http://www.akashkapur.com Akash Kapur's website Wed, 01 Sep 2010 05:04:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc en hourly 1 http://www.akashkapur.com/2001/08/the-picador-book-of-modern-indian-writing/ http://www.akashkapur.com/2001/08/the-picador-book-of-modern-indian-writing/#comments Mon, 13 Aug 2001 10:06:34 +0000 akash http://www.akashkapur.com/?p=78 Review of The Picador Book of Modern Indian Writing, edited by Amit Chaudhuri, The New Statesman Anyone turning to this anthology in search of a tradition is likely to be rather bewildered by the bedlam of languages, themes and genres. But perhaps there is method in this madness. So many of the pieces in this collection suffer the same absence of a tradition that, at some point, it seems churlish to insist on calling it an absence.]]> http://www.akashkapur.com/2001/08/the-picador-book-of-modern-indian-writing/feed/ 1 http://www.akashkapur.com/2000/12/subcontinental-divide/ http://www.akashkapur.com/2000/12/subcontinental-divide/#comments Sun, 10 Dec 2000 10:35:01 +0000 akash http://www.akashkapur.com/?p=108 Review of The Other Side of Silence, by Urvashi Butalia, The New York Times Book Review]]> http://www.akashkapur.com/2000/12/subcontinental-divide/feed/ 0 http://www.akashkapur.com/1999/12/a-third-way-for-the-third-world/ http://www.akashkapur.com/1999/12/a-third-way-for-the-third-world/#comments Tue, 14 Dec 1999 08:31:36 +0000 akash http://www.akashkapur.com/?p=59 A review of Development as Freedom, by Amartya Sen, published in The Atlantic Monthly. Ultimately, this is the significance of Sen's synthesis: in pairing the orthodoxy with its critique, in using the language of the establishment to challenge the establishment, Sen has stretched the boundaries of development far wider than development's critics have themselves managed to do.]]> http://www.akashkapur.com/1999/12/a-third-way-for-the-third-world/feed/ 0