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| Asia House Festival of Asian Literature: 15th - 30th May 2012 | |
 The
Asia House Festival of Asian Literature has announced the full programme
for 2012. This year's festival, 15th - 30th May, will explore themes
of power and change across Asia - culturally, economically, politically
and socially - and the festival will welcome a number of authors including
Roshi Fernando, Daljit Nagra, Nikita Lalwani (pictured left)
& Hardeep Singh Kohli. 
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| New Literary Prize for Black & Asian Women | |
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Leeds Literary Prize is a new prize for unpublished fiction by Black
and Asian women resident in the UK aged 18 years and over, supported
by patrons including author Bidisha and journalist Yasmin Alibhai-Brown.
The prize has been created and is being run by Soroptimist International
of Leeds, in partnership with two highly regarded literary organisations,
the Ilkley Literature Festival and independent publishers Peepal Tree
Press.
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| Asian writers recognised in University of Leicester online gallery | |
 The
newly-launched Grassroutes Writers' Gallery, edited by the School
of English at the University of Leicester, features 50 novelists,
poets and playwrights based in Leicestershire in order to bring the
region's best transcultural writing to public attention. Featured
writers include Bali Rai (pictured left), a Leicester-based
author of cutting-edge teen fiction.
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| The Kashmir Shawl by Rosie Thomas, Out 1st March 2012 | |
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| Narcopolis By Jeet Thayil, Out 2nd February 2012 | |
 'Narcopolis'
by Jeet Thayil is a rich and hallucinatory novel, set around a Bombay
opium den, that follows a fascinating cast of flawed characters as
the city transforms itself over three decades. With a cast of pimps,
pushers, poets, gangsters and eunuchs, it is a journey into a sprawling
underworld written in electric and utterly original prose.
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| Shehan Karunatilaka wins DSC Prize for South Asian Literature 2012 | |
 The
$50,000 DSC Prize for South Asian Literature 2012 was awarded to Singapore
based Sri Lankan author Shehan Karunatilaka for his book Chinaman,
a novel that explores cricket as a metaphor to uncover a lost life
and a lost history. Chinaman skilfully uses sport and the notion of
fair play to look at Sri Lanka in a fresh and exciting way.
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| Man of a Thousand Chances by Tulsi Badrinath, Out 19th January 2012 | |
 'Man
of a Thousand Chances' by Tulsi Badrinath is a very readable, fast-paced
story about an ordinary middle-class man who takes an extreme step
just to pay for his daughter's wedding. It plays the very simple,
recognizable world of Harihar Arora, with joint family politics and
financial worries, against the beautiful, sophisticated world of classical
Indian art and philosophy.
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| Bombay Baby by Leela Soma, Out 30th November 2011 | |
 Tina
is torn between her Scottish parents and her Indian roots. In the
months leading to her eighteenth birthday she decides to find that
missing piece of her life. Tina embarks on a journey, that will change
her life forever, to India to find the woman she might otherwise have
called mum. She meets an alluring American, Andrew and falls in love.
But is all what it seems?
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| Sonia Gandhi: An Extraordinary Life, An Indian Destiny, Out 13th Oct | |
 Sonia
Gandhi's story represents the greatest transformational journey made
by any world leader in the last four decades. Circumstance and tragedy,
rather than ambition, paved her path to power. Born into a traditional,
middle-class Italian family, Sonia met and fell in love with Rajiv
Gandhi, son of future Indian prime minister Indira Gandhi, while studying
English in Cambridge.
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| Revolution 2020 by Chetan Bhagat, Out 11th October 2011 | |
 Once
upon a time, in small-town India, there lived two intelligent boys.
One wanted to use his intelligence to make money. One wanted to use
his intelligence to create a revolution. The problem was, they both
loved the same girl. Welcome to Revolution 2020. A story about childhood
friends who struggle to find success and love in Varanasi. However,
it isn't easy to achieve this in an unfair society.
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| An Indian Portia: Selected Writings of Cornelia Sorabji (1866 - 1954) | |
 Cornelia
Sorabji was a social reformer, an author and the first woman to practise
law in India and Britain. By the time poor sight ended her work in
India she had helped many hundreds of wives, widows and orphans. Her
writings provide a priceless and fascinating documentation of one
of India's most outstanding women in the nineteenth and twentieth
century India and Britain.
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| Asian journalist launches 'Geek Nation', an insight into Indian Science | |
Asian science journalist Angela Saini today launched her book 'Geek
Nation', a unique insight into Indian Science. Fittingly, the launch
was held at the Royal Academy of Engineering in London. Saini, explained
how she first got the idea for the book, "My dad worked as a
chemical engineer in India in the 1960s, just before India launched
its first satellite and just after Nehru had created his new universities.
My dad is a geek. I am a geek."
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| Geek Nation: How Indian Science is Taking Over the World, Out 3rd March | |
 India:
it's a nation of geeks, swots and nerds. Almost one in five of all
medical and dental staff in the UK is of Indian origin, and one in
six employed scientists with science or engineering doctorates in
the US is Asian. By the turn of the millennium, there were even claims
that a third of all engineers in Silicon Valley were of Indian origin,
with Indians running 750 of its tech companies.
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| EDITOR'S HOT PICKS: BOOKS THAT WOULD MAKE GREAT FILMS | |
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was recently asked to list books, by South Asian Authors, which I
thought would make great films. In typical fashion, this request has
now become the subject of the latest article on 'Editor's Hot Picks'.
I present you this list of 'Books that would make Great Films' as
my personal favourites only. I have not chosen every great book that
I have enjoyed, merely the ones that I believe can translate in cinematic
success.
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| REDHOTCURRY.COM GUIDE TO THE BEST JEWELLERY BOOKS | |
 Overview
of the some of the hottest books on diamonds, gems, precious stones
and the jewellery of Asia including 'Jewelry of South East Asia' by
Ann Richter, 'Treasury of the World: Jewelled Arts of India in the
Age of the Mughals' by Manuel Keene, 'Christie's Guide to Jewellery'
by Sarah Hue Williams and 'Great Diamonds of India' by Monisha Bhardwaj.
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| REDHOTCURRY.COM GUIDE TO THE BEST MEHNDI BOOKS | |
 A
comprehensive review of some of the most useful and practical Mehndi
books available, ideal for novices and advanced artists alike. This
review features: 'The Art of Mehndi' by Sumita Batra, 'Mehndi - The
Timeless Art of Henna Painting' by Loretta Roome, 'Mehndi - Body Painting
Kit' by Zaynab Mira, 'Henna Body Art' by Mark Smith, 'Mehndi' by Carine
Fabius and 'Henna Body Painting' Sabine Kuhne.
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BOLLYWOOD
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our overview of some of the hottest Bollywood Books, ranging from
the Encyclopaedia of Indian Cinema by Ashish Rajadhyaksha, Bollyood
- The Indian Cinema Story by Nasreen Munni Kabir, Bollywood Cinema
by Vijay Mishra, Bollywood Pocket Essentials by Ashok Banker to Bollywood
Boy by Justine Hardy and Balham to Bollywood by Chris England.
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