{"id":7826,"date":"2016-11-24T15:26:15","date_gmt":"2016-11-24T20:26:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/library.ryerson.ca\/asianheritage\/?page_id=7826"},"modified":"2025-08-12T14:33:42","modified_gmt":"2025-08-12T18:33:42","slug":"mayank-bhatt","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/authors\/mayank-bhatt\/","title":{"rendered":"Mayank Bhatt"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Mayank Bhatt worked as a journalist in Mumbai, India prior to resettling in Canada in 2008. Unable to find employment in the journalism field, Bhatt worked at a series of jobs including a security guard, administrator and arts festival organizer. Bhatt was a regular presence at cultural and business events organized by the Indo-Canadian community in the GTA (Greater Toronto Area.) His final essay<\/a>, reflecting on living and dying with cancer, was published days after his death on August 1, 2022. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Fiction<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Belief<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Toronto: Mawenzi House, 2016.
PS8603 .H388 B45 2016<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Publisher’s Synopsis (From its website)<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

An upright and modest Muslim family in Mississauga, Ontario, discovers by accident the plans to bomb public places in Toronto on their son Rafiq\u2019s computer. Belief<\/em> tells the story of the family\u2019s escape from Bombay to Canada following the communal violence of 1993; their small success, epitomized by their proud ownership of a house; and Rafiq\u2019s attraction to fundamentalist Islamic ideas. Rafiq, it appears, has rejected the planned act of terrorism, organized by an evil charismatic genius, but how can he explain its details found on his computer? Told simply, impartially, and with understanding and empathy, Belief<\/em> describes the trauma of a family unable to understand their child as they anxiously await his fate.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Fiction (Short stories)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Trachea and Other Stories<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Toronto: Mawenzi House, 2026.
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Publisher’s Synopsis (From its website)<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

A novel in linked episodes, told in unaffected direct prose, about the life of an Indian man called Sharad, who becomes a Canadian\u2014of sorts. The story begins in childhood with the suicide of Sharad\u2019s father, who killed himself by cutting his throat. Sharad, brought up by his grandmother, grows up to become a nonconforming open-minded journalist involved in Bombay\u2019s union and communal (Hindu-Muslim) politics. He marries an Indo-Canadian woman, Gunjun, from Toronto whom he meets via a photo and emails. The story of his struggles with jobs, marriage, identity, and weather comes alive through the vivid experiences of this uncomfortable uncompromising new Canadian.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Anthology (Short story)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Tok. Book 5<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

PS8237 .T6 T54 2010<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bhatt, Mayank. \u201cThe New Canadians.\u201d In Tok. Book 5<\/em>, edited by Helen Walsh. Toronto: Zephyr Press, 2010, 109-119.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Selected Criticism and Interpretation<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Chilana, Rajwant Singh. “Mayank Bhatt.” In South Asian Writers in Canada: A Bio-Bibliographical Study<\/em>. Surrey, BC: Asian Publications, 2017, 224.
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Mayank Bhatt personal website<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Publisher Mawenzi House<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mayank Bhatt’s blog Generally About Books<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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