Please tell us a little bit about yourself and how you got into the world of writing? I was born in London and lived in Birmingham for many years before moving to India. I now live in Manchester. The best thing I have done is spending two years running a small guest house Seclude, in the mountains in …
Aamer Hussein
“The greatest homage you can pay the artists you admire is to find your own palette, of colours that cast new lights and new shadows on your chosen genre.”
Fresh Impetus For Asian Literature at the Edinburgh International Book Festival
by Yagnya Valkya Misra Rahul Bhattacharya at Edinburgh International Book Festival Edinburgh is the place to be in August. Buzzing with festivity, the city becomes a cultural paradise playing host to numerous excellent festivals and events. Yet, among all these fests rocking the city, it’s the International Book Festival that turns out to …
Bobby Nayyar
Q. Please tell us a little bit about yourself and your book, West of no East? West of No East is my first published novel. Previously, I’ve been published by Tindal Street Press, Wasafiri, and Aesthetica Magazine. I live in east London, where I also manage a small indie publisher, Limehouse Books and work as …
Imran Ahmad
The Asian Writer meets author of Unimagined, Imran Ahmad as he talks candidly about his memoir, memories and Muslims.
Anita Shah
Q. Who are you and what are you best known for? I’m Anita Shah, known for a number of things in the legal and corporate world (I am a qualified solicitor) but probably most notorious for my participation on The Apprentice back in 2009. I call it a guest appearance as I was the first …
West of No East
While researching a photoessay on the first decade of the 21st century, Tarsem discovers a photograph of Rubina, a former university friend now working as a campaigner. Unable to comfort his wife who has just recovered from her second miscarriage, and cope with the spectre of restructure and redundancy at his office, he contacts her. …
Zaiba Malik
Investigative journalist and author, Zaiba Malik talks to The Asian Writer about her memoir, We are a Muslim, Please.
Snap
By Shruti Parija Snap went the bond that begun in great revelry With the umbilical cord The bond that was meant to nurture To care, to love, to understand The yesteryears were proof enough That the bond God forged was beleaguered Bit by bit, Piece by Piece Unstrumming the strings of my essence Untying the …
Three Times Married
By Najma Yusufi Yasmeen Begum divorced her first husband for the better prospect of the second. He died. She then married again. The third marriage was still going because he had a title and hadn’t let her kill him, yet. His title was something she had always craved. She became Mrs Khan of Hoti. My …