A tale about a Tibetan student in Delhi and his political growth as an exile.
A comprehensive tome on the rise and fall of empires.
Caterpillar and the Mahua Flower:
Tremors in India's mining fields
edited by Rakesh Kalshian
Panos South Asia, 2007 Mahua flowers fall to the ground in the morning, which
Tejpal´s contemporary India masquerading as fiction.
The late Jyotindra Nath ('J N') Dixit belonged to the old guard of South Block bureaucrats who could chide their political masters without appearing to be discourteous. He
Writing on the Wall: Reflections on the North-East
by Sanjoy Hazarika
Penguin, 2008
Given the rooted-sounding title of this new work, it is odd to find such a scarcity of
Next Door: Stories
by Jahanavi Barua
Penguin India, 2008
Ishwar Baral, the famous literary critic of Nepal, once wrote that a short story is a window from which the world
To those Indians especially conscious of their country's image abroad, the recent feting of Danny Boyle's Slumdog Millionaire at the Golden Globes, followed by its ten
The mass exodus of Kashmir's Hindu Pandit community was one of the most significant movements of people to take place in Southasia during the 1990s, though one that
Tony D'Souza's second novel takes its deceptively simple title from the author's name for Indian Catholics who speak Konkani, and who live on the
To study a river, one needs to think like a river – meandering, playful and capable of diversity in form. However, the bureaucrats and engineers who are assigned the task of
