September 10, 2024

Sheela Mahadevan on Translating Ari Gautier’s Lakshmi’s Secret Diary

L akshmi’s Secret Diary is a translation of contemporary Indian Francophone novel Carnet secret de Lakshmi by writer and poet Ari Gautier, who is from Pondicherry, a city in South India that was once the capital of French India. The...

August 13, 2019

New Book Tuesday! Social Media and the Public Interest, Nexus of Global Jihad, Barriers Down

Our weekly list of new books is now available! Social Media and the Public Interest Media Regulation in the Disinformation Age Philip M. Napoli Nexus of Global Jihad Understanding Cooperation Among Terrorist Actors Assaf Moghadam Barriers Down How American Power...

October 10, 2014

Interview with Amrita Pande, author of Wombs in Labor

Read an interview with Amrita Pande, author of Wombs in Labor, in which she discusses surrogacy, India, and free trade surrogacy.

June 4, 2014

Akeel Bilgrami and Sumit Ganguly on the Indian Elections

What does the election of Narendra Modi mean for India? Recently, in separate articles, two Columbia University Press authors Akeel Bilgrami and Sumit Ganguly weighed in on the results and what it means for India’s future. Writing for The Hindu,...

March 5, 2014

India's Etiquette Police — A Post by Peter Heehs

“Should a historian or biographer writing about a religion or religious figure follow the protocol of the temple or of the university?”—Peter Heehs The following post is by Peter Heehs, author of The Lives of Sri Aurobindo: In the beginning...

September 17, 2013

New Book Tuesday: The Afrasian Imagination and an Award-Winner Now in Paper

Our weekly listing of new titles now available: Commerce with the Universe: Africa, India, and the Afrasian Imagination Gaurav Desai The Garden and the Fire: Heaven and Hell in Islamic Culture (Now available in paper) Nerina Rustomji