Areeb Ahmad

2 weeks ago | wordswithoutborders.org | Areeb Ahmad |Anuradha Sarma Pujari

It is not a surprise that many of the stories in Banu Mushtaq’s Heart Lamp draw on her own experiences. In a recent interview with Anitha Pailoor, she discusses the conviction needed to critically analyze the community to which one belongs:When I started writing in the 1970s, Kannada literature depicted Muslim characters either as highly virtuous or shockingly vile. The black-and-white characters did not reflect the realities of the Muslim community. I wanted to fill the gap.

1 month ago | hindustantimes.com | Areeb Ahmad

Rakesh: When we started out, Rashmi and I were frustrated with what felt like a suffocating sameness about most of the Indian writing available in English bookstores. It seemed like everything was about delicate sad women, with mangoes and sari borders on the covers. While those books still exist, things have opened up a lot — there’s more writing in different genres, more translations, more experiments.

1 month ago | mondaq.com | Pankhuri Malhotra |Areeb Ahmad

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2 months ago | hindustantimes.com | Areeb Ahmad

When a novel opens with a man nonchalantly unzipping and urinating onto the stone floor of the small house he shares with two other men, the reader tends to sit up and take notice. The first page of Ranbir Sidhu’s Night in Delhi shares much with Anubha Yadav’s The Anger of Saintly Men (2021) in that both books offer a frank, unsentimental exploration of the lives and minds of men. It is also worth comparing Sidhu’s novel in terms of how it uses its setting with Anita Desai’s In Custody (1984).

2 months ago | htsyndication.com | Areeb Ahmad

Posted On: 2025-03-14 Posted By: Areeb Ahmad Health & Lifestyle National Politics Cities Real Estate & Construction Hindustan Times India, March 14 -- When a novel opens with a man nonchalantly unzipping and urinating onto the stone floor of the small house he shares with two other men, the reader tends to sit up and take notice.