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Author Daniyal Mueenuddin: In Other Rooms, Other Wonders

The Asia Society and W. W. Norton

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Moshin Hamid - Moshin Hamid grew up in Lahore, Pakistan, and attended Princeton and Harvard. His first novel, Moth Smoke, was a Betty Trask Award winner, PEN/ Hemingway Award finalist, and New York Times Notable Book of the Year. His writing has also appeared in Time, The New York Times, and other publications. He lives in London.

Daniyal Mueenuddin - Daniyal Mueenuddin was brought up in Lahore, Pakistan and Elroy, Wisconsin. A graduate of Dartmouth College and Yale Law School, his stories have appeared in The New Yorker, Granta, Zoetrope, and The Best American Short Stories 2008, selected by Salman Rushdie. For a number of years he practiced law in New York. He now lives on a farm in Pakistan's southern Punjab.

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01.: Reading Excerpt from "About A Burning Girl"

03 min 44 sec

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02.: From Farming to Writing

02 min 15 sec

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03.: Writing About Lahore

04 min 04 sec

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04.: 'Internally Displaced' Writers

02 min 08 sec

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05.: Importance of Education in Writing

04 min 51 sec

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06.: Greatest Influences

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07.: Diversity of Characters

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08.: On Mango Farming / Smuggling

02 min 51 sec

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09.: Business as a Way of Learning Character / Business and Empathy

01 min 48 sec

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10.: Censorship and Writing in Pakistan

06 min 13 sec

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11.: Role of the Writer in Pakistan

03 min 24 sec

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12.: Political Consciousness of "The Reluctant Fundamentalist"

03 min 57 sec

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13.: Duality of Love and Violence in Work

02 min 46 sec

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14.: Compassion for the Characters

03 min 12 sec

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15.: Conservative Political Trend in Pakistan

02 min 51 sec

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16.: Inequality of Law

01 min 36 sec

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17.: Works in Progress

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18.: Q

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19.: Q1: Writing in English

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20.: Q2: Going Back to Pakistan

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21.: Q3: Not Having a Home

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22.: Q4: State of the Feudal Class

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23.: Q5: "Moth Smoke" TV Adaptation

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24.: Q6: Economic Factors

02 min 59 sec

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25.: Q7: Does Pakistan Have a Merging National Identity

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Pakistani Authors Reflect on Censorship in Pakistan

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Daniyal Mueenuddin: A Tale of Two Pakistans

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Partners:: Asia Society,; W. W. Norton
Location:: Asia Society
New York, NY
Event Date:: 02.23.09
Speakers:: Moshin Hamid,; Daniyal Mueenuddin

Summary: In Other Rooms, Other Wonders is Daniyal Mueenuddin's brilliant short story collection based on his childhood on a farm in Pakistan.

When Dartmouth-educated Mueenuddin answered his father's call to save their family farm in Pakistan, he embarked on a journey to share the stories of landowners, servants, and peasants as they struggle with the shift from their feudal world to a modern era.

Join Daniyal Mueenuddin and Mohsin Hamid for a fascinating discussion on the many worlds within Pakistan and their writing.