiBooks.
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The Past as a Site of Radical Otherness in Nishant Batsha’s “A Bomb Placed Close to the Heart”

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By Jenny Bhatt
| buff.ly
Like his first novel, Mother Ocean Father Nation, Nishant Batsha’s second, A Bomb Placed Close to the Heart, also leverages the past as a site of “radical otherness” to complicate our understanding of the present. What makes this novel different is that it is a multifaceted American narrative about identity, loyalty, and cosmopolitanism with a diverse ensemble cast of characters—some of whom are recognizable historical figures, while some are fascinating composites.
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The Past as a Site of Radical Otherness in Nishant Batsha’s “A Bomb Placed Close to the Heart”

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By Jenny Bhatt
| Public Books
Like his first novel, Mother Ocean Father Nation, Nishant Batsha’s second, A Bomb Placed Close to the Heart, also leverages the past as a site of “radical otherness” to complicate our understanding of the present. What makes this novel different is that it is a multifaceted American narrative about identity, loyalty, and cosmopolitanism with a diverse ensemble cast of characters—some of whom are recognizable historical figures, while some are fascinating composites.
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Van Gogh the Translator

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By Jenny Bhatt
| Liberties Journal of Culture and Politics
“When I entered the room in Hôtel Drouot where [drawings] by Jean-François Millet (1814-1875)] were exhibited, I felt something akin to: Put off thy shoes from off thy feet, for the place whereon thou standest is holy ground.” This is what Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890) wrote to his brother, Theo, in June 1875, about one of the artists he revered the most: Jean-François Millet.
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