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Spring 1995	India, South Asia and the Diaspora
Sudeep Sen	Foreword	3
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
Graham Huggan	South Asian Canadian Writing	42
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	77
	Out on Main Street by Shani Mootoo
	Of Customs and Excise by Rachna Mara
Mario Relich	Complex Seeing: A Glimpse of Modern Indian Drama: Five Publications	79
Stephen Gray	The Longest Memory by Fred D’Aguiar	81
	Reef by Romesh Gunesekera
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	86
	The New Literatures in English by Carole Durix and Jean-Pierre Durix
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
Gina Wisker	Flame Tree Time by Elaine Savory	92
	Rain Carvers by Judith Hamilton
	Caribbean Poetry Series nos. 5 and 6
Among the Contributors		95

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