From the late eighteenth century, Calcutta, first city of the British empire, has been a hub of intersecting ideas and movements of change. Nowhere did the restless currents of history play themselves out more graphically than in the composite art of...

For sale in CIS only! This fascinating book, based on Atreyee Sen's immersion in the low-income, working-class slums of Bombay, tells the story of the women and children of the Shiv Sena, the radical Hindu nationalist party of Western India. The wom...

"Das Rheingold", "Die Walkure", and "Siegfried". Parsifal. Tristan und Isolde. Both revered and reviled, Richard Wagner conceived some of the nineteenth century's most influential operas – and created some of the most indelible characters ever to gra...