Safdar Hashmi is also a symbol of resistance against authoritarianism. Hashmi was born on 12 April 1954 and died on 2 January 1989. He was a playwright, director, actor, lyricist, theorist, activist, and journalist (he worked for India’s premier news…
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Johannes Anyuru: The Poet and Novelist on Inspiration and Migration
Johannes Anyuru stresses the importance of his mother’s ‘lovely and kind voice’ and how her readings to him of bedtime stories and rhymes influenced his writing life. Johannes Anyuru is a Swedish citizen of a Swedish mother and Ugandan father….
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