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In
Search of an Inca
(Buscando
un Inca)
By Luis
Nieto
(Peru)
(English
Version)
(Spanish
Version)
"You are yachay, cold,
pure intellect. I am a munay; I live for love."
Bangles
A
Review
By Dana
De Zoysa
(Sri Lanka)
Muslim thinking can be visualized
as a single, vast, flat sheet of equality and unity basedon the principles
of umma (the brotherhood of believers) and tawhid (unity
with God).
Family
Affairs
By
Alpa Sheth
(India)
Suddenly she felt old. The years of
the affair had kept her excited like a schoolgirl, breathlessly anticipating
the embrace that would welcome her on reaching Amit’s apartment every morning.
VS
Naipaul: A Life in Full
By Raymond
Ramcharitar
(Trinidad
& Tobago)
The feminists, the post-colonialists,
the Afrocentrists, the Islamicists, the entire sub-continent of India,
most of the Caribbean...all have formed an extraordinary consensus in their
hatred of him.
Easter
in Naples
By
Sheila Wright
(Canada)
He
is afraid of Mamma and cries when we bring him close to her, her pain and
suffering palpable to him. The tastes, the sounds, the smells, all are
foreign. At night he clings to me for comfort.
Señor
Peebles
By Christopher
A. Williams
(Jamaica)
There were times though--before the
madness--where I’d find myself gazing at Señor Peebles with an elusive
kind of wide-eyed suspicion-slash-interest. Damn weird, I would think,
what a damn weird bird.
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