The first epigraph to Amitava Kumar's Home Products is as good an introduction to the book as any: "An intelligent man cannot turn himself into anything, only
Despite the hype over the US-led 'war on terror', overwhelming global concern continues to be centred on poverty. The persistence of poverty in large parts of the world
History is a slaughterhouse
– G W F Hegel
But for the suppression of Communist International documents from the post-Lenin years, the subsequent series of splits and divisions among the world&
The English-language poet Jayanta Mahapatra did not begin writing poetry until rather late in life, around the age of 40. At that time, English-language poetry in India read very haltingly
Selections from New Left Review:
I: The Global Stage
II: Powers
III: Front Lines
IV: Other Worlds
edited by Susan Watkins
Seagull Books, 2006
Since its inception in 1960, the
Inhaling the Mahatma
by Christopher Kremmer
Fourth Estate, 2006
There must be something about the Subcontinent that turns the most well-intentioned reportage into 'intensely personal stories'. An examination
A controversial cover of The Economist last year asked, with not much self-reflexive irony, "Who killed thenewspaper?" The suggestion of death seems, in hindsight, grossly exaggerated. Asia Media
In 1981, the cinema theatre near my home in Calcutta became a mehfil-e-mushaira. At the end of each show, majnoohs walked out of the darkness humming tunes and reciting ghazals.
Globalisation is such a fascinating and powerful idea that it never fails to evoke a strong reaction, either supporting it with a missionary zeal or opposing it with the passion
