A heartwarming and sensitive portrayal of a growing bond between Yusuf, a British Pakistani grandfather, and his mixed heritage teenage granddaughter, Rubi, Sairish Hussain’s second novel Hidden Fires highlights the importance of preserving the histories of South Asia’s most tragedy ridden generation. ‘This whole thing is far from over. It’s been dormant since 1947 and […]
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My first introduction to Anita Desai’s work was as a ten-year-old borrowing books from my school library over the summer holidays. ‘The Village by the Sea’ was an intriguing title and I, having lived near the Arabian Sea for all of my childhood, immediately gravitated towards the book. This was a time when English fiction
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A genre-bending portrayal of family dynamics, societal wealth distribution and caste politics in postcolonial India. It is 1950 and Mewar is reeling from the aftereffects of Partition and the departure of the British. On the day of Makar Sankranti, teenaged beauty Sanaz, the esteemed Dada Bhai’s daughter, is found dead. To add perplexity to the
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Khushwant Singh is a household name for those in the Indo-Pak literary sphere. The Khushwant Singh Literary Festival ran for its 6th session in June 2024 with the theme ‘Heal The World’. Mr Fakir Aijazuddin OBE, a renowned Pakistani art historian and curator of Sikh Art, paid tribute to his friend Khushwant Singh, describing their
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