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Book Review: The Routledge Concise History of Southeast Asian Writing in English (Review by Zafar Anjum, S’pore)
A useful companion for those who seek a handy understanding of Southeast Asian writing in English
admin | Oct 19, 2009 | Comments 0
Fiction: In Other Rooms, Other Wonders (Reviewer Zafar Anjum)
My first brush with Pakistani writer Daniyal Mueenuddin’s material was on the pages of the New Yorker.
Zafar Anjum | Oct 04, 2009 | Comments 0
Book: Enter the world of Tamil Pulp
Growing up in India in the 1970s and 80s, like millions of fellow Indians, I too was exposed to pulp fiction in Hindi and Urdu. It was sometimes in high school when the transition from reading funny comics and magazines like Suman Saurav and Parag to Hindi and Urdu detective potboilers and crime magazines took place. Unlike watching masala Bollywood films that have always been accepted on their own terms, reading pulp was always a secret activity. It provided a guilty pleasure.
Zafar Anjum | May 17, 2009 | Comments 0
