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23/07/2025

‘Sahil Will Come & other stories’ by Afsar, is a collection of eleven stories that opens up windows into ordinary people’s battles with questions of identity, love and belonging, in an increasingly intolerant world where their agency is forever receding. The eponymous story is a realistic portrayal of our uncertain times when anyone can be branded a terrorist, and vanish overnight. Others tell of the loved and revered teacher who is reduced to penury by religious fanaticism; how religion separates two inseparable little girls who refuse to distinguish between each other’s gods; and a couple’s conflict, where the wife seeks security among people of her own faith and the husband questions such ‘security’ and seclusion. Afsar also gives voice to the Madiga who shares a bond of affection and trust with a Muslim, despite social censure; and to the small-town Indian girl struggling to find herself in big-city America.

The author https://www.facebook.com/afsarm is a bilingual poet, writer, literary critic and scholar, who teaches South Asian Studies at University of Pennsylvania. His deceptively simple stories negotiate complexities of urban and mofussil life in Andhra, Telangana, and Hindu–Muslim interactions amidst rising religious fanaticism, to bring out the human element in people regardless of their faith, language, culture, caste and gender.

Translators Alladi Uma and M. Sridhar, former professors of English at the University of Hyderabad, bring to life Afsar’s fictional worlds with fidelity to his craft, and a nuanced understanding of his pluralistic worldview. Working collaboratively in translation between Telugu and English for three decades now, they are currently involved with the Alladi Memorial Trust.

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21/07/2025

𝑁𝑒ℎ𝑟𝑢 𝐷𝑖𝑎𝑙𝑜𝑔𝑢𝑒𝑠 & 𝑂𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝐵𝑙𝑎𝑐𝑘𝑆𝑤𝑎𝑛 cordially invite you to a discussion on:

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐈𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐚𝐧 𝐔𝐧𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐲: 𝐀 𝐂𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐇𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐲
Tuesday, 22 July 2025
5:30 PM (High tea at 5:00 PM)
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𝐏𝐚𝐧𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐬:
Zoya Hasan | Simona Sawhney | Tanika Sarkar
In conversation with author 𝐃𝐞𝐛𝐚𝐝𝐢𝐭𝐲𝐚 𝐁𝐡𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐚𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐲𝐚

Join us for an evening of rich discussion and reflection.

𝐀𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐁𝐨𝐨𝐤:
This volume explores the historical makings of the Indian university as it stands today, by sifting through archives, colonial/postcolonial policies, textual-literary records and political-economic developments. What results is a ‘critical history’ – navigating the force of myth and promise, revolutions and reforms, communities and markets. From the glorification of ancient ‘greatness’ to the riskiness of ‘platform futures’, this book offers a time travel through one of the most exalted and yet most abused institutions of our age – the university. For more information: https://www.orientblackswan.com/details?id=9789354426360

15/07/2025

Ebooks available now! Orient BlackSwan’s ‘Netaji Collected Works’ series is an authoritative collection of writings, including speeches, correspondences and essays by Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose. These volumes are published in association with the https://m.facebook.com/100083407115464/ We are happy to present e-editions of four notable titles from this series:

‘The Essential Writings of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose’; ‘In Burmese Prisons’; ‘The Alternative Leadership’; and ‘Letters to Emilie Schenkl’.

Together, these volumes open up a window into Netaji’s private and public personae, and showcase his thoughts on a wide array of topics—art, music, literature, nature, education, folk culture, civic affairs, criminology, spirituality, and, of course, politics. These titles will deeply interest students and enthusiasts of history and political science, and discerning readers seeking to know more about this beloved leader.

These volumes are edited by Dr. Sisir Kumar Bose and Prof. https://www.facebook.com/sugatabosejadavpur.

Sisir Kumar Bose (1920–2000) founded the Netaji Research Bureau in 1957 and played a key role in preserving the best traditions of the anti-colonial movement and making possible the writing of its history. One of India's best pediatricians, he was Director and later President of the Institute of Child Health, Calcutta. Sugata Bose is the Gardiner Professor of History at Harvard University. He is the author of several books on the economic, social, and political history of modern South Asia, including His Majesty’s Opponent: Subhas Chandra Bose and India’s Struggle against Empire (2022).

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10/07/2025

09/07/2025

In the wake of the 2015 European refugee crisis, two new global compacts were signed in 2018, which laid out the framework for the orderly and cooperative management of global migration and refugee crises. Our new release, ‘On the Margins of Protection’ critiques the global protection regime born of these compacts, and notes how the geopolitics of the Global North, their asylum policies, and dislocations in the Global South all function to serve the needs of late capitalism. In the face of heightened hostility against migrants and tightening border laws, this is a critically important text not only for students of political and social sciences but also for the politically conscious reader.

This timely book is edited by Professor Paula Banerjee https://www.facebook.com/paula.banerjee, IDRC Research Chair on Gender and Forced Displacement; Director https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61559255546607 Asian Institute of Technology; and member and former Director of Calcutta Research Group. She brings together 9 essays, which discuss evolving bordering strategies, such as offshore detention techniques and hotspots, as well as emerging cracks in the extant protection regime along the lines of race, religion, and gender.

Prof. Banerjee notes in the Introduction, “This volume ... challenges ... notions of protection as formulated by the Global Compact as the authors bring back notions of rights, ethics, and justice amidst the cacophony of development and technology.”

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04/07/2025

‘India and Japan’ is a critical assessment of India–Japan relations with a particular focus on the growing power shift in the Indo-Pacific region. Editors Harsh Pant, Vice President for Studies and Foreign Policy at Observer Research Foundation and Professor of International Relations with King's India Institute at King's College London, and Madhuchanda Ghosh, Assistant Professor at Department of Political Science, Presidency University, Kolkata, bring together a diverse group of scholars and analysts from both countries who examine aspects of bilateral relations, obstacles in the way of fully cementing these ties, and the concrete policies that both countries can undertake for a comprehensive development of India–Japan relations.

For The Statesman, former Foreign Secretary Krishnan Srinivasan writes, “There are very few books on Indian bilateral relations with Japan, and this work edited by Harsh Pant and Madhuchanda Ghosh is to be warmly welcomed... The two editors deserve great credit in examining in granular detail the current state of ties between the two counties which go back centuries in intellectual and cultural interaction but were interrupted by the realities of the Second World War and the Cold War.”

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03/07/2025

“Of all human capabilities, it is the capability of expression and communication that is fundamental to our being in a just society. Pamela Philipose in this book takes us through policy and law enacted in the last 75 years of Independence … From the control of newsprint to the control of digital media, she documents authoritarian tendencies resulting in censorship of free speech. Her contribution will help us shape a better future for the rule of law which cannot exist without free speech,” remarks Indira Jaising https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100063627224020, eminent jurist and former Additional Solicitor General of India, while endorsing our new release.

‘Framing the Media’ by Pamela Philipose https://www.facebook.com/pamela.philipose, award-winning journalist and ombudsperson for TheWire.in, takes Article 19(1)(a) of the Constitution, which guarantees freedom of speech and expression, as its starting point and assesses the impact of legislation and public policy on press freedom in India. Moving from the colonial era to the present day, the book covers critical developments: the Press Commissions in the 1950s–1970s; the Emergency of 1975–1977; economic liberalisation and the consolidation of media monopolies; and legislation on internet-based media, including the IT Rules, 2021.

This book is a valuable addition to Orient BlackSwan’s ‘Policy Studies’ series, which is designed to address, investigate and analyse public policy in the field of governance.

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27/06/2025

Orient BlackSwan is proud to present ‘Work, Wisdom, Legacy’, an edict and a parable for the 21st century working adult. Edited by Padma Vibhushan Y. V. Reddy, ex-Governor of the RBI Says and Chair of the Fourteenth Finance Commission of India; along with Ravi Menon, ex-General Manager (Training) at the Union Bank of India; .vikraman.7, former Resident Editor of Indian Express, Mumbai and National Editor of The Economic Times; and Kavi Yaga Author, former development economist at the , Hyderabad this book seeks to explore crucial questions about work and its ethics.

It collates guidance from stalwarts who began their working lives soon after independence— be it in public life (Arun Shourie, P Chidambaram, Yashwant Sinha), the private sector (Narayana Murthy, K. V. Kamath, G. N. Rao, Yezdi Hirji Malegam, .mecklai, Joydeep Mukherji), or public policy (Shankar Acharya, .bhide.71, Nitin Desai, .singh.3388, K. Sujatha Rao, V. Anantha Nageswaran, K. Srinath Reddy).

Further, from eminent professionals involved in other nation-building sectors—such as banking (Usha Thorat, Shyamala Gopinath, Vittaldas Leeladhar, Kaushik Jayaram, B. Sambamurthy, R. B. Barman), media (.125, C. Rammanohar Reddy, .bandyopadhyay.7, Niranjan Rajadhyaksha, Shaji Vikraman), and academia (Man Mohan Sharma, M. S. Sriram)—this book brings together perspectives on professional success, failure, and the notion of the workplace itself.

This book promises to be a touchstone for our younger readers, and for our senior patrons, a humble nod to their contributions.

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25/06/2025

Available now in paperback and e-book editions! ‘Childscape, Mediascape’—edited by Usha Raman https://www.facebook.com/usha.raman, Professor Department of Communication, University of Hyderabad and co-Vice President IAMCR; and educator and independent researcher Sumana Kasturi https://www.facebook.com/sumana.kasturi.5 and member of IAMCR—puts the spotlight on children, childhood and media, from the perspectives of various professionals, including media researchers, practitioners and those involved in secondary school education.

Questioning what it means to ‘grow up digital’ in twenty-first century India, this collection explores topics such as digital media literacy among children and their new media practices; mediated childhood and child rights; children as both consumers and producers of social media; digitality and education; children’s entertainment and leisure practices, and issues of identity, representation and community in a mediated world.

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18/06/2025

Available now in paperback and e-book editions! ‘Banaras Reconstructed’ by Madhuri Desai, Associate Professor of Art History and Asian Studies at Penn State examines the convergences as well as the tensions that have shaped the complex and remarkable city of Varanasi, the iconic Hindu centre in northern India that is often described as the oldest living city in the world.

In exploring the constant re-conceptualisations—both material and narrative—of the city across centuries, this book raises issues central to both historical and contemporary Indian identity, and explores larger questions about religious urban environments in South Asia.

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