Jan-Feb || Mar-Apr || May-June || July-August || September-October || November-December
|
C O N T E N T S | ||
| VOL. IV NO. 1 / 2 |
36 PAGES | 1999 |
| 4 | Darkness visible: the works of Ian McEwan | Indrajit Hazra |
| 5 | Bech at Bay by John Updike | Pankaj Mishra |
| 6 | England, England by Julian Barnes | Anita Roy |
| 7 | The Gabriel Club by Joydeep Roy-Bhattacharya | Shiva Kumar Srinivasan |
| 8 | Sir Vidia's Shadow: Friendsbip across Five Continents by Paul Theroux | Arvind N. Das |
| 10 | Intimacy by Hanif Kureishi | Rukmini Bhaya Nair |
| 11 | When Dreams Travel by Githa Hariharan | Shobhana Bhattacharji |
| 12 | All About H. Haterr by G.V. Desani | Sunanda Mongia |
| 13 | Cinnamon Gardens by Shyam Selvadurai | Prashant Keshavamurthy |
| 14 | Oriental Scenery: Two Hundred Years of India's Artistic and Architectural Heritage by Antonio Martinelli and George Michell | Ira Pande |
| 16 | A Double Life: My Exciting Years in Theatre and Advertising by Alyque Padamsee and Arun Prabhu | Tara Sinha |
| 17 | Business Legends by Gita Piramal | Dwijendra Tripathi |
| 18 | The Corrupt Society: The Criminalization of India from Independence to the 1990s by Chandan Mitra | Harsh Sethi |
| 19 | The Politics of Crime and Corruption: A Former CBI Officer Speaks by N. K. Singh. An extract. | N. K. Singh |
| 20 | Words Like Freedom--The Memoirs of an Impoverished Indian Family: 1947-1997 by Siddarth Dube | Ashok Upadhyay |
| 22 | Outside the Fold: Conversion, Modernity and Belief by Gauri Viswanathan | Shelley Wali |
| 24 | Mapping the Nation edited by Gopal Balakrishnan | Rumina Sethi |
| 25 | Global Pariahs. An essay. | Sham Lal |
| 26 | Structural Adjustment, Global Trade and the New Political Economy of Development by Biplab Dasgupta | Praveen Jha |
| 27 | Greening at the Grassroots: Alternate Forestry Strategies in India by Eva Cheung Robinson | N. C. Saxena |
| 28 | Pastoral Politics: Shepherds, Bureaucrats, and Conservation in the Western Himalaya by Vasant K. Saberwal | Minoti Chakravarty-Kaul |
| 30 | Silenced Rivers: The Ecology and Politics of Large Dams by Patrick McCully | Amita Baviskar |
| 31 | Bullet for Bullet: My Life as a Police Officer by Julio Ribeiro | Keki N. Daruwalla |
| 32 | Birds of Passage by Kiran Doshi | Arundhati Ghose |
| 33 | Stillborn by Rohini Nilekani | Saumya Kavita Srinivasan |
| 34 | The Enquire Dictionary: Ideas, Issues, Innovations by T. J. S. George | Surjit Mansingh |
| AMITA BAVISKAR teaches Sociology at Delhi University. She has published In the Belly of the River: Tribal Conflicts over Development in the Namada Valley. |
| SHOBHANA BHATTACHARJI is Reader in English, Jesus and Mary College, New Delhi and Associate Fellow, Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla |
| MINOTI CHAKRAVARTY-KAUL is Senior Reader in Economics, Lady Sriram College, New Delhi and Professor, Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, USA. |
| KEKI N. DARUWALLA is a poet. He was a member of the Indian Police Service. |
| ARUNDHATI GHOSE was a member of the Indian Foreign Service and is now a Member of the Union Public Service Commission. |
| INDRAJIT HAZRA is a journalist working with The Asian Age, New Delhi. |
| PRAVEEN JHA teaches at the Centre for Economic Studies & Planning, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. |
| PRASHANT KESHAVAMURTHY is currently doing his MPhil at Delhi University |
| SURJIT MANSINGH is Professor, School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. |
| PANKAJ MISHRA is a writer based in Shimla and New Delhi. He is the author of Butter Chicken in Ludhiana. |
| SUNANDA MONGIA teaches English at Mahatma Gandhi Kashi Vidyapith, Varanasi, and is author of a collection of short stories entitled Cryptozones. |
| RUKMINI BHAYA NAIR teaches in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi. She published The Hyoid Bone, a collection of poems in 1993 and Technobrat in 1997. |
| IRA PANDE is an editorial consultant to a publishing company in New Delhi. |
| ANITA ROY is a senior editor at Dorling Kindersley, a publishing firm. |
| N. C. SAXENA is Secretary to the Government of India in the Department of Rural Development. His latest books on forestry include Forests, People and Profit and The Saga of Participatory Forest Management in India. |
| HARSH SETHI is Consulting Editor, Seminar, New Delhi. His latest book is Voluntary Action and Social Change. |
| RUMINA SETHI is Reader, Department of English, Panjab University, Chandigarh. |
| TARA SINHA was head of Clarion Advertising and founded Tara Sinha Associates. |
| SAUMYA KAVITA SRINIVASAN is a post-graduate student at the Department of Anatomy, UCMS, University of Delhi. |
| SHIV KUMAR SRINIVASAN teaches in the Department of Humanities & Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur. |
| DWIJENDRA TRIPATHI pioneered the study of Business History at the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad. His publications include Business Houses of Western India and Business and Politics in India-A Historical Perspective. |
| ASHOK UPADHYAY is Deputy Editor, Business India, Mumbai. He has written on agrarian India in the Journal of Peasant Studies. |
| SHELLEY WALIA is Associate Professor, Department of English, Panjab University, Chandigarh. |
|
C O N T E N T S | ||
| VOL. IV NO. 3 & 4 |
36 PAGES | 1999 |
| 4 | Savaging the Civilized: Verrier Elwin, His Tribals and India by Ramachandra Guha | K. Suresh Singh |
| 5 | Hybrid Histories: Forests, Frontiers and Wildness in Western India by Ajay Skaria [Full review] | Prathama Banerjee |
| 7 | Subalterns and Sovereigns: An Anthropological History of Bastar 1854-1996 by Nandini Sundar | Amita Baviskar |
| 8 | Camera Indica: The Social Life of Indian Photographs by Christopher Pinney | Ranjana Sengupta |
| 11 | Sanjoy's Assam: Diaries and Writings of Sanjoy Ghose | Gopalkrishna Gandhi |
| 12 | Jute and Empire: The Calcutta Jutewallahs and the Landscape of Empire by Gordon T. Stewart | Sabyasachi Bhattacharya |
| 14 | Origins of Nationality in South Asia: Patriotism and Ethical Government in the Making of Modern India by C. A. Bayly | Majid Siddiqi |
| 15 | The Marginal Nation: Transborder Migration from Bangladesh to West Bengal by Ranabir Samaddar | D. Bandyopadhyay |
| 16 | Madam Bovary. An essay | Anil Ramdas |
| 18 | The Ground Beneath Her Feet by Salman Rushdie | Sukanta Chaudhuri |
| 20 | An Equal Music by Vikram Seth | Giti Chandra |
| 21 | The Blue Bedspread by Raj Kamal Jha | Devangshu Datta |
| 22 | English Lessons and Other Stories by Shauna Singh Baldwin | Nilanjana S. Roy |
| 23 | Listening Now by Anjana Appachana | Purabi Panwar |
| 24 | Lahore diary: before and beyond bus diplomacy | Uma Chakravarti |
| 27 | The Last Spring.- The Lives and Times of the Great Mughals by Abraham Eraly | Saleem Kidwai |
| 28 | Islam by Azra Kidwai | Seema Alavi |
| 29 | The Taliban Phenomenon: Afghanistan 1994-97 by Lieutenant GeneralPrem Kamal Matinuddin | Shankar Jha |
| 30 | A Thousand Suns by Dominique Lapierre | Janaki B. Kremmer |
| 32 | Jewish Exile in India 1933-1945 edited by Anil Bhatti and Johannes H. Voight | Haimanti Roy |
| 33 | Situating the History of Science: Dialogues with Joseph Needham edited by S. Irfan Habib and Dhruv Raina | Shobhit Mahajan |
| 34 | Dance of India: Perspectives and Prospects edited by David Waterhouse | Radhika Jha |
| SEEMA ALAVI is Associate Professor of History, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi. |
| D. BANDYOPADHYAY is a retired Civil Servant who authored Operation Barga in West Bengal. His publications include Indra Lohar and the Due Process of Law. |
| PRATHAMA BANERJEE has done her PhD from the School of Oriental and African Studies, London on "Politics of Time: 'Primitives' and History-Writing in Colonial Bengal". |
| AMITA BAVISKAR teaches Sociology at University of Delhi. She has published In the Belly of the River: Tribal Conflicts over Development in the Narmada Valley. |
| SABYASACHI BHATTACHARYA is Professor of History at the Centre for Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. |
| UMA CHAKRAVARTI teaches history at Miranda House, University of Delhi. She has written on Gender, Caste and Labour. Her latest book is Rewriting History: The Life and Times of Pandita Ramabai. |
| GITI CHANDRA teaches English at St. Stephens College, Delhi. She is currently doing her PhD at Rutgers University, New Jersey, U.S.A. |
| SUKANTA CHAUDHURI is Professor of English at Jadavpur University, Calcutta. |
| DEVANGSHU DATTA is a journalist with The Business Standard, New Delhi. |
| GOPALKRISHNA GANDHI has served government in administrative and diplomatic capacities over the last three decades. |
| PREM SHANKAR JHA is a columnist. He is the author of several books including Kashmir 1947 Rival Versions of History. |
| RADHIKA JHA is a journalist with The Hindustan Times, New Delhi. |
| SALEEM KIDWAI is a historian presently engaged in writing a book on Begum Akhtar. |
| JANAKI B. KREMMER is a journalist with Outlook, New Delhi. |
| SHOBHIT MAHAJAN is an astrophysicist and cosmologist who teaches in the Department of Physics & Astrophysics, University of Delhi. |
| PURABI PANWAR is an academic and critic based in New Delhi. |
| ANIL RAMDAS is a writer and media personality based in Amsterdam. |
| HAIMANTI ROY is a student at the Centre for Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. |
| NILANJANA S. ROY is a journalist with Outlook, New Delhi. |
| RANJANA SENGUPTA is a freelance journalist based in New Delhi. |
| MAJID SIDDIQI is Professor of History at the Centre for Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. |
| K. SURESH SINGH is a former Director-General of the Anthropological Survey of India and currently Rajeev Gandhi Professor on Protective Discrimination at North-Eastern Hill University, Shillong. He is the author of The Dust Storm and Hanging Mist and General Editor of the multi-volume Peoples of India Series. |
|
C 0 N T E N T S | ||
|
VOL. IV NOS. 5 / 6 | 36 PAGES | MAY-JUNE 1999 |
| 4 | The Lost Rebellion: Kashmir in the Nineties by Manoj Joshi | Prem Shankar Jha |
| 5 | Pakistan Leadership Challengers by Lt.-General Jahan Dad Khan | Arvind N. Das |
| 7 | Virile Fantasies by Klaus Theweleit | Mario Corona |
| 8 | Vishnu on Freud's Desk: A Reader on Psychoanalysis and Hinduism edited by T.G. Vaidyanathan and Jeffrey J. Kripal | Shiv Kumar Srinivasan |
| 10 | Social Suffering edited by Arthur Kleinman, Veena Das & Margaret Lock | Rabindra Ray |
| 11 | A World to Win: Essays on the Communist Manifesto edited by Prakash Karat | Dipankar Bhattacharya |
| 14 | The Dispossessed: Victims of Development in Asia by Vinod Raina, Aditi Chowdhury & Sumit Chowdhury | Pamela Philipose |
| 15 | Ecology, Climate & Empire: The Indian Legacy in Global Environmental History 1400-1940 by Richard H. Grove | Alok Sinha |
| 15 | Why Post-colonialism hates revolutions. An essay | Tabish Khair |
| 17 | Subaltern Studies X by Gautam Bhadra, Gyan Prakash and Susie Tharu [Full review] | Prathama Banerjee |
| 19 | The Origins of Postmodernity by Perry Anderson | Shelley Walia |
| 20 | The Sikhs by Patwant Singh | Amrik Singh |
| 22 | The Essential Works of Raja Rammohan Roy edited by Bruse Carlisle Robertson | Nandini Chatterjee |
| 24 | Pushkin's Button by Serena Vitale | Pankaj Mishra |
| 25 | The HarperCollins Book of Oriya Short Stories translated and edited by K.K. Mohapatra, Leelawati Mohapatra & Sudhansu Mohanty | Devdas Chhotray |
| 27 | Going Home by Lakshmi Kannan | Christine Gomez |
| 28 | Sister of My Heart by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni | Nilanjana S. Roy |
| 29 | Amita: No Holds Barred by Amita Malik | Shohini Ghosh |
| 32 | River of Colour: The India of Raghubir Singh by Raghubir Singh | H. Y. Sharada Prasad |
| 34 | In the City by the Sea by Kamila Shamsie | Meghant Sudan |
| COVER PHOTOGRAPH: Fishermen, Calicut, Kerala by RAGHUBIR SINGH from the book River of Colour: The India of Raghubir Singh published by Phaidon Press Limited | ||
|
PRATHAMA BANERJEE has done her PhD from the School of Oriental and African Studies, London on "Politics of Time: 'Primitives' and History-Writing in Colonial Bengal". DIPANKAR BHATTACHARYA is the General Secretary of the Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist). NANDINI CHATTERJEE studies at the Centre for Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. DEVDAS CHHOTRAY is a member of the Indian Administrative Service. He is also a writer and poet in Oriya. SHOHINI GHOSH is a Reader, Video &Television Production at the Mass Communication Research Centre, Jamia Millia Islaima, New Delhi. CHRISTINE GOMEZ is a Reader in English, Bharatidasan University, Tiruchirapalli. PREM SHANKAR JHA is a columnist based in New Delhi. He is the author of several books including Kashmir 1947: Rival Versions of History. TABISH KHAIR is Associate Professor, Department of English, University of Copenhagen. He has published several books of poetry and the novel Angel in Pyjamas. PANKAJ MISHRA is a writer based in New Delhi and Simla. He is the author of Butter Chicken in Ludhiana. PAMELA PHILIPOSE is a journalist with The Indian Express, New Delhi H.Y SHARADA PRASAD was Information Advisor to the Prime Minister and is now a columnist. RABINDRA RAY teaches Sociology in the Delhi School of Economics. He has published a book on Naxalites, several volumes of poetry and has written a tract Aditya Mimansa in Sanskrit. ALOK SINHA is a member of the Indian Administrative Service. AMRIK SINGH is an educationist who for many years edited The Indian Book Chronicle. SHIV KUMAR SRINIVASAN teaches in the department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur. MEGHANT SUDAN is a student of Philosophy in Delhi University. SHELLEY WALIA is Associate Professor, Department of English, Panjab University, Chandigarh. |
|
C O N T E N T S | ||
| VOL. IV NO. 7 / 8 |
36 PAGES |
JULY - AUGUST 1999 |
| COVER PAINTING: 'Mankind - 2194 - The last submission to aggression' by Ved Nayar, 1994, Gouache on paper, from the book Indian Contemporary Art Post Independence, published by Vadhera Art Gallery, New Delhi. | ||
| 4 | Independent India: The First Fifty Years edited by Hiranmay Karlekar Pradip | Kumar Bose |
| 5 | A shattered Dream: Understanding Pakistan's Underdevelopment by Ghulam Kibria | Arvind N. Das |
| 8 | A History of the Pakistan Army: Wars and Insurrections by Brian Cloughley | Kaushik Roy |
| 9 | Night and Day: A Diary by Mira Markovic | Roberta Valle |
| 10 | All quiet on the Eastern front. An essay on Indian war literature | Pratik Kanjilal |
| 12 | The olive oil business. An essay and tribute to the legacy of Mario Puzo | Ruchir Joshi |
| 14 | Hannibal by Thomas Harris | Sandipan Deb |
| 15 | Encyclopedia of Indian Cinema by Ashish Rajadhyaksha and Paul Willeman [Full Review] | Chandan Mitra |
| 16 | Barbie Culture by Mary E. Rogers | Vatsala Kaul |
| 17 | The Stream Within: Stories by Bengali Women translated and edited by Swati Ganguly and Sarmishtha Dutta Ray | Nandini Lal |
| 18 | The Interpreter of Maladies: Stories of Bengal, Boston and Beyond by Jhumpa Lahiri | Shoma Chaudhury |
| 20 | Fasting, Feasting by Anita Desai | Nilanjana S. Roy |
| 21 | The Craft of the Essay: A Ved Mehta Reader edited by Ved Mehta | Siddhartha Sivaramakrishnan |
| 22 | Notebook of a Footsoldier by Randhir Khare | Mitali Saran |
| 23 | The Last Post by Narendra Pani | Meera Sagar |
| 24 | Like the Roman: The Life of Enoch Powell by Simon Heffer | Shivaji Sondhi |
| 26 | Policing a Democracy: A Comparative Study of India and the US by R. K. Raghavan | K. S. Ssbramanian |
| 28 | Politics and Trade in the Indian Ocean World: Essays in Honour of Ashin Das Gupta edited by Rudrangshu Mukherjee and Lakshmi Subramanian and Commerce and Culture in the Bay of Bengal, 1500 - 1800 edited by Om Prakash and Denys Lombard | Rabid Nair |
| 30 | The Arya Samaj in Punjab Politics by Veena Dua | Swami Agnivesh |
| 31 | I Follow After: An Autobiography by Lakshmibai Tilak | Ashley Tellis |
| 32 | Seven Wonders of the Cosmos by Jayant V. Narlikar | David L. Gosling |
| 33 | Travels with the Fish by C.Y Gopinath and Arrow of the Blue-Skinned God by Jonah Black | Nikesh Sinha |
| 34 | Carry in the Crown by Shrabani Basu | Peter McManus |
Back to the top
| C 0 N T R I B U T 0 R S |
|
SWAMI AGNIVESH is an Arya Samaj leader and head of the Campaign Against Bonded
Labour.
PRADIP KUMAR BOSE is Professor of Sociology at Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta. SHOMA CHAUDHURY is a correspondent at Outlook, New Delhi. SANDIPAN DEB is Deputy Editor Outlook and Editor, Intelligent Investor. DAVID L. GOSLING has taught Physics at the University of Delhi and is currently at the University of Cambridge at Clare Hall. RUCHIR JOSHI is a film-maker and writer based in New Delhi. PRATIK KANJILAL is Senior Assistant Editor at the Indian Express, New Delhi. VATSALA KAUL is Deputy Editor of Teens Today, New Delhi. NANDINI LAL has worked in advertising, journalism and publishing, She is now a freelance writer. PETER MCMANUS is a freelance journalist based in Cambridge, UK. CHANDAN MITRA is the editor and publisher of The Pioneer. RAHUL NAIR is doing an M.Phil. in Modern Indian History at the Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. KAUSHIK ROY studies at the Centre for Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. MEERA SAGAR is doing her M.Phil in English at Delhi University. MITALI SARAN is a freelance writer based in New Delhi and Switzerland. NIKESH SINHA is Vice President (Marketing) at Asia-Pacific Communication Associates Pvt. Ltd., New Delhi. SIDDHARTHA SIVARAMAKRISHNAN is pursuing a post-graduate degree in Law at Oxford University SHIVAJI SONDHI is an Assistant Professor of Physics at Princeton University. K.S. SUBRAMANIAN retired from the Indian Police Service. He was Director General, State Institute of Public Administration Government of Tripura. ASHLEY TELLIS has completed a PhD. thesis on Irish Women's Literature and teaches English at St. Stephen's College, Delhi University |
Back to the top
|
C O N T E N T S | ||
| VOL. IV NO. 9/10 |
36 PAGES | OCTOBER 1999 |
| 3 | Lollipop Street by Tavleen Singh | Sumir Lal |
| 4 | Dalits in Modern India: Vision and Values edited by S.M. Michael | Chandra Bhan Prasad |
| 6 | Globalisation gone berserk. An essay | Sham Lal |
| 7 | English and the Discourses of Colonialism by Alastair Permycook | Rumina Sethi |
| 8 | The Colonial Other: Postcolonial Theory: A Critical Introduction by Leela Gandhi | Shiva Kumar Srinivasan |
| 10 | Innovative India: Science & Technology Review edited by L.K. Sharma & Sima Sharma | Shobhit Mahajan |
| 11 | Knowledge, Powerand Politics: Educational Institutions in India edited by Mushirul Hasan | S. C. Shukla |
| 13 | 1947: Earth directed by Deepa Mehta, based on Bapsi Sidhwa's novel Ice Candy Man | Srijana Mitra Das |
| 14 | All that Rushdie did not see, An inter-view with Bapsi Sldhwa | Anna Nadotti |
| 16 | The Company of Women by Khushwant Singh | Ishan Chaudhuri |
| 17 | Looking for Maya by Atima Srivastava and Awake While All the World is Asleep by Shree Ghatage | Ira Singh |
| 18 | The Book of Shadows by Namita Gokhale | Nilaujana S. Roy |
| 20 | The Flower Boy by Karen Roberts | Nayantara Patel |
| 21 | Devi: The Great Goddess--Female Divinity in South Asian Art edited by Vidya Dehejia | Kunal Chakravarti |
| 24 | Kalighat Painting: Images From a Changing World by Jyotindra Jain | Geeti Sen |
| 26 | The Death of Abbie Hoffman and Other Plays by Rana Bose and Mareeck the Legend and Jagannath by Arun Mukherjee | Ella Datta |
| 27 | Zaika: Kashmiri Pandit Cuisine by Sonya Atal Sapru | Maryam Reshi |
| 28 | Books on Indian design and architecture. An overview | Kishore Singh |
| 30 | Houses of Goa by Heta Pandit & Annabel Mascarenhas, photography by Ashok Koshy and with a Foreword by Gerard da Cunha | Darryl D'Monte |
| 32 | Documenting Chandigarh Volume I: The Indian Architecture of Pierre Jeanneret, Edwin Maxwell Fry and Jane Beverly Drew by Kiranjoshi | Vikram Lall |
| 33 | The Biblio Quiz | Joy Bhattacharjjya |
| 34 | The Tiger Claw Tree by P A. Krishnan | M. Vijayalakshmi |
| COVER: Durga annihilating the demon Mahisasura, 19th century, watereolour on paper, Collection Herwitz, from Kalighat Paintings: Images from a Changing World by Jyotindra Jain and published by Mapin Publishing, Ahmedabad. | ||
| JOY BHATTACHARJJYA is a television research consultant who is also a well-known quizmaster. |
| ISHAN CHAUDHURI is a Calcutta-based journalist. |
| KUNAL CHAKRABARTI teaches Ancient Indian History at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. |
| ELLA DATTA is Arts Editor at The Telegraph. |
| SRIJANA MITRA DAS is a post-Graduate student at Cambridge University. |
| DARRYL D'MONTE is a writer who has published extensively on habitat and environmental issues and is based in Mumbai. |
| SUMIR LAL is Associate Editor at The Hindustan Times, New Delhi. |
| VIKRAM LALL is a practising architect and teacher based in New Delhi. |
| SHOBHIT MAHAJAN teaches at the Department of Physics and Astrophysics, University of Delhi |
| ANNA NADOTTI is a writer who has translated the works of Amitav Ghosh to Italian. She is based in Torino, Italy. |
| NAYANTARA PATEL is Senior Copy Editor at Intelligent Investor. |
| CHANDRA BHAN PRASAD is the convenor of the Dalit Shiksha Andolan. |
| MARYAM RESHI writes extensively on food and lifestyle for the Business Standard. |
| GEETI SEN is an art historian and author of Image and Imagination: Five Contemporary Artists in India. |
| RUMINA SETHI is Assistant Professor of English at Panjab University, Chandigarh. |
| IRA SINGH teaches English at Miranda House, Delhi University. |
| KISHORE SINGH is Editor, Special Projects, Business Standard, New Delhi. |
| S.C. SHUKLA is a former teacher of education at Jamia Millia Islamia and Delhi University. |
| SHIVA KUMAR SRINIVASAN teaches at the Department Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur. |
| M. VIJAYALAKSHMI is Chief Librarian at the Sahitya Akademi, New Delhi. |
|
| ||
| VOL. IV NO. 11 / 12 |
NOVEMBER- DECEMBER 1999 | |
| 4 | Guns and Yellow Roses: Essays on the Kargil War and Revenge and Reconciliation: Understanding South Asian History by Rajmohan Gandhi | Sonia Jabbar |
| 7 | India's Nuclear Bomb by George R. Perkovich III [Full Review] | Shivaji Sondhi |
| 10 | South Asia on a Short Fuse: Nuclear Politics and the Future of Global Disarmament by Praful Bidwai and Achin Vanaik | Sukumar Muralidharan |
| 11 | China's Military: The PLA in Transition by Srikanth Kondapalli | Kaushik Roy |
| 12 | Nationalism, Terrorism, Communalism: Essays in Modern Indian History by Peter Heehs | P .K. Datta |
| 13 | Reflections of an exile. An interview with Edward W Said | Nikhil Padgaonkar |
| 15 | Out of Place: A Memoir by Edward W Said | Shiv
Kumar Srinivasan |
| 17 | Twilight of the Idols in Weimar: Goethe 250 years after. An essay | Arturo Larcati |
| 19 | A Poem at the Right Moment: Remembered Verses from Pre-modern South India, collected and translated by Velcheru Narayana Rao and David Shulman, Posthumous Poems by C.P Surendran and Poems by Amita Modi South | Tabish Khair |
| 20 | The Ayodhya Cantos: Poems by Rukmini Bhaya Nair | Keki N. Daruwalla |
| 21 | Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee | S. Prasannarajan |
| 22 | Smell by Radhika Jha | Anita Roy |
| 23 | On the Banks of the Mayyazhi by M. Mukundan | K. Satchidanandan |
| 24 | Banana-Flower Dreams by Bulbul Sharma | Ira Pande |
| 25 | Evelyn Waugh: Witness to Decline by Shelley Walia | Samuel Giddings |
| 26 | A Sin of Colour by Sunetra Gupta | Shoma Chaudhury |
| 27 | The Weary Generations (Udaas Naslein) by Abdullah Hussein and The Tale of the Old Fisherman: Contemporary Urdu Short Stories, edited by Mohammed Umar Memon | Nabeel Mohideen |
| 28 | The Oxford Anthology of Indian Wildlife: Volume 1- Hunting and Shooting and The Oxford Anthology of Indian Wildlife: Volume 2 - Watching and Conserving, edited by Mahesh Rangarajan | Kunal Verma |
| 30 | State of India's Environment: The Citizens' Fifth Report. 2 Volumes (Part I: National Overview, Part II: Statistical Database), edited by Anil Agarwal, Sunita Narain and Srabani Sen | Amita Baviskar |
| 31 | My Life: A Fragment, An Autobiographical Sketch of Maulana Mohamed Ali, edited and annotated by Mushirul Hasan [Full Review] | Md Raisur Rahman |
| 33 | The Delhi Sultanate: A Political and Military History by Peter Jackson | Seema Alavi |
| 34 | Sonar Bangla? Agricultural Growth and Agrarian Change in West Bengal and Bangladesh, edited by Ben Rogaly Barbara Harriss - White and Sugata Bose | D. Bandyopadhyay |
| 35 | The Price of Onions by Ashok V Desai | Abhas Kumar Jha |
| 36 | Index of Biblio: A Review of Books, Vol. IV, Nos. 1-12 | |
| COVER: 'Young Boy Chopping Chicken', by Paritosh Sen. 1983, Acrylic on paper, from the book Indian Contemporary Art Post Indepedence, published by the Vadhera Art Gallery, D-40, Defence Colony, New Delhi. | ||
| Back to the top | ||
| SEEMA ALAVI is an Associate Professor of History, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi. |
| D. BANDYOPADHYAY is a retired civil servant who piloted Operation Barga West Bengal. His publications include Indra Lohar and the Due Process of Law. |
| AMITA BAVISKAR teaches Sociology at Delhi University. She is the author of In the Belly of the River: Tribal Conflicts over Development in the Narmada Valley. |
| SHOMA CHAUDHURY is a correspondent with Outlook, New Delhi. |
| KEKI N. DARUWALLA is a poet. He was a member of the Indian Police Service. |
| P. K. DATTA teaches English at Sri Venkateswara College, Delhi University. |
| SAMUEL GIDDINGS is a retired civil servant. He lives in Dehradun. |
| SONIA JABBAR is a freelance writer based in New Delhi. |
| ABHAS KUMAR JHA is a member of the Indian Administrative Service currently working in the Union Finance Ministry. |
| TABISH KHAIR is Associate Professor, Department of English, University of Copenhagen. He has published several books of poetry and the novel Angel in Pyjamas. |
| NABEEL MOHIDEEN is Consulting Copy Editor at Businessworld, New Delhi. |
| SUKUMAR MURALIDHARAN is the Delhi Bureau Chief of Frontline. |
| NIKHIL PADGAONKAR is a researcher who also works for the media. |
| IRA PANDE is Senior Editor at Dorling Kindersley, New Delhi. |
| S. PRASANNARAJAN is Senior Editor with the Indian Express, New Delhi. |
| MD RAISUR RAHMAN is currently writing an M.PHIL dissertation on Interrogating Muslim Cultural Identities: A Case-Study of Mohamed Ali at the Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. |
| ANITA ROY is Editorial Executive Director of Dorling Kindersley (India). |
| KAUSHIK ROY studies at the Centre for Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. |
| K. SATCHIDANANDAN is Secretary of the Sahitya Akademi, New Delhi. |
| SHIVAJI SONDHI is an Assistant Professor of Physics at Princeton University. |
| SHIVA KUMAR SRINIVASAN teaches at the Department Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi. |
| KUNAL VERMA is a filmmaker specialising in wildlife and national security issues. |
Return to Biblio main page