Himal Southasian Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Himal Southasian

IT IS THE BEGINNING OF A NEW ERA AT HIMAL 🥳 We would like to welcome @romangautam on board as our new Chief Editor! Under Roman's leadership we hope to deliver to our audience an insight into Southasia you will get no where else! https://t.co/ViuEU7bDlJ

Himal Southasian

📢 FRESH! Whose Himalaya is it? John Keay, Erika Fatland and Ed Douglas’ books on the Himalaya exhibit ways of seeing, or failing to see, the mountains and their people. A review essay by @amish973: https://t.co/5CSY2BlEP6

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"The significance of this important book lies in the fact that it manages to shine a light on the dignity of individuals and indeed the Dalit community as a whole..." @lax_always reviews NayanTara Gurung Kakshapati's "Dalit: A Quest for Dignity". https://t.co/gzndZFkBAx

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"The most visible markers of China’s influence on a country like Nepal is on its institutions, and the slow erosion of civil rights through legislation." From May 2020: @amish973 reviews ‘The Costliest Pearl’ by Bertil Lintner. https://t.co/H3oFcFGVnJ

Himal Southasian

📢 FRESH! Whose Himalaya is it? John Keay, Erika Fatland and Ed Douglas’ books on the Himalaya exhibit ways of seeing, or failing to see, the mountains and their people. A review essay by @amish973: https://t.co/5CSY2BlEP6

Himal Southasian

"Sri Lankan Tamil poetry stood in for history, when history itself failed. It remained a singular, powerful document of one of the most striking tragedies of our times." From Jan 2020, Kavitha Muralidharan reviews 'Then There Were No Witnesses’ by Ahilan: https://t.co/t5Uc4iO1Gz

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"The word ‘crowd’ can be particularly evocative: it suddenly forms, wreaks havoc, and then, just as suddenly, melts away." Sohel Sarkar and and @AnupamDebashis review "Paradoxes of the Popular: Crowd Politics in Bangladesh" by Nusrat Sabina Chowdhury: https://t.co/6WXXqPpntz

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📢FRESH! In Nikhil Menon’s ‘Planning Democracy’, the vision of economic planning shows the strain between technocracy and representative democracy in India. A review essay by @i_sarathpillai: https://t.co/ShtF4ufgBH

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“Reimagining the Tirukkural along anti-colonial and feminist lines is long overdue for a text that has seen many translations and commentaries. Starkly, not many women have attempted either.” @kavithamurali reviews ‘Tirukkural: The Book of Desire’ https://t.co/9BwOAwJiWw

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“In these various permutations of belonging and non-belonging, the foundational exclusions of Auroville remain uniformly and conveniently forgotten.” From February 2022, @SohelS28 reviews Jessica Namakkal’s ‘Unsettling Utopia’: https://t.co/gL2IpUE6fD