Biographical and Critical Notes
Alamgir Hashmi
Reflection on literary biography and a list of titles by the author, together with criticism about each title, which has reference value. Author's email address included.
Alastair Niven on Recent South Asian Poetry
A critical survey of English-language works by poets of South Asian origin.
An Interview with Zulfikar Ghose
Author's discussion of his books and Western literature; also comments on life and work in general.
Cracking Sidhwa
Bapsi Sidhwa in interview about her novels and herself as a Pakistani Parsi woman and U.S. immigrant.
Kamila Shamsie
Biographical information and news about her novel, Salt and Saffron, with other links.
Passion In Lahore
The New York Review of Books reviews Mohsin Hamid's novel Moth Smoke (2000)
Poet, Scholar Hashmi in Iowa
This is a useful and relevant introduction to the work of the major English poet and scholar Professor Alamgir Hashmi, who suggested important principles of cultural coexistene a q…
Poetry of Escape and Distance--Maki Kureishi
The writer offers a close look at the only English poetry book by this woman poet who died in 1995.
Postcolonial and Postimperial Authors
A list of well-known authors from Pakistan and the Indian Subcontinent. The main site has many useful links.
Reading Rafat's "Sacrifice"
A 21st-Century reader offers online comments on Taufiq Rafat's poem. Full text of the poem included.
Shaista Ikramullah
This is a sketch of a woman parliamentarian who also wrote prose works in English and Urdu.
Twilight in Delhi: Indian Resentment of British Rule
A socio-political take on a classic, Ahmed Ali's Twilight in Delhi (1940).
Uzma Aslam Khan
The newspaper reportage on the young novelist and her two novels is recent and usable.
Uzma Aslam Khan: A Cocktail of Influences
Part interview, the article shows the author's life and ideas reflected in her writing, particularly the novel "Trespassing".
What Is a Ghazal?
The ghazal verse-form is described, as in Urdu and some other languages.
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