Review: Londonstani, by Gautam Malkani
Many people of my age group (I’m 21, just for the record) have commented that there is very little drama or literature based on the youth cultures of Indians living in typical ‘Desi areas’ of England. It was with this in mind that I picked up Londonstani, a novel based on a group of A-level re-sit students living in Hounslow (an Asian area in West London). All of them are Punjabi, three Hindus (Ravi, Amit and Jas) and a Sikh (Harjit, who makes everyone call him ‘Hard-jit’).
June 21st, 2006 at 4:30 pm
this book is jokess mann!!.. too funnii lykk.. n any asian pplz hu reads dis dey will understand y its jus soo funii
April 15th, 2007 at 1:07 pm
The book started off a bit cheesey but i’ve gotta say that by the middle I came to the conclusion that the writer is one hell of a creative genius some of the ideas are realy original and the thing is bare entertaining. I gave my brother and sister the book to read and they both finished witin a coupla weeks and liked it a lot.