A curated take on South Asian art, literature, life and news
Lahore native Kamil Ahsan moved to Chicago for graduate school in 2012. A freelance journalist, Ahsan holds a Ph.D. in developmental biology, a master’s degree … Read more
A recent trip to Bangladesh made me think about the concept of modesty. Modesty generally refers to being unassuming or moderate in one’s behavior or … Read more
I’ve read two roundups (here and here) of the spectacle that was the 2018 Jaipur Literature Festival (Jan. 24-28), plus avidly followed the hilarious Twitter … Read more
A post shared by Sheba Karim (@shebakarim) on May 9, 2017 at 2:27pm PDT What do you have to lose? My pride, for one. And … Read more
Habits of secrecy are damaging things. Home Fire, longlisted for this year’s Man Booker Prize, is Kamila Shamsie’s much acclaimed seventh novel, and the first … Read more
He narrowed his blindgreen eyes and asked in a slygreen whisper… Arundhati Roy’s second novel, The Ministry of Utmost Happiness (Knopf), published 20 years after her … Read more
I push and I pull I watch and I wait I tire of being the one who wants I don’t have the courage to speak … Read more
This poetry video shot in Iceland and edited by Josh Steinbauer has Abeer Hoque reading words from her upcoming novel in stories The Lovers and The … Read more
“When people look at my pictures I want them to feel the way they do when they want to read a line of a poem … Read more
“Just the sex. Lose the poetry,” demanded an anonymous erotica collector in the 1940s to novelists Anais Nin and Henry Miller after promising them $1 a … Read more
