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‘Writing In Verse A Great Challenge’

January 18, 2013January 18, 2013 - by India Writes Network

Diplomat-author Navtej Sarna has always felt a creative kinship with exiles. This time round, he has penned an English translation of Zafarnama – 111 spiritually resonant Persian verses of impassioned …

Being a Muslim writer in times of conflict: Violence saddens me

January 10, 2013December 30, 2014 - by Manish Chand

To be a writer in a nation scarred by relentless ethnic violence and a Muslim in a post-9/11 world distorted by mindless stereotyping and hate-mongering takes a lot of courage …

The Patriot

January 10, 2013August 2, 2013 - by Nissim Ezekiel

I am standing for peace and non-violence. Why world is fighting fighting Why all people of world Are not following Mahatma Gandhi, I am simply not understanding. Ancient Indian Wisdom …

Post 9/11 World Very Unhappy to Live In

January 10, 2013August 2, 2013 - by Manish Chand

Eminent historian Mushirul Hasan speaks to Manish Chand about the sharpening divide between the Muslim world and the West, the prospects of democratization in the Middle East, the continuing spurt …

My words will soon be silent

January 4, 2013January 23, 2013 - by Priti Aisola

Before your silence petrified my words, they were as malleable as clay. Then I could have shaped them into little deepams to brighten your gray moments given to grayer despair. …

Poetry

December 25, 2012January 19, 2013 - by India Writes Network

The Butterfly Arun Kolatkar There is no story behind it. It is split like a second. It hinges around itself. It has no future. It is pinned down to no …

In Good Faith

December 14, 2012August 2, 2013 - by India Writes Network

Asra Q. Nomani’s Standing Alone in Mecca is at once compelling and predictable, clichéd and refreshing. Its moments of startling frankness and honesty prevent it from descending into another exercise …

Who is an Indian Writer?

December 13, 2012January 24, 2013 - by India Writes Network

For that matter, who is an Indian? Being an Indian who has always lived in India, I used to think I know. But over the past few years the diaspora …

America, Oh America

December 26, 2011August 2, 2013 - by Manish Chand

The Reluctant Fundamentalist Author: Mohsin Hamid Publisher: Penguin/Viking Price: Rs 295 Mohsin Hamid’s The Reluctant Fundamentalist is an incisive portrait of the transformation of a Princeton-educated Pakistani youth with a …

Awake, It’s No Satan, It’s Just Salman

January 17, 2011August 2, 2013 - by Manish Chand

Bigots baying for the blood of celebrity novelist and freshly knighted Sir Salman Rushdie, from Iran to Pakistan to Malaysia to Srinagar, are back in business, albeit with a slightly …