“habib tanvir anjum katyal”

Based on a historicaloccurrences, this is an urgently contemporary tale which highlightsthe process of assimilation of tribal people occurring all over the world. Inthe process it raises vital questions with no easy answers. It is left for youto decide -- Who emerges the victor? What does developmen... More

'Fragments and shaows' of contacts and connexions, rediscovering and relearning their memories even as the inedcapable separations and drifts take over, and the vivid intensities of both the touch and the desire define the landscape that Anjum Katyal, a young woman poet, and Chittrovanu Mazumdar, a ... More

Rudali is a powerful short story by Mahasweta Devi. Revolving around the life of Sanichari, a poor lowcaste woman, it is an ironic tale of exploitation, struggle and survival. In 1992, it was adapted into a play by Usha Ganguli, a leading theatre director of Calcutta, and instantly became one of the... More

In Without Compass Or Map, nineteen men and women, all professionals in the field ofculture and the arts, from seven countries across Asia, attempt to engage withfour diverse cultural organizations by studying them in their own environments,to better understand their histories, their achievements, a... More

These tales, brewed in the imagination of a master story-teller, make us look at the Mahabharata with new eyes, insisting as they do on the inclusion, within the master narrative, of the fates and view points of those previously unrepresented therein: women and the underclass. ... More

These essays explore the intricate connections between worship and performance, the sacred and the profane. In the process they challenge the common assumptions about worship as being simply about religious feeling, and open up the multifaceted possibilities of complex layering and overlapping that ... More

These essays explore the intricate connections between worship and performance, the sacred and the profane. In the process they challenge the common assumptions about worship as being simply about religious feeling, and open up the multifaceted possibilities of complex layering and overlapping that ... More

Simple, tender stories, peopled with children off our streets andfrom our villages, stories full of wonder and whimsy, in which the magical often transforms drab reality and becomes another wayof seeing it. Her lively sketches and drawings enliven the tex... More