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"With a Mantoesque aura pervading this collection of stories from across the great divide of 1947, the reader becomes complicit in fiction's inimitable capacity to subvert established "truths". A tribute to the power of story-telling, this is a heart-warming, humanizing and inspirational collection that deserves a wide readership." - Ayesha Jalal"Reading through this mosaic of enthralling stories, my emotions relentlessly oscillated between agony and hope. While these stories brilliantly bring to life familiar characters, they also manifest the compelling essence of fiction that takes you to unfamiliar paths. I'm sure this book will ignite in readers a desire to rise above boundaries and divisive politics."- Nandita Das

The problem of hunger in India is often treated as an apolitical issue. There is even less attention paid to the impact hunger has on marginalized communities. Both these lacunae find ample demonstration in how the farmers' crisis was overlooked by successive governments in India until tens of thousands of farmers took to the streets to make their way to big cities and protest.In Can Hunger Be Defeated?, the authors provide a nuanced narrative on how 'Hunger' functions across the broad spectrum of rural Indian society. The contributors have traveled across the country to access the worst-affected areas, such as Raigad district in Maharashtra and Morigaon district in Assam, and have meticulously and responsibly collected data which tells the story of a shocking level of government apathy and on-the-ground distress. Can Hunger be Defeated? is a must read for students and scholars of social development and economics, policy makers, activists, and organizations working in the field of food security.

One of the three major women writers in Kannada in the early 20th century, Gouramma's career was only about eight years and 21 short stories long. Born in Kodagu (then called Coorg) in 1912, she was influenced by Gandhi after his visit to the district and became a khadi-wearing nationalist and budding politician. Gouramma was an ace swimmer and a tennis player, pursuits not common in the upper caste, conservative community she was born into. Her short stories were published as a collection posthumously after her untimely death in a swimming accident at age 28. Caught in a web of family, tradition, and duty, the women at the centre of Gouramma's stories grapple with the demands of love, betrayal, and sacrifice. Several of them focus on the plight and emancipation of widows of all ages. Although her stories must be read keeping in mind the times she lived in and with the knowledge that her writing career was only just beginning when she died, her critique of the patriarchy and the suppression of women through religion and tradition are just as relevant today as in the previous century they were written in.

New Delhi, like many other cities, has an open labour market where workers come and wait to be hired for their daily work. This book delves into the world of informal workers at these labour chowks of the capital. Beyond the waiting and work, each individual carries a story from their village along with a small stove, some daal and a rug to sleep on the street. Surveys conducted with workers from Company Baug, Sarai Kale Khan and other labour chowks of Delhi form the foundation of the narrative, giving us a sense of who these workers are, while in-depth interviews flesh out varying aspects of their work and lives, such as migration to the city, the labour contracting process, their lives in the city, homelessness, disability, wage theft, and the relationships and friendships that help the workers survive the harshness of another day.

In this stunning new collection, Nabina Das takes on the most human of our qualities, our yearning for story, and escorts us through poems that are also lyrical micro-narratives: from the very local-the flavors, colors and tastes of the market; the damp of an earthen floor; the fugitive beauty and ugliness of plastic litter-to the more abstract: earth, water, blood, losses, absences, breath, song, and silence. Anima is our first and best guide: a powerful, fearless entity who will take on any topic, including violent death, abiding love, pandemic loss. Das carries us, as she says in the double-meaning title of the second section of this work, to the narrative limits (and to the limits of narrative), consoling us in the final poem with her fugitive optimism: the image of hands catching light itself where fireflies make moving poetry of the night.>Nabina Das has a unique female voice that draws inspiration from myth and folklore as well as the harsh realities of existence, and often superimposes one on the other. There is resistance here, but also love, and the poems, that seem so spontaneous, form an organic whole.>Nabina Das's poems are very unusual, both lyrical and surreal, and very much at odds with the current trends of precision and terseness. They have a charm of their own-it's her natural voice, free flowing, political and liberating.--MANOHAR SHETTY