NAW- When did your literary journey begin? At what age did you discover that you wanted to write? Vandana Jena- I have always been fascinated by the written word. My entire childhood was spent in living in a dream world…
Short story selected for the 2013 New Asian Writing Short Story Anthology The Collectors Conference was over at last. As the valedictory session ended, she heaved a sigh of relief. It had been difficult for her to keep her eyes…
Short story selected for the 2013 New Asian Writing Short Story Anthology Vendors flocked on the shadowed train station of Santragachi near Howrah city. There might have been an orange orchard tucked in some corner of the district as the…
I am very fair. When I was young, everyone thought, me included that I’d go into modelling. But as I grew older, my face was wrecked by pimples. Being too fair is not much of an advantage in a tropical…
NAW is now back and running again. Voicu Mihnea Simandan has graciously consented to hand over the reins. New Asian Writing is now being run by a team of editors based in India. Submissions are open and can be made…
Phoenix Music Center in collaboration with Keerapat International School is presenting the musical “B to B: Broadway to Bangkok” which will be held between October 13-14, 2012. The show will start at 6 p.m. in the Auditorium of Keerapat International…
Below you can read a fragment from Chapter 1 from Peter Montalbano’s future book, ‘The Lover with a Thousand Faces.’ September 2009/2552 Where once upon a time had stood sturdy houses on stilts, tall coconut palms, an orchard of cashews,…
Do you know a secret about dragonflies? When I was a little girl, I would sometimes run away from my math classes and go to the river banks near my school for some very serious reasons. Reason one, I hated…
Time and women – in combine if not collusion – had done him enough in life to add an extra decade to his face, gazing deep into his still eye-balls in the rearview-mirror he imagined, and slowly turned the newly-imported…
While on an off-road trek in Karen hill tribe lands on Doi Inthanon in Thailand’s northern Chiang Mai province, I came across a remarkable young poet. After five hours of traversing difficult terrain during the rainy season with my guide,…
When the boulders appear on the horizon glowing pinkly above a fringe of coconut trees, I see they’re the same as ever, still heaped into fantastic mountains as if thrown down to earth by some playful giant. I can’t take…
As I wipe the sweat off my forehead, the lift operator looks at me quizzically, and then at the temperature indicator in the lift. It reads 20 degree centigrade, making the man quip, “What Saar! Two months only in America…