Sudeep Sen
Foreword
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Alastair Niven
Interviews V S Naipaul
5 |
V S Naipaul
Acceptance Speech of the first David Cohen British Literature Prize
7 |
Felicity Hand
How British are the Asians?
9 |
Dom Moraes
Poem: Song
14 |
Eunice De Souza
Poem: Pilgrim
14 |
Jayanta Mahapatra
Poem: Morning
14 |
Imtiaz Dharker
Poem: Living Space
14 |
Adil Jussawalla
Poem: Sea Breeze, Bombay
15 |
Gieve Patel
Poem: Post-Mortem
15 |
Sarayu Ahuja
Poem: Gestures
15 |
Keki Daruwalla
Poem: In the Footsteps of the Sanskrit Poets
15 |
Dilip Chitre
Poem: I Have Nowhere to Go
15 |
Elaine Yee Lin Ho
Of Laundries and Restaurants: Fictions of Ethnic Space
16 |
Hilary Patel
Short Story: The Child Who Sat Alone
19 |
Sudeep Sen
Interviews Vikram Seth
22 |
Stephen Alter
The Short Story in India
26 |
Anita Desai
In-Betweenness
28 |
Bibhu Padhi
Poem: A Glass of Clear Water
30 |
Anna Sujatha Mathai
Poem: Terracotta Lover
30 |
Manohar Shetty
Poem: Seaside Lessons
30 |
Santan Rodrigues
Poem: Notes from a Frontier Town
30 |
Aftab Seth
Poem: Pillars of My Landscape
30 |
Ranjit Hoskote
Poem: No Permit of Residence
31 |
Tabish Khair
Poem: The Young and the Old
31 |
Jeet Thayil
Poem: Where This One Came From
31 |
C P Surendran
Poem: Malabari: Inspiration
31 |
Nilufer E Bharucha
Reflections in Broken Mirrors: Diverse Diasporas in Recent Parsi Fiction
32 |
Vivek Tandon
Poem: Suggestion
36 |
Anju Makhija
Poem: A Farmer’s Ghost
36 |
Menka Shivdasani
An extract from a long poem, Off-Track
36 |
Prabhanjan Mishra
Poem: Death of David
36 |
Rajneesh Dham
Poem: Monsoon
36 |
Anjum Katyal
Poem: Kite
36 |
Tarun Kumar Saint
Poem: Rejuvenation
37 |
Smita Agarwal
Poem: Samyukta at Khajuraho
37 |
Suman Gupta
Poem: Morning
37 |
Prem Kumar Vijayan
Poem: Lear’s Prayer to Tragedy
37 |
Christine Gomez
Short story: On the Brink
38 |
Gautam Dasgupta
The Fantasywallahs of Indian Cinema
39 |
| Symposium: India, South Asia and the Diaspora |
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Graham Huggan
South Asian Canadian Writing
42
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Kaushalya Bannerji
Poem: World War
44 |
Sasenarine Persaud
Poem: Artwork of Kali
44 |
R Parthasarathy
Poem: Indian Summer
45 |
Saleem Peeradina
Poem: Meditations on Desire
45 |
Mina Kumar
Poem: The Kentucky Colonel Goes to AA
45 |
Meena Alexander
Poem: Palpable Elysium
46 |
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Poem: The Maimed Dancing Men
46 |
Ranjana Sidhanta Ash
Writers of the South Asian Diaspora in Britain: A Survey of Post-War Fiction in English
47 |
Ketaki Kushari Dyson
Poem: Movement from a Concerto, Revised
50 |
Debjani Chatterjee
Poem: Manu’s Wife
50 |
Prabhu S Guptara
Poem: I: Satan
50 |
Melanie Silgardo
Poem: Book of Memories
50 |
Satyendra Srivastava
Poem: Reliving Guernica
50 |
Sanjeev Richhariya
Poem: The Poetry of Arrival
51 |
Maya Chowdhury
Poem: She Is
51 |
Shanta Acharya
Not One of the Myths
51 |
Malachai Edwin Vethamani
Malaysian, Singaporean and Fijian Writers of the Indian Diaspora
52 |
Chandran Nair
Poem: Hindu Cremation
54 |
Satendra Nandan
Poem: Prophecy: Epitaph
54 |
Amarjit Chandan
Poem: Picture Card from Stockholm
54 |
Mahendra Solanki
Poem: Memory
55 |
Essop Patel
Poem: Miriam of Bengal
55 |
Farouk Asvat
Poem: Jesus
55 |
Deena Padayachee
Poem: Apartheid
55 |
Achmat Dangor
Poem: Speaking of History
55 |
Kriben Pillay
Poem: Of a Photograph in Newsweek 16/9/85
55 |
Shabbir Banoobhai
Poem: Tazkiya
55 |
Jeremy Poynting
From Shipwreck to Odyssey: One Hundred Years of Indo-Caribbean Writing
56 |
Fawzia Afzal Khan
Pakistani Writing in English: 1947 to the Present: A Survey
58 |
Tariq Latif
Poem: Mud People
62 |
Moniza Alvi
Poem: Lahore Canal
62 |
M Athar Tahir
Poem: Indus Horses
62 |
Saqi Farooqi
Poem: A Silent Poem
62 |
Jean Arasanayagam
Sri Lankan Writing in English: The Bi-Cultural Experience in a Post-Colonial Context
63 |
Romesh Gunesekera
Poem: Appetite
65 |
Indran Amirthanayagam
Poem: Star Over Jaffna
65 |
Guy Amirthanayagam
Poem: For the Critics
65 |
Ghulam Murshid
Poem: Modern Bangladesh Writing
66 |
Kaiser Haq
Poem: Scholar
69 |
| Reviews |
Charles Sarvan
The Heinemann Asian Writers Series
70 |
Nilufer E Bharucha
The Floodgates are Open: Recent Fiction from the Indian Sub-Continent
72 |
C W Watson
Nine Recent Fiction Publications from India
74 |
Aiyesha Abbasi
Mirror to the Sun by Aamer Hussein
75 |
Stephanie Newell
The Eighteenth Parallel by Ashokamitran
Out on Main Street by Shani Mootoo
Of Customs and Excise by Rachna Mara
77 |
Mario Relich
Complex Seeing: A Glimpse of Modern Indian Drama: Five Publications
79 |
Stephen Gray
The Longest Memory by Fred D’Aguiar
Reef by Romesh Gunesekera
81 |
Mike Sanders
In Theory: Classes, Nations, Literatures by Aijaz Ahmed
82 |
Laura Peters
The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness by Paul Gilroy
84 |
Dennis Walder
Essays on African Writing l: A Re-evaluation Abdulrazak Gumah, ed
The New Literatures in English by Carole Durix and Jean-Pierre Durix
86 |
Bruce King
The Cambridge Guide to African and Caribbean Theatre Martin Banham, Errol Hill, George Woodyard and Olu Obafemi, eds
88 |
Angus Calder
Reinventing Africa: Museums, Material Culture and Popular Imagination in Late Victorian and Edwardian England by Annie E Coombes
89 |
Karen King-Aribisala
Cry a Whisper by Lucy Sapho
91 |
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Gina Wisker
Flame Tree Time by Elaine Savory
Rain Carvers by Judith Hamilton Caribbean Poetry Series nos. 5 and 6
92
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Among the Contributors
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