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“It’s Not About the Burqa” edited by Mariam Khan

I am a woman, but I am also a Muslim and a person of colour, and these identities cannot be separated. I can’t set aside
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Tishani Doshi’s “Small Days and Nights”

05 06 , 2019 No Comments

I had been prepared for ugliness because that’s what grows in India, sprouts and flourishes like the hair on a dead person. But the space
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Kamala Markandaya’s “The Nowhere Man”

04 06 , 2019 No Comments

‘If one lives in a foreign country,’ he said with some pride, and felt as he had felt when they championed the cause of his
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An interview with Cordis Paldano

01 06 , 2019 No Comments

Cordis Paldano’s debut novel for children The Dwarf, The Girl and the Holy Goat is a must read. Story apart, the pace, the rhythm, the storytelling
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An interview with Jayant Kaikini, winner DSC Prize for South Asian Literature 2018

01 06 , 2019 No Comments

The DSC Prize for South Asian Literature 2018 was awarded to Jayant Kaikini along with his translator Tejaswini Niranjana for their book No Presents Please.
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Interview with Sarnath Bannerjee on “Doab Dil”

30 05 , 2019 No Comments

Graphic novelist Sarnath Bannerjee’s Doab Dil is an extraordinary piece of writing or “faction” as he would like to call it. It is based on
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“The Begum: A Portrait of Ra’ana Liaquat Ali Khan, Pakistan’s Pioneering First Lady”

29 05 , 2019 No Comments

The Begum: A Portrait of Ra’ana Liaquat Ali Khan, Pakistan’s Pioneering First Lady by Deepa Agarwal and Tehmina Aziz Ayub is a good account of
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“First To The Top: Sir Edmund Hillary’s Amazing Everest Adventure”

29 05 , 2019 No Comments

First To The Top is a picture book by David Hill and illustrated by Phoebe Morris about the first successful ascent of Mt. Everest by
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“The East Was Read: Socialist Culture in the Third World”

28 05 , 2019 No Comments

The East Was Read is an anthology of essays on the impacts of socialist culture in various parts of the Third World. Wang Chaohua and
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Elif Shafak’s “10 Minutes 38 Seconds In This Strange World”