Like Myth & Mother
by Sumathy Sivamohan
Sirahununi, 2008
Like Myth & Mother is a collection of 25 poems, prose, graphics, dialogue and theatre lyrics by Sumathy Sivamohan, set in
As the first anthology on the 1971 War of Liberation to bring together voices from India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, the US and the UK, Fault Lines is much more than a
Romancing with Life:
An autobiography
by Dev Anand
Penguin/Viking, 2007
Dev Anand has always been better known for his wigs than his films, his looks than his talents, and
It would seem that an event with the United Nations logo plastered all over it should inherently try to be representative. As such, it seemed logical to assume that all
History – that mosaic of tales and fables that is generally, though not entirely, agreed upon – will always be contested and debated, often in the blood-lined bazaars of power. Indian
Partition didn´t stop in 1947. ´Internal partitions´ have increasingly become the knee-jerk approach to settling what are seen to be ethnic conflicts in the region.
Since 28 May 2008, when the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal was born, a kingdom has begun to disappear in earnest. The departure of the ex-king and queen from
The current confusion in Nepal is not unique in the context of the chaotic nation-building processes of the rest of Southasia. Yet, the country's 19th-century history
