Ruby Hembrom in Scroll: Why the pandemic has made little difference to adivaani

Coping, holding up, getting through, surviving, managing, carrying on and their synonyms are the instinctive verbs I’m ambushed with when asked about our publishing venture adivaani’s well-being in the wake of Covid-19. The assumptions and predictions that my tiny outfit has to have been upended by this crisis are reflexive. The pressure to admit that... Continue Reading →

adivaani titles @ International Kolkata Book Fair

Find adivaani titles at LeftWord Books Hall no-1, Stall no-15. (Closest entrance gate no: 3) Central Park Mela Ground, Salt Lake, Karunamoyee crossing, Kolkata Wed, 29 Jan, 2020 – Sun, 9 Feb, 2020 / 12 – 8 PM Two out of print titles: We come from the Geese and Angor are back in stock as well.  

Real life is often magical for the Lotha tribe of Nagaland, as this collection of folk tales reveals

A review of Nzanmongi Jasmine Patton’s A Girl Swallowed By A Tree written by Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar... Nzanmongi Jasmine Patton’s book, A Girl Swallowed By A Tree: Lotha Naga Tales Retold, is a collection of thirty folk tales from the Lotha tribe (or indigenous community) of Nagaland. In her introduction to the book, Patton writes:... Continue Reading →

Behind the Indian Boom, an exhibition in London and its catalogue

    Catalogues attract catalogues—who knew? We had just finished Mark Elliot's exhibition catalogue—Another India: Explorations and Expressions of Indigenous South Asia, when Alpa Shah, who'd been to the exhibition contacted us  to collaborate on another one.  The London School of Economics, Department of Anthropology and the School of Oriental and African Studies, SOAS, at the... Continue Reading →

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