Culture Manish Chauhan: a holiday on Valentia Island was the first time he felt he 'stood out' Manish Chauhan wrote that when he was 24, in the autumn after he graduated, he went to Valentia Island, Ireland, and for the first time felt he "stood out" as a person of colour. He said a friend who had won an award for her dissertation used the
Culture Belgrave Road: immigrant life and fragile love in Leicester Manish Chauhan's debut novel Belgrave Road is a coming-of-age love story set in Leicester that sketches the lived realities of immigrants in Britain and considers love as "home, hope and destiny." Newly arrived in England after an arranged marriage to British-Indian Rajiv, Mira finds herself out
