Biblio: A Review of Books. Issues for 2000

Biblio: A Review of Books. Issues of 2000

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VOL. V NO. 1 / 2	40 PAGES	JANUARY- FEBRUARY 2000
3	The Romantics by Panka Mishra	Rukinini Bhaya Nair
7	A New World by Amit Chaudhuri	Sagarika Ghose
8	Karl Marx by Francis Wheen	Tabish Khair
9	Raymond Williams: Literature, Marxism and Cultural Materialism by John Higgins	Shelley Walia
11	The Oxford Book of Work edited by Keith Thomas	Arvind N. Das
12	Down and Out: Labouring under Global Capitalism by Jan Breman and Arvind N. Das. Photographs by Ravi Agarwal. An extract	Jan Breman
15	On the road again. An essay	Hein Streefkerk
16	The World of Indian Industrial Labour edited by J. M. Parry, Jan Breman and K. Kapadia	Sanjukta Ray
17	Child Labour in India by Lakshmidhar Mishra	Vinay Ranjan
19	Traditional Industry in the Economy of Colonial India by Tirthankar Ray	Nandini Chatterjee
20	An American in Khadi: The Definitive Biograpby of Satyanand Stokes by Asha Sharma	Baldev S. Chauhan
21	From Myths to Markets: Essays on Gender edited by Kumkum Sangari and Uma Chakravarti	Jayati Ghosh
22	Institutions, Relations and Outcomes edited by Naila Kabeer and Ramya	Subrahmanian Manoshi Mitra
25	Off the Beaten Track: Rethinking Gender Justice for Women by Madhu Kishwar	Manisha Sethi
26	Broken Bangles by Hanifa Deen	Purabi Panwar
27	Father India by Jeffrey Paine	David L. Gosling
28	Adorno, Culture and Feminism edited by Maggie O'Neil	Shiv Kumar Srinivasan
29	BJP and the Evolution of Hindu Nationalism by Partha S. Ghosh	Bharat Wariavwalla
30	Living with Modernity by Javeed Alam	Susmita Dasgupta
32	Indian Politics and the 1998 Elections. Regionalism, Hindutva and State Politics edited by Ramashray Ray and Paul Wallace	Mahesh Rangarajan
33	Carving Blocs: Communal Ideology in Early Twentieth-Century Bengal by Pradip Kumar Datta	Sumanta Banerjee
35	Pathway to India's Partition: Volume 1, The Foundations of Muslim Nationalism by Bimal Prasad	Md. Raisur Rahman
36	Punishment and the Prison: Indian and International Perspectives edited by Ram Dhavan Shankardas and Governmentality: Power and Rule in Modern Society by Mitchell Dean	K. S. Subramanian
38	No Aging in India: Modernity, Senility and the Family by Lawrence Cohen	Roma Chatterjee
COVER PHOTOGRAPH by PRASHANT PANJIAR: A Coal-miner Returns Home After a Night-shift, Jharia, Bihar, 1999.
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C 0 N T R I B U T 0 R S

SUMANTA BANERJEE is a writer. His latest book is Dangerous Outcasts: The Prostitute in Nineteenth Century Bengal.

RUKMINI BHAYA NAIR is Professor of Linguistics and English at the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi. Her latest book is The Ayodhya Cantos (1999).

JAN BREMAN is Professor of Sociology at the Centre of Asian Studies, Amsterdam School of Social Sciences Research, University of Amsterdam. His recent publications include The Village in Java and the Colonial State (1996) and Down and Out: Labouring Under Global Capitalism (2000).

NANDINI CHATTERJEE is a research scholar in History doing an M.PHIL. at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.

ROMA CHATTERJEE teaches at the Department of Sociology, University of Delhi.

BALDEV S. CHAUHAN is Correspondent with The Statesman based in Shimla.

SUSMITA DASGUPTA is a socio-economist presently working with the Economic Research Unit, Ministry of Steel, Government of India, New Delhi.

SAGARIKA GHOSE is Senior Special Correspondent with Outlook, New Delhi.

JAYATI GHOSH is Associate Professor at the Centre for Economic Studies & Planning, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.

DAVID L. GOSLING taught Physics at the University of Delhi and is currently at the University of Cambridge at Clare Hall.

TABISH KHAIR is Associate Professor at the Department of English, University of Copenhagen.

MANOSHI MITRA is a gender specialist with the Asian Development Bank, Manila.

PURABI PANWAR la an academic and critic based in New Delhi.

MD. RAISUR RAHMAN is doing an M.PHIL. in Modern Indian History at the Centre for Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.

VINAY RANJAN is a filmmaker and presently is the Director, Media Cell, Deshkal Society.

MAHESH RANGARAJAN is an independent researcher and political analyst.

SANJUKTA RAY is doing a Ph.D. in Economics at Jawaharlal University, New Delhi.

MANISHA SETHI is a Ph.D student at the Centre for the Study of Social Systems, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.

SHIVA KUMAR SRINIVASAN teaches at the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi.

HEIN STREEFKERK is an anthropologist and Reader at the Faculty of Sociology and Anthropology, University of Amsterdam.

K. S. SUBRAMANIAN is a retired officer of the Indian Police Service.

SHELLEY WALIA is Associate Professor of English at Panjab University, Chandigarh.

BHARAT WARIAVWALLA is a research scholar based in New Delhi.

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VOL. V NOS. 3 & 4	40 PAGES	MARCH APRIL 2000
4	The Waffle of the Toffs: A Sociocultural Critique of Indian Writing in English by M. Prabha, Collected Plays by Mahesh Dattani, The Politics of English: A Marxist View of Language by Marme Holborow	Alice Albinia & Tristram Stuart
6	Scoop-wallah: Life on a Delhi Daily by Justine Hardy	Arvind N. Das
8	White Teeth by Zadie Smith	Shuddhabrata Sengupta
9	Hindoo Holiday by J. R. Ackerley, India: A Mosaic edited by Robert B. Silvers and Barbara Epstein	Amitava Kumar
11	When Albion's Sons Went Native. An Essay	William Dalrymple
13	The Jadu House: Intimate Histories of Anglo-India by Laura Roychowdhury	Alice Albinia
14	Letters Between a Father and Son by V S. Naipaul	Shiv Kumar Srinivasan
16	Between History and Literature by Lionel Grossman	Shelley Walia
17	My Century by Gunter Grass	Giulio Schiavoni
18	Too Many Men by Lily Brett	Manjula Padmanabhan
19	The Mandala of Sherlock Holmes by Jamyang Norbu	Kanika Datta
20	Reconnaissance by Kapka Kassabova	Indrajit Hazra
21	The Better Man by Anita Nair	Ranjana Sengupta
22	Small Remedies by Shashi Deshpande	Ira Pande
23	Redemption Song: Muhammad Ali and the Spirit of the Sixties by Mike Marqusee	Achin Vanaik
24	The Case for Violence on Television by Jib Fowles	Shailaja Bajpai
25	Despatches from Kargil by Srinjoy Chowdhury	Kunal Verma
27	The Way Ahead: After 'Mao's India War' by C. V Ranganathan and Vinod C. Khanna	A. K. Damodaran
28	On the Abyss: Pakistan After the Coup. An Extract	Pamela Constable
31	Fifty Years of Pakistan's Economy: Traditional Topics and Contemporary Concerns edited by Shahrukh Rafi Khan	G. K. Lieten
32	Ganesh Pyne: Revelations by Geeti Sen	Malabika Bhattacharya
34	Beyond Secularism: The Rights of Religious Minorities by Neera Chandhoke	Madhavan K. Palat
35	Justice and Judgement by Alessandro Ferrara, Development as Freedom by Amartya Sen	Rakesh Batabyal
36	Politics of the Possible: Essays on Gender, History, Narratives, Colonial English by Kumkum Sangari	Geeta Arya
37	Necessary and Unnecessary Utopias edited by Leo Panitch and Colin Leys	Peter Waterman
COVER PAINTING: 'The Magician' by Ganesh Pyne, tempera on canvas, 1991, from the book Ganesh Pyne: Revelations by Geeti Sen and published by Biresh Paul, 14 Gurusaday Road, Calcutta - 700 019 Back to the top

Contributors

GEETA ARYA teaches History at Zakir Husain College, Delhi University.

SHAILAJA BAJPAI is a media critic with the Indian Express, New Delhi.

RAKESH BATABYAL is a researcher in history and ethics. He is currently working on the resources of responsibility in contemporary India.

MALABIKA BHATTACHARYA Malabika Bhattacharya teaches Spanish at the School of Foreign Languages, Government of India, and writes on Hispanic Literature.

PAMELA CONSTABLE is the South Asia Bureau Chief for the Washington Post.

WILLIAM DALRYMPLE is the author of City of Djinns and At the Court of the Fish-eyed Goddess. He is currently working on The White Moghuls, a book detailing the life and times of James Achilles Kirkpatrick, which will be published by HarperCollins next year.

A. K. DAMODARAN was a member of the Indian Foreign Service. He held several important assignments in Bonn, Moscow, Beijing and Rome where he was Ambassador. He was also Head of the Policy Planning Division of the Ministry of External Affairs.

KANIKA DATTA is Associate Editor at Business Standard, New Delhi.

INDRAJIT HAZRA is a journalist at The Hindustan Times, New Delhi.

AMITAVA KUMAR is the author of Passport Photos, to be published in May from the University of California Press.

G. K. LIETEN teaches at the Amsterdam School of Social Science Research, University of Amsterdam.

MANJULA PADMANABHAN is a writer and artist living in New Delhi.

MADHAVAN K. PALAT is Professor at the Centre for Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.

IRA PANDE is Senior Editor at Dorling Kindersley, New Delhi.

GIULIO SCHIAVONI teaches German Language and Literature at the University of Vercelli, Italy.

RANJANA SENGUPTA has worked as a journalist and is presently writing a biography of Delhi.

SHUDDHABRATA SENGUPTA is a documentary film-maker with the Raqs Collective and a freelance writer based in New Delhi.

SHIV KUMAR SRINIVASAN teaches at the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi.

TRISTRAM STUART is a freelance writer based in New Delhi.

ACHIN VANAIK recently co-authored South Asia on a Short Fuse: Nuclear Politics and the Future of Global Disarmament.

KUNAL VERMA is a film-maker specialising in wildlife and national security issues.

SHELLEY WALIA is Associate Professor of English at Panjab University, Chandigarh.

PETER WATERMAN is author of Globalisation, Social Movements and the New Internationalisms (Cassell, London, 1998) and co-editor of Labour Worldwide in the Era of Globalisation: Alternative Union Models in the New World Order (Macmillan, London, 1999).

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C O N T E N T S
VOL. V NOS. 5 & 6	40 PAGES	MAY JUNE 2000
4	Hitler's Priestess: Savitri Devi, The Hindu-Aryan Myth, and Neo-Nazism by Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke	Shiva Kumar Srinivasan
6	Psychoanalysis and Anti-Semitism edited by Mauro Bertani and Michele Ranchetti	Feruceio Giacanelli
7	Advent of the Aryans in India by Ram Sharan Sharma and The Vedic People: Their History and Geography by Rajesh Kocchar	K.M. Shrimali
9	Working a Democratic Constitution: The Indian Experience by Granville Austin	Neeraja Jayal
11	Going Glocal is no fun. An Essay.	Sham Lal
12	India's Newspaper Revolution: Capitalism, Politics and the Indian-Language Press 1977-99 by Robin Jeffrey	Arvind N. Das
14	Tibet, India and China: Critical Choices, Uncertain Future by Rajesh Kadian	Prem Shankar Jha
15	Weapons of Peace by Raj Chengappa	Kunal Verma
17	Waziristan: The Faqir of Ipi and the Indian Army, The North West Frontier Revolt by Alan Warren	Kaushik Roy
18	Green Politics: Global Environmental Negotiations edited by Anil Agarwal, Sunita Narain and Anju Sharma	Darryl D'Monte
19	Environmentalism: A Global History by Ramachandra Guha and Hot Topics by S.A. Abbasi, P Krishnakumari and F. I. Khan	Tristram Stuart
21	The Flipside of Production by Ercole Son, Managing Waste by Guido Viale and The ZERI Project by Gunter Pauli	Anna Segre
22	The Politics of Civil Society Building: European Private Aid Agencies and Democratic Transitions in Central America by Kees Biekart	Peter Waterman
23	Architecture and Art of the Deccan Sultanates by George Michell and Mark Zebrowski	William Dalrymple
25	The Making of Indo-Persian Culture-Indian and French Studies edited by Muzaffar Alain, EN. Delvoye and Marc Gaborieau	Seema Alavi
26	Khajuraho: The First Thousand Years by Shobita Punja	Aparna Vaidik
28	Sakuntala by Romila Thapar	Vasudha Dalmia
30	The Silken Swing: The Cultural Universe of Dalit Women edited by Fernando Franco, Jyotsna Macwan and Suguna Ramanathan	Meenakshi Nath
31	The Indigenous Cosmopolitan. An Essay	Tabish Khair
33	An Obedient Father by Akhil Sharma	Nilanjana S. Roy
34	Prisoner in a Red-Rose Chain by Jeffrey Moore and The Legend of the Rockhills and Other Stories by Funso Aiyejina	Alice Albinia
35	Moth Smoke by Mohsin Hamid	Indrajit Hazra
36	Homes in Emptiness: Anthology of Bangla Stories compiled by Sumanta Banerjee and Rani Ray and Falling Apart by Suchitra Bhattacharya and translated by Rani Ray	Purabi Panwar
37	Classical Hindu Thought: An Introduction by Arvind Sharma	Shobita Punja
38	Oh Terrifying Mother: Sexuality, Violence and Worship of the Goddess Kali by Sarah Caldwell	Nilima M. Chitgopekar
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Contributors

SEEMA ALAVI is Associate Professor of History at Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi.

NILIMA M. CHITOPEKAR is Reader in History at Jesus and Mary College, New Delhi, and author of Encountering Sivaism: The Deity, The Milieu, The Entourage.

VASUDHA DALMIA is Professor of Hindi and South-Asian Studies at the University of California, Berkeley.

WILLIAM DALRYMPLE is the author of City of Djinns andAt the Court of the Fish-Eyed Goddess. He is currently working on The White Moghuls, a book detailing the life and times of James Achilles Kirkpatrick, which will be published by HarperCollins Publishers next year.

DARRYL D'MONTE is an environmental journalist who has been working on a book on Mumbai's mill lands.

FERUCCIO GIACANELLI is a psychiatrist who has edited the Italian editions of the works of Dietrich D�rner, Ludwig Binswanger, and Luc Gompi.

INDRAJIT HAZRA is a journalist at The Hindustan Times, New Delhi.

NEERAJA JAYAL teaches politics at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.

TABISH KHAIR is Associate Professor, Department of English, University of Copenhagen. He has published several books of Poetry, the latest being Where Parallel Lines Meet (Penguin Books India, 2000).

MEENAKSHI NATH is a management graduate who belongs to a pro-Dalit rights group.

PURABI PANWAR is an academic and critic.

SHOBITA PUNJA is an art historian who has been involved in initiating several conservation projects for the preservation of India's artistic heritage.

KAUSHIK ROY has just submitted his Ph.D thesis entitled The Colonial Indian Army: Recruitment and Command Mechanism, 1859-1913, at the Centre for Historical Studies, Jawaharlal University, New Delhi.

NILANJANA S. ROY is the Books Page Editor for Outlook and a Delhi-based freelance writer on arts and books.

PREM SHANKAR JHA is a columnist based in New Delhi. He is the author of several books including Kashmir: 1947: Rival Versions of History.

ANNA SEGRE teaches Geography and Economics at the University of Torino.

K. M. SHRIMALI is Professor of History at Delhi University.

SHIV KUMAR SRINIVASAN teaches at the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi.

TRISTRAM STUART is a freelance writer based in New Delhi.

APARNA VAIDIK is a research scholar working on the history of the Andaman Islands at the Centre for Historical Studies, Jawaharlal University, New Delhi.

KUNAL VERMA is a film-maker specialising in wildlife and national security issues.

PETER WATERMAN is author of Globalisation, Social Movements and the New Internationalisms (Cassell, London, 1998) and co-editor of Labour Worldwide in the Era of Globalisation: Alternative Union Models in the New World Order (Macmillan, London, 1999).

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C O N T E N T S
VOL. V NOS. 7 & 8	40 PAGES	JULY AUGUST 2000
4	The Glass Palace by Amitav Ghosh	Rukmini Bhaya Nair
6	History, Agency and Mukul Kesavan. An Essay	Tabish Khair
8	Reading and Writing: A Personal Account by V S. Naipaul and Stet by Diana Athill	Shiva Kumar Srinivasan
10	Anil's Ghost by Michael Ondaatje	Anita Roy
11	Bodily Harm by Margaret Atwood	Manjula Padmanabhan
12	Lost White Tribes: Journeys Among the Forgotten by Riccardo Orizio	Andrew Whitehead
13	The Global Soul: Jet Lag, Shopping Malls and The Search for Home by Pico Iyer and India: Another Millenium? edited by Romila Thapar	Alice Albinia
15	Transforming India: Social and Political Dynamics of Democracy edited by Francine R. Frankel, Zoya Hansen, Rajeev Bhargava, and Balveer Arora	Pran Chopra
17	Indira Gandhi, the 'Emergency' and Indian Democracy by P N. Dhar	Ira Pande
19	Interrogating Caste: Understanding Hierarchy and Difference in Indian Society by Dipankar Gupta	Chandra Bhan Prasad
21	G.M. Syed: An Analysis of his Political Perpsective by M.S. Korejo	K.R. Malkani
22	Murder at Peshawar by Cheryl Benard and The Blue Direction and Other Stories by Aamer Hussein	Shuddhabrata Sengupta
23	Hindi--Language, Discourse, Writing edited by Ashok Vajpei	Gillian Wright
24	Bisrampur ka Sant by Srilal Shukla	Avinash Kumar
26	Colonialism, Class and a History of the Calcutta Jute Millhands 1880-1930 by Parimal Ghosh	Nandini Chatterjee
27	The Fracture Zone: A Return to the Balkans by Simon Winchester and Kosovo: War and Revenge by Tim Judah	Tristram Stuart
29	Military Sociology: Global Perspectives edited by Leena Parmar	Kaushik Roy
30	I, Rigoberto Menchu: An Indian Woman in Guatemala by Rigoberta Menchu	Shelley Walia
31	The Ambivalence of the Sacred: Religion, Violence and Reconciliation by R. Scott Appleby	Harish Khare
32	Confronting Colonialism: Resistance and Modernization under Haidar Al� and Tipu Sultan edited by Irfan Habib	Seema Alavi
33	Ancient Delhi by Upinder Singh	Aparna Vaidik
34	Delhi--The Built Heritage: A Listing by INTACH Delhi Chapter	William Dalrymple
36	Rich media, poor public. An Essay.	Praful Bidwai
37	Remembering Arvind Narayan Das	Dileep Padgaonkar, Chandan Mitra, Rukmini Bhaya Nair, Walter Hauser.
COVER PHOTOGRAPH : 'Marxism in the Expanded Field' by Vivan Sundaram, 1999, 20 x90 cm

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C 0 N T R I B U T 0 R S

SEEMA ALAVI is Associate Professor of History at Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi.

CHANDRA BHAN PRASAD is associated with the Dr. Ambedkar National Institute of Social Sciences, Madhya Pradesh as a Visiting Faculty.

RUKMINI BHAYA NAIR is Professor of Linguistics and English at the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi. Her latest book is The Ayodhya Cantos (1999).

PRAFUL BIDWAI is a columnist with more than 25 publications. He is former Senior-Editor of The Times of India and has recently co-authored South Asia on A Short Fuse (Oxford University Press, 1999).

NANDINI CHATTERJEE is an MPhil Research Scholar at the Centre for Historical Studies, Jawarharlal Nehru University.

PRAN CHOPRA is former Chief Editor of The Statesman and Visiting Professor at the Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi.

WILLIAM DALRYMPLE is the author of City of Djinns and At the Court of the FishEyed Goddess. He is currently working on The White Moghuls, which will be published by Harper Collins Publishers next year.

AVINASH KUMAR is affiliated in the doctoral programme at the Centre for Historical Studies, Jawarharlal University, New Delhi.

TABISH KHAIR is Associate Professor, Department of English, University of Copenhagen. He has published several books of poetry, the latest being Where Parallel Lines Meet (2000).

HARISH KHARE is an Associate Editor of The Hindu.

K.R. MALKANI is the Chief Editor of BJP Today.

MANJULA PADMANABHAN is a writer and artist living in New Delhi.

IRA PANDE is Senior Editor at Dorling Kindersely, New Delhi.

KAUSHIK ROY has just submitted his Ph.D thesis entitled "The Colonial Indian Army: Recruitment and Command Mechanism, 1859-1913", at the Centre for Historical Studies, Jawarharlal University, New Delhi.

SHUDDHABRATA SENGUPTA is a documentary film-maker with the Raqs Collective and a freelance writer based in New Delhi.

SHIV KUMAR SRINIVASAN teaches at the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi.

TRISTRAM STUART is a freelance writer based in New Delhi.

APARNA VAIDIK is a Research Scholar working on the history of the Andaman Islands at the Centre for Historical Studies, Jawarharlal University, New Delhi.

SHELLEY WALIA is Associate Professor of English at Panjab University, Chandigarh.

ANDREW WHITEHEAD presents The World Today on BBC World Service radio.

GILLIAN WRIGHT is a translator and author based in New Delhi.

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VOL. V NOS. 9 & 10	40 PAGES	SEPTEMBER - OCTOBER 2000
4	Chronicles of Our Time by Andre Beteille and Institutions and Inequalities: Essays in Honour of Andre Beteille edited by Ramachandra Guha and Jonathan Parry	Amita Baviskar
5	The Third World in the Age of Globalisation: Requiem or New Agenda? by Ash Narain Roy	Peter Sinai
6	Beyond Autonomy: Roots of India's Foreign Policy by A.K. Damodaran	J.N. Dixit
7	Perpsectives on National Security in South Asia: In Search of a New Paradigm edited by P R. Chan	Kanti Bajpai
8	Dragon Fire by Humphrey Hawksley	John Elliott & Shekhar Gupta
10	Electoral Politics in South Asia edited by Subho Basu and Suranjan Das	Prannoy Roy
11	Food Policy and the Indian State: The Public Distribution System in South Asia by Jos Mooij	Stuart Corbridge & Alpa Shah
12	Weakening Welfare: The Public Distribution of Food in India by Madhura Swaminathan	Alok Sinha
14	British Rule on Indian Soil: North India in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century by Michael Mann and State, Society and Ecology: Gorakhpur in Transition 1750-1830 by Meena Bhargava	N.C. Saxena
16	Kasturba: a Life by Arun Gandhi	Sagarika Ghose
17	Dalai Lama, My Son -- A Mother's Story	Baldev S. Chauhan
18	Against All Odds by Kishore Shantabai Kale	Radhika Jha
19	Feminism and Islamic Fundamentalism: The Limits of Postmodern Analysis by Haideh Moghissi and The Emergence of Feminism Among Indian Muslim Women 1920-1947 by Azra Asghar All	Seema Kazi
21	Getting There by Manjula Padmanabhan	Mukul Kesavan
22	Surviving Women by Jerry Pinto	Vatsala Kaul
23	Love in a Dead Language by Lee Siegel	Nilanjana S. Roy
24	Bitter Chocolate: Child Sexual Abuse in India by Pinki Viram	Alice Albinia
25	Lewis Carroll: A Portrait with Background by Donald Thomas	Rumina Sethi
26	Harry Potter and the Freudian Romance. An Essay	Shiva Kumar Srinivasan
27	Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling	Ralph Mathers
28	Australia, The New New World: Granta 70/The Magazine of New Writing edited by Ian Jack	Shuddhabrata Sengupta
30	Floating Lives: The Media and the Asian Diasporas-Negotiating Cultural Identity through Media edited by Stuart Cunningham and John Sinclair	Abhijit Roy
32	The Essential Mystery: Major Filmmakers of Indian Art Cinema by John W Hood	Uma Mahadevan-Dasgupta
33	All You Want is Money, All You Need is Love: Sex and Romance in Modern India by Rachel Dwyer	Ranjana Sengupta
35	The Absence Trilogy by Mrinal Sen	Shohini Ghosh
36	Goya, The Last Carnival by Victor I. Stoichita and Anna Maria Coderich and Goya by Lorenzo Mochi Onori	Chiara Gauna & Maria B. Failla
37	Seagull Books Catalogue 1999 designed by Naveen Kishore and edited by Anjum Katyal	Shuddhabrata Sengupta
COVER: A still from Buddhadeb Dasgupta's film 'Bagh Bahadur', 1989

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C O N T R I B U T O R S

KANTI BAJPAI teaches at the School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi and is presently a Visiting Fellow at the Joan B. Kroc Institute of International Peace Studies, University of Notre Dame.

AMITA BAVISKAR teaches Sociology at the University of Delhi.

BALDEV S. CHAUHAN is a Shimla-based journalist and critic.

STUART CORBRIDGE teaches Geography and International Studies at the Universities of Cambridge (UK) and Miami (US).

JOHN ELLIOTT is a former journalist with the Financial Times whose postings have included New Delhi and Hong Kong. He now writes from New Delhi for Fortune magazine, the New Statesman, and other publications.

J.N. DIXIT is former Foreign Secretary and former member of the National Security Advisory Board of India.

MARIA BEATRICE FAILLA is a Ph.D student in History of Art at the University of Genoa, Italy.

CHIARA GAUNA is a Ph.D student in History of Art at the University of Torino, Italy.

SAGARIKA GHOSE is Senior Special Correspondent for Outlook and author of the novel The Gin Drinkers.

SHOHINI GHOSH is a Reader at AJK Mass Communication Research Centre, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi.

SHEKHAR GUPTA is the Editor of the Indian Express.

RADHIKA JHA is a dancer and the author of the novel Smell.

VATSALA KAUL is the Editor of Teens Today and a woman who has survived men trying to survive women who have survived men.

SEEMA KAZI is a freelance researcher who has worked on human rights with special reference to Muslim women for the past ten years.

MUKUL KESAVAN teaches history at Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, and is the author of the novel Looking Through Glass.

UMA MAHADEVAN-DASGUPTA is a civil servant based in Mumbai.

RALPH MATHERS is thirteen years old.

ABHIJIT ROY is a lecturer at the Department of Film Studies, Jadavpur University, Calcutta.

NILANJANA S. ROY is the Books Page Editor of Outlook and a Delhi-based freelance writer on arts and books.

PRANNOY ROY is President of New Delhi Television.

N.C. SAXENA is a member of the Administrative Service and is the Secretary of the Planning Commission, Government of India.

RANJANA SENGUPTA has worked as a journalist and is presently writing a biography of Delhi.

SHUDDHABRATA SENGUPTA is a documentary film-maker with the Raqs Collective and a freelance writer based in New Delhi.

RUMINA SETHI is a Reader at the Department of English, Panjab University, Chandigarh. She is the author of Myths of the Nation.

ALPA SHAH is a Ph.D student in Social Anthropology and Political Science at the London School of Economics.

PETER SINAI is a former Ambassador of India.

ALOK SINHA belongs to the Indian Administrative Service and has spent six years directly and five years indirectly in Food Security Administration.

SHIV KUMAR SRINIVASAN teaches at the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi.

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VOL. V NOS. 11 & 11	40 PAGES	NOVEMBER - DECEMBER 2000
4	Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism by V I. Lenin	Dipankar Bhattacharya
6	Net Nomad on a Rough Route. A despatch from Cyberspace	Shuddhabrata Sengupta
8	Politics as Usual: The Cyberspace Revolution by Michael Margolis and David Resnick	Nikesh Sinha
9	The Matrix written and directed by Andy & Larry Wachowski	Tabish Khair
10	Archimedes in the Archives. The Computerisation of Scholarship	Tristram Stuart
11	Towards a Theory of Cultural Linguistics by Gary B. Palmer, Linguistics Inside Out: Roy Harris and his Critics-Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 148 edited by George Wolf and Nigel Love, Human Cognition: A Multidisciplinary Perspective edited by Indramam Singh and Raja Parasuraman, The Mathematical Brain by Brian Butterworth and How Children Learn the Meanings of Words by Paul Bloom	Rukmini Bhaya Nair
16	Measures of Home by Leela Gandhi, Augatora by Sujata Bhatt, Leaving Yuba City: New and Selected Poems by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, A Tapestry of Steps by Rabindra K. Swain, Painting the House by Padhi, Selected Poems by Hoshang Merchant, Night River by Keki N. Daruwalla and In Cinnamon Shade: New & Selected Poems Dom Moraes	Sudeep Sen
18	The Girls on the Wall by Diana Bridge	Kapka Kassabova
19	When Parallel Lines Meet by Tabish Khair and So Far by Gerson da Cunha	K. Satchidanandan
20	Seamus Heaney by Helen Vendler and Beowulf by Seamus Heaney	Shiva Kumar Srinivasan
22	The Gitanjali of Rabindranath Tagore translated by Joe Winter	Chinmoy Guha
23	Alone' and `The Traveller'. Poems from The Otherness of Self	Feroze Varun Gandhi
24	Murmur in the Woods: Selected Poems of Sund Gangopadhyay selected and translated by Sheila Sengupta	Joe Winter
25	The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night translated by Dr. J. C. Mardrus and collated with other sources by E. Powys Mathers	Alice Albinia
26	Judgement Day. An analysis of the Booker Prize and its literary cohorts	Nilanjana S. Roy
28	The Beauty of These Present Things by Avtar Singh and Bombay-Wallah by Shiv Sharma	Sandipan Deb
29	The Shadow Boxer by Steven Heighton	Tom Edge
30	Elsewhere.- Unusual Takes on India edited by Kai Friese	Srijana Mitra Das
31	Hauntings, The Darksome Dozen: Thirteen Stories from Bangla's Storytellers translated and edited by Suchitra Sharma	Indrajit Hazra
33	Really, Your Highness! by Jyoti Jafa	Nandini Lal
34	What the Body Remembers by Shauna Singh Baldwin	Pran Chopra
35	Students' Britannica: India	Tilak Sarkar
36	The 100 British Cartoonists of the Century	Andrew Whitehead
37	This is Suki! by Manjula Padmanabhan	Monica Narula
38	The Saga of the Lonely Mouth. A Cartoon Strip	Manjula Padmanabhan
COVER PAINTING: By M.E Husain from Feroze Varun Gandhi's book The Otherness of Self

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C O N T R I B U T O R S

DIPANKAR BHATTACHARYA is the General Secretary of the Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist).

RUKMINI BHAYA NAIR is Professor of Linguistics and English at the Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi.

PRAN CHOPRA is former Chief Editor of The Statesman and Visiting Professor at the Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi.

SANDIPAN DEB is the Deputy Editor of Outlook.

TOM EDGE is writing his first novel.

FEROZE VARUN GANDHI is a poet.

CHINMOY GUHA was Director, Books and Publications Division, Embassy of France in India, New Delhi. An author and translator, he presently teaches English in a Calcutta University college.

INDRAJIT HAZRA is a journalist with The Hindustan Times and the author of a novel The Burnt Forehead of Max Saul (Ravi Dayal, 2000).

KAPKA KASSABOVA is a poet and novelist. Her most recent novel is Love in the Land of Midas (Penguin, 2000).

TABISH KHAIR is Assistant Professor at the Department of English, University of Copenhagen.

NANDINI LAL is a reviewer and critic who has worked in journalism, advertising and publishing.

SRIJANA MITRA DAS is a Ph.D student at Cambridge University, UK.

MONICA NARULA is a film-maker and cinematographer.

MANJULA PADMANABHAN is a writer and artist living in New Delhi.

NILANJANA S. ROY is Books Page Editor of Outlook and a freelance writer on Arts and Books based in New Delhi.

TILAK SARKAR is the CEO of Primus India.

K. SATCHIDANANDAN is the Secretary of the Sahitya Akademi, New Delhi.

SUDEEP SEN's Postmarked India: New & Selected Poems (HarperCollins) was awarded the Hawthornden Fellowship (UK) and nominated for a Pushcart Prize (USA). He is the editorial director for AARK ARTS Books, and an editor for the Journal of Commonwealth Literature and Six Seasons Review.

SHUDDHABRATA SENGUPTA is a documentary film-maker with the Raqs Collective and a freelance writer based in New Delhi.

NIKESH SINHA is the CEO of tarana.com. He shuttles between the Silicon corridor of Bangalore and the Silicon Valley of California.

SHIV KUMAR SRINIVASAN teaches at the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi.

TRISTRAM STUART is writing a book about the Indian influence on European radical vegetarians.

ANDREW WHITEHEAD presents The World Today on BBC World Service Radio. JOE WINTER is a translator and poet based in Calcutta.

ERRATUM: We have been informed by Prannoy Roy that the review of the book we sent him, Electoral Politics in South Asia, and attributed to him in the September-October 2000 issue was written by DORAB SOPARIWALA. Prannoy Roy apologises for the mix up.

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