Mirza Ghalib. Translated from the original Persian by Maaz Bin Bilal
Masnavi is one of the three genres known to have been imported from Persian into the Urdu language, the other two being the Ghazal and the Rubayi.
Reviewed by: Baran Farooqi
Christopher Kloeble (Translated from the original German by Rekha Kamath Rajan)
Christopher Kloeble’s novel, Das Museum Welt, translated from German to English by Rekha Kamath Rajan as The Museum of the World, is an extraordinary literary piece that takes its readers through an exhilarating journey of time and space.
Reviewed by: Sheikh Sana Assad
Translated from the original Santali by Alok Bandyopadhya
The book serves as a chronicle of the lives of the Santal people in the context of their precarious existence in the current setting by bearing testimony to the different setbacks, socioeconomic and political, but most importantly, cultural transformations that have occurred over the past fifty years.
Reviewed by: Palash Biswas
Romila Thapar
Where nationalism ceases to be the movement of citizens from across society and is reduced to one identity which is given priority, this becomes a denial of the very important component of nationalism, namely, democracy and the secular.
Reviewed by: Romila Thapar
Nigel Biggar
What Biggar has done is to pick up some aspects of the history of the British Empire on which there are writings that seek to dispute a particular point in critiques of colonialism, often taking the narrowest view of a complex historical phenomenon, to build his arguments in defence of British colonialism.
Reviewed by: Amar Farooqui
Tan Tai Yong and Gyanesh Kudaisya
The most interesting portion of the book is the ‘Epilogue’. It primarily concerns the deliberations which took place at the administrative level. It underlines the long and intense tussle which took place between Lord Mountbatten, the incumbent Viceroy, and Sir Cyril Radcliffe, the Chairman of the two boundary commissions.
Reviewed by: Amol Saghar