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…
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 – 9
Shared Sorrows: Indians and Armenians in the prison camps of Ras al-‘Ain, 1916-18 - 9 On Nov 19, Sisir left for Aleppo with some 50 seriously ill…
Navsari – Home of Indian Zoroastrianism & Hub of the China Trade
The town of Navsari, near Surat in Gujarat, is the ancestral home of many eminent…
Review: ‘Ecology, Economy: Quest for a Socially Informed Connection’
Ecology, Economy: Quest for a Socially Informed Connection by Felix Padel, Ajay Dandekar and Jeemol Unni Felix Padel, is a British anthropologist who has spent many…
A Picture and an Update
From Alessandro Vescovi, who compiled the bibliography on my website, a picture of the Lascar war memorial in Kolkata: and an update of the…