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The traditional Native peoples hold the key to the reversal of the processes in Western civilisation that hold the promise of unimaginable future suffering and destruction.

In this booklet, Ali Shariati discusses the specific roles of “enlightened souls” in leading their societies to revolutionary change.

The most recent journal on India, not too academic, but scholarly. The first issue contains a dialogue on "provincializing Europe". Pricy but first rate. Beautiful printing. Hope standards are maintained.

Expensive, but worth a read. Here's a woman who did something imaginative and daring and changed one of the most atrocious prisons on earth. If this can happen in Tihar jail, it can happen elsewhere too.

The outcome of a series of expert workshops and consultations organised by the Third World Network, this Manual will serve as a practical guide for policymakers and citizen groups in efforts to formulate intellectual property rights regimes which meet not only the legal obligations of the TRIPS Agreement but also the moral imperative of safeguarding public health.

Stories and reflections on nature by the ancients, thinkers and ecologists.

Several eminent writers and thinkers write on various aspects of beauty and aesthetics in Indian tradition (broadly understood).

Demonstrates through documents from British archives that cow-killing in India was in fact engaged in on a large-scale by the British rather than other Indian communities.

Shows how our wonderful cuisine, with all its regional variants, evolved from prehistoric times onwards.

The wholly corrupt, demoralised and criminalised structure of American capitalism is being battered and swiftly undermined by one of the most tenacious economic depressions of our time. Swelling debt permeates every niche of the American economy making it completely unsustainable.

An amazing tract that shows how the war on Iraq was masterminded and planned by the governing forces of Israel.

Examines several myths that surround Ambedkar’s attitude to the Muslim community and debunks these within the context of the Sangh Parivar’s claims.

September 11, 1973 was also the day the Chilean armed forces under Pinochet—backed by USA—ousted the democratically elected government of President Allende to unleash two decades of terror on the Chilean people.

This book describes the basic idea behind free software and the reasons why patents and licenses that restrict the flow of knowledge are unsocial developments.

Another aspect of the Gujarat massacre.

All about the Coca-Cola war: how this corporate is stealing our water and devastating our land.

Articles and essays published in the aftermath of September 11. Ahmad argues that the US has consistently pursued a policy aimed at the defeat of third world nationalism and for setting up instead of client regimes in Asia and Africa. This is one power the people of this planet can do without.

The revival of the spirit of the Crusades will impede peace. The old Eurocentric dogmas of orientalism and related ideologies of superiority must be abolished.

Written in the wake of Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s visit to India and his meeting with the Indian Prime Minister, all at the instance of the American President George Bush, the author unmasks the hidden agenda behind this seemingly innocuous first visit between a right-wing nation and a right-wing ideology.

An overview of the economic and political status of Dalits in Tamilnadu.

A collection of essays and speeches by the distinguished Indian historian from the period 1956 to 1998.

Sharma, former Commissioner for Scheduled Castes and Tribes, brings his enormous energies and insights to bear on the problems faced by shifting cultivators in the country in the wake of the current drive of the State against forest dwellers.

This particular issue of Vikalp deals with two issues: the war on Iraq and the impacts of globalisation on women everywhere.

Nandita tells powerful stories of ordinary men and women in barren parts of Rajasthan who became natural leaders in their difficult circumstances. Stories of hope, of unusual leadership.

Simple guidelines to understand adolescent blues and how best to handle them in their growing years. Includes sex education.

Using cartoons, sketches and photographs, these books introduce in an eminently readable form, great thinkers, great ideas and important religious beliefs.

Using cartoons, sketches and photographs, these books introduce in an eminently readable form, great thinkers, great ideas and important religious beliefs.

Using cartoons, sketches and photographs, these books introduce in an eminently readable form, great thinkers, great ideas and important religious beliefs.

Using cartoons, sketches and photographs, these books introduce in an eminently readable form, great thinkers, great ideas and important religious beliefs.

Satprem is a priceless writer, explaining with crystal clarity the significance of Aurobindo and the new being that he announced to the world.

A small booklet which articulates and justifies the rights of young people.

Challenges everything you may have found acceptable about the 20th century.

A study on womens experiences with Depo-Provera, an injectable contraceptive being pushed by corporate drug pushers.

When Christine Maggiore tested HIV positive more than a decade ago, she set out on a search for the full implications, facts and options available to enable her live a healthy, active and drug-free life, defying the HIV=AIDS=Death formula.

A book on Biogas

Two essays on two international war criminals in one booklet.

The author explores the social explosion generated by the indigenous people in Bolivia as part of the wider, on-going social transformation re-shaping the entire region.

The Zapatistas challenge in word and deed every aspect of our society.

A unique personal memoire of the major battle that decided the fate of the French empire in South East Asia.

Spiritual identity is unmade by adherence to these (Western) uniforms and such unmaking is particularly destructive to non-Western peoples who wear modern dress, as it is so far removed from their own spiritual and cultural traditions.

Published on the 200th anniversary of the 13-year Haitian war of liberation, the author commemorates the successful establishment of the world’s first “black” republic to remind us that our ancestors were capable of inflicting military defeats upon Western powers and taking their future development into their own hands.

The addiction of the Third World to the West in both material and intellectual terms is an illness. How do we deal with this disease which has got more virulent in our time?

Malcolm X’s speech on apartheid at the University of Ghana in 1964 is still of relevance today when Americans of George Bush’s America find themselves ashamed to say they are Americans.

This pamphlet explains why poverty, deprivation and insecurity await the economies which choose to go the free-market, globalisation route.

An incisive, succinct essay.

Citizens International has published as a pamphlet, the first chapter of one of the most famous tracts on how to reconstruct ways of learning that will liberate rather than oppress.

Written nearly 40 years ago when North African national independence movements were gaining momentum, this pamphlet explains why colonization destroys both the coloniser and the colonised.

A report on evictions in India’s major cities.

How the Western economies have built and perpetuated their parasitic colonial system.

Essays from 28 authors reporting on the various forms of opposition to globalization that are seen in different countries of Latin America as people start social movements in an attempt to take back control of their countries and their lives.

Dr. Ang Swee Chai, an orthopaedic surgeon, living with her husband in exile in London, responded to an international SOS for an orthopaedic surgeon to treat war victims in Beirut in the wake of the Israeli invasion of Lebanon and the Sabra-Shatila massacres in 1982. She writes this eye-witness account of life in the camps, the slaughter of unarmed children, women, the aged and the infirm – all atrocities justified in the name of the greater glory of Jerusalem. In 1987, the PLO Chairman, Yasser Arafat awarded Dr. Ang the Star of Palestine, the highest award for service to the Palestine people. From Beirut to Jerusalem is the moving story of one woman’s effort to make the world notice the plight of the Palestinian people.

East Asia is among the richest parts of the world. Despite political authoritarianism, human rights violations, corruption, repression of labour unions, gender discrimination and mistreatment of ethnic minorities, the citizens of East Asian economies have experienced improvement in income and general well being. The author analyses the unorthodox methods employed to achieve this spectacular growth even as East Asian countries have rejected the so-called Western ‘best practice’ policies.

A selection of readings on Marx and the agrarian economy. The first part deal with Marx’s writing on pre-capitalist relationships, the second part is on the Marxist theory of rent and the third part relates to the process of capitalist development in agriculture and the formation of a class of capitalist producers. The author is a professor of economics at JNU, Delhi.

At the end of 2006, the people of Venezuela re-elected Hugo Chavez as President with a huge majority. Elsewhere in South America, Daniel Ortega also won the Presidency and, in Ecuador, Rafael Correa’s pledge to reverse his country’s participation in the US-backed free trade for the Americas ensured his victory too. There is clearly a march of the poor and the agrarian over the elite-dominated politics of Latin America. In this book Ali discusses the enormous influence of Fidel Castro on both Chavez and Evo Morales, the newly elected President of Bolivia and contrasts the Cuban and Venezuelan revolutions.

This booklet alerts the public to the dangers of providing sex education too early to children in schools.

Narrain, a graduate of National Law School and Bhan who styles himself as a queer rights activist have compiled this anthology of 30 essays wherein the contributors discuss the same-sex movement, the legal challenges which the community faces, the everyday personal journeys of queer people, which articulate what it means to live life on the margins of institutions such as marriage, monogamy and family, and how through public demonstrations and protests a wider public consciousness about the issue has been created.

A collection of 10 short stories set among the Dalits of Tamilnadu which display the full potential of the weak: bawdy comments and rustic humour to undermine the Brahmanical order

A collection of comtemporary Malayalam stories authored by women. Produced by Women Unlimited.

Lawrie Baker’s books on low cost housing are always in demand and now that several of them are out of print the other India Bookstore has started xeroxing copies to satisfy our customers. But Lawrie baker was more than just an architect. He was a para medic and a social worker and, together with his wife, spent over a decade in rural districts bordering Nepal and Tibet providing health care to less fortunate people. Later they started and developed a rural hospital in Kottayam. This is the other side of Lawrie Baker as revealed by Elizabeth - his wife and companion of over sixty years.

Jana Natya Manch (Janam) is india’s best-known radical street theatre group. Founded in 1973 the group has done about 8000 performances of its 80-odd street plays in over 140 towns, cities and villages of India. This book is a collection of writings which describe and reflect on Janam’s work, including two by the legendary founder Safdar Hashmi who was killed in an attack during one of the performances. For anyone interested in theatre and its connection with politics, society and culture this book is a must read.

The legendary leftist thinker of the south finally produces a book discussing his major preoccupations. We cannot avoid thinking except within the framework of a People’s War against imperialism, writes this eastern Marxist. What is most interesting about the book is that it is completely unconventional, radical, feminist, anti-war and looks at religious groups including the Muslims as an important vanguard against imperialism.

This book contains a series of essays, first published in the journal Frontier which, in the author’s own words, ‘is intended to educate the activist on the losing battles that the Indian people have been waging against the forces of exploitation and obscurantism.’

An enthralling account of a motorbike journey across the country to the top of the world - the Himalayas. The book is a fast enjoyable read, captivating the reader with its vivid descriptions of places visited, adventurous experiences, reflective ramblings, and is peppered with humour throughout. Read it and you may be inspired to take a wild ride yourself.

Winner of the 2008 Booker prize, this is the story of Balram Halwai, a poor servant turned entrepreneur who is also a philosopher and a murderer. It is a tale of two Indias – the darkness of Indian village life and the amoral, nonchalent existence of the rich and powerful in urbane India.

An essay by Rabindranath Tagore, written in 1924, relevant even today.

This book is part of a series of publications on ecological traditions of India. The heritage of Tamilnadu is replete with different ecological traditions such as groves, trees, tanks, animals and mountains revered as sacred and special by people long ago and even today. The book discusses these in a collection of essays by eminent persons. Topics discussed include ecological tradition in Tamil literature, the 5 thinais (tracts), sacred groves, sacred tanks, sacred trees, the ery system, the terracotta tradition, gardens and mountains etc.

This book is part of a series of publications on ecological traditions of India. The heritage of Karnataka is replete with different ecological traditions such as groves, trees, tanks, animals and mountains revered as sacred and special by people long ago and even today. The book discusses these in a collection of essays by eminent persons. Topics discussed include Karnataks’s ecological heritage, sacred groves, sacred animals, traditional architecture, wild orchids, priorities for conservation etc.

This book is part of a series of publications on ecological traditions of India. The heritage of Andhra Pradesh is replete with different ecological traditions such as groves, trees, tanks, animals and mountains revered as sacred and special by people long ago and even today. The book discusses these in a collection of essays by eminent persons. Topics discussed include ecological traditions, traditional water management practices, sacred rocks, evolution of forest policies, conservation of avian diversity etc.

The book discusses global warming and the oil crisis. It aspires to show how society can return to a fossil fuel - free society which, it argues, will happen sooner rather than later. It also contains practical ideas for action. The author is an environment activist.