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Island of a Thousand Mirrors, Nayomi Munaweera, 2013
Island of a Thousand Mirrors, by Nayomi Munaweera. Gurgaon: Hachette India, 2013. Purchased in India. Nayomi Munaweera’s debut, Island of a Thousand Mirrors, is a beautiful, if unnecessarily complex...
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Forget Kathmandu, Majushree Thapa, 2013 (2005)
Forget Kathmandu: An Elegy for Democracy, by Manjushree Thapa. New Delhi: Aleph, 2013 (originally published in 2005). Purchased in Nepal. The best, and first book that anyone should read, on Nepal. I...
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My new article in Intersections
I’ve just had an article published in Intersections: Gender and Sexuality in Asia and the Pacific, an open-access academic journal. It’s called ‘Reconciling Feminist and Anti-Caste Analyses in Studies...
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Concern for the Destiny of the Country
I’ve just had my article “Concern for the Destiny of the Country: Indian Feminist Novels” published in the online, non-academic literary journal, The Critical Flame. It focuses on three novels:...
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Indian Jewish Literature in Himal Southasian
Jew Town, Cochin. Photo: Flickr/ Dietmut Teijgeman-Hansen After a few weeks of politically-heavy articles at Himal, we have just published this piece on Indian Jewish literature, by Navras Jaat...
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The Story of Noble Rot, Uzma Aslam Khan, New Delhi: Rupa, 2009 (2001)
Having read Uzma Aslam Khan’s Trespassing and Thinner than Skin, two of the author’s later novels, I thought I knew what to expect from her: beautiful, ornate yet precise language combined with a...
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Lascar by Shahida Rahman (2012)
Lascar by Shahida Rahman, Leicester: Indigo Dreams Books, 2012. Provided with a review copy from the author. Cambridge author Shahida Rahman’s Lascar is an ambitious historical novel about a character...
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Pakistani women’s writing
Kamila Shamsie, A God in Every Stone. Bloomsbury, 2014. My review essay of three recent novels by Pakistani women–Fatima Bhutto’s The Shadow of the Crescent Moon, Kamila Shamsie’s A God in Every Stone...
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While the Gods Were Sleeping by Elizabeth Enslin (2014)
‘While the Gods Were Sleeping: A Journey Through Love and Rebellion in Nepal’ by Elizabeth Enslin. Berkley: Seal Press, 2014. Provided with a review copy by the publisher. I devoured this in about...
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Bengal Feminist: My review in Cha
My review of Mohammad A. Quayum’s The Essential Rokeya: Selected Works of Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain has just been published in Cha: An Asian Literary Journal. Here is an extract: Born in 1880 in what is...
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