Statement from Arundhati Roy re possible sedition charge October 26th 2010
[I was just forwarded this by Pankaj Mishra. In Srinagar Roy shared a stage with Kashmiri separatist leader Syed…
International PEN open letter to Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh (2012)
International PEN have sent a formal letter to PM Manmohan Singh, raising their concerns about the government's failure to…
Great Soul: Mahatma Gandhi and His Struggle With India
Few figures seem more remote from contemporary India than Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, the Mahatma, or “Great Soul,” who spearheaded…
Mob attacks Arundhati Roy's house Oct 31st 2010
[This message from Arundhati Roy arrived in my inbox this morning. The allegation that the news media is colluding…
Writing on the Edge: MSF Anthology
Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières and Rizzoli have published an anthology called Writing on the Edge: Great Contemporary…
Indian Writing on the Global Stage: CNN-IBN at the Jaipur Festival
CNN-IBN reports on the explosion of interest in writing from the Indian diaspora.…
Mumbai, Terror and Islamism: April 7th
Mumbai, Terror, and Islamism Current Cullman Center Fellows Akeel Bilgrami and Hari Kunzru join Montclair State University Professor Fawzia…
With MSF in Assam (2004)
A carpet of vivid green paddy fields stretches away towards a range of hills. Though the monsoon has just…
