Good south asian authors

hi people i was just wondering, im very into southasian literature, so i was wondering can anyone recommend amazing asian authors and/or books thanks

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Not Kaavya Viswanathan

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Ibn e Safi
Col. Mohammad Khan
Shafiq ur Rehman
Ibn e Insha
Mustansar Hussain Tarrar

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I have quite enjoyed Jhumpa Lahiri's short stories (Interpreter of Maladies) and novel (The Namesake).

And I liked God of Small Things by Roy (though I didn't like it as much when I first read it).

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Oh I liked chitra banerjee divakaruni's stories..

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^^I was trying to remember her name. Sister of My Heart is really good, and there's a sequel called Vine of Desire.

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Yeah and her short story collection, I forget the name but its pretty gud

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Oh anyone heard of Hanif Kureshi ?? my english teacher recommended him to me once..wanna knowhow his stuff is :halo:

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Vikram seth

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no way..a sequel to Sister of my heart. I love that book.

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Ashfaq Ahmed
Anwar Maqsood

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he is good one, met him once in london.

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I didn't like Arundhati Roy's the God of small things that much .

However, I do like her as a person. Pretty honest.

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Moth Smoke!!! it's one of the best books ever....I think it's by Mohsin Hameed..or Mohsin Saeed...

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^mohsin Hamid. that was an awesome book.
ahmed rashid-mostly political
vikram seth
amitav gosh
tariq ali
banerjee,c
roy, arundhati-anything by her
sidwa
desai, anita-she's alrite.
rohinton, mistry-love his works!
durrani, tehmina