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- Seeking Palestine: New Palestinian Writing on Exile and Home edited
by Raja Shehadeh and Penny Johnson; Dreaming of Baghdad by Haifa
Zangana, translated from Arabic by the author with Paul Hammond;
The Tiller of Waters by Hoda Barakat, translated from Arabic by
Marilyn Booth
Githa Hariharan
- The Cypress Tree by Kamin Mohammadi Praveena Shivram
- Suddenly a Knock on the Door by Etgar Keret, translated from Hebrew
by Miriam Shlesinger, Sondra Silverston and Nathan Englander
Shalini Mukerji
- The Taliban Cricket Club: A Novel by Timeri N. Murari Mini Kapoor
- The Newlyweds by Nell Freudenberger Nandini Lal
- Highway 39: Journeys Through a Fractured Land
by Sudeep Chakravarti
Kazimuddin Ahmed
- Becoming a Borderland: the Politics of Space and Identity in
Colonial Northeastern India
by Sanghamitra Misra
Prathama Banerjee
- Rainbow People: Reinventing Northeast India by Falguni Rajkumar;
Ethnic Mobilisation and Violence in Northeast India by Pahi Saikia
K S Subramanian
- Looking Back into the Future: Identity & Insurgency in
Northeast India
by M.S. Prabhakara
Yengkhom Jilangamba
- 'Celebrating Sport'. Editorial for a special section on the
Olympic Games
Boria Majumdar & Shamya Dasgupta
- 'Celebration or crisis?'. An analysis of the Olympic Games in the
21st century and the future of the Olympic Movement in a world of
globalised and commercialised sport
Brian Stoddart
- 'Can the Olympics inspire world peace?'. Debating whether Baron
Pierre de Coubertin's vision of mutual understanding is adequately
portrayed and enacted in the modern Olympics
Ramon Spaaij
- An Olympian's perspective'. Why Baron Pierre de Coubertin's grand
vision for sport remains as vital today as it was a century ago
Angela J Schneider
- The Journal of Sport and Tourism (Vol 16, No 4, November 2011) Tania Bhardwaj
- 'Will London get its pound of flesh?. An essay on the legacy plans of
the London Games
Shakya Mitra
- 'Beijing 2008 – a watershed for Indian sport'. An extract from Olympics: The India Story, Revised and Updated Boria Majumdar & Nalin Mehta
- 'Baboo Mitter to Mr Brown'. An extract from Bhiwani Junction:
The Untold Story of Boxing in India
Shamya Dasgupta
- 'Pioneer of the Indian Olympic Movement': Learning about the
beginning of India's Olympic encounter from the letters of Sir Dorabji
Tata, the man who started it all
Boria Majumdar
- 'Games politicians play'. The story of the now largely forgotten Games
of the New Emerging Forces (GANEFO) promoted by Indonesia's
President Sukarno in 1963
Nalin Mehta
- 'India's failed Olympic bid'. Reconstructing the story of the Indian
Olympic Association's failed bid for the 1992 Summer Olympics
Kausik Bandyopadhyay
- 'Olympic Trivia'. Extracts from The Ultimate Olympic Quiz Book Suvam Pal
KAZIMUDDIN AHMED is an anthropologist, photographer and documentary filmmaker, who has been involved in research and communication relating to various issues in what is referred to as India's 'Northeast'.

KAUSIK BANDYOPADHYAY teaches History at West Bengal State University, Kolkata.

PRATHAMA BANERJEE is a Fellow at the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS), Delhi. She is the author of Politics of Time: 'Primitives' and History Writing in a Colonial Society (OUP, 2006).

TANIA BHARDWAJ is a final year student of Political Science at Presidency University, Kolkata.

SHAMYA DASGUPTA is Senior Editor with Wisden India.

GITHA HARIHARAN is a writer and editor. Her published work includes novels, short stories, essays, newspaper articles and columns. She has been Visiting Professor or Writer-in-Residence in several universities.

YENGKHOM JILANGAMBA is a Visiting Associate Fellow at the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi.

MINI KAPOOR is a writer based in New Delhi.

NANDINI LAL is a writer based in Washington DC.

BORIA MAJUMDAR is a Rhodes scholar, and co-author of Olympics: The India Story (Revised and Updated Edition, HarperCollins India, 2012,) and will be covering the London Olympics for Times Now Television.

NALIN MEHTA is a Senior Research Fellow at the National University of Singapore and is the co-author of Sellotape Legacy: Delhi and the Commonwealth Games and Olympics: The India Story (Revised and Updated Edition, 2012).

SHAKYA MITRA has a Masters in Sports Management from the University of Stirling and is currently working on an Ethnography of the 2012 London Olympics.

SHALINI MUKERJI is an independent writer, researcher and editor. She enjoys reading books, travelling and collecting stories that gather up the world.

SUVAM PAL is a television journalist based in Mumbai. His book The Ultimate Olympic Quiz Book has just been published by HarperCollins India.

ANGELA J SCHNEIDER is an Olympic Silver Medalist (Rowing, 1984) and is currently Professor at the University of Western Ontario, Canada.

PRAVEENA SHIVRAM is a writer based in Chennai and one of the winners of the 2009 Commonwealth Short Story Competition. She is currently the Consultant Editor of Culturama, a cultural magazine for expatriates.

RAMÓN SPAAIJ is a sociologist based at La Trobe University in Melbourne, Australia. He specialises in social and cultural issues in sport. He is the editor, with Cindy Burleson, of the forthcoming book The Olympic Movement and the Sport of Peacemaking (Routledge).

BRIAN STODDART is a former Vice Chancellor of La Trobe University, Melbourne and is one of the world's foremost scholars of sport, having written on the politics of sport for close to three-and-a-half decades.

K S SUBRAMANIAN is ICSSR Senior Fellow affiliated to the Council for Social Development, New Delhi.
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