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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Red Birds by Mohammed Hanif
Mohammad Hanif’s third novel, Red Birds, opens on familiar ground; as we explore the wreckage of a smouldering plane, 10 years after General
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Review: Table Manners
This is a great collection filled with moments of real tenderness and surprise. A servant eavesdrops on her mistress’s unfolding affair with a
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Review: Best Asian Short Stories
Short stories are meant to be read as just that – a solitary, self-contained story. Something one can pick up without much commitment,
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Amer Anwar: It’s taken more than ten years to get my book published
I’ve wanted to write a novel since I was 16. Even though teachers and lecturers knew I could write well, none ever suggested
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