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Soaring Diabetes Rates in the South Asian Community

Dr Wasim Hanif | Posted 21.01.2013 | UK Lifestyle
Dr Wasim Hanif

As a diabetologist working in one of Britain's biggest cities I see hundreds of new patients every year. If trends continue, by 2025 five million Britons will have diabetes. That's 400 new patients every day and a disproportionate number will be people of South Asian origin.

War in Peace: Tahmima Anam's 'The Good Muslim'

Nauman Khalid | Posted 08.07.2012 | Home
Nauman Khalid

Contemporary literature has witnessed many a vaunted wunderkind succumb to the dreaded second-novel syndrome. British-Bangladeshi Monica Ali's Brick Lane caused quite a flutter in literary London but was followed by a damp squib.

Shehan Karunatilaka's Chinaman: A Sri Lankan Odyssey

Nauman Khalid | Posted 11.05.2012 | Home
Nauman Khalid

Serendipity looms large in Shehan Karunatilaka's Chinaman: The Legend of Pradeep Mathew so it is perhaps somewhat curious that towards the end of my r...

Mohammed Hanif's 'Our Lady of Alice Bhatti' - Modern Pakistani Literature Continues to Shine

Nauman Khalid | Posted 19.12.2011 | UK Entertainment
Nauman Khalid

Mohammed Hanif's 2008 debut, "A Case of Exploding Mangoes", was an impressive feat of imaginative and literary skill. It justly propelled Mohammad Han...