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Delhi: New Literatures of the Megacity
In this book, leading scholars working on urban South Asia chart new forms of literature about contemporary Delhi. Incorporating original contributions by Delhi-based commentators and covering significant new themes and genres, it updates current critical understanding of how contemporary literature has registered the momentous economic and social forces reshaping India’s major cities. This timely volume responds not only to the contextual challenge of a Delhi transformed by economic liberalisation and commercial growth into a global megacity, but also to the emergent formal and generic changes through which this process has been monitored and critiqued in writing. The collection includes ...
Winners
Brought out in association with the British Council, South India. A prize-winning collection of short stories and poems from the annual Unisun Creative Writing Competitions and The Writers' Circle Prize. The stories in the collection are a good indiction of the great potential out there....' The Literary Review, Hindu
Migrant Epistemologies in Indian Nonfiction of the Long Twentieth Century
Showcases how a range of migrant experiences are crucial to increasing interdependencies between differentially empowered groups across the world. • Theorizes the contact between distinct epistemologies during the migrant experience as crucial for a politics of living in relation to others. • Animates the figure of the nonfiction writer as a public intellectual with an interest in the viability of different worldviews. • Generates a conversation between the new Global South Studies and an older vein of critical humanism from both India and the West. • Traces the interest of contemporary nonfiction in the kinds of stories that emerge in the histories-from-below rubric of Subaltern Stu...
Indian Sound Cultures, Indian Sound Citizenship
From the cinema to the recording studio to public festival grounds, the range and sonic richness of Indian cultures can be heard across the subcontinent. Sound articulates communal difference and embodies specific identities for multiple publics. This diversity of sounds has been and continues to be crucial to the ideological construction of a unifying postcolonial Indian nation-state. Indian Sound Cultures, Indian Sound Citizenship addresses the multifaceted roles sound plays in Indian cultures and media, and enacts a sonic turn in South Asian Studies by understanding sound in its own social and cultural contexts. “Scapes, Sites, and Circulations” considers the spatial and circulatory w...
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A Free Man
"A deeply moving, funny, and brilliantly written account from one of India’s most original new voices." —Katherine Boo Like Dave Eggers’s Zeitoun and Alexander Masters’s Stuart, this is a tour de force of narrative reportage. Mohammed Ashraf studied biology, became a butcher, a tailor, and an electrician’s apprentice; now he is a homeless day laborer in the heart of old Delhi. How did he end up this way? In an astonishing debut, Aman Sethi brings him and his indelible group of friends to life through their adventures and misfortunes in the Old Delhi Railway Station, the harrowing wards of a tuberculosis hospital, an illegal bar made of cardboard and plywood, and into Beggars Court and back onto the streets. In a time of global economic strain, this is an unforgettable evocation of persistence in the face of poverty in one of the world’s largest cities. Sethi recounts Ashraf’s surprising life story with wit, candor, and verve, and A Free Man becomes a moving story of the many ways a man can be free.
Caterpillar and the Mahua Flower
Contributed articles.
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Dalit and Minjung Theologies
Contribute seminar papers presented at the Dalit-Minjung Theological Conference held in Serampore, India in Aug. 2005.
