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'Of Indian Origin is a dazzling collection of short stories and poetry by Australian writers of Indian origin. Cultures collide as children encounter racism in the playgrounds of Canberra, migrant women scrounge for a living nursing Melbourne's elderly, and a young author moves to a strange and unfamiliar country where she suffers from dreamlessness. These searing works bring new meaning to the field of ‘Asian-Australian writing’ and new perspectives on the Indian diasporic experience. Though the field of Indian-Australian writing is still small, this vibrant mix of emerging and established writers shows it is by no means a homogenous entity. Bold, experimental and wildly original, Of Indian Origin unapologetically tackles issues of home and provides a unique overview of how Indian-Australian literary writing has developed over half a century.' (Publication summary)
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Table of Contents
Introduction
Mena Kashmiri Abdullah - Hadji-Jack | Chupatty Chant
Mary Holliday - Phoenix Unbidden
Vinay K. Verma - whales for breakfast and dolphins for tea negative personality | New migrant
Amitava Ray - Journey | excerpts from Baby Tiger
K. R. Srinivasa Iyengar - Unfinished Continent | Opera House Visited A Camp of God
Patricia Pengilley - The Case of the Vanishing Princess: Sally’s Tale
Meeta Chatterjee - Erasure | Landscape: Travelling through South Australia | Bakhtin Said… On Writing a Poem
Sudesh Mishra Mt Abu: - St Xavier’s Church | Feejee III | Dear Syd | Self-Reflection Indian-Australian Association: Annual General Meeting
Manik Datar - Point of No Return
Christopher Cyrill - What Withers and What Remains
Subhash Jaireth - Jack and Jill Went Up the Hill
Moses Aaron - King Solomon’s Ring
Bernadette Inez - Earle Leaving: 1969
Rihana Sultan - Not a House but a Home
Brij Lal - Kismet
Suneeta Peres da Costa - Dreamless
Shalini Akhil - Destiny
Satendra Nandan - At the Surgery | Personal | A Remembrance | In Between
Manisha Anjali - Fever Dreams
Glenn D’Cruz - ‘Where are you coming from, Sir?’
Roanna Gonsalves - Curry Muncher 3.0
Aditi Gouvernel - Wei-Li and Me
Maria Preethi Srinivasan - Explosion Contained | Refugee | You Need to Know and Yet…
Sunil Badami - Rebecca
Pooja Mittal - too fond | the veil | turandot | rehabilitation | pilgrim
Michelle Cahill - Beauty Tips | Five Sijo for My Raider | The Sadhu
Christopher Raja - Warwick, Rupert and Me
Rashida Murphy - The Moon Still Speaks
Aashish Kaul - Load Shedding
Sukhmani Khorana - Under my feet | Tea Estate
Chetna Prakash - The Pop-up Linen Store
Robert Wood - Whiskey Wheat Country | Backwater, Frontwater
Anupama Pilbrow - The bone is a long and solid bone | semiautomatic
Rashmi Patel - Mercy
Sumedha Iyer - Over the Rainbow
