Sita’s Voice in the Assamese Rāmāyaṇa Published in South Asian Review (Ahead of Print, 2026)

Review 51: Sita’s Voice in the Assamese Rāmāyaṇa
edited and translated by Tilottoma Misra (Zubaan); reviewed by Ajitabh Hazarika:
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The Planetary Subaltern: On Indian History, Theory, and Texts in the Anthropocene Published in South Asian Review (Ahead of Print, 2026)

Review 50: The Planetary Subaltern: On Indian History, Theory, and Texts in the Anthropocene (Routledge), edited Somasree Sarkar and Agnibha Maity; reviewed by Subhashish Bhattacharjee:
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Sing, Slivered Tongue: An Anthology of South Asian Women’s Poetry of Trauma in English Published in South Asian Review (Ahead of Print, 2026)

Review 48: Sing, Slivered Tongue: An Anthology of South Asian Women’s Poetry of Trauma in English by Nabina Das:
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Attunement to Others Cambridge Core - Environmental Policy, Economics and Law - Attunement to Others

My forthcoming book has now been listed on the Cambridge UP site: www.cambridge.org/core/books/a...

An essay on Kynpham Sing Nongkynrih's Anthropocene Poetics in modernism/modernity: modernismmodernity.org/forums/posts...

AAUP Condemns OU Suspension, Political Interference We urge OU to affirm the right of instructors to teach, grade, and research without political interference, unlawful mandates, or external pressures that hinder academic freedom.

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Being Hindu, Being Indian: Lala Lajpat Rai’s Ideas of Nationhood Published in South Asian Review (Ahead of Print, 2026)

Review 47: Being Hindu, Being Indian: Lala Lajpat Rai’s Ideas of Nationhood by Vanya Vaidehi Bhargav (Penguin): Reviewed by Abhinandan Banerjee
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Pakistan Desires: Queer Futures Elsewhere, Published in South Asian Review (Ahead of Print, 2025)

Review 46: Pakistan Desires: Queer Futures Elsewhere (Duke UP); ed. Omar Kasmani. Reviewed by Namrata Varghese:
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Traces of the Real: The Absent Presence of Photography in South Asian Literature Published in South Asian Review (Ahead of Print, 2025)

Review 45: Traces of the Real by Bidisha Banerjee (Liverpool UP)--reviewed by Harveen Mann:
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Review 44: Migration of Metaphors by Sumon Rahman (Dhaka UP); reviewed by Md Hasan Ashik Rahman

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Review 43: Insurgent Visions: Feminism, Justice, Solidarity by Chandra Talpade Mohanty (Duke UP) reviewed by Shailee Rajak:
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Plant Theory Abstract. In this review of works in the plant humanities, I focus on how five major publications from 2024 engage with and amplify some of the major conce

My review essay on Plant Theory in This Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Theory:
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Review 42: Cold War Genres: Local and International in Hindi Literature (SUNY Press) reviewed by Moinak Banerjee:
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Colonizing Kashmir: State-building Under Indian Occupation Published in South Asian Review (Ahead of Print, 2025)

Review 41: Colonizing Kashmir by Hafsa Kanjwal (Stanford UP); reviewer: Shabeeh Rahat
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Overdetermined: How Indian English Literature Becomes Ethnic, Postcolonial, and Anglophone Published in South Asian Review (Ahead of Print, 2025)

Review 40: Overdetermined by Ragini Tharoor Srinivasan (Columbia UP); reviewer Sneha Khaund:
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Iconoclast: A Reflective Biography of Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar Published in South Asian Review (Ahead of Print, 2025)

Review 39: Iconoclast: A Reflective Biography of Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar by Anand Teltumbde (Penguin Random House). Reviewer: Krishan Kumar:
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Salman Rushdie in Context Published in South Asian Review (Ahead of Print, 2025)

Review 38: Salman Rushdie in Context (Ed. Florian Stadtler, Cambridge UP. Reviewer Moumin Quazi:
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Subjectivity and Decolonization in the Post-Independence Novel and Film Published in South Asian Review (Ahead of Print, 2025)

Review 37: Subjectivity and Decolonization in the Post-Independence Novel and Film
by Sarah Jilani, Edinburgh University Press (reviewed by Rudrani Gangopadhyay):
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Ananke and WLT to Host “Delhi in the Anthropocene” Conversation on June 30, by The Editors of WLT On June 30, Ananke and World Literature Today will co-host a special Zoom conversation event to showcase WLT’s latest city issue, “Delhi in the Anthropocene,” guest-edited by Amit R. Baishya.

@worldlittoday.bsky.social and Ananke will be hosting a conversation event on the special issue of WLT on "Delhi in the Anthropocene" guest edited by me at 9.00 AM on June 30. Registration link for the event in the publicity doc: worldliteraturetoday.org/blog/news-an...

Review 36: Boats in a Storm by Kalyani Ramnath (Stanford UP). Reviewed by Prapti Kakati: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Vikram Seth’s Poetics of Pastiche Published in South Asian Review (Ahead of Print, 2025)

Review 35: Vikram Seth's Poetics of Pastiche (Palgrave) by Melanie Heydari. Reviewed by Sneha Roy.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Intelligence Services in South Asia: Colonial Past and Post-Colonial Realities Published in South Asian Review (Ahead of Print, 2025)

Review 34: Intelligence Services in South Asia (edited Ryan Shaffer and ASM Ashraf Ali, Routledge) reviewed by Vipanchika Bhagyanagar:
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Rated A: Soft-Porn Cinema and Mediations of Desire Published in South Asian Review (Ahead of Print, 2025)

Review 33: Rated A by Darshana Mini (University of California P)--reviewer Ankita Deb:
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Women’s Transborder Cinema: Authorship, Stardom, and Filmic Labor in South Asia Published in South Asian Review (Ahead of Print, 2025)

Review 32: Women's Transborder Cinema (by Esha Niyogi De) reviwed by Salmaan Rafique:
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

I review Tithi Bhattacharya's Ghostly Past, Capitalist Presence (Duke UP) for H-Net: www.h-net.org/reviews/show...

The Promise of Piety: Islam and the Politics of Moral Order in Pakistan Published in South Asian Review (Ahead of Print, 2025)

Review 31: The Promise of Piety by Arsalan Khan (Cornell UP) reviewed by Taha Firdous Shah:
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Plantation Worlds Published in South Asian Review (Ahead of Print, 2025)

Review 30: Plantation Worlds by Maan Barua (Duke UP) reviewed by Bikash Bhattacharya:
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Hanif Kureishi: Writing the Self: A Biography Published in South Asian Review (Ahead of Print, 2025)

Review 29: Hanif Kureishi: Writing the Self, A Biography (Manchester UP) by Hans-Georg Erney:
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The New Screen Ecology in India Published in South Asian Review (Ahead of Print, 2025)

Review 28: The New Screen Ecology in India by Smith Mehta (Bloomsbury). Reviewer: Anmol Dutta:
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“Such encounters with migrants, plants, macaques, dust storms, human-plant assemblages, and angels in Delhi can lead conventional conversations about Indian English literature astray, composting and remaking it anew.” – Amit R. Baishya

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