A Somali-Italian Writer’s Campaign Against a Fascist Monument
ChrestomatherIgiaba Scego's story Salsiccia ('Sausage') won Italy's Eks&Tra prize in 2003 and her novel La mia casa è dove sono ('My home is where I am') won the prestigious…
Venice – Crossroad of Books & Words
This month I am participating in an event called Incroci di Civiltà in Venice, along with many other writers including Adonis, Bi Feiyu, Stephen Greenblatt, Gabriella Kuruvilla, Edmund de…
In Memory of Ayaz Quadir
In 2008, while traveling in Bangladesh, I was invited to go on a boat-trip in the Sundarbans. Amongst the group on the boat was a boy by the name…
From a reader in Rome
Through the marvelous works you are publishing (books and blog on the web side) I'm learning very much about certain parts of the history that were completely unknow to…
From a Correspondent with Bhojpuri Connections
May 2012 Dear Mr Ghosh It was a privilege to hear you speak at the Greewich Maritime Museum in late February. We spoke very briefly as you were…
István Perczel and India’s Syriac Heritage
I wrote about Dr István Perczel, of the Central European University in Budapest, in my post of April 9, 2012 (‘Hungarian Scholar Finds Bonanza in Kerala Archive’ -…
Captain Frederick Marryat and the British Museum Buddha
Rupert Arrowsmith is an art historian and author of Global Modernism: Early Twentieth Century Art and Literature in Tokyo, Shanghai, Calcutta, Bombay and London (I reviewed the book on…
From a Trinbagonian reader
Oy good sir, As a lover of Naipaul and a London-born Trinbagonian, I think your article on Naipaul is note-perfect. I had to write immediately to tell you…
Shared Sorrows – 18
Shared Sorrows: Indians and Armenians in the prison camps of Ras al-‘Ain, 1916-18 - 18 On November 26th Sisir and his comrades reached Tripoli; and on December…
Shared Sorrows – 17
Shared Sorrows: Indians and Armenians in the prison camps of Ras al-‘Ain, 1916-18 - 17 Sisir Sarbadhikari went to the station early to wait for the train…