Date: 22 – 25 October 2009
Location: Madison, Wisconsin (USA)
The Annual Conference on South Asia attracts over 500 scholars and other interested parties annually, who travel from a dozen countries
Women for Afghan Women
edited by Sunita Mehta
Palgrave MacMillan, New York, 2002
pp xiii+236, USD 13.95
ISBN 1 4039 6017 8
Edited by NRI feminist Sunita Mehta,
Mughal magical realism
For a continental sub-unit boasting myriad traditional art forms, contemporary South Asia could do more to produce works of art that explore modern social and political issues
The Oxford India Companion to Sociology and Social Anthropology (2 volumes)
Edited by Veena Das
OUP, New Delhi, 2003
pp xvi, viii+1660, INR 3750
ISBN 0 19564582 0
In
Courting Tel Aviv
Ariel Sharon, the embattled, pugnacious prime minister of Israel, is reportedly weighing a state visit to India, perhaps as early as June. If the visit happens, it
Third Report: 1997-2002
Committee of Concerned Citizens
Anupama Printers, Hyderabad, 2002
pp xxii+434, no recommended price
Founded in 1997 in response to the People's War Group and
Free talk in Lanka
In 2002, a year of considerable importance in the recent history of Sri Lanka, the government in Colombo matched progress on the peace front by setting
In his classic work on cricket, Beyond a Boundary, the West Indian Marxist CLR James makes the point that most anecdotes about cricket are boring to the non-aficionado because they
Virtual sovereignty
Amidst news of renewed fighting among real-life combatants, the struggle for Afghanistan's virtual sovereignty has been quietly concluded. In late February, in a concrete government office
Encyclopaedia of Sri Lanka
by CA Gunawardena
Sterling, New Delhi, 2003
pp xi+324, INR 900
ISBN 81 207 2536 0
With over 1100 entries, including more than 350 on
