Nalini Iyer
“Hit the Road” is an Iranian road trip film about family love, sacrifice and...
Hit the Road opens with a close-up of a young boy playing an imaginary keyboard drawn in ink on someone’s cast. As the scene continues, we see a sleeping middle-aged couple in an SUV...
“The Return of Faraz Ali” examines the legacy of British colonialism of Pakistan, the...
Ahmad’s debut novel, The Return of Faraz Ali, intricately maps the history of modern Pakistan from the 1930s to the 1970s through the story of a police officer, Faraz Ali, born in Lahore’s brothels...
In YA novel “All My Rage”, two Pakistani American teenagers find love and friendship...
Sabaa Tahir is well-known to fans of her fantasy quartet An Ember in the Ashes which has garnered many prizes and much acclaim since its publication in 2015. All My Rage is a realist...
Agam Darshi’s directorial debut of the feature film “Donkeyhead” delivers a touching, humorous and...
In the film Donkeyhead, Mona, a young Sikh woman, lives in Regina, Saskatchewan, caring for her father who is terminally ill. An aspiring writer, Mona notes that she is hailed as the “next Kiran...
“My Sweet Girl” is a haunting mystery told with a distinctively Sri Lankan interpretation...
If you are a fan of Ruth Ware, Lucy Foley, Gillian Flynn, Paula Hawkins and other such writers of psychological crime fiction, then you will enjoy Amanda Jayatissa’s debut novel My Sweet Girl. The...
Two poets and friends in Paris use the renga form to trade poems from...
Two friends, poets living in Paris and isolated by the pandemic, create a sequence of poems in which they chronicle the times—the isolation, illness, the impact on community and the world, the pleasure of...
Seven YA book recommendations featuring South Asian protagonists navigating racial, religious, class and gender...
Major publishing houses are presenting books for young readers that feature stories of American communities of color and giving many BIPOC writers a platform. This is a welcome shift in the publishing industry, and...
Rajiv Mohabir’s latest work “Antiman” explores language, ethnic identity and sexuality across memoir, translation...
Rajiv Mohabir is an Indo-Caribbean-American poet who has published several collections including Cutlish, The Cowherd’s Son and The Taxidermist’s Cut. He has translated I Even Regret Night: Holi Songs of Demerara by Lalbihari Sharma...
In an outstanding performance, Riz Ahmed plays a British Pakistani rapper diagnosed with a...
On the verge of his breakout tour, a British Pakistani rapper, Zed (who is played by Riz Ahmed, an actor and rapper), returns to his British family after two years in New York City....
A recent translation of “Blood” takes the reader across the globe in 1965 in...
Sunil Gangopadhyay (1934-2012) was an award-winning Bengali author who had penned numerous novels, poems and essays. The legendary filmmaker Satyajit Ray made two of his novels into films. Many important writers like Gangopadhyay who...
