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Toilets before Temples – Rohit Lamba

Where India Goes: Abandoned Toilets, Stunted Development and the Costs of Caste by Diane Coffey and Dean Spears Harper Collins India, 288 pp., 2017. “Sanitation is more important than political independence” -Mahatma Gandhi Diane Coffey and Dean Spears are social scientists par excellence who are addressing intellectual puzzles that directly matter in improving the lives […]

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Introducing Lekh – Editors Note

South Asia is replete with literary traditions and scribes. This legacy stretching back to centuries old processes of literary activities came to be documented more cogently during the course of the twentieth century amidst a sweeping wave of academic professionalization that transformed both the tradition and criticism surrounding the production of South Asian literature. Seventy years on, […]

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