The Upstairs Wife is an important testament to Pakistan’s political and individual family histories, says Mantra Roy in this review. The...
Fiction
by Zeenat Mahal @zeemahal Genre writing in English by South Asians is a comparatively new phenomenon. Though there are writers like...
Granta’s second India issue brings together a new crop of writers who don’t quite up the ante, says Faiza S....
What does not sell in India are poetry, translated books and literary non-fiction--in other words, the best-produced books in the...
THE MORNING INVOCATION from the Shiva temple seeps through the holes in the faulty concrete walls of my bedroom. By...
Mockery is Tyrewala’s style. The idea for the title story came to him when he saw hoardings with mangled spellings...
Shafts of humour help to illuminate this brilliantly bleak satire on the 'one family, one child' policy: The Guardian If...
Publishers are invited to send in their submissions for The Hindu Prize for fiction 2014. Publishers can submit Indian fiction...
Forget plot, perspective and dialogue – aspiring novelists should break the rules and get into trouble, argues Hanif Kureishi: The...
Moazzam Sheikh was born in Lahore, Pakistan. He studied business, film and library science and is currently a librarian in...
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