Karachiites love the sea. On days when the blazing sun scorches the land, they flock to the beaches to relish the cool waves; when the fiery sun is hidden behind
Contested Coastlines:
Fisherfolk, nations and borders in South Asia
by Charu Gupta & Mukul Sharma
Routledge India, 2008
Many have explored the dual function of seas as both bridges and
A Case of Exploding Mangoes
by Mohammed Hanif
Knopf, 2008
Mohammed Hanif's first book is not elegantly crafted, sports scant lyrical prose, nor does it play with words
The Observant Owl
by Kaliprasanna Sinha
translated by Swarup Roy
Black Kite/Permanent Black, 2007
At a time when Sanskritised Bengali was the accepted norm in literature, nakshas (sketches) broke
Sea of Poppies
by Amitav Ghosh
Penguin Books India, 2008
The year is 1838. A ship, the Ibis, arrives in Calcutta. It is the recent acquisition of Benjamin Burnham, who,
Power and Contestation:
India since 1989
by Nivedita Menon & Aditya Nigam
Orient Longman, 2008
In part inspired by how the rest of the world, the West in particular, has
The number of books and essays that have been written on the lead-up to the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing has been overwhelming, if not entirely surprising. No doubt, an
This work by anthropologist Mark Liechty, first published in 2003 in the US, sets out to provoke thought about the middle class in Kathmandu during the late 1980s and early
On 1 September, I visited Paschim Kusaha, where the Kosi Breach occurred on 18 August. In my 30 years of working on water-related issues, I have not witnessed a sight
Whatever the thinking behind the old Kosi and Gandak agreements between Nepal and India (1954 and 1959), they have left a legacy of resentment and mistrust in Nepal which has
