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Bookish: SEPARATED AT BIRTH (3#) -

# On the sixtieth anniversary of independence via partition for India and Pakistan, C Max Magee puts together a little reading list to mark the occasion.

# "Why is it that, while the world fell in love with Indian novelists, Pakistani novelists failed to achieve the same high profile? And is the situation changing?" Another side of the story by Kamila Shamsie. [guard]

# Blogger Clayton Moore interviews Mohsin Hamid whose latest novel, The Reluctant Fundamentalist, is a contender for a major literary prize. Bang!

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