Bina Shah is a noted Karachi-based author and journalist. (Part 1.) In the response to the question about the choice of male protagonists in your novels, you noted, “This is going to change in my next novel, in which the protagonist is a young girl. But she comes from a

Bina Shah, a Wellesley and Harvard alumna, is a noted Karachi based author, journalist, editor, and blogger. She has published two novels and two collections of short stories. Her first collection of short stories, Animal Medicine, was published by Oxford University Press in 1999. The collection was followed by a

Bapsi Sidhwa is the author of Cracking India and The Crow Eaters. She currently lives in Houston, Texas. What does your name Bapsi mean? Who gave you the name? My grandmother doted on the British. She gave me what she thought was an English name. Ironically, an English woman asked