Orient Blackswan

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• 2025
• Book Review

Book Review: Postcolonialism Now- Literature, Reading, Decolonising by Sourit Bhattacharya and Sumit Chakrabarti

1 year ago Editor_Kitaab

Namrata reviews Postcolonialism Now by Sourit Bhattacharya and Sumit Chakrabarti (Orient Blackswan 2025) observing it as a call to action,...

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• 2025
• Book Review

Book Review: Postcolonial Popular Culture in India By Abin Chakraborty, Ramanuj Konar, and Sayan Aich Bhowmik

1 year ago Editor_Kitaab

Namrata reviews Postcolonial Popular Culture in India (Orient Blackswan, 2025) calling it a vital contribution to the field of South...

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• 2025
• Book Review

Book Review: A Cultural Poetics of Bhasha Literatures- In Theory and Practice by E. V. Ramakrishnan

1 year ago Editor_Kitaab

Namrata reviews A Cultural Poetics of Bhasha Literatures- In Theory and Practice by E. V. Ramakrishnan (Orient Blackswan, 2025) calling...

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• 2025
• Book Review

Book Review: Men at Home by Gyanendra Pandey

1 year ago Editor_Kitaab

Namrata reviews Men at Home by Gyanendra Pandey (Orient Blackswan, 2025) calling it a landmark work in gender studies, Indian...

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• 2025
• Book Review

Book Review: Life Writing- A Short Introduction by Rajesh V. Nair

2 years ago Editor_Kitaab

Namrata reviews Life Writing: A Short Introduction by Rajesh V. Nair (Orient Blackswan, 2024) calling it an essential text. Rajesh...

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• 2024
• Book Review

Book Review: The Collected Short Stories of Kazi Nazrul Islam by Syed Manzoorul Islam and Kaustav Chakraborty

2 years ago Editor_Kitaab

Namrata reviews The Collected Short Stories of Kazi Nazrul Islam by Syed Manzoorul Islam and Kaustav Chakraborty (Orient Blackswan, 2024)...

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• 2024
• Interview

“The idea that WSCs does research on women and women’s issues marginalises the discipline and does not take into consideration that gender and women are not synonymous.”- Dr. Panchali Ray

2 years ago Editor_Kitaab

Team Kitaab is in conversation with Dr. Panchali Ray, co-author of Teaching/Writing Resistance: Women's Studies in Contemporary Times (Orient Blackswan,...