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Empowering Women? Feminist Responses to Hindutva
I’ve just had an article published in Australian academic journal Intersections: Gender and Sexuality in Asia and the Pacific. It looks at two books on women and communalism in India, Tanika Sarkar and...
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Noor, Sorayya Khan (2006)
Noor by Sorayya Khan is a beautiful book. And, as one of the first, and only, Pakistani novels in English to deal with the 1971 Bangladesh War, it is also very important. The Noor of the title is the...
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Five Queen’s Road, Sorayya Khan (2009)
After reviewing Sorayya Khan’s Noor several months ago, I thought Five Queen’s Road would have a tough time living up to that beautiful book. But this, too, is a wonderful novel with much sensitivity,...
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The Good Muslim, Tahmima Anam, 2011
Tahmima Anam’s The Good Muslim is her sequel to A Golden Age, which I reviewed in December 2011. But calling it a sequel doesn’t quite do it justice because it surpasses her earlier work in complexity...
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Review of Return of a King by William Dalrymple (2013) in Himal Southasian 26.2
My review appears in the print edition of Himal Southasian, 26.2. Below is an extract: History repeating? Dalrymple’s detailed look at the first Anglo-Afghan war hypothesises parallels between then and...
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This Side, That Side: Restorying Partition, edited by Vishwajyoti Ghosh (2013)
My review of This Side, That Side has just been published in Kitaab. This is an ambitious and innovative production but, perhaps ironically for a collection clearly based around a single theme, lacking...
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Year of Reading Women
(Bookmarks by Joanna Walsh) 2014 has been designated the Year of Reading Women on a couple of fronts: Critical Flame journal has designated 2014 a year in which they will only read and publish in...
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My commentary on the Doniger “The Hindus” case
My commentary in Himal Southasian on the disgusting case, in which Penguin India succumbed to the irrational, fundamentalist petition against the American scholar’s book: “The recent case of American...
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Concern for the Destiny of the Country
I’ve just had my article “Concern for the Destiny of the Country: Indian Feminist Novels” published in the online, non-academic literary journal, The Critical Flame. It focuses on three novels:...
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