Writing & Art Market Seeking Submissions

Submit Work and get Paid! DesiLit Magazine is seeking submissions for its premier issue. We are a paying magazine committed to creating a forum for exceptional contemporary writing and art focused on South Asia and the diaspora. Contributors do...

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Plagiarism allegation

Thanks to Ashima S. for sharing this link. Life for Kaavya Viswanathan, class of 2008 at Harvard must be hell right now. Just as the raging world renown for being such a gifted and well-paid budding writer was settling down,...

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Fiction Award & Poetry Contest

Thanks to barbara reyes for sharing these two. Please get in touch with the person(s) indicated and not us. You can mention EGO if you want but we do not endorse or otherwise vouch for anything written below. -Sumita Sheth...

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His Life as a Bollywood film fan

My Life as a Bollywood film fan Anil Sinanan reveals the trials and tribulations of live as a Bollywood film critic.strong> Viewing a Bollywood movie in one of London's suburban cinemas can be quite a surreal experience. Most of...

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Being Female in South Asia

A friend forwarded a link to this site and it has some telling articles. I read them and knew I had to share them. What I find the most telling is the statement "Interestingly, the two leading parties (BNP and...

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A Newbie's Guide to Bollywood

I really like Wikepedia and think any who are new to Bollywood and those who want to chuckle at things we take for granted, should visit this site. What's even more fun- if you feel something is misstated, unlike the...

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Of Gangsters and Box Office Hits

Joy Ride From a relief track in tearjerkers to the central theme in a saleable genre, comedies are ruling the box-office. Screen analyses what is it about them that has so many producers laughing all the way to the bank...

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Misc Bollywood News

A flurry of misc news below. - Sumita Sheth SRK - the best dressed star He is not called the King Khan for nothing. Apart from being the top superstar in Bollywood, Shah Rukh Khan is also considered India’s best-dressed...

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V S Naipaul

Courtesy Shehla Anjum, here is a link to a fascinating interview with V S Naipul in the Literary Review. We know this will be a lively interview when the interviewer says, "This is our second extended interview, again for the...

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