Dipika Mukherjee
Writer, Sociolinguist, Nomad...
Short Stories
(2015) Rules of Desire. Short Story Collection. Buku Fixi, Malaysia.
Dipika Mukherjee's stories careen from urban Kuala Lumpur to cosmopolitan Shanghai, then small towns of India and the remote wilderness of America.
Book Review, Windy City Reviews:
...Mukherjee’s stories run the gamut of the many focal points of desire, including idealization—how our wishes may be pure fantasy and how some desires are unfulfilled because we have invented a standard for which no satisfaction exists. In some stories, such as “Jazz Bar,” we watch the tragedy of unfulfilled and denied desire. “Casting Pearls” takes us back to 1905. This tale is wrought with desire, both personal and cultural, with people caught in the collision of conflicting desires. In other stories, such as “Circle of Life” and “Desire, Spring, Poetry,” the reader is immersed in the backlash of served desires where regret or euphoria live...
In Rules of Desire, yearning becomes both dangerous and erotic, leading the readers into worlds where the unthinkable becomes possible.
(2016) Baby’s Breath, Reprinted in Flesh: Southeast Asian Urban Anthologies, Kuala Lumpur: Fixi.
(2016) Doppelganger, "Best Malaysian Short Stories 2015", Cerpen Terbaik.
(2016) The Hierarchy of Grief. Shortlisted for the DNA-OUT OF PRINT Short Fiction Contest.
(2015) Doppelganger. World Literature Today.
(2015) Escape. Anthill.
(2014) Escape. Chicago Literati: Utopia: The Fabulist Issue.
(2014) The Conjuror of Divinity. Asia Literary Review 26, Winter.
Excerpt from “FINDING PIYA”. Here and There - The Diaspora Universe, Café Dissensus,
(2014) The Jazz Bar. The Chicago Issue, Chicago Quarterly Review, Volume 17, 229-246.
(2013) The Bleeding Tree, KL Noir (White). 113-126.
(2013) Extract from Thunder Demons. Muse India, Issue 48, (Special Issue on the Hyderabad Literary Festival Coverage).
(2012) Titli, reprinted in Pilot Pocket Books 10. Pilot Pocket Books: Canada, 64-67.
(2012) Viram/Honour in The Spark Magazine.
(2012) Śāntam/Breath in The Spark Magazine.
(2012) Circle of Life, reprinted in Pilot Pocket Books 9.
(2012)Red Poppy, Postcolonial Text, Vol 6, No 4.
(2011) Patriots of the Will, Out of Print, Issue 6,
(2011)Desire, Spring, Poetry, New Straits Times Malaysia.
(2011)More Than What They Bargained For, Flash Fried Fiction Finalist, Beijing Globe Times Metro Edition. Lifestyle, 4-5.
(2011)Circle of Life, Asia Literary Review, Spring. 149-157.
(2011) Rules of Chess, Readings from Readings: New Malaysian Writing. Word Works: Petaling Jaya, Malaysia. 19-28.
(2010) Baby’s Breath, A Rainbow Feast: New Asian Short Stories, Kuala Lumpur: Marshall Cavendish. 194-205.
(2009) Fuzzy Liberty, Del Sol Review, International Fiction Edition, Fall 2009, #16, USA.
(2009) The Wife, Pilot Pocket Book 6. Pilot Pocket Books: Canada, (November 2009) 158-175.
(2009) The Roof, The Sky, First Prize in Platform Flash Fiction Competition, April 2009. Platform: Writer’s Edition, May-June 2009, 96.
(2009) Titli, Asia Literary Review,Volume 11, Spring (anchor story of this issue), 81-90.
(2008) The Wife , South Asian Review: Creative Writing Issue, Volume 29 (3) 2008, 114-124.
(2008) Burnt Offerings, (Editors Choice) Flashquake, Vol 8 (1).
(2008) Splendid Suns and Mournful Moons, Creative Non-fiction. Flashquake, Vol 8 (1).
Doppelganger in the "Best Malaysian Short Stories 2015", Cerpen Terbaik!!
In Anthologies
(2014) Guan Yin in the Huangshan //《黄山一悟》. United Verses. Shanghai: China.
(2013) The Bleeding Tree, KL Noir (White). Kuala Lumpur: Buku Fixi (Fixi Novo).
(2011) Rules of Chess, Readings from Readings: New Malaysian Writing. Kuala Lumpur: Word Works.
(2010) Baby’s Breath, A Rainbow Feast: New Asian Short Stories. Singapore: Marshall Cavendish.
(2010) A Messiah in Malaysia, Chicken Soup For the Romantic Indian Soul. Delhi: Westland.
(2009)Amsterdam!, New Writing Dundee 4. Dundee: University of Dundee Press.