The Value of Money
by Prabhat Patnaik
Tulika, 2008
Prabhat Patnaik's new work comes at a good time. 'Financialisation' is on the run, as the world
Khairlanji:
A strange and bitter crop
By Anand Teltumbde
Navayana, 2008
On 29 September 2006, in a modest town in eastern Maharashtra called Khairlanji, a tragedy occurred. A gang of
AIDS Sutra: Untold stories from India
edited by Negar Akhavi
Random House, 2008
Any book with an introduction from Bill and Melinda Gates, a foreword from Amartya Sen and essays
Stranger to History: A son's journey through Islamic lands by Aatish Taseer
Picador, 2009
When he was eight, Aatish Taseer sent a letter to his politician father, who
Kuano nadi, sankri, neeli, shaant/Jaane kab hogi aachitij, laal, uddhaam, Bahut gareeb hai yeh dharti/Jahan yeh behti hai.
– Sarveshwar Kuano river, thin, blue, calm/When will it spread
A tale about a Tibetan student in Delhi and his political growth as an exile.
A comprehensive tome on the rise and fall of empires.
Caterpillar and the Mahua Flower:
Tremors in India's mining fields
edited by Rakesh Kalshian
Panos South Asia, 2007 Mahua flowers fall to the ground in the morning, which
Tejpal´s contemporary India masquerading as fiction.
The late Jyotindra Nath ('J N') Dixit belonged to the old guard of South Block bureaucrats who could chide their political masters without appearing to be discourteous. He
Writing on the Wall: Reflections on the North-East
by Sanjoy Hazarika
Penguin, 2008
Given the rooted-sounding title of this new work, it is odd to find such a scarcity of
Next Door: Stories
by Jahanavi Barua
Penguin India, 2008
Ishwar Baral, the famous literary critic of Nepal, once wrote that a short story is a window from which the world
