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Contents

Editorial: "New Rites/Rights of Postcolonial Passage" Brinda Bose

Obituary: "Nirmal Verma (1929-2005)" Harish Trivedi

Award: "Words Worth: Nobel Laureate Harold Pinter" Vishnupriya Sengupta

Reports

"Erudite and Acute: Umberto Eco in Pondicherry, October 2005" H. Kalpana

"The Malaysian Postcolonial: Conference in Kuala Lumpur in November 2005" Harish Trivedi

"Passing the Post: Conference in Delhi, December 2005" Ira Raja

"Mulk Raj Anand at Hyderabad: Conference in Hyderabad, December 2005" Brinda Veerappa

Book Reviews

"Lacklustre Biography-Memoir." Review of Vikram Seth. Two Lives. Boston: Little, Brown: 2005. Mala Pandurang

"Hypnotic and Revelatory." Review of Hanif Kureishi. My Ear At His Heart. London: Faber and Faber, 2004. 242 pages. £3.99. Somdatta Mandal

"Brilliant Products of their Times." Review of: Girish Karnad. Collected Plays: Volume One, and Collected Plays: Volume Two, OUP, 2005, Rs. 495 and Rs. 545 respectively; and Mahesh Dattani. Collected Plays: Volume Two: Screen, Stage and Radio Plays, Penguin, 2005, Rs. 450. GJV Prasad

"Interestingly Diverse." Review of Jaydeep Sarangi and Gauri Shankar Jha (Eds). The Indian Imagination of Jayanta Mahapatra. New Delhi: Sarup & Sons, 2006. 193 pages. Rs 450. Angelie Multani

"Crystal-Gazing." Review of David Crystal. The Language Revolution. Polity Press, Cambridge, 2004/First Indian Reprint 2005, pp. 142. Rs. 195. Murari Prasad

"Nuanced and Valuable." Review of Vaidehi Ramanathan. The English-Vernacular Divide: Postcolonial Language Politics and Practice. Clevedon: Multilingual Matters Ltd, 2004. pp. 152. US$ 29.95. GJV Prasad

"An Organic Wholeness." Review of Jayanta Mahapatra. Random Descent, Bhubaneswar. Third Eye Communications, 2005. 79 pages. Rs. 145. Jaydeep Sarangi

"A Valuable Collection." Review of Basavaraj Naikar. Perspectives on Commonwealth Literature. Delhi/Jaipur: Book Enclave, 2004. 271 pages. Rs 625. Angelie Multani

"Usefully Appropriating Shakespeare." Review of Poonam Trivedi and Dennis Bartholomeusz (eds.). India’s Shakespeare: Translation, Interpretation and Performance. New Delhi, Dorling Kindersley (India) Pvt. Ltd, 2005, pp. 270, Rs. 399. GJV Prasad

"Listening in to Said." Review of Amritjit Singh and Bruce G Johnson (Eds). Interviews with Edward Said. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2004. 253 pages. $16 (pb). Mala Pandurang

Call for Papers: ACLALS 14th Triennial Conference August 2007, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Theme: Literature for Our Times

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