Asia Times (Free subscription) | 11/30/2009
Indian diplomat Vikas Swarup wrote Q and A, the novel that became the Oscar-winning global sensation Slumdog Millionaire. Asia Times Online's own moonlighting novelist caught up with Swarup at the Ubud Writers Festival. - Muhammad Cohen
Asia Times (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
If the Mohammedans won't come to the mountain, then the mountain - or at least a stone from it - can come to the Mohammedans - or their closest neighboring compatriots. The visit of a female Israeli tennis player to Bali, a resort island of Muslim-majority Indonesia, has echoes of the sports diplomacy trail famously blazed by American and Chinese ping-pong players. - Muhammad Cohen (Nov...
