Reading List
Ahmede Hussain
Writer, Journalist and Editor
Ahmede Hussain is a Bangladeshi writer, journalist and editor. He was literary editor of The Daily Star in Dhaka until 2015 and is the founding editor of the news portal The Deltagram.
He edited The New Anthem: The Subcontinent in its Own Words (2009), an anthology of fiction from across the Indian subcontinent. As a journalist he writes on South Asian politics and strategic affairs.
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Seasonal Adjustments
by Adib Khan
“Seasonal Adjustments was well received among literary circles, and although it’s quite critical of Bangladesh in many ways, there wasn’t a public backlash. I must say, though, that I was less of a fan of two his later novels, Spiral Road and Magic Seeds, which deal with the threat of terrorism in Bangladesh. I simply didn’t find either realistic, and I thought that he overplayed that threat.” — via Interview, May 2012
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English, August
by Upamanyu Chatterjee
“This is one of the first books I read in English that was written by an Indian. What amazed me at the time was the sarcasm within it, which is very strong. The novel is about a young trainee civil servant called Agastya Sen who is posted to Madna, in India’s hinterland. Agastya had grown up in the cosmopolitan city of Delhi and he finds it very difficult to cope with his new environment.” — via Interview, May 2012
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The Glass Palace
by Amitav Ghosh
“What I really liked about this novel is the way it describes an individual’s place in history. It’s not so much that Ghosh makes a judgement on whether we are agents or victims of history, but he explores the different ways in which individuals react to particular incidents, and how some manage to overcome adversity. The Glass Palace follows the life of the last Burmese king and his family.” — via Interview, May 2012
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The Reluctant Fundamentalist
by Mohsin Hamid
“During interviews, Hamid has refused to expand on his novel any further. In a way, I think that’s good. He leaves the issues surrounding the concept of “reluctant fundamentalism” as an open-ended debate, and it’s a debate that demands a certain type of polemic.” — via Interview, May 2012
