Ever present high wind
Sweeps the fog in Blocking all that is dear to the eyes.
There is a lull, the air rests.
The fog remains.
–Gujarati poet Sitanshu Yashchandra
Slumming India: A Chronicle of Slums and Their Saviours
by Gita Dewan Verma
Penguin Books India, 2002, New Delhi, paperback, pp xxiv + 183, INR 200;
ISBN 0-14-302875-8
"What are
A Corner of a Foreign Field: The Indian History of a British Sport
by Ramachandra Guha
Picador, New Delhi, 2002
INR 495, pp xvt+496
The imbalance of rights, ethnic claims and histories of dispossession.
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