Seeking Begumpura, the latest work by the American-born sociologist and longtime Indian citizen Gail Omvedt, marks a watershed in the battle to uncover the hearts and minds of the oppressed
Watching television on the Internet has its pluses and minuses. It can never rival a good television set, but a good television portal on the web is one situation in
Love Marriage is not in this vein. It is a precious little book, written first as an undergraduate thesis under the direction of the brilliant American writer, Jamaica Kincaid. The
The man who oversaw the drafting of the Constitution of India tried his luck again in a by-election in 1954, contesting on a Scheduled Caste Federation ticket from Bhandara, in
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
Zealous Reformers, Deadly Laws:
Battling stereotypes
by Madhu Purnima Kishwar
Sage Publications, 2008
One has come to expect the outrageous and outlandish from Madhu Kishwar, one of India's
The single, raw impulse at the origins of the 'political psychologist' Ashis Nandy's complex career has been the desire to recover indigenous systems of knowledge in
Fed on a staple diet of caper films, such as the eminently puerile Cash or equally inane variations like Dus and the Dhoom sequels, it is with great trepidation that
The Co-wife and Other Stories
by Premchand
translated and introduced by Ruth Vanita
Penguin Modern Classics, 2008
Ruth Vanita's fine translation of selected writings is a wonderful opportunity
