Dipika Mukherjee

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Dipika Mukherjee’s work, focusing on the politics of modern Asian societies, includes the novels Shambala Junction (which won the UK Virginia Prize for Fiction) and Ode to Broken Things (longlisted for the Man Asia Literary Prize as Thunder Demons). She has edited five anthologies of Southeast Asian fiction, serves on the core faculty at StoryStudio Chicago, and is an affiliate of the Buffet Institute for Global Affairs at Northwestern University.

Autumn 2019

The Unsevered Tongue

Photo: Zoltan Tasi / Unsplash A mother’s conflict with her daughter causes her to reflect on Khawnaa, a mathematician-astrologer and light of the Bengali medieval court. When my daughter rai...
September 2016

Four Books from Malaysia

The appetite for Malaysian fiction in the English-speaking world seems fixated on family sagas set in the Japanese Occupation of Malaya—stories largely irrelevant to the current sociopolitical challen...
September 2015

Doppelgänger

In this story written in response to current events in Malaysia, a writer confronts the doppelgänger intended to silence her political speech. The Petronas Towers in Malaysia. P...
Say the Names

Dipika Mukherjee. Photo by Bobo Lin, Shanghai. Dipika Mukherjee wrote the following poem in response to the August 5, 2012, Sikh gurdwara shooting in Wisconsin. My name is Simra...