Wasafiri 21: India, South Asia and the Diaspora
As well as writing from some of the biggest names in South Asian literature – interviews with V S Naipaul and Vikram Seth, an essay from Anita Desai, poetry by Imtiaz Dharker and Tabish Khair – this issue also features a special symposium section, dedicated to South Asian Diasporic writing, with a particular focus on poetry. Divided into geographies, the symposium includes poems from Canada, the UK, the South Pacific, East and South Africa and beyond.
Contents
Editorial
Susheila Nasta
Foreword
Sudeep Sen
Interviews
V S Naipaul
Alastair Niven
A Poet at Heart: Vikram Seth
Sudeep Sen
Articles
Acceptance Speech of the first David Cohen British Literature Prize
V S Naipaul
How British are the Asians?
Felicity Hand
Of Laundries and Restaurants: Fictions of Ethnic Space
Elaine Yee Lin Ho
The Short Story in India
Stephen Alter
In-Betweenness
Anita Desai
Reflections in Broken Mirrors: Diverse Diasporas in Recent Parsi Fiction
Nilufer E Bharucha
The Fantasywallahs of Indian Cinema
Gautam Dasgupta
Poetry
Song
Dom Moraes
Pilgrim
Eunice De Souza
Morning
Jayanta Mahapatra
Living Space
Imtiaz Dharker
Sea Breeze, Bombay
Adil Jussawalla
Post-Mortem
Gieve Patel
Gestures
Sarayu Ahuja
In the Footsteps of the Sanskrit Poets
Keki Daruwalla
I Have Nowhere to Go
Dilip Chitre
A Glass of Clear Water
Bibhu Padhi
Terracotta Lover
Anna Sujatha Mathai
Seaside Lessons
Manohar Shetty
Notes from a Frontier Town
Santan Rodrigues
Pillars of My Landscape
Aftab Seth
No Permit of Residence
Ranjit Hoskote
The Young and the Old
Tabish Khair
Where This One Came From
Jeet Thayil
Malabari: Inspiration
C P Surendran
Suggestion
Vivek Tandon
A Farmer’s Ghost
Anju Makhija
An extract from a long poem, Off-Track
Menka Shivdasani
Death of David
Prabhanjan Mishra
Monsoon
Rajneesh Dham
Kite
Anjum Katyal
Rejuvenation
Tarun Kumar Saint
Samyukta at Khajuraho
Smita Agarwal
Morning
Suman Gupta
Lear’s Prayer to Tragedy
Prem Kumar Vijayan
Fiction
The Child Who Sat Alone
Hilary Patel
On the Brink
Christine Gomez
Symposium: India, South Asia and the Diaspora
South Asian Canadian Writing
Graham Huggan
Poem: World War
Kaushalya Bannerji
Poem: Artwork of Kali
Sasenarine Persaud
Poem: Indian Summer
R Parthasarathy
Poem: Meditations on Desire
Saleem Peeradina
Poem: The Kentucky Colonel Goes to AA
Mina Kumar
Poem: Palpable Elysium
Meena Alexander
Poem: The Maimed Dancing Men
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Writers of the South Asian Diaspora in Britain: A Survey of Post-War Fiction in English
Ranjana Sidhanta Ash
Poem: Movement from a Concerto, Revised
Ketaki Kushari Dyson
Poem: Manu’s Wife
Debjani Chatterjee
Poem: I: Satan
Prabhu S Guptara
Poem: Book of Memories
Melanie Silgardo
Poem: Reliving Guernica
Satyendra Srivastava
Poem: The Poetry of Arrival
Sanjeev Richhariya
Poem: She Is
Maya Chowdhury
Not One of the Myths
Shanta Acharya
Malaysian, Singaporean and Fijian Writers of the Indian Diaspora
Malachai Edwin Vethamani
Poem: Hindu Cremation
Chandran Nair
Poem: Prophecy: Epitaph
Satendra Nandan
Poem: Picture Card from Stockholm
Amarjit Chandan
Poem: Memory
Mahendra Solanki
Poem: Miriam of Bengal
Essop Patel
Poem: Jesus
Farouk Asvat
Poem: Apartheid
Deena Padayachee
Poem: Speaking of History
Achmat Dangor
Poem: Of a Photograph in Newsweek 16/9/85
Kriben Pillay
Poem: Tazkiya
Shabbir Banoobhai
From Shipwreck to Odyssey: One Hundred Years of Indo-Caribbean Writing
Jeremy Poynting
Pakistani Writing in English: 1947 to the Present: A Survey
Fawzia Afzal Khan
Poem: Mud People
Tariq Latif
Poem: Lahore Canal
Moniza Alvi
Poem: Indus Horses
M Athar Tahir
Poem: A Silent Poe
Saqi Farooqi
Sri Lankan Writing in English: The Bi-Cultural Experience in a Post-Colonial Context
Jean Arasanayagam
Poem: Appetite
Romesh Gunesekera
Poem: Star Over Jaffna
Indran Amirthanayagam
Poem: For the Critics
Guy Amirthanayagam
Poem: Modern Bangladesh Writing
Ghulam Murshid
Poem: Schola
Kaiser Haq
Reviews
The Heinemann Asian Writers Series
Charles Sarvan
The Floodgates are Open: Recent Fiction from the Indian Sub-Continent
Nilufer E Bharucha
Nine Recent Fiction Publications from India
C W Watson
Mirror to the Sun – Aamer Hussein
Aiyesha Abbasi
The Eighteenth Parallel – Ashokamitran
Out on Main Street – Shani Mootoo
Of Customs and Excise – Rachna Mara
Stephanie Newell
Complex Seeing: A Glimpse of Modern Indian Drama: Five Publications
Mario Relich
The Longest Memory – Fred D’Aguiar
Reef – Romesh Gunesekera
Stephen Gray
In Theory: Classes, Nations, Literatures – Aijaz Ahmed
Mike Sanders
The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness – Paul Gilroy
Laura Peters
Essays on African Writing 1: A Re-evaluation – Abdulrazak Gumah, ed
The New Literatures in English – Carole Durix and Jean-Pierre Durix
Dennis Walder
The Cambridge Guide to African and Caribbean Theatre – Martin Banham, Errol Hill, George Woodyard and Olu Obafemi, ed
Bruce King
Reinventing Africa: Museums, Material Culture and Popular Imagination in Late Victorian and Edwardian England – Annie E Coombes, ed
Angus Calder
Cry a Whisper – Lucy Sapho
Karen King-Aribisala
Flame Tree Time – Elaine Savory
Rain Carvers – Judith Hamilton
Caribbean Poetry Series nos. 5 and 6
Gina Wisker
