The Muslim World in Modern South Asia: Power, Authority,...
Questioning Paradigms and Stereotypes
JUNE 2020
VOLUME XLIV NUMBER 6 June 2020
Post-Partition State-making in South Asia
Pallavi Raghavan has written a remarkable book on the early years of India-Pakistan relations...
The Story of Transnational Islam
The South Asian subcontinent counts a significant Shi’i population,...
A Portrait of Rich Friendships
The zeal with which, in the late nineteenth and early twentieth-centuries,...
From Political Freedom to a Socialist Revolution
With the establishment of the dominance of the Hindu Right over Indian politics,...
A Spectacular Art Heritage
This book presents a fairly comprehensive primary coverage of the heart...
Inaugurating A National Dialogue
The 2019 General Elections confirmed the hypothesis...
The National and the Local Analysed
India’s 2019 elections result deepened the fundamental transformation...
Land Dilemmas
The contestations over land continue to remain relevant in the age...
Of the Many Avatars of Money
Money as a medium of exchange, and a store of value,...
Tale of the Great Slide Under the Lens
The Indian economy has been lurching from crisis...
For Vijaya
It is with a deep sense of sorrow that....
Journey of a Reformist-Renunciate
To label this book the biography of a spiritual figure would be a misnomer...
Storytelling of a Scholastic Life
The emergence of the ‘biographical turn’ in social science...
From the Beat to its Maker: Palghat Mani Iyer to Parlandu
Sebastian & Sons is the intriguing title of a book...
Celebrating Poetry
The title—Coconuts on Mars as well as the cover photo of the book...
Poems Homing on Songs and Letters
Shanta Acharya exercises her poetic licence by quoting Elizabeth Jennings,...
Foregrounding A Concept
Given the interest in emotions in understanding human behaviour more...
Down Grand Vistas of History
A very intriguing title with the promise of opening...
Writing as Resistance
The book under review brings together the work of twenty-six women...
A ‘Slice of Life’ Text
During the mid-1970s, Nabaneeta Dev Sen...
A Canon That Shaped A Nation
Khalil Ur Rahman Azmi’s monumental and definitive study on...
A Tradition Called Family
In 2007, when Giligadu was originally published and was available to the Hindi readers,...
Love, Loneliness and Lamenting Hearts
Githanjali’s book of short stories, The Rock That Was Not,...
Women, Sex and the City
In 2004 directors Zana Briski and Ross Kauffman,...
Whose India is it Anyway?
The Fate of Butterflies by the redoubtable Nayantara Sahgal...
Announcements
The Book Review Literary Trust is pleased to announce the winning entries for the Short Story Competition 2019:
First Prize (Rs.10000): Megalomania, by JoBeth Ann Warjiri
Second Prize (Rs.7500): Not A Day For Outings, by Armaan Verma
Third Prize (Rs.5000): Her Day, by Santanu Das
Congratulations!
We will be reaching out to the winners individually.
We would like to thank all participants for an overwhelming and enthusiastic response.
First Prize (Rs.10000): Megalomania, by JoBeth Ann Warjiri
Second Prize (Rs.7500): Not A Day For Outings, by Armaan Verma
Third Prize (Rs.5000): Her Day, by Santanu Das
Congratulations!
We will be reaching out to the winners individually.
We would like to thank all participants for an overwhelming and enthusiastic response.