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,
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,
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
Between Democracy & Nation:
Gender and militarisation in Kashmir
by Seema Kazi
Women Unlimited, 2009
To date, each and every one of the political initiatives undertaken to resolve the Kashmir
Youth, citizenship and empire after 9/11
by Sunaina Maira
Duke University Press, 2009
Maira, a well-regarded scholar of youth culture and of Indian-American youth culture in particular,
Twenty years of the most infamous literary fatwa.
Every year, all over the world, in the pages of thousands of books, hundreds of thousands of newspaper pages, magazines and journals
Women in Indian Film, 1-10
edited by Nasreen Munni Kabir
Zubaan Books, 2009
In the past, publications on women and Hindi cinema have become, more often than not, treatises
