Mandalay Day 4

Day of sightseeing.  Golden Monastries, Royal palaces, watch towers and the greatest of all treats on this visit. The Kuthoda ‘Book’ Pagoda. What a place!  With 729 little white temples in acres of land- housing life sizes pages from the Buddhist Holy Book inscripted...

Beijing Bookworm 2012

Interview with Qaisra ..   This week in Beijing, we caught up with prize-winning and critically acclaimed novelist and scriptwriter Qaisra Shahraz at her talk moderated by Asian Literary Review editor Kathleen Hwang. Born in Pakistan, she has lived in the UK...