Naga Identities:
Changing local cultures in the Northeast of India
by Michael Oppitz, et al
Snoeck, 2008
In 1939, an exhibition at the Museum für Völkerkunde in Vienna showcased the
Behind the Curtain:
Making music in Mumbai's film studios
by Gregory D Booth
Oxford University Press, 2009
If the high technology that governed the making of A R
Terror in Punjab: Narratives, knowledge and truth
by Ram Narayan Kumar
Shipra, 2008
Himal Southasian mourns the death of friend and colleague Ram Narayan Kumar on Sunday, 28 June 2009.
Cast Out:
Poems of anger and angst
by Basudev Sunani
translated by J P Das
Rupantara, 2009
Modern Oriya verse is said to have begun in the 15th century, when
A Taste of Life: The last days of U.G. Krishnamurti
by Mahesh Bhatt
Penguin, 2009
Few deaths are worth writing much about; the actual event is generally utilised by
Paari Padukalam (The Death of Paari)
written and directed by Pralayan, 2008
Against a backdrop of increased marginalisation of minorities the world over under the banner of the US-led '
Why I Supported the Emergency:
Essays and profiles by Khushwant Singh
compiled and edited by Sheela Reddy
Penguin/Viking, 2009
This compilation is Khushwant Singh at his iconoclastic best. Irreverent,
China and India, accounting for 37.5 percent of the world's population, have today become major determinants of the direction of world affairs. With consistent economic growth rates
Travelogues from colonial and pre-colonial times inevitably have great value as source material for historians. Unfortunately, very few such publications exist on Tibet. The first mention of the 'forbidden
Britain's Gurkha War: The invasion of Nepal, 1814-16
by John Pemble
Frontline Books, 2008
Thucydides begins his monumental History of the Peloponnesian War by saying that whatever the
