Borders and Boundaries: Women in India's Partition
by Ritu Menon & Kamla Bhasin
Borders and Boundaries: Women in India's Partition is a timely book for all
The Other Side of Silence
by Urvashi Butalia
Viking, New Delhi, 1998
Dayawanti/Ayesha could easily be a character out of a Gabriel Garcia Marquez novel. So could her son
A Dragonfly in the Sun: An Anthology of Pakistani Writing in English
Selected and edited by Muneeza Shomsie
Oxford University Press, Karachi, 1997
hardback xxxi + 599 pages
Leveling Crowds: Ethnonationalist Conflicts and Collective Violence in South Asia
by Stanley J. Tambiah
Vistaar Publications, New Delhi, 1996
The how and why of mob violence in India, Pakistan and
This documentary on the principal character responsible for the creation of Pakistan, Muhammad Ali Jinnah, was obviously made with an eye on the golden jubilee celebrations of the independence of
Some other major deficiencies apart, the main problem with the film appears to be in the flawed approach to the subject. It deals neither with the life of the Quaid nor with his work; both are touched upon only episodically in the course of defend ing the Quaids character and politics.
