Saying "land to the tiller" is gender-insensitive. "Land to those who work on it" is not.
Review of AIDWA Booklets
At a time when academics, non-governmental
A Hussain who does not bother about an audience is not the Hussain we know. And, for sure, Gaja Gamini is a bomb
Review of Gaja Gamini
A brick wall
Kuano nadi, satilcri, need, shaantljaane kab hogi aachitij, laal, uddhaam, Bahut gareeb hai yeh dharti/Jahan yeh behti hai.
– Sarveshwar
Kuano river, thin, blue, calm/Whets will it spread to
The first response while reading Pinky Virani's Bitter Chocolate is: revolting!
Bitter Chocolate by Pinky Virani Penguin Books, 2000 245p INR 295
But then truth seldom is palatable.
Dragonfire by Humphrey Hawksley, Macmillan, London, 2000
Styled as India's Nostradamus, the BBC recently showcased Vimal Singh predicting a Confederation of India and Pakistan by the year 2015.
A Decade of Confrontation: Sri Lanka and India in the 1980s by John Gooneratne Stamford Lake Publication Sri Lanka, 2000
Sri Lanka's side of the story on the
The Chittagong Hill Tracts: Living in a Borderland by Willem van Schendel, Wolfgang Mey Aditya Kumar Dewan White Lotus Press, Bangkok, 2000 ISBN: 974-8434-98-2
A pictorial narrative of an unexplained
One day in June, the Toronto Globe and Mail carried a news photograph showing a man, naked to the waist, surrounded by police officers. The man´s hands are handcuffed
Far from the madding crowd, the technology and the intellectual ferment of urban life, in a lonely flag-cabin of a far-flung and idyllic Bengal village, live two men who endlessly
A jargon-conquering guide for those who want to understand why South Asia went nuclear, and why it should not have.
(South Asia on a Short Fuse: Nuclear Politics and the
Caravan a film by Eric Valli Cinemascop, 104min
In these days of cinematic Himalayan hype it is natural to be sceptical about yet another celluloid offering on the ´exotic´ Shangri
There are no universals in the problems and solutions of the mountain situation, says a compelling book on Himachal Pradesh.
Two decades ago the renowned Indologist, Agehananda Bharati, wrote an
