Little India
Volume 36, Number 6
September-October 2015
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Saikat Majumdar’s Introduction to Focus: Little India-The Provincial Life of Cosmopolitanism
Tabish Khair’s The Cosmopolitanism of Small Towns
Anjum Hasan’s Provincial Self-Fashioning in Fiction—Then and Now
Ulka Anjaria’s Chetan Bhagat and the New Provincialism
Rajat Chaudhuri’s Chiptur Local and the Rip Van Winkles of Calcutta
Sudeep Sen’s Rabindranath Tagore as the Intimate “Other”
Lopa Ghosh’s Longing for Artlessness
Kavita Daiya’s Zoos and Provincial Intimacies
Amitava Kumar reviews Ravish Kumar’s Ishq Mein Shahar Hona
Ragini Tharoor-Srinivasan reviews Anand Pandian’s and M.P. Mariappan’s Ayya’s Accounts
Sumana Roy reviews Kiran Desai’s The Inheritance of Loss
Vaibhav Saria reviews Sandip Roy’s Don’t Let Him Know
Sheila Hattangdi reviews Saikat Majumdar’s The Firebird
Jyotsna G. Singh reviews Neel Mukherjee’s The Lives of Others
Jennifer Robertson reviews Sudeep Sen’s Fractals: New and Selected Poems/Translations
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