Mona Dash
When did you know you had a story in you that you wanted to share? Many years ago, when my baby boy became
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Features
Interviews, reviews and first person pieces on South Asian literature and writing.
Nikesh Shukla & Mahsuda Snaith
Earlier this year, Cultural eXchanges Festival welcomed authors Nikesh Shukla and Mahsuda Snaith for an in conversation event. Held in association with The
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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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Professor Chandra Follows His Bliss by Rajeev Balasubramanyam
It’s that time of year when self-help books promising to help us get fit, get healthy, be happy dominate the bestseller lists and
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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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10 reasons to attend The Asian Writer Festival 2018
We’re book-ending our tenth birthday with an all-day festival on Saturday October 20th 2018 at The Wesley in London. The Asian Writer will once again
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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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