Ananya Kumar-Banerjee

Writer

Ananya Kumar-Banerjee is a Ethnicity, Race & Migration major at Yale University. Her work has appeared in Paper Darts, the Yale Literary Magazine, the Indiana Review Online, Autostraddle, and Teen Vogue, among others. An associate editor at Broad Recognition, Ananya has work forthcoming in PANK. In her off hours, you can find her drinking black coffee and listening to the radio. Someday, she hopes to acquire an alarm clock radio. She looks forward to that day. 

“If a People Burns ... a Nation Must Too”

Megha Majumdar’s debut novel A Burning explores narratives of criminality, incarceration and innocence through the experience of a young Muslim woman accused of terrorism in India
Cover of A Burning Novel

[Warning: this piece contains spoilers] Megha Majumdar’s debut novel, A Burning, follows three intertwined lives in Kolkata: the protagonist Jivan, a young Muslim woman who lives in a slum; Lovely, a hijra (a third recognized gender in South Asia), who learns English from Jivan; and PT Sir, a teacher at Jivan’s girls’ school. The plot of the novel revolves around the police accusing Jivan of being involved a train bombing.

“The Story’s There”: On Cathy Park Hong’s Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning

On an unsettlingly warm February night in New Haven, my friend Sohum invites me over for dinner. They had promised to make pasta with pesto, a comfort food for us both. And yet, when I arrive at their house, I am greeted by the toasted smell of browning butter: Sohum’s roommate has invited her own friend over, and the two of them are making aloo parathas.