“Letters to a young Muslim” by Omar Saif Gobash

12 03 , 2017 No Comments
Omar Saif Gobash is the ambassador of the United Arab Emirates to Russia. In addition to his post in Moscow, Ambassador Ghobash sponsors the Saif Ghobash-Banipal
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Attukal Amma

12 03 , 2017 No Comments
Today the Hindu carries a front page photograph of a woman devotee at devotional gathering on the outskirts of Thiruvananthapuram. This is for Attukal Amma
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Publishing newsletter, 27 Feb 2017

27 02 , 2017 No Comments
Recently Amazon India has been adding an “Import Deposit Fee” on to the imported books bought off its website. When AmazonGlobal products are shipped to
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Links (27 Feb 2017)

27 02 , 2017 1 Comment
Literary Prizes Scholastic Writing Awards 2017, deadline 28 February 2017 Winners of the PEN (USA) Barnes & Noble Announces the Salam Award for Pakistani Science
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“The Communist Manifesto” and its publishing history

27 02 , 2017 No Comments
While browsing through the fine collection of titles of Penguin Little Black Classics I was interested to note that title 20 was The Communist Manifesto ( 1948). Of the entire collection
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“She Came from Mariupol” by Natscha Wodinwas ( an extract)

25 02 , 2017 No Comments
Sie Kam Aus Mariupol by Natscha Wodinwas ( published by Rowohlt Verlag) which has been shortlisted for the 2017 Leipzig Book Fair Prize is by
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Indian Author Anita Nair on her New Book for Children on Stories from the Qur’an and her Role as an Independent Publisher

25 02 , 2017 No Comments
( My interview with Anita Nair on her new book, Muezaa and Baby Jaan , and launch of a new independent publishing press, Attic Books, was published in
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“Mohanaswamy” by Vasudhendra: a First Collection of Gay Stories Translated from Kannada

22 02 , 2017 No Comments
( My review article on Vasudhendra’s fantastic short story collection, Mohanaswamy, was published in Bookwitty.)  Recently translated into English, Mohanaswamy, by the Kannada-language author Vasudhendra, is
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An Interview with Shandana Minhas of the New, Karachi-based Mongrel Books

22 02 , 2017 2 Comments
( My interview with Shandana Minhas was published on the literary website, Bookwitty. )   Award-winning writer Shandana Minhas and her husband, journalist and playwright
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“The Bicycle Spy” & “Brave Like My Brother”

17 02 , 2017 No Comments
Of late there has been an increase in the amount of historical fiction set during the second world war by contemporary writers. These are two
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