A year later, there was the novel, Born Confused, that turned its author, Tanuja Desai Hidier, into a chronicler of the chronic identity chaos that affects the desi diaspora. Perhaps it’s ...

In this enlightening first novel, Hidier offers readers an engrossing, personal account of the Indian-American experience through the eyes of an insightful narrator. Dimple Lala, a New Jersey teen ...

She's the new-age desi girl. Tanuja Desai Hidier's first novel Born Confused - the first-ever South Asian American coming-of-age story - was a Larry King pick of the week. Not only that ...

India is hot and happening. While the West is raving about India, yet another American desi, Tanuja Desai Hidier, rides the wave with her bestseller debut book Born Confused making it to the Larry ...