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With the announcement of the second DSC Prize for South Asian Literature, Dina Patel looks back at the novel which was propelled to fame after winning the inaugural...
The Sri Lankan debut novelist, Shehan Karunatilaka, has won the $50,000 DSC Prize for South Asian Literature 2012 for his book Chinaman (Random House, India / Jonathan Cape, UK). The novel...
Radha Spratt Hindsight can be wonderful gift, and this comes to apply very literally in the instance of people compiling lists of their favourite books from the year nearly-past. I’ve collated for...
Siddhartha Bose, writer and sole performer of Kalagora, chats to Iman Qureshi about globalisation, multiculturalism and terror, and how these all factor in to...
Supriya Guha has the last word on Jeremy Paxman's Empire: What Ruling The World Did To The British. I had to check my shoulder as I began this book, for the...
by Anindya Raychaudhuri “I am not what I am”, Shakespeare’s Iago says in Othello – a classic example of a bold assertion of an alternative identity. Iago, along with the curious Zebrafish...
by Anindya Raychaudhuri ‘I don't want to confine anyone's imagination; I want you to picture Kashmir yourself,’ said Malik Sajad, an astonishingly powerful graphic artist, in conversation with Justine...
by Usman Ahmedani This event explored Allen Ginsberg’s experiences travelling through India in the early 1960s – a relatively unknown side of the Beat poet. Ginsberg was commonly renowned for...
by Usman Ahmedani From Faiz to Fitzgerald and back again via Eric B and Rakim; the rich repertoire of references running through H. M. Naqvi’s prizewinning debut novel Homeboy...
Henna Butt reviews Tully's account of his journey around India reconciling extreme views in a quest for the truth. What can India do to get where it ought to be?...
by Lex Delaney Anticipation around the 2nd annual DSC Prize for South Asian Literature continued to rise earlier tonight as the shortlist for...
by Jeanny Gering Bhopali is a stirring piece of “fiction that can go under the skin of facts”, to borrow novelist Meaghan Delahunt’s phrase. Van Maximillian Carlson’s...
by Anna McNay Ghobi gays and lassi lesbians - the DSC South Asian Literature Festival discusses queer writing The question of whether homosexuality is adequately represented in South Asian literature is clearly a...
by Amardeep Sohi The title of Tindal Street Press' new collection of short stories, Too Asian or Not Asian Enough, presents the dilemma facing many British Asian writers today: how to navigate through...
A fascinating SALF event saw Karachi-based writer Mohammed Hanif in conversation with journalist Sarfraz Manzoor. They discussed inventing ‘new messed-up worlds’, women in public life, and people who don't read....
READ | Nilanjana Roy on Rushdie and the Jaipur Literature Festival
Nilanjana Roy speaks of the difficulties and complexity of the recent Rushdie controversy at the Jaipur Literature Festival, and offers various perspectives on the matter up for considerationTHEATRE | Snookered
UK-wide dates set for Snookered. Ishy Din's play provides a timely window into the lives of four young British Muslims - part of a 'snookered' generation - burdened by cultural expectations yet charged with personal dreams.CREATIVE WRITING | Charles Pick Fellowship for South Asian Writers
This 6 month fellowship gives support to a new writer of fiction or non-fiction. Starting on 1 October 2012, the award is £10,000 and includes accommodation at the University of East Anglia. Apply by 31st January 2012.LISTEN | Vikram Seth on Desert Island Discs
The acclaimed author of A Suitable Boy is interviewed by Kirsty Young on BBC's Desert Island Discs. Seth is now working on a follow-up novel called A Suitable Girl. He's due to finish work on it in 2013.EXHIBITION | Tagore, Painter and Poet (11 Dec 2011 – 4 Mar 2012)
The V&A will showcase fifty of Tagore's paintings from the period 1928-'39, which have never before been displayed outside India. They will include, among others, his first paintings of animals and his more rare landscape pieces.LISTEN | An African Asian Affair
Vishva Samani, a British Asian Ugandan, interviews a number of families that were forced to leave that country in 1972. How have they fared in Britain? What are their feelings towards their native land? Do they wish to return?READ | Siddhartha Mukherjee, newly crowned
The first book of this oncologist-turned-author - The Emperor Of All Maladies - has taken the literary world by storm. It's a history of cancer going back more than 2,500 years and explains the world's most pervasive disease.NEWS | Clash of ‘the West’ and ‘the Rest’?
The spat between Pankaj Mishra and historian Niall Ferguson - over the former's review of Ferguson's book Civilisation: The West and the Rest in the London Review of Books - threatens to take a nasty turn.READ | The FT’s 2011 Must-Reads
Editors and guest authors have picked their 2011 favourites from business and economics, history, politics, science, sport, art, music, architecture, film, travel, food, gardening, fashion and literary non-fiction. Something for everyone, with a few South Asian gems thrown in.READ | Gandhi, the Great Soul
Philosopher Martha Nussbaum criticises Lelyveld's lack of attention to crucial detail in Great Soul: Mahatma Gandhi and His Struggle With India, and provides a perceptive insight into why his book caused an uproar in India.NEWS | The Asian Writer New Writing Competition
15 November is the deadline for entry to a New Writing competition aimed at encouraging the talented (especially British Asian) to submit up to three pieces of their finest poetry and short fiction.NEWS | Cambridge University to digitise ancient Sanskrit manuscripts
Sanskrit means 'perfected'; its speakers were obsessed with the details of how language ought to work. Cambridge University will study and digitise 2,000 rare manuscripts as part of a 'linguistic archaeology' project.READ | An interview with Salman Rushdie
Rushdie speaks candidly about Islam, the censorship of writers, the Arab Spring uprisings, his own personal story as inextricably linked with India's, Midnight's Children the film, the past, the present and the future.NEWS | Long-list for Man Asian Literary Prize
A long-list of twelve books for 'Asia's Booker Prize', the Man Asian Literary Prize, has been announced. Indian authors lead the tally with five nominations, followed by Japan which has two. Bangladesh, China, Iran, Pakistan and South Korea also feature.NEWS | New Prize for unpublished Black and Asian women writers
October 2012 will see the first of the SI Leeds Literary Prizes aimed at previously unpublished Black and Asian women writers over the age of 18. Peepal Tree Press will mentor the winner and possibly publish her.Tweets From Us
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