Annie Zaidi

Love Stories # 1-14 is not arranged in the numerical order one expects to find on turning the first page—this is the book’s first surprise. And it is this note of whimsy that connects the threads of Annie Zaidi’s fourteen love stories in the collection under review.


Reviewed by: Asma Rasheed
Anand Chakravarti

Contradiction and Change by Anand Chakravarti is the outcome of intensive field work in Devisar, a multi-caste village in Rajasthan. The book is of interest to the serious student of sociology. This is not a light book to be pursued by those who are interested in getting a glimpse of the process…


Reviewed by: Rama Mehta
Navtej Sarna

It is a pleasure to hold a book of short stories, flip its pages and discover that each story is actually short, about 4-5 pages.


Reviewed by: Amandeep Sandhu
Uzma Aslam Khan

Thinner than Skin, my first engagement with Uzma Aslam Khan’s work has been a beautiful experience. Truly, there is no other word to describe her writing, which is well-researched as well as derived from her personal experiences.


Reviewed by: Madhumita Chakraborty
Kaliprasanna Sinha

Kaliprasanna Sinha, born into wealth, spent his brief life in the Calcutta of the mid-nineteenth century busying himself with social and literary work that must have baffled his peers, to whom anything not effete was pointless.


Reviewed by: Satyabrat Pal
T. Scarlett Epstein and Darrell Jackson

The Paradox of Poverty is a series of articles concerned with the multifarious aspects of the population problem in the underdeveloped nations of Asia and Africa. The two broad areas that are examined in the studies are the factors affecting fertility decisions and the pattern of socio-economic and political…


Reviewed by: Dinkar Khullar