Vandana Singh
When I was a child, growing up in India during the eighties, I believed that adventures only happened to’ blue eyed children in some far off country’.
Reviewed by: Nirupama Subramanian
Pallavi Aiyar
Reporting from China has always been a fascinating experience. Nevertheless, much as in ‘area studies’, western- and-ethno-centrism and value-judgements dominate analyses by foreigners on China.
Reviewed by: Srikanth Kondapalli
Farzana Versey
A Journey Interrupted is a secular version of nineteenth-century Indian women’s hajj narratives in which their sense of their Indian identity became stronger and stronger as their pilgrimages proceeded.1 At its simplest,
Reviewed by: Shobhana Bhattacharji
Sheema Majeed
‘Politics and history are interwoven, but not commensurate,’ said Lord Acton (1834-1902) in his inaugural lecture as Regius Professor at Cambridge in 1895. So also are politics and prose, and, in the worst of times, politics and poetry.
Reviewed by: Rakhshanda Jalil
Nazir Ahmad Dehlavi. Mirza Farhatullah Baig
Oxford University Press, Karachi, has put together a translation of two books (almost two books, since the second can perhaps qualify only as a booklet) which are related to each other in more ways than one.
Reviewed by: Baran Rehman
Rakhshanda Jalil
In Indian discussions of Pakistani literature, writings in Urdu and English tend to occupy centrestage, certain specific themes and issues are favoured by the critical establishment, and the works of women writers, barring a few well-known names, receive scant attention.
Reviewed by: Radha Chakravarty