Desi Chick-Lit – Desi girls having fun with or without Bollywood show-stoppers

Desi is the term used by South Asians, including Indo-Canadians, to refer to themselves. Let’s take the example of “Desi Chick-lit” and one of its novelists SONIA SINGH.

Sonia Singh is a 1st-generation Desi, born and raised in the OC, California. After degrees in history and politics from CalState Fullerton, Sonia moved to Bombay, India where she wrote episodes for a Hindi soap opera. This stint led her to become Ms. Desi Chick-Lit with novels that are described as “Desi meets Sex and the City”. Move over Carrie, there's Maya and Raveena to share in the Manolos! Check them out:

In Goddess for Hire, Maya, an unemployed 30-year-old living with her parents in Newport Beach, California, discovers she’s the incarnation of the Hindu goddess Kali.

In her popular novel Bollywood Confidential, Raveena Rai is an actress who’s been toiling for 8 years on Hollywood’s D-list until a young director casts her as the lead in his upcoming Bollywood film.

More:
* Buy Sonia’s books @ Amazon Canada HERE. Or find them where you live HERE.
*Read review of “Bollywood Confidential” by Pooja Makhijan in www.desilit.org.
*Sonia Singh’s website @ www.soniasingh.com
*Read about another Desi chick-lit writer Shyama Perera’s novel Do the Right Thing @
Reeta: South Asian Women Forum.
*Of course there was Kaavya Viswanathan’s How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild, and Got In, but...she got nailed for plagiarism. Read about it on www.slate.com.
*A blogger’s own life as Desi "chick" @ chicklitindia.blogspot.com.