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
Lunatic in My Head
by Anjum Hasan
Zubaan/Penguin, 2007
Anjum Hasan's Shillong is a poetic portrayal of the quintessential outsiderness that characterises most small towns in the
Globalisation and Development
by Sunanda Sen
National Book Trust, 2007
"The United States completely rejects," the US representative to the Asia Development Bank imperiously stated in 1985, "
Rambo
directed by Sylvester Stallone
Millennium Films, 2008
"I think there is a story that needs to be told," Sylvester Stallone recently said of his latest movie. But
The Elephant, the Tiger,and the Cell Phone:
Reflections on India, the emerging 21st-century power
by Shashi Tharoor
Arcade, 2007
Tharoor, a lifelong UN man whose bid to be
