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- Adam Zameenzad - Novelist Zameenzad's life and books described briefly.
www.thesusijnagency.com/authors/zameenzad.htm
- Alamgir Hashmi - Reflection on literary biography and a list of titles by the author, together with criticism about each title, which has reference value. Author's email address included.
www.writers.net/writers/11034
- An Interview with Zulfikar Ghose - Author's discussion of his books and Western literature; also comments on life and work in general.
www.dalkeyarchive.com/interviews/interview_ghose.html
- Cracking Sidhwa - Bapsi Sidhwa in interview about her novels and herself as a Pakistani Parsi woman and U.S. immigrant.
www.monsoonmag.com/interviews/i3inter_sidhwa.html
- Kamila Shamsie - Biographical information and news about her novel, Salt and Saffron, with other links.
www.umiacs.umd.edu/users/sawweb/sawnet/books/kamila_shamsie.html
- Lahore - How the city has been central to the development of literature and culture during the past century--and might not remain that way.
www.dawn.com/events/century/pla3.htm
- Moth Smoke - Mohsin Hamid's first novel is reviewed here.
www.salon.com/books/review/2000/01/06/hamid
- National Identity and the Novel - Writer Tariq Ali and others on a panel in Sydney (2002) discuss 'The End of the National Novel'.
www.writersfestival.uts.edu.au/panel/end_of_national_novel.html
- Pakistani English Language and Literature - A short note on Pakistani English and Pakistani English Literature today.
www.xrefer.com/entry/443261
- Partition - Tariq Ali and Ken McMullen have adapted a short story by Saadat Hasan Manto about the partition of the Subcontinent, for a 90-minute film. Intro and stills are given here.
www.geocities.com/kenmcm_2000/pagepartition.htm#partition
- Passion In Lahore - The New York Review of Books reviews Mohsin Hamid's novel Moth Smoke (2000)
www.nybooks.com/articles/article-preview?article_id=13943
- Postcolonial and Postimperial Authors - A list of well-known authors from Pakistan and the Indian Subcontinent etc. The main site has many useful links.
www.scholars.nus.edu.sg/landow/post/misc/authors.html
- Reading Rafat's "Sacrifice" - A 21st-Century reader offers online comments on Taufiq Rafat's poem. Full text of the poem included.
mb.sparknotes.com/mb.epl?b=127&m=240286&h=rafat
- Reviewing Mohsin Hamid - Moth Smoke is reviewed with the country that it is about in view.
matteela.com/review.html
- Twilight in Delhi: Indian Resentment of British Rule - A socio-political take on a classic, Ahmed Ali's Twilight in Delhi (1940).
www.scholars.nus.edu.sg/landow/post/india/politics/indresent.html
- What Is a Ghazal? - The ghazal verse-form is described, as in Urdu and some other languages.
www.cs.wisc.edu/~navin/india/songs/ghalib/ghazal.def.html
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