Lord Dholakia questions Government in relation to skill shortage in curry industry:
Following the speech given last month by the Chief Executive of Immigration Advisory Service, Keith Best which highlighted the difficulties facing the curry industry (85% of curry restaurants are Bangladeshi) Lord Dholakia, Deputy Leader of the Liberal Democrats in the House of Lords, asked [...]

US scholars tell Obama administration
Introduction:
Nine scholars of South Asia met at New York University’s Institute of Public Knowledge in March, to discuss the politics of knowledge concerning South Asia as it connects academic and policy work in the US. They represented a range of social science, humanities and scientific disciplines, and their research focused on [...]

By Chitra Sundaram
Renata is a fringe-sporting, burgundy-headed, well-presented woman in her new 40’s. She is my weekly maid, and a meticulous one. She is Brazilian and working here ‘illegally’.
She came to me via my other Brazilian maid, Valeria, who has worked for my friend for years. Valeria left after a few months because her son [...]

‘Making Britain: South Asian Visions of Home and Abroad, 1870-1950’ is a three year project (2007-10) funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council. Making Britain examines South Asian contributions to Britain’s literary, cultural and political life in the period 1870-1950. Complicating the common perception that a homogeneous British culture only began to diversify after [...]

The problematic relationship between the nation state of India and its north east frontier (bordering Tibet, Bhutan, China, Myanmar and Bangladesh) can also be seen in the literature of the north east frontier. In this article, only literature in the Assamese language is discussed. If one tries to understand what lies at the core of the historically difficult relationship between the nation state of India and its north east frontier, one needs to return to the colonial period