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Shah Muhammad Rais was devastated when Taliban destroyed his shop, but now he is sending books to Afghanistan via the internetShah Muhammad Rais first opened his bookshop in the Afghan capital in 1974. By 2003, when his story was made famous by the bes…
Read MoreEpic new TV adaptation of the 1975 novel reignites interest in the exploits of the Kent sailor William AdamsOn a backstreet in the Nihonbashi district of Tokyo, between a seafood wholesaler and a jewellery shop, stands a simple monument. It marks the f…
Read MoreEarly editions of the book of quotations will be sold at an auction of Cultural Revolution artefactsThe Little Red Book, a talisman of 20th-century Maoism, may have fallen out of favour in China after the Cultural Revolution, but its popularity with co…
Read MoreThe Internationalists details how the president was determined to leave a country in which 2,324 US troops were killed since 2001Joe Biden is “privately defiant” that he made the right calls on the US withdrawal from Afghanistan in summer 2021, a new b…
Read MoreWest should address ‘colonisation of the present’ and not focus on past, argues David Van ReybrouckCities in the global north that curb their carbon emissions are doing more to address colonial injustices than those who focus their efforts on taking do…
Read MoreAkshat Rathi argues that around the world economies are switching to clean technology as prices dropThe root of the climate crisis is “not capitalism but the corruption of capitalism”, according to the author of a new book on how people, policy and tec…
Read MoreRelocated to north India in 1964, the comic-book class struggle here comes complete with romance and brilliant choreographyOne could be cynical and see this transposition of the Riverdale narrative universe into an Indian setting as just another exerci…
Read More16 October 1953: An account of the Austrian climber’s escape from a British prison in India, crossing the Himalayas to Tibet and becoming a tutor to the Dalai LamaSeven Years in Tibet, By Heinrich Harrer. Hart-Davis. Pp 222, 16s. Tibet and the Tibetans…
Read MoreTop official sanctions case against Booker prize-winning novelist for comments about Kashmir The Booker prize-winning Indian novelist Arundhati Roy could be prosecuted for a 2010 speech about Kashmir after a top official signed off on the move, accordi…
Read MoreThe academic’s discursive, wonderfully enjoyable account of South Asia’s journey from a British colony to three independent nations is a classicThe sudden rise of India over the past few years has taken many western observers by surprise. The Indian ec…
Read MoreFounded by two translators – one American, one British – the Salt initiative will provide mentorships, funding and a south Asia-focused literary translation schoolA new project to help bring the “extraordinarily rich” literature of south Asia to Englis…
Read MoreRooney is among a number of successful western authors who have found a growing audience in China’s restless younger generationWhen the manuscript of Sally Rooney’s Conversations with Friends first arrived in Peng Lun’s inbox, he hesitated. It was 2017…
Read MoreSix people accused of publishing book relating to 2019 protests in move critics say has spread terrorPolice in Hong Kong have raided a lunar new year shopping fair and arrested six people for selling a “seditious” book related to the 2019 anti-governme…
Read MoreCol Tim Collins says ‘we don’t do notches on rifle butt’ and kill-count talk could increase Harry’s personal security riskHigh-profile British veterans have criticised the Duke of Sussex’s claim he had killed 25 Taliban soldiers while serving with the …
Read MoreDisney merchandise shows frowning bear looking at blank sheet of paper – a symbol of opposition to censorshipYears after he became character non grata in China, Winnie the Pooh is exacting quiet revenge against the country’s government in the form of D…
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