States often use their power of definition as a tool of political control. For the legatees of the British Empire in New Delhi, the territory beyond the Siliguri corridor (or
A slender thread connects these two very different books: they both concern the story of a Malayali nun who leaves the convent of her own accord. Amen, however, is an
In the opening pages of The Prayer Room, George and Viji Armitage are flying to England after their impulsive wedding in Madras. The stoic, callous Brit and the free-thinking, resilient
William B Milam served as the US ambassador to Bangladesh from 1990 to 1993, during the first period of civilian rule after the rule of General H M Ershad. He
Soil ours, water ours, ours are these forests; our forefathers raised them, it's we who must protect them. This old Chipko song, translated from Garhwali, drives home the
Between Democracy & Nation:
Gender and militarisation in Kashmir
by Seema Kazi
Women Unlimited, 2009
To date, each and every one of the political initiatives undertaken to resolve the Kashmir
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
Twenty years of the most infamous literary fatwa.
Every year, all over the world, in the pages of thousands of books, hundreds of thousands of newspaper pages, magazines and journals
Women in Indian Film, 1-10
edited by Nasreen Munni Kabir
Zubaan Books, 2009
In the past, publications on women and Hindi cinema have become, more often than not, treatises on
Twilight
by Azhar Abidi
Penguin/Viking, 2009
In Other Rooms, Other Wonders
by Daniyal Mueenuddin
Random House, 2009
Burnt Shadows
by Kamila Shamsie
Bloomsbury, 2009
The Story of a Widow
Shadow War:
The untold story of jihad in Kashmir
by Arif Jamal
Melville House Publishing, 2009
The Limits of Influence:
America's role in Kashmir
by Howard B Schaffer
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
