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,
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-
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
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
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
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,
