Indian myths, legends, philosophical threads and Gods and Goddesses constitute the quintessence of this collection presented by the Indian born British poet Usha Kishore. She does not present the Indian ethos as reference points, but she goes deep into these elements and combines her inherent ideas related to feminism and her native links.
Darius Cooper’s poems bear the influences of the revolutionaries in Indian poetry written in English; one can hear Nissim Ezekiel, Saleem Peeradina,
The Wall and Other Poems is Jaydeep Sarangi’s fourth book of poetry and every bit as engaging, exciting and challenging as the previous collections, From Dulong To Beas, Silent Days, A Door Somewhere?
Noted Marxist theorists Leo Panitch and Greg Albo have edited the latest annual issue of The Socialist Register (2015) and devoted it to the analysis of class on a global scale. Comprised of as many as eighteen chapters, Transforming Classes covers various manifestations of classes in different parts of the world such as India, China, Egypt, Turkey, South Africa, Chile, Brazil, the USA and the regions of Europe.
In the last two decades a number of autobiographies have been published both in English and regional languages documenting the experience of dalit-ness and the constitution of the dalit self. Some of these autobiographies are by dalit women and it forefronts the gendered experience of caste, critiquing dalit men, the dalit movement and the mainstream feminist movement..
The known academic culture of India also harbours within it another unknown culture made up of provincial universities rooted in the spirit of the area.