Postcolonial Cities - South Asia

Volume 13 Number 2


Postcolonial Cities - South Asia

CONTENTS

EDITORIAL

  • CAROLINE HERBERT

POETRY

  • BOEY KIM CHENG, Kolkata Raga
  • IMTIAZ DHARKER, The Naz Café, Jurassic, Like that only, Number 106,

    Britannia Café

  • ROMESH GUNESEKERA, If This Is a City

GRAPHIC FICTION

  • MALIK SAJAD, From Father and Son
  • SARNATH BANERJEE, Gamanamah

ARTICLES

  • MADHUSREE DUTTA, Ghosts and Citizens: Invocations of Mumbai
  • G.N. DEVY, Baroda: What a City!
  • RASHMI VARMA, Fast-forward-backwardness: An essay on Patna
  • MUNEEZA SHAMSIE, When We Were Young: Karachi, 1963-1971
  • M.G. VASSANJI, A Letter from Nowhere
  • NEELAM SRIVASTAVA, Riots and Realism: The Secularization of Urban Space

    in Fiction by Rudyard Kipling and Vikram Seth

  • ALEX PADAMSEE, 'The melting point of granite':

    Nationalist Tourism and the Reconstruction of Colonial Delhi

  • AVIJIT GUPTA & RIDDHI SANKAR RAY, The River and the City:

    The Ganga at Kolkata

  • RITUPARNA ROY, Postcolonial Cities across Borders:

    Calcutta and Dhaka in Sunil Ganguli's Purba-Paschim

  • ANDREW HARRIS, Mumbai’s Underworld:

    Life beneath Transport Infrastructure

  • ANANYA JAHANARA KABIR, Hips don't lie:

    Salsa and New Cosmopolitanisms in the Indian City

  • GITHA HARIHARAN, Making the City Hers

NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS