Wasafiri 70: Britain and India - Cross-Cultural Encounters

Issue 70: Winter 2011

Britain and India: Cross-Cultural Encounters

Fiction by Mulk Raj Anand, Attia Hosain and Ahmed Ali

Poems by Cedric Dover, Bharati Sarabhai, M J Tambimuttu and Balachandra Rajan

Interviews with Nayantara Sahgal and Amitav Ghosh

Art Esasy on Stella Kramrisch and Dora Gordine in South Kensington c.1940

Articles on South Asians writing resistance in wartime London, the staging of Sakuntala in London from 1885 to the 1920s and Sabu

Reviews of Amitav Ghosh's River of Smoke, Zohra Segal's Close-Up: Memoirs of a Life on Stage and Screen, Debashish Banerji's The Alternate Nation of Abindranath Tagore and Richard Sorabji's Opening Doors: The Untold Story of Cornelia Sorabji



 

Florian Stadtler
Editorial

Susheila Nasta
In conversation with Nayantara Sahgal

Bharati Sarabhai
Poem

M J Tambimuttu
Poem

Mulk Raj Anand
Fiction: The Terrorist

Rehana Ahmed
South Asians Writing Resistance in Wartime London: Indian Writing (1940-1942)

Alagu Subramaniam
Fiction: The Mathematician

Elleke Boehmer
Travel Writing: An Indian Traveller's Tale in Bricolage

Anshuman A Mondal and Elleke Boehmer
Networks and Traces: An Interview with Amitav Ghosh

Attia Hosain
Fiction: A Woman and A Child

Sarah Victoria Turner
'Alive and Significant': 'Aspects of Indian Art', Stella Kramrisch and Dora Gordine in South Kensington c.1940

Iqbal Singh
Tagore - A Determination

Cedric Dover
Poems

Balachandra Rajan
Poem

Priya Jaikumar
Sabu's Skins: The Transnational Stardom of an Elephant Boy

Ahmed Ali
Fiction: Our Lane

Sumita Mukherjee
The Staging of Sakuntala in London from 1885 to the 1920s

Reviews

Shafquat Towheed
Review Essay: South Asian Writing Between the Wars: Publishers, Reviewers, Readers

Antoinette Burton
Richard Sorabji Opening Doors: The Untold Story of Cornelia Sorabji

Edmund G C King
Santanu Das, ed Race, Empire and First World War Writing

Sonal Khullar
Rupert Richard Arrowsmith Modernism and the Museum
Debashish Banerji The Alternate Nation of Abindranath Tagore

Ana Jelnikar
Fakrul Alam and Radha Chakravarty, ed Rabindranath Tagore: The Essential Tagore

Richard Lee
Attia Hosain Phoenix Fled and Other Stories
Attia Hosain Sunlight on a Broken Column

Monia Acciari
Zohra Segal Close-Up: Memoirs of a Life on Stage and Screen

Nicola Abram
Colin Chambers Black and Asian Theatre in Britain: A History
C L Innes A History of Black and Asian Writing in Britain

Jocelyn Watson
Amitav Ghosh River of Smoke

Malcolm Sen
Hema Macherla Blue Eyes

Aurogeeta Das
Mita Kapur The F-Word
Saumya Balsari The Cambridge Curry Club