“sudeep chakravarti”

‘The Maoists are patriots, by their own admission . . . India’s Maoists do not want a separate country. They already have one. It’s just not the way they would like it—yet.’ In 1967, Naxalbari, a village in West Bengal, became the centre of a Mao-inspired militant peasant uprising guided ... More

Goa is Aparanta of old—the Land at the Horizon. The tale of Dino Dantas, protestor and self-appointed guardian of Aparanta, and his innkeeper cousin Antonio begins here, in the sleepy village of Socorro Do Mundo by the Sea, where time holds little meaning and the haze of nostalgia is as binding a ... More

So there we were, Fish, Porridge, PT Shoe and I, Brandy. We were brothers without barriers, friends until death.In an elite boarding school in Rajasthan, fifteen-year-old Barun Ray, aka Brandy, lover of canned fish and beefsteak, hater of Kipling, worshipper of Michael Caine and Mick Jagger, meets h... More

In the wake of proliferating discourses around globalisation and culture, some central questions around cultural politics have acquired a commonsensical and hegemonic character in contemporary intellectual discourse. The politics of difference, the possibilities of hybridity and the potential of mul... More

In this beautiful, inspiring treasure of a book, Sudeep Sen reflects on rain-its passion and politics, its beauty and fury, its ability to "douse and arouse`. He ultimately explores the various moods that water and fluids inherently unravel. The evocative art by an impressive array of leading contem... More

Read-It-Yourself is a series of graded fact books to give young children a confident and successful start to reading. Level 1 is suitable for children who are making their first attempts at reading. Level 2 is for children who are familiar with some simple words and can read short sentences. The boo... More

The Mahabharata is one of India’s most revered epics - a transcendental, monumental literary and spiritual narrative with contemporary resonance.One of the founding epics of Indian culture, the Mahabharata is transfused with ancient Indian wisdom. It is the foremost reference for classical Indian ... More

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