'Freedom of Expression' was the theme of this year's late September book-fair in Gothenburg on Sweden's west coast, but it might as well have been Islam.

BY Anjum Hasan 24 October 2006

The Gothenburg book-fair in Sweden, one of the biggest in Europe, celebrated its 20th anniversary in the last week of September with a focus on British literature. Anjum Hasan shares her impressions.

BY Anjum Hasan 21 October 2004

The passing away of Kaifi Azmi represents the slow disappearance of a liberal humanism that was able to achieve a straightforward, passionate, unassailable manifestation in poetry.

BY Anjum Hasan 12 May 2002

The third-prize-winning entry -- a reflection on what Shillong's famed and unfussy love for western music implies for the city's self-perception ...

BY Anjum Hasan 11 February 2002