Review: Crossroads Festival, Saturday 5 October 2019
Rehearsal Room 1 of Leicester’s Curve Theatre has mirrored walls, free-standing doors, and a staircase to nowhere. An appropriate setting for the inaugural
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Review: Gun Island by Amitav Ghosh
‘Imagine building an observatory over St. Paul’s Cathedral?’ A provocative question posed by Amitav Ghosh at the National Book Festival, in D.C. Ghosh was replying
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Becoming a Writer – what I learnt
I was lucky enough to be on the The Asian Writer’s ‘Becoming a writer’ course early last year, at a time when I
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Shreya Sen-Handley on writing Strange
Toni Morrison said that if the book you want to read isn’t out there, write it yourself. So I did. I wrote it
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My intentions as a poet: what I learnt from my poetry mentor
Last October, I attended the Asian Writer’s Festival for the second year running. A uniquely nurturing space, I particularly loved hearing wonderful poets
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Review: JLF Belfast 2019
In 2011 I had travelled to Jaipur Literary Festival, THE JLF in Jaipur. It was a gigantic affair with all the glamour that
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Why we set up a book club for South Asian women
South Asian Sisters Speak (SASS) was borne out of a frustration of the lack of safe spaces for South Asian women to share
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Student review: In Conversation with Nikesh Shukla
Last month highly acclaimed writer Nikesh Shukla addressed an audience at De Montfort University Leicester as part of their annual student-led Cultural Exchanges
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It’s Not About the Burqa
It’s Not About the Burqa is presented as a collection of essays on ‘faith, feminism, sexuality and race’ and it is a lot
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Tanya Atapattu
Q. Can you start by telling us a bit about Things my Mother Told Me? What is the main story line? And what
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