Nishant Batsha, MOTHER OCEAN FATHER NATION: A Novel
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Zibby Owens
4.5 • 644 Ratings
🗓️ 18 September 2022
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
Writer and historian Nishant Batsha joins Zibby to talk about his debut novel, Mother Ocean Father Nation, which he wrote in tandem with his dissertation on Indian indentured labor in Trinidad and Fiji. Nishant shares how he wrote four different books and pulled parts from each before combining them all and arriving at the story that was eventually published. The two also discuss the advice Nishant received from other writers with PhDs that shaped his career trajectory, how he found his way to academia after a medical emergency in his late teens, and the history at the center of his next book, A Bomb Placed Close to the Heart.
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| 0:58.4 | Thank you. at ZCastnetwork.com and definitely check out those shows as well. Nishant Bacha is the author of Mother Ocean Father Nation. |
| 1:03.1 | He is a writer of fiction and histories. |
| 1:06.0 | Nishant is the author of the 2022 novel, which I just said, |
| 1:10.1 | Mother Ocean, Father Nation, and is currently at work |
| 1:13.5 | on a bomb place close to the heart, which is coming out in 2025. And that is a novel set between |
| 1:19.2 | California and New York at the dawn of World War I. He holds a PhD in history from Columbia |
| 1:24.0 | University, as well as a master's from the University of Oxford on a doctoral fellowship |
| 1:28.6 | and ESU-S-F scholarship and an undergraduate degree from Columbia. His academic research focused on |
| 1:35.7 | Indian indentured labor in Trinidad and Fiji. Nishan's writing has been supported by the |
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