EDITORIAL

• Shirley Chew

INTERVIEW

• Claire Chambers, An Interview with Geetha Upadhyaya

FICTION

• Rukhsana Ahmad, Karachi
• Githa Hariharan, Subbalakshmi’s Sari, Imelda’s Fan
• Hamid Ismailov, From The Railway

  Translated from Russian by Robert Chandler

• Vinod Kumar Shukla, Weight

  Translated From Hindi by Satti Khanna

POETRY

• Amit Chaudhuri, Death of a Bust

ARTICLES

• Ranjana Sidhanta Ash, Growing up with Tagore:

  Finding the Personal and Political in Rabindranath’s Works

• Pallabi Chakravorty, Modernity in Bhakti and Bhakti in Modernity:

  Kabir and Kathak

• Claire Chambers, ‘Purity of the Classical Forms’:

  Sexuality, Gender, and Bharata Natyam in texts from South India

• Robert Chandler, Translating The Railway
• Rachel Farebrother, ‘Music and National Identity in

  Vikram Seth’s A Suitable Boy

• Salima Hashmi, ‘The Hue of the Garment’: Faiz Ahmed Faiz and

  a New Idiom for the People

• Aamer Hussein, Re-reading Sughra Humayun Mirza
• Ananya Jahanara Kabir, Beyond Narrative:

  Song and Story in South Asia

• Satti Khanna, The Consciousness of the Listener:

  An Exploration in Video

• Neluka Silva, Cultural Resources for Peace:

  Teledrama and Conflict Transformation in Sri Lankan Society

• Alex Tickell, Great Stories and Small Gods:

  Epic and Performance in The God of Small Things

REVIEWS

NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS