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Sukhdev Sandhu

Sukhdev Sandhu’s London Calling: How Black and Asian Writers Imagined a City was published in the summer. He writes about film for the Daily Telegraph.

From the London Review dated 9 October 2003

Come hungry, leave edgy

Brick Lane by Monica Ali

“Those who were bewildered by the teeming life in Whitechapel devised methods of finding their way around. They placed bricks along the pavements to mark their routes through the maze of alleys and back streets around Brick Lane. They created codes for identifying the buses to the West End: the No. 8 was ‘two eggs’, the No. 22 ‘two hooks’. Solidarity was crucial.” [ read more . . . ]

Selected bibliography

Night Haunts: A Journey Through Nocturnal London (2007) Buy this book
London Calling: How Black and Asian Writers Imagined a City (2004)

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Come hungry, leave edgy · 9 October 2003

Brick Lane by Monica Ali

Aliens and Others · 4 October 2001

Paradise Syndrome · 18 May 2000

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