Kari
by Amruta Patil
HarperCollins, 2008
With such a vibrant graphic tradition, it is little surprise that Indian art and literature has now produced a series of beautiful and smart
Contested Coastlines:
Fisherfolk, nations and borders in South Asia
by Charu Gupta & Mukul Sharma
Routledge India, 2008
Many have explored the dual function of seas as both bridges and
A Case of Exploding Mangoes
by Mohammed Hanif
Knopf, 2008
Mohammed Hanif's first book is not elegantly crafted, sports scant lyrical prose, nor does it play with words
The Observant Owl
by Kaliprasanna Sinha
translated by Swarup Roy
Black Kite/Permanent Black, 2007
At a time when Sanskritised Bengali was the accepted norm in literature, nakshas (sketches) broke
Sea of Poppies
by Amitav Ghosh
Penguin Books India, 2008
The year is 1838. A ship, the Ibis, arrives in Calcutta. It is the recent acquisition of Benjamin Burnham, who,
Power and Contestation:
India since 1989
by Nivedita Menon & Aditya Nigam
Orient Longman, 2008
In part inspired by how the rest of the world, the West in particular, has
The number of books and essays that have been written on the lead-up to the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing has been overwhelming, if not entirely surprising. No doubt, an
This work by anthropologist Mark Liechty, first published in 2003 in the US, sets out to provoke thought about the middle class in Kathmandu during the late 1980s and early
The upsurge of jihad among Muslims around the world has forced intellectual comparisons with 'terrorist' movements in Europe. Western scholars have found similarities between the policies of al-Qaeda
There are centres within centres and peripheries outside of peripheries. The Western press has always regarded Southasia as a periphery to be included in the news line-up, usually when another
The Japanese Wife and Other Stories
by Kunal Basu
Harper Collins, 2008
These are little stories about human beings trying to make connections across divides of all kinds. There'
Eight in the morning on a weekday: cheering erupts at scenes of Maoist cadres storming a prison. More enthusiastic applause greets the fighters as they free their friends, to the
