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Arvind Krishna Mehrotra, Alastair Niven among new members on the Advisory Committee of DSC Prize for South Asian Literature The US $50,000 DSC Prize for South Asian Literature announced...
Asia House has announced the programme for its annual Festival of Asian Literature, which takes place at Asia House from 15 - 30 May. South Asian events on the programme are...
Five productions from South Asia are travelling to London in 2012 to perform in the prestigious Globe to Globe festival at Shakespeare’s Globe, with companies from India, Bangladesh, Pakistan and...
Following on from the success of her debut novel, Artichoke Hearts, Sita Brahmachari introduces yet another hit in the form of Jasmine Skies. The novel is a captivating tale that begins...
A Festival of Music, Dance, Literature, Design and Debate from India, the UK and South Asia This ten day festival celebrating and showcasing South Asian arts and culture is...
ALCHEMY, SOUTHBANK CENTRE 13 April, 2012 at the Queen Elizabeth Hall "Imagine a world that encourages the empowerment of cultural activities and industries," reads the headline, followed by the Southbank...
Sita Brahmachari's new teenage novel, Jasmine Skies, launched at Waterstones in Hampstead on Thursday 29 March. While Sita's first book, Artichoke Hearts, is about grief, Jasmine Skies...
Much as the name suggests, Bombay and opium are the heroes of Jeet Thayil’s debut novel, Narcopolis. The novel spans three decades and is narrated by a whole...
In her debut novel, Jubilee, Shelley Harris sheds light on the corrosive effects of childhood trauma as she adeptly interweaves the present and the past with ease and...
Cabbie turned playwright Ishy Din’s debut play at the Bush Theatre, Snookered, couldn’t have come at a better time. From “sex gangs” to gay bashing and terrorism, young British-Pakistani men...
Looking for the Invisible was a Symposium which explored the potential that lies in the philosophical Abstract as a source for creative inspiration and expression. A collaboration between Akademi...
In Roopa Farooki’s fifth novel, The Flying Man, we are introduced to Maqil Sunny Karam. Delivered in Lahore, alongside his stillborn twin, he proves himself a born survivor. Drunk on...
Jack Murphy reviews An Autobiography or The Story Of My Experiments With Truth – a remarkable account of the early life and works of Mohandas K. Gandhi As the autobiography starts,...
This weekend, the third annual Karachi Literature Festival will take place at the Carlton Hotel in Karachi, Pakistan. Prominent writers including Hanif Kureishi, Vikram Seth, Anatol Lieven and William Dalrymple will...
"The objects of the Poet's thoughts are everywhere; though the eyes and senses of man are his favorite guides, yet he will follow wheresoever he can find an...
TALK | The Bangladeshi novel at Somerset House
Philip Hensher and Tahima Anam explore what makes the Bangladeshi novel distinct. Looking at two prize-winning texts influenced by the Bangladesh Liberation War, travel writer Sara Wheeler chairs the conversation. Tickets from £5, Monday 21 May 2012.THEATRE | Londonee at the Richmix
Mukul and Ghetto Tigers and Lifeguard productions present the world premiere of Londonee, a play that follows the lives of two second-generation Bangladeshi siblings living in London’s East End. On from 24 May until 23 June.THEATRE | Wah! Wah! Girls A British Bollywood Musical
Inspired by the world of the Mujra dancers, Wah! Wah! Girls tells a passionate and playful story of love against the odds set against the background of London’s East End. Opens Thursday 24 May, tickets from £12.SPECIAL OFFER | Shakespeare at the Globe
Discounted tickets available for SALF readers to the South Asian plays at the Globe! Best available seats (usually £35) are available for £10. To claim this offer, please use the code PCD10BEST when booking here. Or quote ‘£10 best available offer’ when booking ...THEATRE | Mustafa at Soho Theatre
Kali Theatre and the Birmingham Repertory Theatre present Mustafa – a new play by Naylah Ahmed about belief, guilt, and exorcism. On until 24 March.READ | Sonia Faleiro on Mumbai’s dance bars
Sonia Faleiro talks to Mother Jones' Jeremy Lybarger about her new book on the neon underworld of Mumbai's dance bars.NEWS | Salman Rushdie attends event in Delhi
Booker winner Salman Rushdie returns to Delhi this week to speak at a literary event less than two months after being forced to pull out of the Jaipur festival earlier this year.FILM | Tongues On Fire: London Asian Film Festival
Catch the 14th London Asian Film Festival from 16th to 24th March, taking place at venues across the city including Rich Mix, BAFTA, BFI and others.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.Tweets From Us
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