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catalogues academic catalogue 2015 intern with us contact socially conscious culturally relevant indian children s and young adult books join our mailing list receive feminist news updates about sales books events and more ... sign up now internship applications are closed . big thank yous to everyone who applied watch our facebook and twitter for the next round later this year . follow us talk to us featured book a rag doll after my heart is a unique novella in free verse that of a woman s deep desire to be a mother . originally written in marathi by anuradha vaidya the novella has been lovingly translated by vaidya s niece shruti nargundkar and is uniquely complemented by the stark watercolour illustrations of shruti shyam . explore our piece on how the book came to be or find it in our store today featured books sale fault lines of history the india papers ii the sexual violence and impunity in south asia research project coordinated by zubaan and supported by the international development research centre brings together for the first time in the region a vast body of knowledge on this important yet silenced subject . six country volumes one each on bangladesh nepal pakistan sri lanka and two on india comprising over fifty research papers and two book length studies detail the histories of sexual violence and look at the systemic institutional societal individual and community structures that work together to perpetuate impunity for perpetrators . this volume the second on india addresses the question of state impunity suggesting that on the issue of the violation of human and civil rights and particularly in relation to the question of sexual violence the state has been an active and collusive partner in creating states of exception where its own laws can be suspended and the rights of its citizens violated . drawing on patterns of sexual violence in kashmir the northeast of india chhattisgarh haryana and rajasthan the essays together focus on the long histories of militarization and regions of conflict as well as the normalized histories of caste violence which are rendered invisible because it is convenient to pretend they do not exist . even as the writers note how heavily the odds are stacked against the victims and survivors of sexual violence they turn their attention to recent histories of popular protest that have enabled speech . they stress that while this is both crucial and important it is also necessary to note the absence of sufficient attention to the range of locations where sexual violence is endemic and often ignored . resistance speech the breaking of silence the surfacing of memory these as the writers powerfully argue are the new weapons in the fight to destroy impunity and hold accountable the perpetrators of sexual violence . rs . 795 rs . 557 add to cart sale a difficult transition the nepal papers the sexual violence and impunity in south asia research project coordinated by zubaan and supported by the international development research centre brings together for the first time in the region a vast body of knowledge on this important yet silenced subject . six country volumes one each on bangladesh nepal pakistan sri lanka and two on india comprising over fifty research papers and two book length studies detail the histories of sexual violence and look at the systemic institutional societal individual and community structures that work together to perpetuate impunity for perpetrators . the essays in this volume focus on nepal which though not directly colonized has not remained immune from the influence of colonialism in its neighbourhood . in addition to home grown feudal patriarchal structures the writers in this volume clearly demonstrate that it is the larger colonial and post colonial context of the subcontinent that has enabled the structuring of inequalities and power relations in ways that today allow for widespread sexual violence and impunity in the country through legal systems medical regimes and social institutions . the period after the 1990 democratic movement the subsequent political transformation in the aftermath of the maoist insurgency and the writing of the new constitution has seen an increase in public discussion about sexual violence . the state has brought in a slew of legislation and action plans to address this problem . and yet impunity for perpetrators remains intact and justice elusive . what are the structures that enable such impunity what can be done to radically transform these how must states understand the search for justice for victims and survivors of sexual violence the essays in this volume attempt to trace a history of sexual violence in nepal look at the responses of women s groups and society at large and suggest how this serious and wide ranging problem may be addressed . rs . 695 rs . 487 add to cart sale of the nation born the bangladesh papers the sexual violence and impunity in south asia research project coordinated by zubaan and supported by the international development research centre brings together for the first time in the region a vast body of knowledge on this important yet silenced subject . six country volumes one each on bangladesh nepal pakistan sri lanka and two on india comprising over fifty research papers and two book length studies detail the histories of sexual violence and look at the systemic institutional societal individual and community structures that work together to perpetuate impunity for perpetrators . this volume focuses on bangladesh a nation born in 1971 in a birth that was as marked by bloodshed as it was by sexual violence . the history of widespread sexual violence and incidents of sexual slavery as well as the absence of accountability for the perpetrators is by now well known . the essays here address the structural dynamics of impunity at the individual and societal levels looking not only at the conditions that go into its creation but also the elements that fuel it . they ask what helps it to become so embedded and point to its human global and national costs . together they explore the ways in which the women s movement and feminist practice have worked to demand accountability and recognition for the victims and survivors of sexual violence challenging the impunities embedded in the patriarchal structures of bangladeshi society . in doing so they bear witness to the continuing efforts of women s groups in bangladesh to give this crucial issue the attention that it deserves for without that justice for victims and survivors will remain elusive . rs . 795 rs . 557 add to cart sale undoing impunity speech after sexual violence the sexual violence and impunity in south asia research project coordinated by zubaan and supported by the international development research centre brings together for the first time in the region a vast body of knowledge on this important yet silenced subject . six country volumes one each on bangladesh nepal pakistan sri lanka and two on india as well as two standalone volumes comprising over fifty research papers and two book length studies detail the histories of sexual violence and look at the systemic institutional societal individual and community structures that work together to perpetuate impunity for perpetrators . in this remarkable and wide ranging study activist and historian v. geetha unpacks the meanings of impunity in relation to sexual violence in the context of south asia . the state s misuse of its own laws against its citizens is only one aspect of the edifice of impunity ; its less understood resilience comes from its consistent denial of the recognition of suffering on the part of victims and its refusal to allow them the dignity of pain grief and loss . time and again in south asia the state has worked to mediate public memory to manipulate forgetting particularly in relation to its own acts of commission . it has done this by refusing to take responsibility not only for its acts but also for the pain such acts have caused . it has done this by denying suffering the eloquence the words the expression that it deserves and papering over the hurt of people with routine government procedures . the author argues that the state and its citizens must work together to accord social recognition to the suffering of victims and survivors of sexual violence and thereby join in what she calls a shared humanity . while this may or may not produce legal victories the acknowledgment that the suffering of our fellow citizens is our collective responsibility is an essential first step towards securing justice . it is this that in a fundamental sense challenges and illuminates the contours and details of state impunity and positions impunity as not merely a legal or political conundrum but as resolute refusal on the part of state personnel to be part of a shared humanity . rs . 695 rs . 487 add to cart sale doing time with nehru the story of an indian chinese family the midnight knock on the door and the disappearance of a loved one into the hands of authorities is a 20th century horror story familiar to many destined to live in interesting times . yet some stories remain untold . such is the account of the internment of ethnic chinese who had settled for many years in northern india . when the sino indian border war of 1962 broke out over 2 000 chinese indians were rounded up placed in local jails then transported over a thousand miles away to the deoli internment camp in the rajasthan desert . born in calcutta india in 1949 and raised in darjeeling yin marsh was just thirteen years old when first her father was arrested and then she her grandmother and her eight year old brother were all taken to the darjeeling jail then sent to deoli . ironically nehru india s first prime minister and the one who had authorized the mass arrests had once done time in deoli during india s war for independence . yin and her family were assigned to the same bungalow where nehru had also been unjustly held . eventually released yin emigrated to america with her mother attended college married and raised her own family even as the emotional trauma remained buried . when her own college age daughter began to ask questions and when a friend s wedding would require a return to her homeland yin was finally ready to face what had happened to her family . rs . 495 rs . 347 add to cart sale vikram and the vampire poor king vikram tasked by the sorcerer shaitanish to bring him a corpse he finds that a vampire named betal has taken residence in it . he ll come along only if king vikram lends a willing ear to a series of riddling tales . there s the one about the world s most sensitive ladies queens touchmenot itsratherhot and oohmyhead . there s the tale of the four foolish brothers nin com poo and oops . each tale is crazier