Sumitra Singam — Excerpt: Dear Sir (there’s no way you’re a Madam), I write to express my extreme discontentment with your product.
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Enit’ayanfe Ayosojumi Akinsanya — Excerpt: The salt cup fell from my hand. Tope Alabi flew away from my mouth. I almost burnt my eggs.
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Wani Nazir — Excerpt: Choudhary doesn’t write about real life in the usual way; his world is strange and frenetic. The holy and the vile walk hand in hand. Sometimes a prayer turns into a protest. Sen has a hard job expressing that tilt, when faith turns into irony.
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Shayista Jahan — Excerpt: Mushtaq has a sharp eye for women’s issues and portrays them honestly, without embellishment or complication. They are both contextual and universal in different ways. “The personal is political” is the overarching theme that the stories inevitably try to impart.
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Wani Nazir — Excerpt: The main character, Maya, is not shown as a static person, but as a fluid being—a figure who is always being written, rewritten, and redefined. She is the postmodern subject, lost in a world of lies and shallow things.
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