Qaisra Shahraz
Firstly congratulations on being the most influential woman in Manchester. What does this achievement mean to you and how you would you like
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Features
Interviews, reviews and first person pieces on South Asian literature and writing.
The People of Partition in Birmingham opens
An exhibition of new artworks exploring The Partition of India in 1947 has opened at Soho House in Birmingham. The People of Partition
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Small presses play crucial role in championing new voices
At a time of political instability, many in the UK are clinging to the old, old story that has shaped our beliefs and
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A citizen of everywhere
My mother and grandmother told me folktales and myths in Gujarati. I read a lot as a kid too. My twin brother and
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Home and Away: A literary agent’s perspective
This month’s feature puts a spotlight on UK based writers who have found publication success in India. We spoke to India’s youngest literary
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Home and Away: meet the UK writers only published abroad
This month’s feature puts a spotlight on UK based writers who have found publication success in India and yet, at home, their novels
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Kamila Shamsie
Q. Where did the inspiration for Home Fire, and to write a contemporary version of Sophocles Antigone, come from? The inspiration came entirely from Jatinder Verma
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Sanjida Kay
Q. Where did the inspiration for The Stolen Child come from? A friend of a friend wanted to adopt a child. She’d heard
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Vaseem Khan
Vaseem Khan wrote his first novel at seventeen. As a bright young man on the cusp of adulthood he printed out his work,
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The Things We Thought We Knew
Mahsuda Snaith’s mesmerising first novel The Things We Thought We Knew is a story full of twists and turns that blurs the lines
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