The Lotus Singers: Short Stories from Contemporary South Asia

Edited by Trevor Carolan Cheng & Tsui Company, Inc., 2011. The Lotus Singers: Short Stories from Contemporary South Asia is a collection of contemporary short stories by South Asia’s most renown authors.  With writers from Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, the Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka, this anthology gives readers a glimpse into the complexities of [...]

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Fearful Symmetry: India-Pakistan Crises in the Shadow of Nuclear Weapons

By Sumit Ganguly & Devin T. Hagerty. Oxford University Press, 2006.  With the nuclearization of the Indian subcontinent, Indo-Pakistani crisis behavior has acquired a deadly significance. The past two decades have witnessed no fewer than six crises against the backdrop of a vigorous nuclear arms race. Except for the Kargil war of 1998-9, all these [...]

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Speaking Havoc: Social Suffering & South Asian Narratives

By Ramu Nagappan.  University of Washington Press, 2005. Who has the right to speak about trauma? As cultural products, narratives of social suffering paradoxically release us from responsibility while demanding that we examine our own connectedness to the circumstances that produce suffering. As a result, the text’s act of “speaking havoc” rebounds in unsettling ways. [...]

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Wild Form & Savage Grammar

By Andrew Schelling La Alameda Press, 2003.  These essays are reports from an increasingly important crossroads where art and ecology meet. Andrew Schelling belongs, in the words of Patrick Pritchett, “to a small group of poets who are actively engaged with the rhythms and pulses of the natural world.” He is also the preeminent translator [...]

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