Charu Gupta
This fascinating book depicts the agonizing life of millions of innocent coastal fisher-folk in South Asia who have become indirect victims of nationalism and interstate rivalry in the region.
Reviewed by: P. Sahadevan
I.P.Khosla
This book assesses the condition of inter- and intra-state affairs of India and its neighbours in the post-Cold War period. This analysis is vested in the post- 1990s period because during that decade South Asia was overcome by ‘liberal internationalism’ that left the region largely peaceful.
Reviewed by: Amrita Venkatraman
Neloufer de Mel
Sri Lanka, emerald isle and home to diversities has hurtled into an abyss of civil war again. The delicate ceasefire agreement brokered tenuously by the Norwegians is over. For some it was barely in place.
Reviewed by: Anuradha Chenoy
Thant Myint-U
The abandoned former campuses of Yangon and Mandalay universities, at one time leading institutions of higher learning in Asia and which produced distinguished Myanmarese from all walks of life, typically symbolize the state of things in Myanmar today.
Reviewed by: Baladas Ghoshal
C.V. Murali
DREAMS DIE YOUNG
2008
2008
Rajat Sen, a bright, idealistic student, the only son of a well to do family, believes in an egalitarian society rather than an elitist one. This belief in the young engineering student drags him to become a part of the Naxalite movement in Bengal in the early seventies, which was a violent movement for creating an egalitarian society.
Reviewed by: Dipu Bezbaruah
Timeri N. Murari
THE SMALL HOUSE
2008
2008
Hmm. So Page 3 people in Chennai are just like Page 3 people in Delhi, or Mumbai, or anywhere! That’s the message of Timeri Murari’s new book, The Small House.
Reviewed by: Sanam Khanna