Anirvan ChatterjeeYikes! Extortionists from India are burning down buildings owned by Indo-Canadians
The “Venba” game looks great, but I’m such a casual gamer that the only platform I can do is iOS, while this is Switch/Xbox/PlayStation/PC only:
“Visai Games' Venba leads with nominations in four categories…Venba is a narrative cooking game in which players experience life as an Indian mom who has immigrated to Canada with her family in the 1980s and weaves together conversations and food to tell her family’s stories of love, loss and more.”
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The 2024 Independent Games Festival Awards finalists have been announced https://igf.com/article/visai-games-venba-leads-finalists-2024-igf-awards #IGF #Gaming #Videogames #IndependentGamesFestival
5/x Fave reads of 2023…
I bought Canadian writer Anita Anand's "A Convergence of Solitudes" by mistake, but it turned out to be maybe my favorite read of the year.
It's a lovely multigenerational novel set in 1970s Quebec about Desi immigration, French Canadian nationalism, music, and memory.
This was one of the very few times a book inspired me to write fan mail.
https://bookhugpress.ca/shop/author/anita-anand/a-convergence-of-solitudes-by-anita-anand/
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A Convergence of Solitudes by Anita Anand | Book*hug Press
2023 Forest of Reading® Evergreen Award™ Nominee 2022 Foreword Indies Finalist (Adult Fiction: Multicultural) Finalist for the 2022 QWF Paragraphe Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction Gold Medal Winner of the 2023 Independent Publisher Book Awards for Multicultural Fiction Preview Now - Look
I've seen way too many groups adopting tired South Asian food acronyms.
But NOTHING will ever beat this perfect bilingual acronym from Montreal:
GARAM MASALA:
Groupe d'Action Révolutionnaire sud-Asiatique de Montréal / Montreal Alliance of South Asian Leftists and Allies
