North East India is mostly written about in connection with the politics of space and identity. Here is another one dealing with the same subject. But Sanghamitra Misra’s work is a book with a difference. The difference is mostly due to its treatment of the subject and also the space in which the study is located…
Two young men barely fifteen are seated on upholstered chairs, one resting his arm over an ornate, marbled topped table, while the other has his arm over the chair handle. The one seated next to the table has worn a long coat; all buttoned up, dhoti, a cap, while his friend…
A visitor from Mars in the sixteenth century, Marshall Hodgson used to say, might well have identified the wide network of ‘Islamicate’ societies as the most dynamic and dominant, politically and cul-turally, of all the civilizations on Planet Earth…
The slimness of this book is its first surprise, seeming almost at odds with the weighty title. As Judith Brown states in the Introduction, the aim was to reach a wide audience ‘at university level and even among school students’, as also readers ‘who may know little about India but wish to know more about such a significant and intriguing figure’ as Gandhi…
The stories included in this Anthology of Modem Bengali Short Stories, selected and translated by Enakshi Chatterjee, range from ‘The Music Room’ by Tara Shankar Banerjee, published in 1934, to Kabita Sinha’s ‘The Strange Island’ and Baren Gangopadhyay’s ‘The Hand’, both published in 1966…
The Indian freedom movement is remarkable for its broad coalition of a variety of political opinion…