Three recent books by overseas Indian writers, two fiction and one nonfiction, deal with the heartaches, trials and...
Monsoon DiaryA Memoir With Recipesby Shobha NarayanVillard Books,New York, N. Y.2003, pp. 223. Shobha Narayan is no stranger...
With disarming candor, Shobha Narayan says she doesn’t think of herself as a born writer. “Oh I wrote...
Writing Island of Blood, an account of her experiences as a frontline reporter in Sri Lanka, Afghanistan, and...
Island of BloodFrontline reports from Sri Lanka, Afghan-istan, and Other South Asian Flashpointsby Anita PratapPenguin Books,276 pp. At...
Last year, on his first visit to India after winning the Nobel Prize for Literature, V.S. Naipal attended...