Friends:

• Ekere Tallie, writer
• Mary Anne Mohanraj, writer and organizer
• Word and Violin, the words and music of Pireeni Sundaralingam and Colm O’Riain
• Abeer Hoque, writing and photography
• Shabnam Nadiya’s stories Girl in the Rain and Parakrousis.
• J.D. Jahangir’s short story Finding East
• Nightingale at Large, politics and culture
• Morris the Pen, writer, musician
• Ihtisham Kabir, writing and photography. Bangladesh images and Blog

Communities:

• Desilit, supporting South Asian diaspora writers
• e-drum, mailing list with info for black writers and diverse supporters worldwide
• breath of life, a conversation about black music
• another subcontinent, forums on south asian art, film, food, literature, music
• SASIALIT, mailing list about literature of South Asia and the diaspora. (archives are here)

Blogs:

• Indian Writing, Uma from Mumbai
• Laila Lalami, writing and books
• whatchusay.com, an alternative independent blogzine
• In the Moment, Elizabeth P. Glixman’s writing
• Unheard Voices, Drishtipat blog

World literature and translation:

• no man’s land
• Three Percent
• World Literature Today
• Words Without Borders
• Literary Saloon

Bangla and Bangladesh-related resources:

• Subrata Kumar Das’s site, on Bangladeshi novels
• Drishtipat, campaigns for human rights in Bangladesh
• Drik Picture Library, images for change
• Parabaas, a webzine of Bengali language, writing, and culture
• Banglapedia, National Encyclopedia of Bangladesh
• Bangla dictionaries online