Essays & Reviews

ESSAYS: Memory’s Savour

The link between my mother’s memories and my own (The Indian Quarterly (IQ) / January 2015) Eggs.Not just any eggs, but telor balado. A dish of hardboiled eggs served in chilli paste. Served with chicken satay and peanut sauce, a pork dish we called babi kong, a salad of fresh greens and perhaps cucumbers and onions in a sweetish vinegar relish. But always the eggs. That’s how I remember lunch at home, when I was growing up Read more…


ESSAYS: The Road to Mai Jio Ji

A trip back to my family’s village in Punjab (Man’s World India / February 2002 / [Pdf , 395 KB])[embeddoc url=”http://avtarsingh.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/MW_Punjab-1.pdf” height=”400px” download=”all”]


REVIEWS: In Other Rooms, Other Wonders

About the collection of short stories by Pakistani author Daniyal Mueenuddin (Biblio: A Review of Books / February 2009 / [Pdf , 59.3 KB]) [embeddoc url=”http://avtarsingh.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/Biblio_Review_Daniyal_Mueenuddin.pdf” height=”400px” download=”all”]


REVIEWS: Sea of Poppies

The first book in the Ibis Trilogy by Amitav Ghosh (Time Out Delhi / June 2008 / [Pdf , 992 KB]) [embeddoc url=”http://avtarsingh.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/TOD_Aatish_story_Apr_2009-1.pdf” height=”400px” download=”all”]


REVIEWS: Stranger to History

About Aatish Taseer (Time Out Delhi / April 2009 / [Pdf , 690 KB]) [embeddoc url=”http://avtarsingh.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/TOD_Aatish_story_Apr_2009.pdf” height=”400px” download=”all”]


REVIEWS: The Queen’s Necklace

A review of Murzban Shroff’s Breathless in Bombay (Biblio: A Review of Books / March 2008 / [Pdf , 56.8 KB]) [embeddoc url=”http://avtarsingh.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/Biblio_Review_Breathless_in_Bombay-_Avtar_Singh.pdf” height=”400px” download=”all”]


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