Raising the profile of South Asian writers since 2007
Why should she feel as though she is living in somebody else’s house? It was hers by right. She had been the one to marry him and move with him to a house that resembled a hotel after all. The rooms do not feel as though they belong to her somehow, pale washes of blue …
The Curry Mile is a warm novel which follows the story of daddy’s girl, Sorayah Butt. When her dream life in London ends in heartache she returns home to Manchester. When the family business threatens to belly up without her intervention, Sorayah is forced into a dilemma: should she rescue the business or should she …
Ashanti OMkar is a journalist, poet, presenter, singer and overall media person based in London. Born in Sri Lanka and raised in Nigeria she spent her teens in the UK and later graduated from The University of London. She left behind a flourishing IT career, having worked for the likes of Oracle, Business Objects and Pepsi …
Two Asian authors have made the shortlist for The Man Booker Prize 2007. Mohsin Hamid, who spoke to TAWP last month and Indra Sinha are two of the final six authors to have made it on to this year’s shortlist. Following the announcement made on September 7, Howard Davies, Chair of Judges commented: “Selecting a shortlist this year …
Asian writer Azma Dar has been awarded the prize for Fiction in the New Writing Ventures Awards 2007. (September 12) Her entry, The Secret Arts, is a colourful first chapter of a novel set in Muree, a hill town in Pakistan, where a wedding is about to take place. The story introduces us to …
It was in the middle of the Great Fudge Recession that Fudgie Fudgerson decided he needed to do something about the fudge crisis that was hampering the government’s efforts to boost the country’s morale. Fudge prices were at an all-time high. They had invaded neighbouring countries for their Weapons of Mass Fudging, only to find …
Integrate! Assimilate! I have given up my sari, I have given up my bindi I wear your dress I don your make up. I have given up my language, I speak yours, Och aye the noo, I buy my ‘messages’ not send them, I ‘flit’ when I move house, If yous cannae make it out, …
Abhijiit Dasgupta is an Indian editor with over twenty five years. He currently works in Kolkata as the editor of India Today. He has recently completed his debut novel The Vice Song. Anirban always thought he was like a flower. Small, pink, slightly soiled, the sort you see lying unheeded beside some trees in a …
Early Morning Two friends playing with marbles on the dark smooth ground under the soft chin of a tall shimul tree long beyond its bloom. The dust above them chewing the tree like a caterpillar. * They never asked why the sudden thunder of silence flickering in the tin sky wrenching the morning. Komol’s wren-boned …
Azma Dar is currently working on her debut novel aswell as a play based on a true story set in WW2, Noor, for which she received an Arts Council grant in 2006. Her first play Chaos, the story of a Muslim family, set in the aftermath of 9/11, was read as one of ten pieces in Kali …