Hay Festival Dhaka

  • World Literature Isn’t Foreign Food

    December 18, 2013 K. Anis Ahmed
    From left: K. Anis Ahmed, Eliot Weinberger, and Pankaj Mishra at the Hay Festival Dhaka, November 14, 2013. A foreignness defined only by place of production or setting is rath…
  • Dhaka Taxis

    A Dispatch from Dhaka

    November 18, 2013 David Shook
    Dhaka Taxis. Photo by v i p e z/Flickr I’m in Dhaka, Bangladesh, for just the second time, almost exactly one year after my first visit, but things are eerily different. The drive from Dhaka Internat…
  • K. Anis Ahmed

    Bengali Lit in Dhaka

    November 19, 2012 David Shook
    K. Anis Ahmed Last Thursday, the second annual Dhaka Hay Festival opened with a moderated dialogue between Pakistani novelist Mohammed Hanif and the most exciting new Bangladeshi talent writing in En…