Twenty years of the most infamous literary fatwa.
Every year, all over the world, in the pages of thousands of books, hundreds of thousands of newspaper pages, magazines and journals
Twilight
by Azhar Abidi
Penguin/Viking, 2009
In Other Rooms, Other Wonders
by Daniyal Mueenuddin
Random House, 2009
Burnt Shadows
by Kamila Shamsie
Bloomsbury, 2009
The Story of a Widow
Apsara is an old Bombay cinema that has recently been converted into a multiplex. Garage-sized lifts bring us up to the fourth floor for Vishal Bhardwaj's new film
For a city known for its flashy sensationalism, Bombay’s everyday stories seem to get regularly swept away. Luckily, some of these are being caught by documentary filmmakers.
The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai Viking/Penguin
Kiran Desai's second novel is set in the Darjeeling hills. It opens in Cho Oyu, a beautiful, crumbling house
