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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.
www.writers.net
Bapsi Sidhwa in interview about her novels and herself as a Pakistani Parsi woman and U.S. immigrant.
www.monsoonmag.com
Postcolonial and Postimperial Authors
A list of well-known authors from Pakistan and the Indian Subcontinent. The main site has many useful links.
www.scholars.nus.edu.sg
Twilight in Delhi: Indian Resentment of British Rule
A socio-political take on a classic, Ahmed Ali's Twilight in Delhi (1940).
www.scholars.nus.edu.sg
The ghazal verse-form is described, as in Urdu and some other languages.
www.cs.wisc.edu
Mohsin Hamid's first novel is reviewed here.
www.salon.com
The New York Review of Books reviews Mohsin Hamid's novel Moth Smoke (2000)
www.nybooks.com
Novelist Zameenzad's life and books described briefly.
www.thesusijnagency.com
The newspaper reportage on the young novelist and her two novels is recent and usable.
www.thedailystar.net
This is a sketch of a woman parliamentarian who also wrote prose works in English and Urdu.
www.storyofpakistan.com
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 quarter century ago.
www.uiowa.edu
Alastair Niven on Recent South Asian Poetry
A critical survey of English-language works by poets of South Asian origin.
www.poetrysociety.org.uk
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".
enjoyment.independent.co.uk
Tariq Ali and Ken McMullen have adapted a short story by Saadat Hasan Manto about the partition of the Subcontinent, for a 90-minute film. Intro and stills are given here.
www.geocities.com
Article by Alamgir Hashmi on contemporary novels and short stories, discussed from the standpoint of theory and Pakistani history, culture, and society.
wwwmcc.murdoch.edu.au