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Mon, 07/13/2026 - 11:57am

How Aruni Kashyap helped shape UGA's global creative writing program

Released today, Aruni Kashyap's new novel, “How to Date a Fanatic,” follows characters navigating political polarization, state power, and social division in contemporary India. The novel's central questions—about democracy, institutions, and marginalized voices—also inform Kashyap's leadership of the Creative Writing Program at the University of Georgia's Franklin College of Arts and Sciences. Since taking the program’s helm in…

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