Contemporary Bollywood films seem to travel through borders and generations with an uncanny ease. Writings on the journey, however, are not as effortless.
Nowhere to Be Home: Narratives from Survivors of Burma's Military Regime
edited by Maggie Lemere and Zoe West
Voice of Witness/McSweeney's Books, 2011
Although personal
The cover of Snake Lake is a Photoshopped mess: Tibetan motifs, a snakeskin pattern, a golden Buddha, all against the backdrop of a pristine lake and mountains that anyone familiar
Footprints in Time:
Reminiscences of a Sindhi matriarch
by Ghulam Fatima Shaikh translated by Rasheeda Husain Oxford University Press (Pakistan), 2011
'His eyes burned with a smouldering, rich fire