Biblio: A Review of Books. Issues for 1997

Biblio: A Review of Books. Issues of 1997

VOL. II NO. 2	32 PAGES	MARCH 1997
4	A little king of the world. A visit to the Padshahnama	B. N. Goswamy
5	Making India Hindu: Religion, Community and the Politics of Democracy in India edited by David Ludden	H. Y. Sharada Prasad
7	Jyoti Basu: The Authorised Biography by Surabhi Banerjee	Mohit Sen
9	The Infinity of Grace by 0. V. Vijayan	Githa Hariharan
10	Only the Soul Knows How to Sing by Kamala Das	C. P. Surendran
12	Short Stories: Vaikom Muhammad Basheer	N. S. Madhavan
13	A man for all seasons. E. M. S. Namboodiripad as a literary critic.	K. Satchidanandan
15	Kerala: a disembodied dream	M. Mukundan
16	The Hedonist Empire by Arun Sinha	Frank Simoes
18	Changel: The Biography of a Village by Arvind N. Das	Kuldeep Kumar
19	Daughters Of The Ocean: Discovering the Goddess Within by Shobita Punja	Geeti Sen
20	Quest for Kim: In Search of Kipling's Great Game by Peter Hopkirk	Sonia Jabbar
23	Bharata Natyam: From Temple to Theatre by Anne-Marie Gaston	Navtej Johar
24	Hours In The Dark: Essays on Cinema by T. G. Vaidyanathan	Partha Chatterjee
25	Politics of Violence: From Ayodhya to Behrampada: Studies on Contemporary South Asia No 1 edited by John McGuire, Peter Reeves and Howard Brasted	Tanika Sarkar
27	Peasants and Monks in British India by William R. Pinch	Ravinder Kumar
28	Cooking the World: Ritual and Thought in Ancient India by Charles Malamoud	Kunal Chakrabarti
31	New and forthcoming titles

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VOL. II NO. 4	32 PAGES	APRIL 1997
3	Cuckold by Kiran Nagarkar	Usha Hemmadi
4	Granta 57: India! The Golden Jubilee	Ira Pande
6	Tradition, Dissent and Ideology: Essays in Honour of Romila Thapar edited by R. Champakalakshmi and S. Gopal	Sumit Sarkar
8	Trade, Ideology and Urbanization: South India 300 BC to AD 1300 by R. Champakalakshmi	Uma Chakravarti
10	Reconciliation Through Truth: A Reckoning of Apartheid's Criminal Governance by Kadar Asmal, Louise Asmal and Ronald Suresh Roberts, The Healing of a Nation? edited by Alex Boraine and Janet Levy	Mahmood Mamdani
13	Bindu: Space and Time in Raza's Vision by Geeti Sen	Dileep Padgaonkar
14	The Religious Imagery of Khajuraho by Devangana Desai	M. C. Joshi
16	The Walled City by Esther David	Namita Gokhale
17	Malaria Dreams by Gautam Bhatia	Partho Datta
18	Contemporary Bengali Literature: Bangladesh Period edited by Khan Sarwar Murshid	Sumanta Banerjee
20	From the Washington years. An extract from Nice Guys Come Second by B. K. Nehru	B. K. Nehru
21	A Matter of Time by Shashi Deshpande	Keerti Ramchandra
22	The Scent of Pepper by Kaveri Nambisan	Kanika Luthra
23	The Leopard in India: A Natural History by J. C. Daniels	Divyabhanusinh
24	Against the Tide: An Intellectual History of Free Trade by Douglas A. Irwin	Lalit Sharma
25	Orangi Pilot Project: Reminiscences and Reflections by Akhtar Hameed Khan	Harsh Sethi
26	Wind of Fire: The Music and Musicians of Goa by Mario Cabral e Sa	Paranjoy Guha Thakurta
27	Common Lands and Customary Law: Institutional Change in North India over the Past Two Centuries by Minoty Chakravarty-Kaul	Madhu Sarin
28	Lent and Lost: Foreign Credit and Third World Development by Cheryl Payer, Globalisation and Third World Trade Unions: The Challenge of Rapid Economic Change edited by Henk Thomas, Elusive Development by Marshall Wolfe	Siddharth Varadarajan
29	Second Glance. Renews of reviews
31	New and forthcoming titles
31	Quiz

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VOL. II NO. 5	32 PAGES	MAY 1997
4	The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy	Rukmini Bhaya Nair
7	Legacy of a Divided Nation: India's Muslims Since Independence by Mushirul Hasan	Andrew Whitehead
8	Empire and Information: Intelligence Gathering and Social Communication in India, 1780-1970 by C. A. Bayly	Sabyasachi Bhattacharya
10	The Present History of West Bengal: Essays in Political Criticism by Partha Chatterjee	Arvind N. Das
12	Mind Body and Society, Life and Mentality in Colonial Bengal edited by Rajat Kanta Ray	Joya Chatterji
13	Development, Devolution and Democracy: Village Discourse in West Bengal by G. K. Lieten	Arindam Sen
14	Between Languages and Cultures: Translations and Cross-Cultural Texts edited by Anuradha Dingwaney and Carol Maier	Sujit Mukherjee
15	Rethinking Economics: Reflections Based on a Study of the Indian Economy by C. T. Kurien	Amiya Kumar Bagchi
17	Snakes and Ladders: A View of Modern India by Gita Mehta	Tarun Tejpal
18	Consuming Modernity: Public Culture in Modern India edited by Carol A. Breckenridge	Rajeswari Sunder Rajan
20	Hero Number 1. A film in Hindi directed by David Dhawan	Pankaj Mishra
21	Sardari Begum. A film by Shyam Benegal premiered on television	Parsa Venkateswar Rao Jr.
23	OK Tata: Mobiloil Change and World Revolution. An extract from Civil Lines 3 published by Ravi Dayal	Dilip Simeon
25	In the Light of the Black Sun by Rohit Manchanda	Mridula Nath Chakraborty
26	The Minister for Permanent Unrest and Other Stories by Keki N. Daruwalla	Hephzibah Israel
27	Marginal Players in Marginal Assemblies: The Indian MLA by Vir Chopra	E. Sridharan
28	Tibet: The Road Ahead by Dawa Norbu	John Lall
29	The Challenge in Kashmir: Democracy, Self-Determination and a Just Peace by Sumantra Bose	Ved Marwah
30	Second Glance. Reviews of reviews
30	Quiz
31	New and forthcoming titles

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VOL. II NO. 6	32 PAGES	JUNE 1997
3	The Clash of Civilisations and the Remaking of World Order by Samuel P Huntington	Dileep Padgaonkar
6	'India: an unwritten epic'. Translation of Nirmal Verma's Moortidevi Award acceptance speech	Gagan Gill
7	Clothing Matters: Dress and Identity in India by Emma Tarlo	Rubina Sethi
8	'From Empire to Emporium: Khadi and the Robes of Independence'. An exhibition curated by Emma Tarlo	Jasleen Dhamija
10	'Who was Nehru?'. An essay on biography writing in the post-modern era	Katherine Frank
12	'Reflections on the future'. An essay	Mohan Guruswamy
14	The Rise and Fall of economic Liberalism By Frederic F. Clairmont	Ajit K. Ghose
15	Subaltern Studies IX.-Writings on South Asian History and Society edited by Shahid Amin & Dipesh Chakrabarty	Masayuki Usuda
17	Feeding the Bania: Peasants and Usurers in Western India by David Hardiman	Rudrangshu Mukherjee
18	Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood	Coomi S. Vevaina
19	Where the Streets Lead by Sarayu Ahuja	Sukrita Paul Kumar
20	Green Well Years by Manohar Devadoss	Manjula Padmanabhan
23	Begum Samru: Portrait in a Gilded Frame by John Lall	Vibha Kaul
24	Lords of Alijah by Dawood Ali Mccollum	Nandini Chandra
25	God's Adversary and Other Stories by Shaukat Osman	Sagarika Ghose
26	Anne Frank.- The Diary of a Young Girl, new translation, edited by Otto H. Frank and Mirjam Pressler	Vatsala Kaul
27	Alterities: Criticism, History, Representation by Thomas Docherty	Shelley Walia
28	Zia Sarhadi. A tribute	Partha Chatterjee
29	People & Protected Areas: Towards Participatory Conservation in India edited by Ashish Kothari, Neena Singh and Saloni Suri	Madhu Sarin
31	New and forthcoming titles
31	Quiz
	Cover picture: Pen and ink illustration by Manjula Padmanabhan	Click!

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NANDINI CHANDRA is a research scholar at the Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi

PARTHA CHATTERJEE is a film critic

JASLEEN DHAMIJA is a design consultant

KATHERINE FRANK is currently engaged in writing a biography of Indira Gandhi

AJIT K GHOSE is Senior Economist working with International Labour Organisation, New Delhi

SAGARIKA GHOSE is a senior correspondent with Outlook

MOHAN GURUSWAMY is a columnist and public affairs analyst

VATSALA KAUL is Deputy Editor of Teens Today

RUDRANGSHU MUKHERJEE is the edit page Editor of The Telegraph

MANJULA PADMANABHAN is a writer and cartoonist. Her last book was a collection of short stories called Hot Death Cold Soup

SUKRITA KUMAR PAUL is a freelance writer

MADHU SARIN is a consultant in social forestry and non-conventional energy resources

RUMINA SETHI teaches at the Wolfson College, Oxford

MAYASUKI USUDA is a historian who has worked on Bengal

COOMI S. VEVAINA teaches English at the University of Mumbai

SHELLEY WALIA teaches English at the Panjab University in Chandigarh

VOL. II NO. 7-8	52 PAGES	JULY-AUGUST 1997
8	The ironies of Independence	Sham Lal
10	Towards a people's democracy	Rajni Kothari
12	Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold. An essay on the state	Maya Chadda
14	India's wasted promise. An essay on the Indian economy	Prem Shankar Jha
16	Bonds without bondage. An essay on identity and language	Weep Padgaonkar
18	Mein mera, mein mera, mein mera Hero No. 1. An essay on the Indian Generation X	Sagarika Ghose
20	Sense and Nonsense in Politics and Literature	Nayantara Sahgal
22	Language barriers. A review article on The Vintage book of Indian Writing, edited by Salman Rushdie and Elizabeth West	N. S. Madhavan
24	Breaking English. An essay on the folk oral literature in Indian-English	Kai Friese
26	Hanklyn Janklin: A Stranger's Rumble- Tumble Guide to Some Words, Customs and Quiddities Indian and Indo-British by Nigel Hankin	Gillian Wright
28	The Nationalization of Hindu Traditions: Bharatendu Harischandra and Nineteenth-century Banaras by Vasudha Dalmia Alok Rai
30	Rediscovering Aurobindo. A tribute on the seer-poet's 125th birth anniversary	Eunice de Souza
31	The Management of the Past. A reflection on trends in historiography	Sabyasachi Bhattacharya
34	The Career and Legend of Vasco Da Gama by M. Sanjay Subrahmanyam	Madhavan K. Palat
35	Liberty or Death: India's journey to Independence and Division by Patrick French	Katherine Frank
36	English domination and Indian subordination. A reading of John Kaye's History of the Sepoy War in India	Shahid Amin
38	Local Politics and Indian Nationalism: Midnapur 1919-1944 by Bidyut Chakrabarty	Indivar Kamtekar
40	Reflections on Partition in the East edited by Ranabir Samaddar	Sumanto Banerjee
42	A brief non-history of the Indian cartoon	Manjula Padmanabhan
44	Indian Jones and the temple of doom. An overview of the last 50 years of Hindi cinema	Partha Chatterjee
46	Stages: The Art and Adventures of Zohra Segal by Joan Erdman and Zohra Segal	Amal Allana
48	India independent: A bibliohistory	Arvind N. Das

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AMAL ALLANA is a well-known director of plays and TV serials: Himmat Mai, Begum Barve, Raj se Swaraj and Mullah Nasruddin are some recent ones.

SHAHID AMIN is Professor of History at Delhi University and the author of Event, Metaphor, Memory, and other subaltern studies.

SUMANTO BANERJEE is a freelance journalist and author of The Parlour and the Streets:Elite and Popular Culture in 19th Century Calcutta.

SABYASACHI BHATTACHARYA is Professor of History at the Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. He has been the Vice-Chancellor of Visva Bharati University, Santiniketan and is one of the foremost writers on labour and social history.

MAYA CHADDA is Professor of Political Science at William Patterson College, State University of New Jersey, USA.

PARTHA CHATTERJEE is a film critic.

EUNICE DE SOUZA is a poet and heads the Department of English at St. Xavier's college, Mumbai.

KAI FRIESE is deputy editor of The India Magazine.

KATHERINE FRANK is currently working on a biography of Indira Gandhi.

SAGARIKA GHOSE is a special correspondent with Outlook.

PREM SHANKAR JHA, columnist with The Hindu and Business Standard is a former editor of The Hindustan Times.

INDIVAR KAMTEKAR teaches modern Indian history at the Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.

RAJNI KOTHARI is one of India's foremost political scientists, author of several books and of the idea of non-party political formations.

N.S. MADHAVAN is a well-known Malayalee writer and civil servant.

MANJULA PADMANABHAN is a cartoonist and author of Hot Death, Cold Soup, a collection of short stories. She recently won the Alexander Onassis Culture Award for Theatre for her play Harvest.

MADHAVAN K. PALAT is a Professor of History at the Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi and is associated with the Indira Gandhi National Centre for Arts, (IGNCA), New Delhi.

ALOK RAI teaches English at the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi.

NAYANTARA SAHGAL, distinguished novelist, has recently been awarded an honorary degree by Leeds University, UK.

GILLIAN WRIGHT works for the BBC and has translated Raag Darbari and Aadha Gaon into English.

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VOL. II NO. 9-10	44 PAGES	SEPTEMBER - OCTOBER 1997
2	Train through Pakistan. A ride on Pakistan Railways from Karachi to the Khyber Pass/td>	Mark Tully
4	Trainspotting. A critique of Pamela Rooks' film version of Khushwant Suvir Kaul Singh's novel Train to Pakistan	Suvir Kaul
6	Reinventing tradition. An essay on the effects of nationalism on the performing arts as manifested in the Swarna Samaroh festival	Radhika Jha
7	The Murder of History in Pakistan: A Critique of History Textbooks Used in Pakistan by K.K. Aziz; Sindh: The Land of Indus Civilisation by Syed Abdul Quddus and Urdu: The Final Book by Ibn-e Insha	Arvind N. Das
11	Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto and Pakistan 1966-1977 by Rafi Raza	Pushpesh Pant
12	Societies and Military Power. India and Its Armies by Stephen Peter Rosen	Manoj Joshi
13	The Battles of Zojila, 1948 by Sudhir S. Bloeria	Mohan Guruswamy
14	Surrender at Dacca: Birth of a Nation by Lt.Gen J.F.R. Jacob	Muchkund Dubey
15	Wars and No Peace over Kashmir by Maroof Raza	Dinesh Kumar
16	The Crisis in Kashmir.- Portents of War, Hopes of Peace by Sumit Ganguly	Prem Shankar Jha
17	Kashmir Diary.- Psychology of Militancy by Major General Arjun Ray	Mohan Guruswamy
18	War Minus the Shooting by Mike Marqusse and Cricket: A Kind of Pilgrimage by Emma Levine	Rajdeep Sardesai
19	Of mice and men. Reminiscences of a civil servant	E. N. Mangat Rai
21	War by Stealth: Terrorism in India by Vijay Karan and Punjab: The Knights of Falsehood by K. P. S. Gill	Dipankar Bhattacharya
23	News of a Kidnapping by Gabriel Garcia Marquez	Nilanjana S. Roy
24	Beach Boy by Ardashir Vakil	Rahul Singh
25	Invisible city. An essay on the literary life and times of Bombay	Ashok Banker
27	Leave It to Me by Bharati Mukherjee	Manju Sampat
28	Children of the Lion by Carl Muller	Ratna Raman
29	Winter Companions and Other Stories by Neelum Saran Gour	Subhadra Sen Gupta
30	Mother of 1080 by Mahashweta Devi, translated by Samik Bandyopadhyay and Rudali by Mahashweta Devi, playscript by Usha Ganguli	Gagan Gill
31	Love in a Blue Time by Hanif Kureishi	Siddhartha Deb
32	Second Turn by M. T. Vasudevan Nair and The Eye of God by N. P. Mohamed	Ranjini Rajagopal
33	The Hindu Nationalist Movement in India by Christophe Jaffrelot	K. N. Panikka
34	Writing Social History by Sumit Sarkar	Rudrangshu Mukherjee
35	European Modernity and Beyond: The Trajectory of European Societies 1945-2000 by Goran Therborn and Twentieth Century Imperialism by Rajen Harshe	Achin Vanaik
36	Human Development in South Asia by Mahbub ul Haq	Sanjaya Baru
37	The Egalitarian Moment: Asia and Africa, 1950-1980 by D. A. Low	Jan Bremen
43	Women of substance. Publishing tales from the women at 'Kali for Women'	Ritu Memon, Urvashi Butalia and Jaya Banerji

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Ashok Banker is a novelist and freelance writer based in Mumbai.

Sanjaya Baru is a senior consultant for research and information systems for non-aligned and other developing countries.

Dipankar Bhattacharya is a political activist.

Jan Bremen is based in the Centre for Asian Studies in Amsterdam. His last book was Footloose Labour. Working in India's Informal Economy.

Siddhartha Deb is a freelance writer based in Delhi.

Muchkund Dubey former Foreign Secretary, is currently with the Council for Social Development, New Delhi.

Gagan Gill is a writer. She recently edited Ram Kumar A Journey Within and New Women Wtiting in Hindi, a special number of Yatra

Mohan Guruswamy is a columnist and public affairs analyst.

Prem Shankar Jha columnist with The Hindu and Business Standard is a former editor of The Hindustan Times.

Manoj Joshi is a senior editor at India Today.

Suvir Kaul teaches literature and critical studies at Stanford University; is currently Visiting Professor at Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi.

Dinesh Kumar is special correspondent for the Times of India, New Delhi.

Ritu Menon, Urvashi Butalia and Jaya Banerji are editors at 'Kali for Women'.

E. N. Mangat Rai formerly of the ICS, is the author of Commitment, My Style, a memoir of his days in the government. He now lives in retirement in Dehradun.

Rudrangshu Mukherjee is edit page editor of The Telegraph

Pushpesh Pant teaches at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi and is a freelance TV scriptwriter.

K. N. Panikkar teaches at the School for Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University,

Ranjini Rajagopal is a freelance writer based in Delhi.

Manju Sampat teaches at Elphinstone College, Mumbai.

Rajdeep Sardesai works for New Delhi Television (NDTV).

Subhadra Sen Gupta is a literary critic who also writes books for children.

Ratna Raman teaches at Delhi University.

Nilanjana S. Roy is assistant features editor of the Business Standard.

Rahul Singh columnist and writer, is a former editor of Reader's Digest.

Mark Tully has a long association with the BBC in India and frequently writes on the subcontinent. His last book was a collection ofshort stories called The Heart of India

Achin Vanaik is senior fellow at the Nehru Memorial Library. He has recently written Communalism Contested: Religion, Modernity and Secularization.

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VOL. II NO. 11	32 PAGES	NOVEMBER 1997
4	There are no icons for Clio. An essay	Arvind N. Das
5	Hind Swaraj and Other Writings by M. K. Gandhi edited by Anthony J. Parel	Makarand Paranjape
7	Worshipping False Gods by Arun Shourie	Kancha Ilaiah
9	Two imaginary soliloquies: a fantasy	D.R. Nagaraj
11	V.K. Krishna Menon and the India League, 1925-47; two volumes by Suhas Chakravarty	Partha Sarathi Gupta
12	The Essential Writings of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose edited by Sisir K. Bose and Sugata Bose; Gandhi's Campaign against Untouchability, 1933- 1934: An account from the Raj's Secret Official Reports edited by Baren Roy; Selected Works of Govind Ballabh Pant, Volume 8 edited by B. R. Nanda	Harish Khare
14	Leaders of Straw by A.D. Moddie	Pratik Kanjilal
15	Six characters and as many extras in search of an author. A political satire	Sham Lal
18	Ethnicity, Security and Separatism in India by Maya Chadda	Ralph Buultjens
19	Communalism Contested: Religion, Modernity and Secularization by Achin Vanaik	Primila Lewis
21	Dream Merchants, Politicians and Partition: Memoirs of an Indian Muslim by lqbal Masud	Saleem Kidwai
22	London Magazine-India 1997.- with affection	Ira Pande
23	Crossing Boundaries: Culture and Identity -- IIC Quarterly, Monsoon 1997 edited by Geeti Sen	Ania Loomba
25	Vox. Seven Stories edited by Jeet Thayil	Ravi Shankar
26	Defining a scientific temper: an essay	Shobhit Mahajan
28	The Touch of Midas: Science, Values and Environment in Islam and the West edited by Ziauddin Sardar	Irfan Habib
29	A Carnival of Science by Shiv Visvanathan	Nikesh Sinha

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RALPH BUULTJENS is former Nehru Professor at Cambridge University and teaches at New York University. He is the author of several books including Windows on India.

IRFAN HABIB is a scientist based at the National Institute of Science, Technology and Development Studies (NISTADS), New Delhi.

KANCHA ILAIAH is Reader in Political Science at the Central University, Hyderabad and the author of Why I Am Not A Hindu.

PARTHA SARATHI GUPTA is a distinguished historian who has recently edited the first volumes of the authoritative Towards Freedom, commissioned by the Indian Council of Historical Research.

PRATIK KANJILAL is senior assistant editor with the Indian Express.

HARISH KHARE is deputy bureau chief of The Hindu.

SALEEM KIDWAI is a historian based in Delhi and is currently working on a book on the life of Begum Akhtar.

PRIMILA LEWIS is a freelance editor and author. Her last book was Social Action and the Labouring Poor.

ANIA LOOMBA is Associate Professor at the Centre for Linguistics and English, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi and the author of Gender, Race, Renaissance Drama.

SHOBHIT MAHAJAN is a cosmologist and astrophysicist who teaches at the Department of Physics & Astrophysics, University of Delhi.

D.R. NAGARAJ is the Director of the Centre for Translation at the National Akademi of Letters, Bangalore and the author of The Flaming Feet.

MAKARAND PARANJAPE is Associate Professor of Humanities & Social Sciences at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Delhi and has recently edited Nativism: Essays in Criticism for the Sahitya Akademi.

RAVI SHANKAR is a well known cartoonist and a senior editor at India Today. He is also the author of Scream of Dragonflies, a collection of short stories.

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VOL. II NO. 12	32 PAGES	DECEMBER 1997
4	Three Horsemen of the New Apocalypse by Nirad C. Chaudhuri	Pankaj Mishra
5	Nirad C. Chaudhuri The First Hundred Years: A Celebration edited by Swapan Dasgupta. Extracts from the book
8	Rediscovering Gandhi by Yogesh Chadha	Dileep Padgaonkar
9	The Mahatma and the Poet: Letters and Debates Between Gandhi and Tagore 1915-1941 compiled and edited by Sabyasachi Bhattacharya	H.Y. Sharada Prasad
10	Selected Letters of Rabindranath Tagore edited by Krishna Dutta and Andrew Robinson	Sabyasachi Bhattacharya
12	Beyond Belief by V.S. Naipaul and The Terrorist Prince: The Life and Death of Murtaza Bhutto by Raja Anwar	Oskar Verkaaik
13	Pakistan: The First Twelve Years: The Pakistan Times Editorials of Mazhar Ali Khan	Sho Kuwajima
15	A Dragonfly in the Sun: An Anthology of Pakistan Writing in English selected and edited by Muneeza Shamsie and Fires in an Autumn Garden: Short Stories from Urdu and the Regional Languages of Pakistan edited by Asif Farrukhi	Kartar Singh Duggal
16	Whispers of the Desert by Fatima Bhutto; A Choice of Hashmi's Verses by Alamgir Hashmi; Desert Album by Adrian P Husain; A Selection of Verse by Daud Kamal; Landscapes of the Mind by Salman Tarik Kureishi; Journeys by Shuja Nawaz and Poetry from Pakistan: An Anthology introduced by Maya Jamil	Rukmini Bhaya Nair
19	Nine Indian Poets edited by Eunice de Souza and Slivers: An Anthology of South Asian Poetry in Britain	Keki N. Daruwalla
20	Apocalypso by Jeet Thayil	R. Raj Rao
21	A Fistful of Desire by Nalinaksha Bhattacharya	Sagarika Ghose
22	The Sense of Reality: Studies in Ideas and Their History by Isaiah Berlin	Jyotirmaya Sharma
23	India's Culture: The State, the Arts and Beyond by B.P Singh	Arvind N. Das
26	The Enduring Image: an exhibition	Juliet Reynolds
27	Technocrat.- Culture in a Cybernetic Classroom by Rukmini Bhaya Nair with Ramnik Baia) and Ankur Meattle	Shiv Visvanathan
28	The decline of higher education. An essay	Jayant V. Narlikar
29	Index of articles in Biblio Volume II, Nos. 1-6

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SABYASACHI BHATTACHARYA is a distinguished historian and a former Vice-Chancellor of Visva-Bharati, Santiniketan.

KEKI N. DARUWALLA is a writer and poet. His latest book The Minister for Permanent Unrest and Other Stories was published last year.

SWAPAN DASGUPTA is Deputy Editor of India Today.

KARTAR SINGH DUGGAL is a well known writer and a member of the Rajya Sabha.

SAGARIKA GHOSE is a senior correspondent with Outlook.

SHO KUWAJIMA is Professor of History at the Osaka University of Foreign Studies.

PANKAJ MISHRA is the author of Butter Chicken in Ludhiana: Travels in Small-Town India.

RUKMINI BHAYA NAIR teaches at the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi. Her first collection of poems The Hyoid Bone (Viking) waspublished in 1993.

JAYANT V. NARLIKAR is with the Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics, Pune.

H. Y. SHARADA PRASAD is a columnist and former Media Advisor to the Prime Minister.

R. RAJ RAO is a well known poet and fiction writer. He is a Reader in the Department of English at the University of Pune.

JULIET REYNOLDS is an art critic based in India and a columnist with The Spectator.

JYOTIRMAYA SHARMA is a freelance writer.

OSKAR VERKAAIK is a doctoral fellow at the Centre for Asian Studies, Amsterdam and the Amsterdam School of Social Science Research.

SHIV VISVANATHAN is with the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi. He has recently written A Carnival for Science.

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