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Editor’s Note

Articles

PRAMOD NAYAR, Saw(ed) Off: Horrorism as the New Materialism in the Torture Film

ROMITA CHOUDHURY, Daughters of Indianization: Love, Rebellion and Gandhian Imperatives

LETIZIA ALTERNO, Deconstructing History and Memory: Transnational Pasts and Futures in Amitav Ghosh’s The Hungry Tide and Sea of Poppies

HEMA DAHIYA, Reappropriations of Shakespeare in Colonial Bengal

RAJYASHREE KHUSHU-LAHIRI, Disseminating and Archiving Stories of a Lifetime: StoryCorps, New Media and Orality

NIVEDITA GUPTA, Prison as Cultural Hammam: Women’s Marginalization and Resistance in Nawal-El-Saadawi’s Memoirs from the Women’s Prison

SHYMASREE BASU, Imagining Bangladesh as a “Nation of Intent”: The Politics of Female Subversion in Qurratulain Hyder’s Fireflies in the Mist and Tahmima Anam’s A Golden Age and The Good Muslim

Interview

“Stir Slowly – Making a Poem is like That.” Vijaya Singh in conversation with Meena Alexander

Poetry
Manash Bhattacharjee
K. Srilata
Rohit Sharma

Book Reviews

Debotri Dhar, “Recuperating Postcolonial Shame: Self, Sovereignty and the Indic (Imagi)Nation.” Review of Ananya Vajpeyi’s Righteous Republic: The Political Foundations of Modern India.

M Rajivlochan, “A Time of Disconnect.” Review of Abraham Eraly’s The Age of Wrath: A History of the Delhi Sultanate.

Maninder Sidhu, “Up Close and Personal.” Review of Ritu Menon’s Out of Line: A Literary and Political Biography of Nayantara Sahgal.

Leisangthem Gitarani Devi, “Cartography of a Hideous War.” Review of Samanth Subramanian’s This Divided Island: Stories from the Sri Lankan War.