A Pocket Full of Stories single work   short story  
Issue Details: First known date: 1999... 1999 A Pocket Full of Stories
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    y separately published work icon Waiting in Space : An Anthology of Australian Writing Paula Abood (editor), Barry Gamba (editor), Michelle Kotevski (editor), Annandale : Pluto Press , 1999 Z253038 1999 anthology short story poetry extract drama Annandale : Pluto Press , 1999 pg. 90-94
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    y separately published work icon Of Sadhus and Spinners : Australian Encounters with India Bruce Bennett (editor), S. K. Sareen (editor), Susan Cowan (editor), Asha Kanwar (editor), Noida Pymble : HarperCollins Australia , 2009 Z1615496 2009 anthology short story prose extract 'Despite a shared history of British imperialism, and commonalities like the English language, a democratic polity and a craze for cricket, Australians and Indians know very little about each other of sadhus and spinners attempts to correct this with a range of stories that trace the chequered history of interactions between the two nations from John Langs The Mohammedan mother (1859) to Yasmine Gooneratnes masterpiece (2002), the stories in this anthology bring to the fore a variety of literary responses to Indo-Australian encounters there are stories here of Australian visitors to India and stories about and by Indians-immigrants or temporary visitors-in Australia thoughtful, exploratory and often just wide-eyed in its observation of strange new worlds, the anthology provides insights into an array of fascinating cross-cultural encounters.' (Publication summary) Noida Pymble : HarperCollins Australia , 2009 pg. 187-191
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'Another World, Another Future' : Narratives of South Asian Diaspora in Australia Amit Sarwal , 2013 single work criticism
— Appears in: Bridging Imaginations : South Asian Diaspora in Australia 2013; (p. 257-281)
y separately published work icon Re-mapping Caste and Class Consciousness : Short Narratives of South Asian Diaspora in Australia Amit Sarwal , Burwood : Deakin University , 2013 24470706 2013 single work criticism
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