Sarvat Hasin, “This Wide Night”

11 06 , 2017 No Comments
They lived across the road from me for fifteen years without us ever having a conversation, something that seems impossible to me now. I’d built
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“Is Writing a Way of Life”

09 06 , 2017 No Comments
Recently I have come across two articles about what is a writerly life. The first one is by well-known Australian writer, Frank Moorhouse, in Meanjin entitled :
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Lone Fox Dancing: My Autobiography by Ruskin Bond ( An exclusive extract)

09 06 , 2017 No Comments
(Ravi Singh, Publishing Director and co-Founder, Speaking Tiger Books, sent this exclusive extract from Ruskin Bond’s autobiography Lone Fox Dancing. It is one of the publishing
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Of two memoirs — A Gift of Goddess Lakshmi” and “Man Alive”

17 05 , 2017 No Comments
“You have to fight for yourself,” Parker had said when we first got together, and again, and again. “Wherever you are,” she’d said, “whoever you
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Ruskin Bond

17 05 , 2017 1 Comment
Last year I spotted Ruskin Bond at a literary festival but it was impossible to see him clearly. It was also the first time I saw
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“The Revolutionary Life of Freda Bedi” by Vicki Mackenzie

13 05 , 2017 No Comments
The Revolutionary Life of Freda Bedi by Vicki Mackenzie is an account of an extraordinary Derby-born woman Freda Houlston. Born in 1911, educated at Oxford and married
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Samantha Schweblin

12 05 , 2017 No Comments
It was late in 2016 that the cyber-whispers about a magnificent new novel in translation began. Then in January 2017 The New Yorker published a
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Saint Teresa

11 05 , 2017 No Comments
Saint Teresa or Mother Teresa (as she was known till 4 September 2016) and her Missionaries of Charity are known for their care of the poor
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Pakistani Author Maha Khan Phillips on her New Novel, “The Curse of the Mohenjodaro”

09 05 , 2017 No Comments
This interview with Maha Khan Phillips was published on Bookwitty on 7 March 2017.  Maha Khan Phillips is the author of Beautiful from this Angle
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Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows: an Interview with Balli Kaur Jaswal

08 05 , 2017 No Comments
My interview with Balli Kaur Jaiswal on her new novel Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows has been published on Bookwitty today, 8 May 2017. The interview is
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