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	Postcolonial and Postimperial Authors - http://www.postcolonialweb.org/misc/authors.html A list of well-known authors from Pakistan and the Indian Subcontinent. The main site has many useful links.
	What Is a Ghazal? - http://smriti.com/urdu/ghazal.def.html The ghazal verse-form is described, as in Urdu and some other languages.
	Water~Stone Review: Between the Rivers - http://www.waterstonereview.com/current.html The site provides leads to Alamgir Hashmi's recent literary writings and how they have inspired other artists.
	Moth Smoke - http://www.salon.com/books/review/2000/01/06/hamid/ Mohsin Hamid's first novel is reviewed here.
	Passion In Lahore - http://www.nybooks.com/articles/article-preview?article_id=13943 The New York Review of Books reviews Mohsin Hamid's novel Moth Smoke (2000)

	Dalkey Archive Press: An Interview with Zulfikar Ghose - http://www.dalkeyarchive.com/interviews/show/64 Author's discussion of his books and Western literature; also comments on life and work in general.
	Adam Zameenzad - http://www.thesusijnagency.com/authors/zameenzad.htm Novelist Zameenzad's life and books described briefly.
	Current Pakistani Fiction - http://wwwmcc.murdoch.edu.au/ReadingRoom/litserv/SPAN/33/Hashmi.html Article by Alamgir Hashmi on contemporary novels and short stories, discussed from the standpoint of theory and Pakistani history, culture, and society.
	Shaista Ikramullah - http://www.storyofpakistan.com/person.asp?perid=P078&Pg=2 This is a sketch of a woman parliamentarian who also wrote prose works in English and Urdu.
	The Reluctant Fundamentalist - http://www.villagevoice.com/books/0713,harvey,76165,10.html Review of Mohsin Hamid's second novel from the Village Voice

	Uzma Aslam Khan - http://www.thedailystar.net/2003/09/20/d30920210286.htm The newspaper reportage on the young novelist and her two novels is recent and usable.
	WritersNet: Alamgir Hashmi - http://www.writers.net/writers/11034 Reflection on literary biography and a list of titles by the author, together with criticism about each title, which has reference value. Author's email address included.
	Partition - http://www.geocities.com/kenmcm_2000/filmpages/partitionreviews.htm Tariq Ali and Ken McMullen have adapted a short story by Saadat Hasan Manto about the partition of the Subcontinent, for a 90-minute film. Intro and stills are given here.
	Uzma Aslam Khan: A Cocktail of Influences - http://arts.independent.co.uk/books/features/article109127.ece Part interview, the article shows the author's life and ideas reflected in her writing, particularly the novel "Trespassing".
	On Muhammad Iqbal - http://www.iqbalacademy-uk.org/the-poet-philosopher-iqbal/ A useful note on the poet and philosopher, Iqbal (1877-1938), at The Iqbal Academy, UK, web page.

	Poet, Scholar Hashmi in Iowa - http://www.news-releases.uiowa.edu/2004/october/101904hashmi.html This is a useful and relevant introduction to the work of the major English poet and scholar Professor Alamgir Hashmi, who suggested important principles of cultural coexistene a quarter century ago.
	Twilight in Delhi: Indian Resentment of British Rule - http://www.postcolonialweb.org/india/politics/indresent.html A socio-political take on a classic, Ahmed Ali's Twilight in Delhi (1940).
	Poetry of Ahmad Nadeem Qasmi and Saqi Farooqi - http://www.sci.edu/quiddity/issue02-1.html New leads to English translations of Urdu poems by these poets, and critical notes on them, in Quiddity: International Literary Journal.

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