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Sukhdev Sandhu, Writer
Dr Sukhdev Sandhu was educated at Oxford and has taught
English literature at New York University. He is the
author of London Calling: How Black and Asian Writers
Imagined A City (HarperCollins, 2003). Currently chief
film critic of the Daily Telegraph, he also writes for
the London Review of Books and Modern Painters
Dr Sukhdev Sandhu
- Sukhdev Sandhu's
book has already
created something of a stir in newspaper
review columns and literary circles, which means that
those interested in Black and Asian writers connected
with London probably already know about it. It has
been both extravagantly endorsed and stringently criticized,
which suggests it has touched a nerve in some aspects
of contemporary British culture. As I am reviewing
it for an academic journal, rather than for a newspaper,
I shall be both considering the book and some of these
telling reactions in newspapers review columns.
<2> In the main, there is very much to commend
in this voluminous, expansive account of how Asian
and Black writers imaginatively reconstructed London
in their own terms as a kind of city of the mind,
whose representations have come to influence how contemporary
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Paradise Syndrome
Sukhdev Sandhu
Midnight All Day by Hanif Kureishi
Hanif Kureishi got me beaten up. Admittedly it
was by my dad. At home, as at the factory where
for more than half of his life he had been a semi-skilled
machine operator, he preferred to communicate with
his hands. Yet as his fists whacked into my face
I thought, then as now, how right he was to do what
he was doing.
He had come to England in 1965, spurred by the
promise of quick wealth and the chance to flex his
masculinity. Sikhs have traditionally been among
the most enterprising, far-travelling people in
India. At the end of the 19th century my father's
grandfather had sailed to Australia, where he worked
for twenty years. Now it was his turn to assert
his independence, to nudge at the frontiers of possibility.
Squeezed into a tiny box-room in the Hounslow house
of his elder brother........more
- London Calling
Sukhdev Sandhu
London is evolving into a different country to
the rest of Britain. Part of that is the centralisation
of financial, cultural, media and political power
within the M25. Much more of it is about migration.
The Economist believes that the unfettered flow
of the world's workers to our capital is helping
ease 100,000 Britons per year out as property becomes
too expensive.....more
- World Wide Web
Meet Pavitr Prabhakar, Marvel Comics’ latest
spin on Spider-Man.
Can a local hero ?nd his home in modern Mumbai?
By Sukhdev Sandhu
Kipling, who wrote “East is East and West
is West, and never the twain shall meet,” would
doubtless raise a bushy eyebrow at the news.........more
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