Raising the profile of South Asian writers since 2007
Coventry born, Bally Gill is currently playing the lead role of Romeo in the Royal Shakespeare Company’s production of Romeo and Juliet. Directed by Erica Whyman, Shakespeare’s tragic love story is set in a world very much like our own and is about a generation of young people born into violence and ripped apart by …
There’s a thin band of cream silhouetting the cranes that hover over the half-built office blocks in the city centre. I head home, below an arc of houses that will be bright as jewels when the sun comes up. At this time of the day, it’s beautiful; the river is still, and seagulls fall above …
Rukmini wills herself to stay lying on the sofa. Om, Om Shanti, she chants. The ghosts dance, screaming in a frenzy, wild shapes tearing at her eyelids, at her mind. Voices calling out as if to say, ‘Come with us. We have come from far, we will take you away. Come….’ As if a great …
Ever since the email went out at the end of November, food was all anyone could talk about. From: Culture Comms Subject: Important Staff Event – International ‘Bring a Dish’ Lunch Day! Date: 30 November 2017 at 10:00:54 GMT To: allstaff@mb.com On the 12th December @ noon, please bring in an international dish to share. Let’s celebrate the diversity of our teams …
Without going into detail, my second novel The Girl in the Broken Mirror was triggered by incidents in my childhood, by the patriarchal sense of entitlement that some men feel they possess, by the fact that in many communities’ men and boys think they are somehow better than women and girls and are treated differently. In …
We’re thrilled to announce this year’s winning stories of The Asian Writer Short Story Prize 2018. First prize – Formations by Mona Dash Second prize – Savour the Moment by Nilesha Chauvet Stories on this year’s shortlist include: Gulab Jaman by Hana Riaz Bed Blocker No. 10 by Selma Carvalho Beginnings and Endings by Sidra …
Practical and potentially life-changing, The Four Pillar Plan is an inspiring and easy-to-follow guide to better health and happiness. Dr Rangan Chatterjee presents an easily accessible plan for taking control of your health and your life.Everyday health revolves around Dr Chatterjee’s four pillars: relaxation, food, sleep and movement. By making small, achievable changes in each …
Dr Rangan Chatterjee never set out to write a book but following his hit TV show, Doctor in the House, he had significant interest from publishers. The 4 Pillar Plan is Dr Chatterjee’s blueprint for how to live well in the modern world. It divides health into four pillars; diet, sleep, movement and relaxation. Dr …
Writers Nadeem Aslam and Meena Kandasamy have made the shortlist of the Jhalak Prize for Book of the Year. The prize, first awarded in March 2017, seeks to celebrate books by British Black, Asian, Ethnic Minority writers and provide an exciting snapshot of the incredible array of writers of colour in Britain today. The shortlist …
It was Sumayya Usmani’s longing for home that led her to start a memoir-based food blog. At the time, she was working as a full-time lawyer, missing Pakistan and the food that she grew up with. She noticed that no-one was representing Pakistani cuisine, or what made it distinctive from its neighbours. Usmani began writing …