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Contents

Editorial: "Of Topics, Topicality and Time" Harish Trivedi

Obituary: "Raja Rao (8 November 1908 - 8 July 2006)" Harish Trivedi

Conference Announcement: The R.K. Narayan Birth-Centenary Conference, 10-12 October 2006, at Dhvanyaloka, Mysore

Programme of Iaclals Annual Conference, 3-5 February 2006 “The Nation and the Postcolonial,” Visva-Bharati, Santiniketan

Reports

Reports on the Annual Conference:

• "Secretary's Report" GJV Prasad
• "The Local (Secretary's) View" Sudev Pratim Basu, Somdatta Mandal
• "A First-timer’s Experience" Rituparna Roy

The C.D. Narasimhaiah IACLALS Prize: The Shortlisted Essays

"English Studies in Dhaka" Somdatta Mandal

"Saviours of Indian Languages" Sumanyu Satpathy

"An Australia-India Exchange" Brinda Bose

Book Reviews

"Invaluable Reference Work." Review of Dieter Riemenschneider. The Indian Novel in English: Its Critical Discourse 1934-2004. Jaipur: Rawat Publications, 2005, pp. 386, price Rs. 750. Meenakshi Mukherjee

"Beyond Shakuntala." Review of Bernd Peter-Lange and Mala Pandurang (eds.). Mediating Indian Writing in English: German Responses. Jaipur: Rawat Publications, 2005. Hardback Rs. 650. Rita Kothari

"Gender Conflicts." Review of Jayita Sengupta. Refractions of Desire: Feminist Perspectives in the Novels of Toni Morrison, Michele Roberts and Anita Desai. New Delhi: Atlantic Publishers, 2006, pp. 255, Rs. 595. Jaydeep Sarangi

Call for Papers: IACLALS Annual Conference, January 11-13 2007, Benares Hindu University, Varanasi. Theme: 1857 and After: Colonialism, Violence and Literature

New Memberships/Renewals