Mirror of Beauty Shamsur Rahman Faruqi is said to be a formidable, forbidding figure. As a literary theorist and scholar...
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Manto “The pity of partition was not that the country had been divided into two, Independent India and Independent Pakistan;...
Amartya Sen still takes his coffee strong and dark. After lunch in the hall at Trinity College in Cambridge, where...
The longlist for the 2013 Man Booker prize for fiction, announced today, has a diverse and international flavour, with authors...
If rats can be a delicacy in Hong Kong, why not in Bihar? Thanks to Amitava Kumar's book, one has...
In "Five Star Billionaire," the Taiwanese-born, Malaysian writer Tash Aw chooses a refreshingly novel perspective: the contemporary migration of Malaysians,...
If there's one defect I find in Shamsur Rahman Faruqi's massive novel, The Mirror Of Beauty, it's that it takes up too...
Here's an interview with leading Singaporean novelist Suchen Christine Lim. In this interview, Suchen talks about her writing career, themes...
You resolve, after finding and being disappointed by ‘Napoleon’s bed’ in Patna, to “look for more ordinary things, not least...
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