Youth, citizenship and empire after 9/11
by Sunaina Maira
Duke University Press, 2009
Maira, a well-regarded scholar of youth culture and of Indian-American youth culture in particular, has written
The mauzzin calls the faithful to prayer from a minaret that vies for height with the Ghanta Ghar next door and the tower of the Narayanhiti Royal Palace a little
They will wear black bands to symbolise their suffering, and will raise placards bearing but a single question: Where are our children? As they have for years past, on 29
This is a tale of censorship. Of how a government belea guered by war with a deadly opponent, chose to muzzle its media. Of how the media took on the
Malicious Medicine: Fraud and falsehood in infertility clinics
by Anitha Jayadevan
Penguin, 2009
Science fiction through the ages has been replete with bizarre forms of human reproduction, as technology attempts
The new coalition government in Kathmandu might be made up largely of the discredited old guard, but it has an opportunity to bring the country together through effective government and