Thus begins this parable-like story by acclaimed Assamese novelist Dr Dhruba Jyoti Borah, a pragmatic response to Nikolai Gogol, Fyodor Dostoevsky and Knut Hamsun. Written in Assamese in the early ...
Dr. Siobhan Lambert-Hurley is Senior Lecturer in Modern History at Loughborough University, UK. Her publications include Muslim Women, Reform and Princely Patronage: Nawab Sultan Jahan Begam of Bho
Siobhan Lambert-Hurley is Senior Lecturer in Modern History at Nottingham Trent University in the United Kingdom. Her research focuses on women, gender and Islam in South Asia with a particular em
Thanh-Dam Truong, Associate Professor in Women, Gender and Development Studies at the Institute of Social Studies, The Hague, is one of the first scholars to have provided an academic analysis of t
Danish Husain is an actor, poet, storyteller as well as a theatre director. He runs his own theatre company called the Hoshruba Repertory. He is known for his revival of Urdu storytelling through t
Aakar Patel is a syndicated columnist who has edited English and Gujarati newspapers. His works include 'Why I Write', a translation of Saadat Hasan Manto’s Urdu non-fiction (Tranquebar, 2014), '
