Books
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Bird Bites: Whorled (Jitish Kallat); Roopa Panesar Atma concert; Jibanananda poetry celebration; Salman Rushdie new novel; Hanif Kureishi better; Positive Solace podcast: Take-Awasian
Jitish Kallat: The Cosmos and Mumbai and the world come to The Thames at Somerset House ‘Whorled (Here After Here…
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Eastern Eye Arts, Culture and Theatre Awards: Nitin Sawhney wins top award out of 18, while Shekhar Kapur remembers London inspiration…
The sixth Eastern Eye Arts Culture and Theatre Awards were postponed from September to February this year… A GLITTERING ARRAY…
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Sundance Film Festival – ‘Polite Society’, ‘Poacher’; Jaipur Literature Festival – Amish, Evaristo, Shree; and Berlinale – ‘Dahaad’ calling you…
Three major international festivals have South Asian content and South Asian stories… ‘Polite Society’ – Zany British comedy action film…
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ACV Highlights 2022 – Our picks
We look back at the year and pick out some of our memorable stories… IN A VERY general way –…
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‘Category Unknown’ Divide and rule – From South Asia to ‘Sarf Lundan’ with a lot in between…
Talented and socially perceptive author’s second work is entertaining, and stimulating read, as he appears at public talk today in…
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Sir Salman Rushdie – literary giant off a ventilator
Better news about the British-American author today… ONE OF THE WORLD’S greatest writers – Sir Salman Rushdie – appears to…
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Edinburgh International Book Festival: Monica Ali, Pankaj Mishra and Sunjeev Sahota amongst those in in a stellar and varied line-up…
Culture clashes, the cost of success and murder are some of the themes at Edinburgh International Book Festival this year……
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JLF London 2022: The Birangonas – Rape as a tactic of terror in Bangladesh war; The Serpent and how he stuck up contact with former C4 TV executive Farrukh Dhondy..
Among the final sessions at this year’s Jaipur Literature Festival in London were sessions on the Bangladesh war of liberation…
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