Andre Bteille is a prolific writer who has addressed questions of inequality, power, social class, the family, the disciplines of sociology and social anthro-pology, and a whole range of issues, too vast to enumerate here. The array of problems he has sought to understand and his commitment as a writer stem from his unfailing…
One fact about the book is that it is a revised version of the general secretary’s report to the 22nd national conference of the All-India Kisan Sabha (AIKS) held at Vijayawada in June last year.
Rajen Harshe is one of those rare individuals who through their lives have played many roles. He has been and will no doubt remain an activist, scholar, teacher and institution-builder. To get a better sense of what this book offers and why it has been written the way it has, knowing the background of the author matters…
A K.Ramanujans translation of vachanas came out from Penguin in 1973, nearly four decades ago. The present re-translation and re-look at the Virasaivite vachanas by H.S.Shivaprakash and its publication by Penguin is therefore most timely. Some things are striking about the persona of both these translators…
Walking back home from Francois Mitterands lunch party on 25 February 1980, Roland Barthes was evidently a tad preoccupied.
The book is an outcome of a project initiated by UNESCO to undertake cross-cultural studies of doctors in the context of development and modernization.