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Volume XXXIX No. 2 – FEBRUARY 2015

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Volume XXXIX No. 2 - FEBRUARY 2015By ThebookreviewindiaMay 6, 2017Leave a comment

To understand the wider intellectual-political significance of this theoretically nuanced and methodologically sophisticated study of the Deccan’s past, one has to have recourse to a rather precise and systematic interpretive framework.

Growing Up Issues

Volume XXXIX No. 2 - FEBRUARY 2015By ThebookreviewindiaMay 5, 2017Leave a comment

I’d already heard many good things about Himanjali Sankar’s young adult novel Talking of Muskaan, so I was really looking forward to reading the book.

Reversing the Gaze

Volume XXXIX No. 2 - FEBRUARY 2015By ThebookreviewindiaMay 5, 2017Leave a comment

The title of ChitraViraraghavan’snovel,The Americans, indicates that the Indian diaspora in the United States of America has indeed come of age.

Of Unfolding Relationships

Volume XXXIX No. 2 - FEBRUARY 2015By ThebookreviewindiaMay 5, 2017Leave a comment

Atale of a sleepy town with a tunnel that has its own history, sea with its beach beckoning you to come closer to listen as it whispers its own story and a lake whose depth of water sends its own invitation.

A Terminal Illness Called Life

Volume XXXIX No. 2 - FEBRUARY 2015By ThebookreviewindiaMay 5, 2017Leave a comment

‘Life is a terminal illness’, says the character of Hugo Lamb in David Mitchell’s latest work The Bone Clocks that was also recently long listed for the Man Booker Prize.

Aspirations and Apprehensions

Volume XXXIX No. 2 - FEBRUARY 2015By ThebookreviewindiaMay 5, 2017Leave a comment

Ahmed Ali (1908–1994) is better known in the English-reading world as one of the founder members of the Progressive Writers’ Association in 1936, as one among the four of the (in)famous Angaray group.

A Trope In Fiction

Volume XXXIX No. 2 - FEBRUARY 2015By ThebookreviewindiaMay 3, 2017Leave a comment

The figure of the youthful revolutionary is the space, both fictional and historical, real and metaphorical, from which the concerns of this book arise.

Complexities of A Social System

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Dennis B. McGilvray in his book Crucible of Conflict: Tamil and Muslim Society on the East Coast of Sri Lanka, ex-plores the ethnography of the Eastern region of Sri Lanka, originally inhabited by Tamil Hindus, Moors, small number of Sinhala chena cultivators and Vedda hunters.

Defining Reconciliation

Volume XXXIX No. 2 - FEBRUARY 2015By ThebookreviewindiaMay 3, 2017Leave a comment

Reconciliation in post-war scenario is a complex process which involves genuine efforts by multiple stakeholders, not just the state to build a peaceful society.

Of Myths And Legends

Volume XXXIX No. 2 - FEBRUARY 2015By ThebookreviewindiaMay 3, 2017Leave a comment

In Kathmandu we discover, all the stories of the past are suffused with myth, and legends run circles around historical facts.

Nepal in Transition

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Nepal in Transition: From Peoples War to Fragile Peace straddles two choices—pulling in the writings of influential scholars who have politically explained the Maoist insurgency—Mahendra Lawoti (academic), Deepak Thapa (social scientist) and Devendra Raj Panday, (policy maker and civil society leader),

Trajectories of Political Change

Volume XXXIX No. 2 - FEBRUARY 2015By ThebookreviewindiaMay 3, 2017Leave a comment

Prashant Jha’s Battles of the New Republic chronicles the two eventful decades, after 1990, of Nepal’s experiment with democracy.

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