Articles by Sumana Roy
February 2013 - Featured articles
How not to write a history of Gorkhaland
Romit Bagchi's book on Darjeeling and the Gorkhaland movement rings hollow.
July 2011 - Cover
Between song and death
A trip to an ancient capital of Bengal.
October 2010 - Cover
Naming Naxalbari
How a village became the name of a fear.
May 2010 - Cover
Small-town chest-puff
Revisiting Narayan Debnath’s Batul the Great. /em
March 2010 - Review
Thousand faces: 'In Search of Sita' edited by Malashri Lal & Namita Gokhale
In Search of Sita offers differing takes on Sita and takes us through the evolutionary trajectory of her many interpreted lives.
February 2010 - Fiction
Elastic
emCaught in the Darjeeling Hills with the wrong clothes./em
January 2008 - Opinion
Of flags, faces and fascism
October 2007 - Opinion
India's Idols
June 2007 - Essay
Dreaming without subtitles
‘Fusion music’ is a much-abused, little-understood term. But at least Amit Chaudhuri understands its inherent promise, as he presents the music of the early-21st-century urban Indian.
May 2007 - Essay
Affair with the back
A scholar’s view of the obsession with the woman’s back in Bollywood cinema. For the voyeuristic camera, the woman’s back is safe terrain
Featured Articles
People versus wildlife  17 May 2013
By Nirmal Ghosh
Reassessing wildlife conservation policies in India.
After the flood  7 May 2013
By Danial Shah
The new realities of life for villagers in Hunza Valley who lost their homes and lands to a natural lake following a 2010...
Disappearing foods  25 April 2013
A collection of recipes that are fading from the Southasian palette.
Eat, drink, write  23 April 2013
By Suman Bolar
A food writer dishes on the ins and outs of her profession.
Brideprice  22 April 2013
By Manik Bandopadhyay
A new translation of Manik Bandopadhyay's ‘Namuna’ by Madhusree Mukerjee.
Among the believers  19 April 2013
By Abhishek Choudhary
An account from Varanasi, where bhang and thandai struggle to survive the onslaught of LSD and Coca-Cola.
Behind the crystals  18 April 2013
By Rituparna Banerjee
Capturing the lives of Marakkanam’s salt pan workers
In search of food sovereignty  17 April 2013
By K Sandeep
Shifting the debate on the Public Distribution System.
Missing connections  8 April 2013
By Sarandha
Girja Kumar’s book on the Indus and the cultures tied to it obscures a tremendous wealth of interconnected histories and...
No place for picnics  4 April 2013
By Freny Manecksha
Kashmiri women tell their stories of the conflict.
'I bowled left-arm chinaman'  28 March 2013
By Jahnavi Barua
Shehan Karunatilaka speaks about winning awards, spin bowling, italics in fiction, and much more.
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Old Faces, New Precedents

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