Biblio: A Review of Books. Issues for 2001

Biblio: A Review of Books. Issues of 2001

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VOL. VI NO. 1 / 2	40 PAGES	JANUARY- FEBRUARY 2001
4	Passport Photos by Amitava Kumar	Tabish Khair
5	Asylum, USA by Boman Desai	Amitava Kumar
6	The Enigma of Denial: V S. Naipaul's negotiation of his homeland. An essay	Caryl Phillips
10	Leaving Amsterdam: A journey of a migrant from homeland to homeland. An essay	Anil Ramdas
13	Across the border. Letter from an Indian historian in Texas	Seema Alavi
14	About Daddy by Meena Arora Nayak, Life Isn't All Ha Ha Hee Hee Meera Syal, In the Garden Secretly and Other Stories by Jean Arasanayagam and Mai: A Novel by Geetanjah Shree	Ashley Tellis
15	Mirage by Bandula Chandraratna	Mithu C. Banerji
16	Mother India conquers Alexander: Hindi film songs in Greece--the latest sequel in a cultural conversation. An essay	Helen Abadzi
18	The Gin Drinkers by Sagarika Ghose	Rukmini Bhaya Nair
20	The Mammaries of the Welfare State by Upamanyu Chatterjee	Nandini Lal
21	The Burnt Forehead of Max Saul by Indrajit Hazra	Sukanta Chaudhuri
22	21st century Kumbh. A photo essay	Karoki Lewis
24	Hinduttva: A View and a Way of Life, National Movement and the RSS Protection of Cow-Clan, Hindu Samskriti and Environment, Awakening among Women and RSS by Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh	Manisha Sethi
25	The Christian Clergy in India, Volume 1: Social Structure and Social Roles by T. K. Oommen and Hunter P Mabry	A. J. Philip
27	The Politics of the Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam Pakistan 1971-77 by Sayyid A S. Pirzada, The Mirage of Power: An Inquiry into the Bhutto Years 1971-77 by Mubashir Hasan and Pakistan: Political Roots and Development 1947-1999 by Safdar Mahmood	Oskar Verkaaik
28	The Making of Laloo Yadav: The Unmaking of Bihar Thakur, Trial and Error: The Advent and Eclipse of Benazir Bhutto by Iqbal Akhund and Pakistan: The Economy of an Elitist State by Ishrat Husain Sankarshan	John Elliott
30	Bihar is in the Eye of the Beholder by Vijay Nambisan	Deborah Sutton
31	State, Identity and Violence: Jammu, Kashmir and Ladakh by Navnita Chadha Behera	Keki N. Daruwalla
32	States of stagnation: Nationalisms and the movement for Kashmiri Independence. An essay	Soma Jabbar
34	India's Labour Standards and the WTO Framework by Subramanian Swami	S. P Shukla
36	Workers' Rights in a New Economic Order: the first Arvind N. Das Memorial Lecture from the Association of Labour Historians	Jairus Banaji
COVER PHOTOGRAPH: Naga Sadhus at the Maha Kumbh Mela, 2001, by KAROKI LEWIS

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Contributors

HELEN ABADZI is a Senior Evaluation Officer at the Operations Evaluation Department of the World Bank.

SEEMA ALAVI is a Fulbright Visiting Scholar in Residence at the University of Texas, USA.

JAIRUS BANAJI is a Visiting Fellow at Queen Elizabeth House, University of Oxford.

MITHU C. BANERJI is a freelance journalist and columnist based in the UK. She is currently writing her first novel.

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

SUKANTA CHAUDHURI is Professor of English at Jadavpur University, Kolkata.

KEKI N. DARUWALLA was a regular columnist in The Economic Times and is a former Chairman of the Joint Intelligence Committee.

JOHN ELLIOTT is a former journalist with the Financial Times in London, South Asia and Hong Kong. He now writes from New Delhi for Fortune magazine and contributes to the International Herald Tribune, the New Statesman, and other publications.

SONIA JABBAR is is an independent writer currently living and working in Kashmir and is the recipient of the WISCOMP Scholar of Peace Award, 2000.

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

AMITAVA KUMAR is the author of Passport Pbotos, recently released by Penguin India. He divides his time between India and the US.

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

KAROKI LEWIS is a London and Delhi based photographer. His book Delhi's Historic Villages: A Photographic Evocation was published in 1997, and he is currently working on a book about Mehrauli, to be published later this year.

A. J. PHILIP is Senior Editor at The Indian Express.

CARYL PHILLIPS is the author of six novels, including The Nature of Blood. His latest publication is the non-fiction book, The Atlantic Sound.

ANIL RAMDAS is the New Delhi correspondent of NRC Handelsblad, Rotterdam.

MANISHA SETHI is a PhD scholar at the Centre for the Study of Social Systems, Jawarharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.

S. P SHUKLA is a former Commerce Secretary to the Government of India.

DEBORAH SUTTON is a PhD student at the Centre for Historical Studies, Jawarharlal Nehru University New Delhi.

ASHLEY TELLIS has a PhD in Irish Women's Writing from Cambridge University and has taught at St. Xavier's College, Bombay and St. Stephen's College, Delhi.

OSKAR VERKAAIK is an anthropologist working on nationalism and religion in Pakistan, in particular the Muhajirs in Sindh. He is at present affiliated with the Free University in Amsterdam.

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C O N T E N T S
VOL. VI NOS. 3 & 4	40 PAGES	MARCH APRIL 2001
4	India's Nuclear Security edited by Raju G. C. Thomas and Amit Gupta	Sukumar Muralidharan
5	Reach for the Stars: The Evolution of India's Rocket Programme by Gopal Raj	S. Ramnath
7	The Immorality of Nuclear Weapons. Keynote Address to the National Convention on Nuclear Disarmament and Peace	Amulya K. N. Reddy
8	India's Maritime Security by Rahul Roy-Chaudhury	Peter Sinai
10	Delhi: An Urban Space and Human Destinies edited by Veromque Dupont, Emma Tarlo and Denis Vidal	Awadhendra Sharan
11	Rediscovering Dharavi: Stories from Asia's Largest Slum by Kalpana Sharma	Orlanda Ruthven
13	An Ambiguous Journey to the City: The Village and other Odd Ruins of the Self in the Indian Imagination by Ashis Nandy	Rana Dasgupta
14	Beato's Delhi 1857, 1997 by Jim Masselos and Narayam Gupta	Ranjana Sengupta
16	London: A Biography by Peter Ackroyd	Julian Gibbs
17	Mapping Subaltern Studies and the Postcolonial edited and introduced by Vinayak Chaturvedi	Bodhisattva Kar
20	The Prelude to Empire: Plassey Revolution of 1757 by Sushil Chaudhury and Society, Economy and the Market: Commercialisation in Rural Bengal c. 1760-1800 by Rajat Datta	Seema Alavi
21	Commonwealth Literature-should the category exist? A debate
23	Something Barely Remembered by Susan Visvanathan	Nilanjana S. Roy
24	The Death of Vishnu by Manil Suri	Shoma Chaudhury
25	Civil Lines 4 edited by Rukun Advani, Mukul Kesavan and Ivan Hutnik	Sharifa Chekesha Rhodes
26	Nani's Book of Suicides by Sunny Singh	Sunanda Mongia
27	Inventing Boundaries: Gender, Politics and the Partition of India edited by Mushirul Hasan	Manoshi Mitra
28	Ismat: Her Life, Her Times edited by Sukrita Paul Kumar and Sadique	Jaya Banerji
29	Nadia, Captive of Hope by Fay Afaf Kanafam	Anuradha Kumar
31	Oona, Mountain Wind by Jasjit Mansingh	Manjula Padmanabhan
32	The Singer and the Song: Conversations with Women Musicians by C. S. Lakshmi	Manisha Chaudhry
33	Splitting the Difference: Gender and Myth in Ancient Greece and India by Wendy Doniger	Pradip Bhattacharya
35	Invented Identities: The Interplay of Gender, Religion and Politics in India edited by Julia Leslie and Mary McGee	Manisha Sethi
36	Women in Early Indian Societies edited by Kumkum Roy	Geeta Arya
37	Perpetual Mourning: Widowhood in Rural India by Martha Alter Chen	Seema Kazi
38	From Lahore to Lucknow. An Interview with Ram Advani	Nonica Datta
COVER: Smita Patil in a still from the film Debshishu (1985) by Utpalendu Chakraborty

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

SEEMA ALAVI is Fulbright Scholar in Residence University of Texas, USA.

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

JAYA BANERJI is a writer and editor.

PRADIP BHATTACHARYA belongs to the Indian Administrative Service and has written several books on the Mababbarata and papers on comparative mythology.

MANISHA CHAUDHRY is an independent consultant on Gender and the Media.

SHOMA CHAUDHURY is the Literary Editor of tehelka.com.

RANA DASGUPTA is a freelance journalist based in New Delhi.

NONICA DATTA teaches History at Miranda House, Delhi University. She has authored Forming an Identity: A Social History of the Jats (OUP, 1999).

JULIAN GIBBS is a freelance journalist based in London.

BODHISATTVA KAR is doing his Masters' at the Centre for Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University.

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

ANURADHA KUMAR is Assistant Editor of Economic and Political Weekly.

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

SUNANDA MONGIA teaches English at Benares University, Varanasi.

SUKUMAR MURALIDHARAN is a journalist with The Hindu.

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

SUBHRAHMANYA RAMNATH is a former Director, Programmme Planning and Implementation, at the Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre.

AMULYA K. N. REDDY is former President of the International Energy Initiative. He has worked on renewable energy, and having recently retired from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, was the co-recipient of the Volvo Environment Prize, 2000.

SHARITA CHEKESHA RHODES is a playwright and essayist based in Texas.

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

ORLANDA RUTHVEN is a co-ordinating a research project for the Institute of Development Policy Mangaement, University of Manchester on poor people's financial behaviour in three Delhi squatter settlelments and two villages in the Allahabad District.

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

MANISHA SETHI is a PhD scholar at the Centre for the Study of Social Systems, Jawarharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.

AWADHENDRA SHARAN Is a Fellow at Sarai, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, New Delhi.

PETER SINAI is a former Ambassador of India.

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