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Off the Record
‘[Ajith’s book] is the first full account I have seen between hard covers which is exclusively about a journalist’s adventures and journeys in the field... An extraordinary first “rough draft of history”, a portrait of India from the 80s to the present time.’ – Vinod Mehta ‘Ajith Pillai’s account of his journalistic odyssey covers the period of India’s Great Transformation from the 1980s to the present. He does so with incisive wit and insight into a breathtaking range of issues. This ought to be a handbook for all aspiring journalists, since Pillai is an enemy of sycophantic corporate ideology and craven submissiveness to wealth and power which characterize most of today...
Junkland Journeys
The witty story of how the world is won by a whacky addict who discovers god in a dog Meet Hari Menon the quintessential Mr. Frustrated. He has everything going for him-a well paid advertising job and material comforts any young man aspires for. But he believes he is leading a vacuous and miserable existence. On the advice of a psychiatrist friend he takes a sabbatical, joins the ranks of the unemployed and embarks on a journey of self-discovery through the streets of Bombay. In the process, he makes new friends including Vandy Mishra. Through her he finds love and heroin. Join Hari's rollercoaster transformation from junkie to godman and his final fall in this riveting tale set in the heady and turbulent 80s and early 90s.
(Un)writing Empire
The contributors to the present volume, in espousing and extending the programme of such writers as Edward Said, Benedict Anderson, Homi Bhabha, and Gayatri Spivak, lay bare the genealogy of 'writing' empire (thereby, in a sense, 'un-writing' it). One focus is the Caribbean: the retrograde agenda of francophone créolité; the re-writing of empire in the postmodern disengagement of Edouard Glissant; resistance to post-colonial allegiances, and the dissolving of binary categories, in contemporary West Indian writing. Essays on India, Malaysia, and Indonesia explore various aspects of cultural self-understanding in Asia: un-writing high culture through hybrid 'shopping' among Western styles; t...
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Inside Nuclear South Asia
This book presents an analytical account of the causes and dangerous consequences of nuclear proliferation in South Asia.
India's Nuclear Debate
Making the right-wing Bharatiya Janata Party’s nuclear tests in 1998 its starting point, this book examines how opinion amongst India’s ‘attentive’ public shifted from supporting nuclear abstinence to accepting — and even feeling a need for — a more assertive policy, by examining the complexities of the debate in India on nuclear policy in the 1990s. The study seeks to account for the shift in opinion by looking at the parallel processes of how nuclear policy became an important part of the public discourse in India, and what it came to symbolise for the country’s intelligentsia during this decade. It argues that the pressure on New Delhi in the early 1990s to fall in line with...
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