Even the well-educated layman let alone an ordinary citizen in India does not know the planning process in all its complexities. The concept of multilevel planning is understood even less. A book that describes the process, the way it has evolved over the years, its future directions, the meaning…
Two kinds of debate are dominant in discussions about South Asia’s future: one largely political; the other, at least on the surface, largely economic.The first insists on regional cooperation for the inter-state political harmony that is considered to be a precondition not only for economic growth, but for the region to play a role on the world stage commensurate with its size and population…
Tabish Khair’s fourth novel is a brilliant piece of satire on Islamic terror and Islamism and how the West perceives, as also reacts to the two, post 9/11.
The volume under review is a bunch of studies in the sociology of social movements in India. Never in the history of Indian social sciences has the case for a sociology of social movements received so much attention as it has in the 1970’s. Only a decade and a half ago the conventionalist ‘establishment’ of the Indian…
Ismat Chughtai (1915-1991) is easily one of the most well-known Urdu writers from India in the twentieth century. Mostly renowned for a few of her short stories such as ‘Lihaaf,’ it goes without saying that she was a writer who was much, much more than that.
Feminist historians have particularly problematized the use of conventional archives by scholars, pointing to its dangers and limitations. They have made a strong case for expanding our archival arenas, to include material not conventionally regarded as archival.