Kavita Panjabi
This is a book with big ambitions. Aware of the enormity of her task, Kavita Panjabi, its editor, has done her best to squeeze the universe into a ball—in the form of a fifty page introduction.
Reviewed by: Gillian Wright
Andrew Nicholson
Andrew Nicholson’s Unifying Hinduism:Philosophy and Identity in Indian Intellectual History is an ambitious work, closely and densely argued, from which, as a scholar working on North Indian bhakti traditions and on Indian Modernity, I have learnt much.
Reviewed by: Vasudha Dalmia
Kalayani Shankar
Kamala Devi Chattopdhyaya, a pioneer of ‘cultural revival’ and a life-long devotee for cause of traditional arts and crafts in India remarked in 1983 that ‘dance is today married to public performances just as education is to jobs.
Reviewed by: Malvika Maheshwari
Ved Vatuk
This book of verse is dedicated to ‘Pavitra—the Purest Love’ and the poems themselves are saturated with the theme of love. Untitled and only numbered, they unveil a poetic personality which is affectionate, has the capacity to feel…
Reviewed by: Keshav Malik
Zoya Hasan
EQUALIZING ACCESS: AFFIRMATIVE ACTION IN HIGHER EDUCATION IN INDIA, UNITED STATES, AND SOUTH AFRICA
2012
2012
This volume is the product of a conference with the same title jointly organized by the University of Chicago and Jawaharlal Nehru University, held in New Delhi in 2008.
Reviewed by: Ashwini Deshpande
K.G. Subramanyan
MOVING FOCUS
1979
1979
The combination of being an able scholar, critic and artist is rare enough, but to combine this with an influential teaching career is an achievement. At the University of Baroda, Professor K.G. Subramanyam has inspired more than two generations of artists, not only by his own work but by the impact of his critical writings.
Reviewed by: Geeti Sen