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4 American Dynasty, Aristocracy, Fortune and the Politics of Deceit
in the House of Bush
by Kevin Phillips; Lies and the Lying Liars Who
Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced History of the Right
by Al Franken
and Fraud: The Strategy Behind the Bush Lies, and Why the Media doesn’t Tell You by Paul Waldman
Daniel Lak
5 My Life by Bill Clinton Mira Kamdar
7 Edward Said: The Last Interview directed by Mike Dibb Ruchir Joshi
9 Is New York Burning? by Dominique Lapierre and Larry Collins Sandipan Deb
10 D.H. Lawrence and “Difference”: Postcoloniality and the Poetry
of the Present
by Amit Chaudhuri
Alok Rai
11 London Calling: How Black and Asian Writers Imagined a
City edited
by Sukhdev Sandhu
Sanjay Sipahimalani
12 Walking a Tightrope: New Writing From Asian Britain
edited by Rehana Ahmed
Alice Albinia with Asha Khan
14 The Heart of a Rebel Poet: Letters of Michael Madhusudan
Dutt edited
by Ghulam Murshid
Nirmal Kanti Bhattacharjee
16 The Hungry Tide by Amitav Ghosh Supriya Chaudhuri
18 The Inner Eye: The Biography of a Master Film-Maker by Andrew Robinson Radhakrishnan Nayar
19 Nehru’s Hero: Dilip Kumar in the Life of India by Lord Meghnad
Desai and Indian Cinema: The Bollywood Saga by Dinesh Raheja and Jitendra Kothari; Foreword by Ismail Merchant
Pankaj Butalia
22 Granta: The Magazine of New Writing No. 86: Film edited
by Ian Jack
Bhaskar Ghose
24 Time within Time: The Diaries, 1970 -1986 by Andrey Tarkovsky; Translated from the Russian by Kitty Hunter-Blair Rashmi Doraiswamy
26 Bombay, Meri Jaan: Writings on Mumbai edited by Jerry Pinto and Naresh Fernandes Darryl D’Monte
28 The Corridor by Sarnath Banerjee Jerry Pinto
29 Ustad Bade Ghulam Ali Khan: His Life and Music by Malti Gilani
and Quratulain Hyder
Partho Datta
30 Languages of Belonging: Islam, Regional Identitiy, and the Making
of Kashmir
by Chitralekha Zutshi and Hindu Rulers, Muslim Subjects: Islam, Rights and the History of Kashmir by Mridu Rai
Abir Bazaz
32 Kashmir: The Untold Story by Humra Quraishi Sonia Jabbar
33 Ambedkar: Towards an Enlightened India by Gail Omvedt V. Geetha
34 Angels, Snakes and Ladders: Memoirs of a Jew from British India
by David Haskell Cohen
Andrew Whitehead
35 Traces of India: Photography, Architecture and the Politics of Representation, 1850-1900 edited by Maria Antonella Pelizzari Malavika Karlekar
37 Stories From the Raj: Sahibs, Memsahibs and Others
by Pran Nevile
Poonam Datta
38 The Ruskin Bond Omnibus Vol. 2 edited by Ruskin Bond Janhavi Acharekar
39 Ambrosia for Afters by Kalpana Swaminathan Karishma Attari
Janhavi Acharekar has worked variously as journalist, copywriter and art researcher. Her short stories and features have appeared in leading publications. Currently a freelancer, she is looking for a publisher for her first collection of short stories, ‘A String Around The Finger’. She lives and works in Mumbai.

Alice Albinia is a writer and editor who currently lives in Edinburgh, Scotland.

Karishma Attari co-edits Prithvi Notes, journal of Prithvi Theatre, Mumbai.

Abir Bazaz is a writer and filmmaker from Kashmir. He lives in New Delhi.

Nirmal Kanti Bhattacharjee is former Director of National Book Trust and currently Editor of Sahitya Akademi’s journal, Indian Literature. He has published translations of Mahasweta Devi into English and U. R. Anantamurthy into Bengali.

Pankaj Butalia is a filmmaker based in New Delhi.

Supriya Chaudhuri is Professor of English at Jadavpur University, Kolkata, specialising in Renaissance and Modern European Literature.

Partho Datta teaches History at Zakir Hussain College (Evening), New Delhi.

Poonam Datta teaches at National Law College, Gurgaon. Her work entitled ‘Imagining India in British Indian Writings Between 1914-1945’ is under publication.

Sandipan Deb is the Managing Editor of Outlook and the author of The IITians (Viking, 2004).

Rashmi Doraiswamy is Reader (Central Asia) at the Academy of Third World Studies, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi.

Darryl D’monte is a Mumbai-based environmental journalist and former Resident Editor of The Times of India. He is the author of Ripping the Fabric: The Decline of Mumbai and its Mills (Oxford University Press, 2002).

V. Geetha is a writer and translator. Her published works include (with S.V. Rajadurai) Towards a Non-Brahmin Millennium: From Iyothee Thass to Periyar (Samya, 1998) and Gender (Theorising Feminism Series, Stree, 2001). Currently she is Editorial Director, Tara Publishing, Chennai.

Bhaskar Ghose is a writer and columnist.

Sonia Jabbar is an independent writer who has worked on Kashmir since 1995.

Ruchir Joshi is a writer and filmmaker.

Mira Kamdar is a Senior Fellow at World Policy Institute, New School University, New York and the author of the award-winning memoir Motiba’s Tattoos: A Granddaughter’s Journey from America into her Indian Family’s Past (Plume, 2001).

Malavika Karlekar is Editor, Indian Journal of Gender Studies.

Asha Khan is thirteen-years-old and lives in Edinburgh.

Daniel Lak is an itinerant Himalyan journalist, currently confined to working in sea level America, where he writes, broadcasts and generally labours for the BBC.

Radhakrishnan Nayar is a writer specialising in international affairs.

Jerry Pinto is Executive Editor of Man’s World magazine. His first book of poems, Asylum (Allied Publishers), has been recently released.

Alok Rai is Professor, Department of English, University of Delhi. He is the author of Hindi Nationalism (Orient Longman, 2001).

Sanjay Sipahimalani is a writer working in an advertising agency in Gurgaon.

Andrew Whitehead, former BBC Delhi correspondent, presents 'The World Today’ on BBC World Service Radio.
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