Nikolai Bukharin (1888-1938), an original Bolshevik leader and a founder of the Soviet state, spent the last year of his life imprisoned by Stalin. Remarkably, during that time, from March 1937 to March 1938, Bukharin wrote four book-length manuscripts by hand in his prison cell. This title presents an English translation of his Prison Poems .

Features a consideration of the case of Pakistan and seeks to place the surge in extremist Islam within the framework of the nation-state. This book aims to sharpen the distinctions between the Merely Offended and the Violently Offended in the course of examining the causes of offence.

The BBC commissioned Tariq Ali to write a three-part TV series on the circumstances leading to the overthrow, trial and execution of Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, the first elected Prime Minister of Pakistan. As rehearsals were about to begin, the BBC hierarchy decided to cancel the project. This work presents both the script and the story of censorship.

Who killed Mrs Gandhi? Did the assassins act alone? This fictional filmscript suggests that larger forces were at work, exploiting genuine Sikh grievances to settle their own score with a Prime Minister who, whatever her faults, was fiercely independent of Washington and safeguarded Indian sovereignty with a zeal inherited from her father.

Examines the various kinds of censorship which have oppressed homosexual men and women. Discussing artists as diverse as Marcel Proust, Benjamin Britten, WH Auden and Terence Rattigan, Saki and Ronald Firbank, this book explores the true nature of camp and the rich tradition of subversive and comic art created by the censoring of the sexual.

Crooks and Cheats Inc. In the late '70s and '80s a new logo appeared beside the traditional landmarks on British high streets - that of a remarkable Third World Bank, the BCCI (Bank of Credit and Commerce International). BCCI soon became a global corporate empire with former US Presidents, ex-British Prime Ministers and a range of dictators on its payroll, all helping with promoting the company. .

Looks at the history of Christian heresies, witch hunts, and notions of Anti-Christ, and considers what has caused Church outrage in the past, and attempts to identify what offends and threatens Christianity most in the new world order.

Gandhi's close relationship with people and events in Bengal extended over 50 years. He first entered Calcutta in 1896 when visiting India from South Africa. His last visit in 1947 coincided almost to the day with India's independence from British rule. This book focuses on Gandhi's own evolution as a politician and a strategist.

Brings together essays written just after World War II. This title features essays that range across the author's reflections on collaboration, resistance and liberation in post-war Europe, his thoughts and observations after his extended trip to the USA in 1945, and an examination of the failings of philosophical materialism.

Brings together 52 of Tagore's poems and songs. This title reveals a very different Tagore from the one the West has come to know, bringing to light a passionate poet who celebrated the wonders of this earth instead of just pondering the mysteries of the other world. It also includes a CD of Tagore songs and recitations in English and Bengali.

From the earliest times human beings have found it difficult to represent their own bodies in a straightforward way. This book exposes our bodies and our ideas about our bodies, revealing the complex historical and cultural legacies which frame - and obscure - our vision.

Looking back over questions of life, history, exile, identity and Palestine, these conversations capture Said - as political activist, cultural historian, professor of literature and music aficionado - and confirm his position as one of the most passionate and thoughtful intellectuals of our times.

A story of Ludwik, the Polish secret agent who recruited Philby, and of Gertrude, the mother of Vlady, a former dissident whose desire for Ludwik is matched only by her devotion to the Communist ideal. As the plot unfolds through the political upheavals of the twentieth century, Vlady describes the hopes aroused by the Bolshevik revolution and discovers the unbearable truth about their betrayal. .

Traces two centuries of Kathak, from the colonial nautch dance to classical Kathak under nationalism and post-colonialism to transnationalism and globalization. Reorienting dance to focus on the lived experiences of dancers from a wide cross-section of society, this book narrates the history of Kathak from baijis and tawaifs to the global stage.

In one of the last texts written before his death, Baudrillard meditates on the question of disappearance.

Brings together the important essays from the Vsevolod Pudovkin's two key books, Film Technique and Film Acting . These essays highlight the development of his revolutionary thinking on scripts, directing, time, sound, and acting. His films - The Mother , The End of St Petersburg and Storm Over Asia - are classics of silent cinema.

Attempts to disentangle the varieties of offence, to trace the origins of our situation to the failed identity politics of the 1970s and the new language of human rights, and to distinguish between the duty to offend and the temptations of cultural chauvinism.

Presents the writings of David Hardiman, one of the foremost contemporary historians of the subcontinent. Ranging across politics, environmental issues, Gandhi, moneylending, disease, and subaltern history, this book is of interest to readers of Indian history as well as scholars in the areas of politics, sociology, culture, and religion.

Tells the stories of India's food. This book includes essays which range from the rituals of propitiatory meals - from feeding the gods, the priest, the son-in-law or the dead - to the symbolism of milk, and from the probable 15th century Portuguese origins of the traditional sweets of Bengal to the variety of art connected with food and ritual.