The Office of Alumni Relations would like to invite you to join us for a discussion with Dr. Shailja Sharma and Dr. John Shanahan on Asian writers and literature. While earlier Indian fiction in English was associated primarily with magical realism, recent decades have seen a proliferation of genres such as the historical epic (A Suitable Boy, The God of Small Things and the Ibis trilogy), the political thrill (Association of Small Bombs, A Case of the Exploding Mangoes), the police procedural (The Prisoner, Sacred Games, Delhi Crime), political allegory (Red Birds, The Lives of Others), and chick lit (Karachi You’re Killing… Read Article →