If you missed Desi DNA when it was on first time round then now is the time to play catch up! Nikki Bedi talks to Sarfraz Manzoor, Greetings from Bury Park (2007), the controversial Nirpal Singh Dhaliwal, Tourism (2006) and Gautam Malkani, Londonstani (2006) to discuss Asian writers and authenticity.
Should we play the race card to get a publishing deal? According to Dhaliwal its the way forward. Manzoor disagrees and believes we should write from personal experience and that is essentially what a publisher is looking for. While Malkani agrees, the Cambridge …