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This is a difficult book to review in that it does not adhere to any literary format. It includes poetry, but it is not an anthology. It inc...

I have two poems out in a special edition of the Portside Review , focused on what is 'Endangered'. Editor Sampurna Chattarji picked...

Many of you do not know but over the past year, I've gone back to studies. I'm in the second year of a PhD (English Studies/Creative...

What a thing it is to discover a good book decades after it has been written! I wonder why nobody told me to read Sara Suleri's Meatless...

Spanning the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the story introduces the reader to women who rejected factory and homestead and immersed th...

I've written a long, critical review of the 'C: A Novel'. A short extract and a link to the full review below: She moves to the ...

A few weeks ago, I was invited to contribute to the Hope Project by the University of York. This is a series of conversations with writers a...

It has taken thirteen years but, finally, my play 'Name, Place, Animal, Thing' got staged. The Bay Area Drama Company produced it an...

A new review of City of Incident :  "Against the impossible dimensions of this city, the 12 small lives flicker bravely under the razor...

"We are reminded that the author’s voice, shining through the telling, illuminating the prose, is what keeps the novel vital and alive....

Myth, muse, mirage, a romance and a lament -- the metropolis is a protean beast haunting the dreams of its writers. In Rahman Abbas’ Rohzin ...

A good school or college teaches students to see people for the good or harm they do rather than focus on their skin, surnames, hair or tiff...

From an interview with Mint about my new novel, City of Incident With  City Of ...  I had started with just little flashes of incidents (in...

I was interviewed by Chintan Girish Modi this week about my new book. One question in particular led me to think deeper around a topic that ...

  I was looking for a bright yellow photo to post on social media for Basant Panchami. Among my saved photos, I f ound this one. I am in a ...

I've written recently about my struggles with Facebook, its 'security' viz logins, and it restricting me from commenting on post...

Freedom is not simply a matter of being fed. The technical lack of a cage also does not define freedom. She may be trained to perform on sta...

"Short sketches are meant to be packed with detail, not a word out of place, and this is exactly the vividness that characterises this ...

Another extract from my new novel, ' City of Incident ' has been published and is free to read on shethepeople.tv. Do buy the book e...

Something odd has been happening with Facebook/Meta for me. Since I've not given FB permission to take all 'cookies', and since ...