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Early India
by Romila ThaparBombay-London-New York
by Amitava KumarEpic Threads -- John Brockington on the Sanskrit Epics
by Greg Bailey & Mary BrockingtonDhan Gopal Mukerji's Caste and Outcast
edited by Gordon Chang, Purnima Mankekar, and Akhil GuptaThe Horse That Flew: How India's Silicon Gurus Spread Their Wings
by Chidanand RajghattaRestructuring Pakistan: A Global Perspective
by Vinod Saighal
Jewish Portraits, Indian Frames: Women's Narratives from a Diaspora of Hope
by Jael SillimanWho Are the Jews of India?
by Nathan KatzBetween Father and Son: Family Letters
by V. S. NaipaulLiterary Theory and the Claims of History
by Satya P. MohantyBetween the Lines: South Asians and Postcoloniality
edited by Deepika Bahri & Mary VasudevaLo sguardo dell'altro: Le letterature postcoloniali
"The Gaze of the Other: Postcolonial Literature"
by Silvia AlbertazziIndia: From Midnight to the Millennium
by Shashi TharoorIndia Unveiled
by Robert ArnettWhere Every Breath is a Prayer
by Jon OrtnerDancing in Cambodia, At Large in Burma
by Amitav GhoshBury Me Standing: The Gypsies and Their Journey
by Isabel FonsecaIn Light of India
by Octavio PazSatyajit Ray: Beyond the Frame
by Surabhi BanerjeeSnakes and Ladders: Glimpses of Modern India
by Gita MehtaEminent Historians: Their Technology, Their Line, Their Fraud
by Arun ShourieThe Saffron Swastika: The Notion of Hindu "Fascism"
by Koenraad ElstRaj --The Making and Unmaking of British India
by Lawrence JamesMissionaries in India
by Arun ShourieThe Deciphered Indus Script
by Natwar Jha and Navaratna RajaramAwaken Bharata: A Call for India's Rebirth
by David FrawleyThe Colors of Violence: Cultural Identities, Religion, and Conflict
by Sudhir KakarBeyond Belief
by V.S. NaipaulVedic Physics
by Raja Ram Mohan RoyVoice of India publications
by Ram Swarup and Sita Ram GoelThe Idea of India
by Sunil KhilnaniEmpire of the Soul: Some Journeys in India
by Paul William RobertsRewriting Indian History
by Francois GautierAyodhya and After: Issues Before Hindu Society
by Koenraad ElstThe Aryans: Ancient India in a New Light
Four books by David Frawley, Georg Feuerstein,
Subhash Kak, Navaratna Rajaram, and Bhagwan GidwaniReturn of the Aryans
by Bhagwan GidwaniNehru: A Tryst with Destiny
by Stanley WolpertKashmir in the Crossfire
by Victoria SchofieldVedic Harappans
by Bhagwan SinghTipu Sultan: Villain or Hero?
edited by Sita Ram GoelFanon for Beginners
by Deborah WyrickThe Fact of Blackness: Frantz Fanon and Visual Representation
edited by Alan Read
Fiction & Poetry
The House of Blue Mangoes
by David DavidarForest Interludes
by Anita AgnihotriInterpreter of Maladies
by Jhumpa LahiriAparajito
by B. Bandopadhyay, translated by Gopu MazumdarFreedom Song
by Amit ChaudhuriListening Now
by Anjana AppachanaKa -- Stories of the Mind and Gods of India.
by Roberto CalassoThe Snake Charmer
by Sanjay NigamThe Inscrutable Americans
by Anurag MathurThe New Yorker special fiction issue (India focus)
edited by Bill BufordInheritance
by Indira GanesanLove in a Blue Time
by Hanif KureishiThe Vintage Book of Indian Writing, 1947-1997
edited by Rushdie and WestLove and Longing in Bombay
by Vikram ChandraThe God of Small Things
by Arundhati RoyThe Non-Resident Indian and Other Stories
by Sanjay NigamNo More Watno Dur
by Sadhu BinningNew Punjabi Literature in English Translation
edited by Irfan MalikAre You Experienced?
by William SutcliffeHullabaloo in the Guava Orchard
by Kiran DesaiYamini
by Chudamani RhagavanEnglish Lessons and Other Stories
by Shauna Singh BaldwinTamarind Mem
by Anita Rau Badami
The Bride Wore Red
by Robbie Clipper Sethi
An American Brat
by Bapsi SidhwaThe Mistress of Spices
by Chitra DivakaruniArranged Marriage
by Chitra DivakaruniEast, West: Stories
by Salman Rushdie
Articles:
"The Kingdom of Dobru Panna" an article on the Santals
by Kumud Biswas"In Defense of India's Ancient Culture"
by Patrizia Norelli-Bachelet"What Is Ethnic?"
by Bharat Gupt"Gurpur M. Prabhu's 'Anita's Legacy: An Enquiry into First Cause'"
by Ramesh N. Rao"Is God a Woman?"
by Jadunath Trivedi"A Stable Government for India"
by R. Venkataraman, former President of India
"The Civil Service in Transition"
by B.K. Nehru, former Indian ambassador to the U.S."Satyajit Ray's Charulata and Tagore's Nashtanir"
by Kaustuv Sen"On the Denial of Indian History"
by S. Ramakrishnan"Indian and Pakistani Nuclear Programs"
by Ramesh N. Rao"Is the Aryan/Dravidian Binary Valid?"
by Subhash Kak"India Abroad's Brood of Opinion Writers--Analysts or Ideologues?"
by Ramesh N. Rao
"Indic Ideas in the Graeco-Roman World"
by Subhash Kak"Chandigarh Art Installations"
by Balvinder Singh"Mother Teresa's Hidden Mission in India: Conversion to Christianity"
by Dhiru Shah"Why MTV Digs India?"
by Vamsee Krishna Juluri"Vikram Chandra's Red Earth and Pouring Rain: Entwining Narratives and Intertextualities"
by Christopher Rollason"A Basic Bibliography on Postcolonial Theory"
by Amardeep Singh"Light or Coincidence"
by Subhash Kak"Varis Shah's Hir-Ranjha"
by Suzanne McMahon"The Great Bharata War in Recent Film and Fiction"
by Robert P. Goldman"Othering the Other: Ginu Kamani's Junglee Girl"
by Kavita Sharma"Kali for Women: Feminist Publishing in India"
by Ray Deonandan"A Thousand Cows Standing the One Above the Other" an article on representation
by Subhash Kak"A Manifesto of an Indo-American Youth"
with a commentary by Sunil Khushalani"An Indo-American Odyssey"
by K.S. Venkataraman"The Aryans and Ancient Indian History "
by Subhash Kak
"Barbara Crossette Dumps on India"
by Aa SagokiaOn Anwar Shaikh's book "Eternity"
by David Frawley"Rushdie's Satanic Verses"
by Julian Samuel"On the Road in India"
by Acharya Palaniswami"Indus Valley Seals Deciphered!"
Film Reviews:
"East Is East" starring Om Puri
scripted by Ayub Khan-Din
directed by Damien O'Donnell"Devotional Viewing: a poem"
by Ajay Gehlawat
Holy Smoke
Directed by Jane CampionEarth
Directed by Deepa Mehta"Playback as Mass Fantasy: The Hindi Film Experience"
film article by Ajay GehlawatFire
Directed by Deepa MehtaGadjo Dilo
Directed by Tony GatlifKama Sutra
Directed by Mira Nair
Reviewed by Srini NarayananKama Sutra
Directed by Mira Nair
Reviewed by Sunil P. SreedharanKhamoshi--the Musical
Directed by Sanjay Leela Bhansali
Bhaji on the Beach
Directed by Gurinder Chadha
Poems:
"Ten New Poems"
by Subhash Kak"Bhishma's Bed of Arrows," a poem by Jitendra Mohan Sengupta transcreated by Pradip Bhattacharya
"Duryodhan at Dvaipayan," a poem by Jatindra Mohan Bagchi
transcreated by Pradip BhattacharyaTagore's "Urvashi"
transcreated by Kumud BiswasA poem from Tagore's "Mohua"
transcreated by Kumud Biswas"Monsoon"
by Jeet Thayil"'This Place, This Day' and other poems"
by Antonio GomesCalcutta Flowers
by Philip NikolayevSix poems
by Lalita PanditPoetry Society of India, 1998 prize-winning poems
by K. Sri Lata; Supantha Bhattacharya; Falguni Dutta; Ravathy Gopal; Gopi Krishnan Kottoor; Acushla R. Narayanan.Poetry Society of India, 1997 prize-winning poems
by Ranjit Hoskote; Gopi Krishnan Kottoor; Smiti Agarwal;
Anish Vohra; Vivek Naraynan; Vijay Nambisan;
Sudeep Sen; Tara Sahgal; Raghav G Nair Kottoor.Calcutta
by Chetan RoyTandava, 07:32
by Ajay M. NarayananThe Funeral
by Roopa BelurEl Alamein
by Maximillian Singh GillHaiku
by Inder Bhasin
Shortchanged Lives
by G.S. Sharat Chandra
Siesta
by Shampa Sinha
Load Shedding
by Lakshmi Gopinathan Nair
Nataraja
by Priya Kandaswamy
The Secrets of Ishbar
by Subhash Kak
Prakriti
by Gayatri Rajan
Short Fiction:
Retirement Day -- a short story"
by Seshadari Balaji
"Returned Daughter -- a short story"
by Manorama Mathai"Annayya's Anthropology: a short story"
by A. K. Ramanujan, translated by Narayan Hegde"The Vision: a short story "
by P.S. Sri"Shudhi: a short story"
by P.S.Bindra"These People: a short story "
by David Starkey"Paradise: a short story"
by Ramin Jaleshgari"The Homecoming"
by Manorama Mathai"The Shopkeeper"
by Soham Dhakal
"Krishna, Ganesh, and the Rest"
by P.R.Gupta
"Temple Bells: a short story"
by S.S.Moorty
Multimedia Reviews:
Indian ClipArt: KalashKala
by Preeti Jain
The American Accent Program
by Ford Language Institute
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