China hopes to increase trust with India
BEIJING: Ahead of the installation of the new leadership in Beijing, a senior Chinese military official has said India and China are “looking to deepen mutual trust” and widen their …
Read MoreAuthor: India Writes Network
Revisiting Khushwant Singh’s Partition Saga
Revisiting Khushwant Singh’s Partition Saga Thousands of Hindus, Muslims and Sikhs walking bare-foot and in bullock-carts migrating to their newly-born countries, trains that brought in cargoes of the dead, instead …
Read MoreDancing Widows
Dancing Widows In this exclusive extract from her stirring novel about the plight of widows in pre-independence India, Bapsi Sidhwa evokes yearnings of Chuiya – a child bride who is …
Read MoreIn Good Faith
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 …
Read More
Souza Painting Fetches 173,000-Pounds
Indian art is going global and is bringing not just accolades, but big money to its practitioners. In Britain, paintings by Indian artists have created the right kind of buzz …
Read More
Who is an Indian Writer?
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 …
Read More
Writing is a concentrated form of thinking.
Writing is a concentrated form of thinking. I don’t know what I think about certain subjects, even today, until I sit down and try to write about them. Maybe I …
Read More
A Wounded Civilisation
And Proust, too, killing himself to write his book comes close to the concept of dharma when, echoing Balzac, he says that in the end it’s less the desire for …
Read More
Ten Years of the Fatwa
I can’t go on, says Beckett’s Unnamable. I will go on. A writer’s injuries are his strengths, and from his wounds will flow his sweetest, most startling dreams. — Salman …
Read More