Books
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Jhumpa Lahiri – My Indian heritage informs everything, she says as latest book is an English translation of her own work first published in Italian…
📘Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Jhumpa Lahiri’s latest novel is a translation of her own original work in Italian and called, ‘Whereabouts’…
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‘Empireland’ – where it all started for writer Sathnam Sanghera with the Jallianwala Bagh Massacre of 1919…
Sunday Times Bestseller had its origins in a TV programme about one of the most bloody incidents of Empire ever…
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Bird Bites: International Womens’ Day (listings March 7-); creative and professional women: festivals, theatre, talks, books and films…
We look at how UN International Womens Day on Monday March 8 is being marked… Women of the World (Wow)…
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Patricia Rozario, Naga Munchetty, Charlie XCX, Jameela Jamil and Tabu lead women’s success at the Eastern Eye Arts, Culture and Theatre Awards (Acta)…
A celebration of South Asian creative talent… SHE MIGHT not be a Dame in the official sense but Opera singer…
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Bird Bites: Hymn; Letters to Earth Live; French like Faiza; Jibanananda Das Festival; Eastern Eye Actas; Rifco comedy…
What you might want to catch this week – with three online events tomorrow! World premiere for Lolita Chakrabarti play…
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‘Three Pounds in My Pocket’ – BBC Radio Four Series 4 looks at decade from 1990s and presenter Kavita Puri talks Partition threads…
Critically-acclaimed series documents Asian community’s development in Britain… PARTITION and the infamous Norman Tebbit cricket test may seem a long…
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Are you a really an ‘asianculturevulture’? Test your knowledge with our festive annual quiz 2020 – Answers page…
Do you know your Dev Patel from your Riz Ahmed? Or your Nitin Sawhney from your Anoushka Shankar? Read on…
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Our cultural highlights of 2020 – what are yours?
It’s been a strange and challenging year in many ways but many of us did find solace in arts and…
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Mahmood Jamal: Poet, producer and pioneer of the Black and Asian arts and cultural movement (Obituary)
Writer was deeply learned, inspired by Sufi mystical poetry and part of a brilliant collection of politically conscious Asian and…
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Are you a really an ‘asianculturevulture’? Test your knowledge with our festive annual quiz 2020
Do you know your Dev Patel from your Riz Ahmed? Or your Nitin Sawhney from your Anoushka Shankar? Read on…
Read More »