Tiger Mother Amy Chua is Back and Worse Than Ever
Tiger Mother Amy Chua is at it again, unfortunately. The Yale Law professor first gained widespread notoriety with her 2012 book Battle Hymn of the … Read more
Winter’s Vocabulary: ‘A’ is for Abandonment
Winter has its own vocabulary. A is for Abandonment. Nothing decries winter like the squawks of migrating geese leaving every evening. Flocks after flocks. The … Read more
20 Years After ‘Bhaji on the Beach’: Meera Syal on South Asians in Film & TV
2013 marks the 20th anniversary of Meera Syal’s acclaimed film Bhaji on the Beach, directed by Gurinder Chadha. Focusing on a group of South Asian … Read more
‘The Activist’: New Fiction by Karthick RM
It was a failure. Not him. It. Your room was in its usual orderly state. You liked it that way. The possessions that you loved … Read more
Review: The Tragic Tale of How the Pakistani ‘Village’ Killed Benazir Bhutto
Who murdered former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, who was assassinated six years ago this Dec. 27? In 2009, Heraldo Muñoz, a Chilean diplomat, was … Read more
‘Because’: New Fiction by Mustafa Abubaker
When I was seven, the Sun rose for me, shined on the flowers I picked for you, made sure that they were pure and full … Read more
Opinion: Can’t We All Just Love Malala?
Malala Yousafzai may not have won the Nobel Peace Prize — presented in grand ceremony to the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons last … Read more
An Excerpt from Musharraf Ali Farooqi’s ‘Between Clay and Dust’
Ustad Ramzi was once the greatest wrestler in the land, famed for his enormous strength and unmatched technique. Young apprentices flocked to his akhara to … Read more
Book Review: ‘The Lowland’s Powerful Gift of Homecoming
“But he was no longer in Tollygunge. He had stepped out of it as he had stepped so many mornings out of dreams, its reality … Read more
Q&A With Ranbir Singh Sidhu, Author of ‘Good Indian Girls’
Playwright and novelist Ranbir Singh Sidhu has a new collection of 12 stories called Good Indian Girls. Sidhu was born in London and studied archaeology … Read more
