Amit Baishya

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:
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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:
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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:
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Plantation Worlds Published in South Asian Review (Ahead of Print, 2025)

Review 30: Plantation Worlds by Maan Barua (Duke UP) reviewed by Bikash Bhattacharya:
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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:
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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:
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

“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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The May issue is out, with a cover feature on Delhi + Laila Lalami, Marie Lundquist, Katie Goh, visits to Tashkent & Xalapa, reading trends in Iran, 30 book reviews, and more. Check out the contents here: worldliteraturetoday.org/2025/may.

“Given the multispecies theme of this issue’s Delhi cover feature, I got to wondering: How often do plants and animals appear in WLT?”

Daniel Simons’s editor’s note is a great place to begin the May issue.

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Introduction, by Amit R. Baishya Guest editor Amit R. Baishya introduces this special section on Delhi | In the Anthroposcene

An edited special issue of @worldlittoday.bsky.social on Delhi in the Anthropocene has been published in print and online. The issue has works by Vandana Singh, Siddhartha Deb, Manjula Padmanabhan, Sumana Roy, Nitoo Das, Prateek Vats and Vishwajyoti Ghosh: worldliteraturetoday.org/2025/may/int...

Mumbai on Two Wheels: Cycling, Urban Space, and Sustainable Mobility Published in South Asian Review (Ahead of Print, 2025)

Review 27: Mumbai on Two Wheels (Stanford UP) by Jonathan Shapiro Anjaria. Reviewer: Abhisruti Sarma:
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Wings, Angels, Tentacles: Talking with Siddhartha Deb “What lies outside the weird—the subconscious, our dreams, our fantasies, the monster, the alien—these are possible sources of liberation.”

New at PB, @amitbaishya.bsky.social interviews @siddharthadeb.bsky.social about his third novel “The Light at the End of the World” (Soho Press), which is both metaphorically and literally weird: “Nature” is both ruined and available for reading as ruins.

Wings, Angels, Tentacles: Talking with Siddhartha Deb - Public Books “Each novel is always a new project, somewhat experimental, building on earlier obsessions but departing from them formally.”

My interview with @siddharthadeb.bsky.social in Public Books. We talk about traditions of the weird, Walter Benjamin, Strugatsky brothers, the Anthropocene and a whole host of stuff: www.publicbooks.org/wings-angels...

Ecoceanic: Southern Flows Published in South Asian Review (Ahead of Print, 2025)

Review 26: Ecooceanic: Southern Flows edited by Tarun Saint and Francesco Verso. Reviewed by Atanu Bhattacharya and Anna Juhi John:
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

EVERYONE READ THIS BOOK

Folks, please #SignalBoost this story about Columbia graduate student Mahmoud Khalil, a green card holder with a US wife. He has been detained and disappeared by ICE for his political protests about Palestine.

The cover of Ricardo Levins Morales' paperback book The Land Knows the Way - Eco-Social Insights for Liberation. It features a solidarity fist rising from lower left to the top right, inside which is drawn various layers of soil and substrates, some with small critters, building up to a stream and tall green plants above. In the background are rolling hills with lush vegetation against a sky streaked with different shades of blue.

Ricardo's newest offering isn't a new poster - it's a book! The Land Knows The Way: Eco-Social Insights for Liberation is a collection of political medicines – gathered and gleaned over 6 decades from people's movements and our planet's ecology. Get your copy: www.rlmartstudio.com/product/land...

The Indian Restaurant(s) Published in South Asian Review (Ahead of Print, 2025)

Alia Yunis's "The Indian Restaurant(s)"--Essay 4 in the forum Palestine and South Asia:
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Palestine and the Political Life of Prayer in Kashmir Published in South Asian Review (Ahead of Print, 2025)

Ather Zia's Palestine and the Political Life of Prayer in Kashmir--Essay 3 in the forum "Palestine and South Asia":
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

On the Conditions of the Possibility of Our Anticolonial Synaesthetics Published in South Asian Review (Ahead of Print, 2025)

Asma Abbas's On the Conditions of the Possibility of Our Anticolonial Synaesthetics--essay 2 in the forum "Palestine and South Asia":
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Religion as an Imperial Category: The Tragedy of Multiethnic Lifeworlds in India and Palestine Published in South Asian Review (Ahead of Print, 2025)

Here's Tithi Bhattacharya's "Religion as an Imperial Category: The Tragedy of Multiethnic Lifeworlds in India and Palestine"--Essay 1 in the forum "Palestine and South Asia":
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“The Rebel Face of Hope”: Palestine and South Asia Published in South Asian Review (Ahead of Print, 2025)

@niyerseattle.bsky.social and I co-edited a forum on "Palestine and South Asia" for South Asian Review with contributions by Tithi Bhattacharya, Ather Zia, Asma Abbas and Alia Yunis. Here's our intro:
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

States of Disconnect: The China-India Literary Relation in the Twentieth Century Published in South Asian Review (Ahead of Print, 2025)

Review 25: States of Disconnect by Adhira Mangalagiri (reviewer: Amrita De):
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

An article on the MLAs suppression of Resolution 2025-1 written by Eva Cherniavsky and yours truly