TV / WEBCASTS FirstPost/FB Live May 21, 2017: Tanuja in conversation with Nerm at the Zee/Jaipur Literature Festival London edition/British Library. [or view on YouTube] Pepsi-MTV Indies August 21, 2015: “Of books and songs, Bombay and more: An author? A musician? Tanuja Desai Hidier switches between both roles effortlessly!” (“Heptanesia” music video release on MTV Indies) […]
When We Were Twins is a Time Out New York highlight of the week (album launch) a New York Magazine star pick of week a Guardian (UK) Ultimate Young Adult Playlist pick a Flavorpill choice featured as the first-ever ‘booktrack’ in Wired Magazine (“Books with a Backbeat”) an Asiana Magazine ‘Crush’ pick (UK) […]
BOMBAY SPLEEN Bombay Blues/Bombay Spleen book/album India release party a Mumbai Mirror pick of the day Bombay Blues/Bombay Spleen book/album official selections at the Zee/Jaipur Literature Festival 2015 Deep Blue She/The Deep Blue She #Mutiny2Unity #MeToo WeMix music video/PSA project: *OFFICIAL WINNER* London Film Awards (Dec 2018) official Closing Night selection of the South Asian […]
Bombay Blues is the winner of the 2015 South Asia Book Award a Kirkus Reviews starred review book a Horn Book top pick (Reading for Diwali 2017) a Book Expo America Buzzbook 2014 nominated for the Kirkus Prize 2014 An SLJ Dark Horses/Pyrite Printz selection (the alternate Printz) a 2015 Bang2Write Notable Diverse Book a […]
the first South Asian American coming of age/YA novel Born Confused is: a Rolling Stone best YA novel of all time an Entertainment Weekly best YA novel of all time a Paste Magazine top 30 YA novels of all time 1st in the Chicago Tribune’s top 5 books celebrating the Indian-American experience (2015) a […]
When We Were Twins is an album of rock / pop / electro-folk songs based on Tanuja Desai Hidier’s novel Born Confused, and written and performed by Tanuja and the London and NYC bands she was singing / songwriting in (San Transisto and T&A) —which include present-day musical coconspirators Atom Fellows (T&A, NYC) and Marie […]
HAPPY 15TH BIRTHDAY DIMPLE LALA/BORN CONFUSED! Tanuja Desai Hidier broke new ground in 2002 with her literary debut Born Confused — the first ever South Asian American coming-of-age/YA story. Hailed by Entertainment Weekly, Rolling Stone Magazine, and Paste Magazine as one of the best young adult novels of all time (on lists including such classics as To Kill a […]
Bombay Spleen: Songs based on Tanuja Desai Hidier’s novel Bombay Blues is Tanuja’s second album in her groundbreaking genre of the ‘booktrack’: Twelve tracks of infectious jazz-infused electro-dream-pop ‘wreckage rock’ based on her award-winning novel Bombay Blues (deemed “a journey worth making” in a starred Kirkus review and “an immersive blend of introspection, external drama, and […]