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Wild Himalaya
A Natural History of the Greatest Mountain Range on Earth.
Fantasies of a Bollywood Love Thief: Inside the World of Indian Moviemaking
Bollywood movies are glorious, colorful spectacles of romance, action, drama, song, and dance. The biggest film industry in the world, Bollywood puts out some nine hundred movies a …
Island of the Phantoms
When three children break into the town library to read from a book of sorcery, little do they realise they are about to raise the dead. But the ghosts they conjure up aren't your …
The Dalliance of Leopards
A sweeping international thriller that explores the geopolitical fault lines of South Asia.Colonel Imtiaz Afridi, India's legendary spymaster, has zeroed in on a new threat …
Amritsar to Lahore
"During the course of my journey, many of the people I met in Pakistan and India expressed a curious combination of affection, indifference, and animosity toward their neighbors …
Post-colonial Discourse in South Asia
This issue of Alif explores a considerable variety of themes and problems that exist in contemporary south Asia, offering perspectives on poetry and fiction, popular culture and …
William Dwight Whitney and the Science of Language
Linguistics, or the science of language, emerged as an independent field of study in the nineteenth century, amid the religious and scientific ferment of the Victorian era. William …
The Song of Songs
A lyrical translation of the Old Testament "Song of Songs" brings together outstanding Hebrew scholarship, historical and religious background information, and poetic sensibilities …
Rataban Betrayal
On India's frontier with Tibet, peace is just a faade and security a myth.The sleepy Himalayan hill station of Mussoorie, near India's border with Tibet, is home to an eclectic mix …
Darwinism and the Linguistic Image
In the nineteenth century, philology-especially comparative philology-made impressive gains as a discipline, thus laying the foundation for the modern field of linguistics. In …