Shehan Karunatilaka: ‘The state will come after the defenceless’ ‘The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida’ is on the Booker Prize 2022 shortlist.
A passage to Japan The author’s gift is to walk through the doors of other people’s homes and discover their inner lives.
Old plot, new yarn The author has chosen to revive the century-old Bhawal case, interweaving facts with fiction.
A rereading of Kerala modernity The monograph revisits the all-encompassing influence of the Left but also lays bare its weaknesses.
The fragment in history It seeks to foreground the unextraordinary, neglected pieces of evidence in the history writing of early India.
Imperial peacemakersA.G.NOORANIAN Indian scholar and diplomat, a rare blend, remarked that if the United States attacks Iraq, it would be to write another Sykes-Picot pact. It was o
An intellectual giantA.G. NOORANIHans J. Morgenthau: An Intellectual Biography by Christoph Frei, Louisiana State University Press; pages 235, $49.95.
The Siachen impasseA.G. NOORANISiachen: Conflict Without End by Lt.-Gen. V.R. Raghavan; Viking; pages 240, Rs.395.
The crisis of capitalismWALDEN BELLOThe Boom and the Bubble: the US in the World Economy by Robert Brenner; Verso, London and New York, 2002; pages 303, $23.
The American moodA. G. NOORANITHE current American mood is imperial, imperious and imperialistic. From it spring unilateralism, disdain for international law and morality and conte
Conservation conflictsAMITA BAVISKARPeople, Parks & Wildlife: Towards Coexistence;Tracts for the Times 14; by Vasant Saberwal, Mahesh Rangarajan and Ashish Kothari; Orient Longman; p
A balancing act?C.T. KURIENGlobalization and Nationalism: The Changing Balance in India's Economic Policy 1950-2000 by Baldev Raj Nayar; Sage Publications, New Delhi, 2001; page
An institute of Bodology to investigate the past The Bodos are constructing a comprehensive picture of the Brahmaputra civilisation.
