Navtej Sarna
WINTER EVENINGS
2013
2013
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
Easterine Kire
BITTER WORMWOOD
2013
2013
The protracted Naga problem has been a much debated topic in the political sphere, yet very little has found its way into the literary realm.
Reviewed by: K.B. Veio Pou
Derek Llewellyn-Jones
The 9th article of the Constitution of the People’s Republic of China states, ‘He who does not work, neither shall he eat.’ This seems to sum up, with typical Chinese compression, what the Doomsday men anticipate when population increases in the present stage of exponential growth…
Reviewed by: Tara Ali Baig