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Radha Vatsal

Radha Vatsal
Radha Vatsal is the author of No. 10 Doyers Street. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Atlantic, The Los Angeles Review of Books, and elsewhere. She received her Ph.D. in Film History from Duke University, and is a 2024-25 fellow at the CUNY Writers’ Institute. She lives in New York City.


Rambling Genealogies: Nandshankar Mehta and the Forgotten History of South Asian Cosmopolitanism

Radha Vatsal on the Contemporary Echoes of Her Ancestor’s Groundbreaking 19th-Century Novel
June 20, 2025  By Radha Vatsal
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