Third Report: 1997-2002
Committee of Concerned Citizens
Anupama Printers, Hyderabad, 2002
pp xxii+434, no recommended price
Founded in 1997 in response to the People's War Group and
In his classic work on cricket, Beyond a Boundary, the West Indian Marxist CLR James makes the point that most anecdotes about cricket are boring to the non-aficionado because they
Encyclopaedia of Sri Lanka
by CA Gunawardena
Sterling, New Delhi, 2003
pp xi+324, INR 900
ISBN 81 207 2536 0
With over 1100 entries, including more than 350 on
The Origins and Development of the Tablighi-Jama'at (1920-2000): A cross-country comparative study
By Yoginder Sikand
Orient Longman, Hyderabad, 2002
pp xii+310, INR 595
ISBN 81 250 2298
Nobodies to Somebodies: The Rise of the Colonial Bourgeoisie in Sri Lanka
By Kumari Jayawardena
Zed Books, London and New Delhi, 2002
pp xxx+412, INR 650
ISBN 1 84277
The Wish Maker
by Ali Sethi
Hamish Hamilton, 2009
This is a sophisticated print version of the ubiquitous generational television family drama all too common across Southasia. Told from the
A recent short-film contest in Kathmandu, featuring films of three minutes or less on the subject of climate change, put up by the British and organised by Himal Association, saw
States often use their power of definition as a tool of political control. For the legatees of the British Empire in New Delhi, the territory beyond the Siliguri corridor (or
A slender thread connects these two very different books: they both concern the story of a Malayali nun who leaves the convent of her own accord. Amen, however, is an
In the opening pages of The Prayer Room, George and Viji Armitage are flying to England after their impulsive wedding in Madras. The stoic, callous Brit and the free-thinking, resilient
William B Milam served as the US ambassador to Bangladesh from 1990 to 1993, during the first period of civilian rule after the rule of General H M Ershad. He
Soil ours, water ours, ours are these forests; our forefathers raised them, it's we who must protect them. This old Chipko song, translated from Garhwali, drives home the
