Love & Rage is a book about children, both the child in those of us who
are chronologically adult, as well as the children we may be interacting with.

 It takes a reader for a journey into
their inner world of intense, raging emotions which often goes unheeded by the
outside adult world. With the trained ear of a child psychotherapist, the
author listens to children’s stories as they emerge in her consulting room,
through word and  play, and translates
them for adults.

Supported by the author’s own personal associations and a bedrock of
psychodynamic theory, the book throws light on what comes into a
psychotherapist’s consulting room, and demonstrates that it is not unusual,
bizarre or crazy. Instead, it is the ordinary stuff of everyday life, taking
place in every family.

That sometimes we all carry the pain of complex feelings within ourselves
for all of our lives—love and rage towards the people we are closest to.

This book is essential reading for anyone close to children—parents and
parents-to-be, teachers, school counsellors—but also for anyone looking to
attend to the child within them.

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In Graphic Migrations, Kavita Daiya provides a literary and
cultural archive of refugee stories and experiences to respond to the question
“What is created?” after decolonization and the 1947 Partition of India.

She explores how stories of Partition migrations shape and influence the
political and cultural imagination of secularism and contribute to gendered citizenship
for South Asians in India and its diasporas.

Daiya analyzes modern literature, Bollywood films, Margaret Bourke-White’s
photography, advertising, and print culture to show how they memorialize or
erase refugee experiences.

She also uses oral testimonies of Partition refugees from Hong Kong, South
Asia, and North America to draw out the tensions of the nation-state, ethnic
discrimination, and religious difference.

Employing both Critical Refugee Studies and Feminist Postcolonial Studies
frameworks, Daiya traces the cultural, affective, and political legacies of
Partition migrations.

The precarity generated by modern migration and expressed through public
culture prompts a rethinking of how dominant media represents gendered migrants
and refugees. 

Graphic Migrations demands that we redraw the boundaries of
how we tell the story of modern world history and the intricately interwoven,
intimate production of statelessness and citizenship across the world’s
communities.

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Panther's Paw publications brings out a novella about a young Dalit girl as
she navigates engineering college in Pune. While struggling to adapt to her new
life she discovers a diary written by Savitribai Phule .

"It is not at all about the caste. We are not promoting Savitra Bhai
Phule because of the caste that she belonged to, but because she started a
girls school against insurmountable odds  She was illiterate when she started and then
went on to achieve so much."

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In 2013 Madhumita Dutta, a doctoral student, went to do research in
Kancheepuram district, Tamil Nadu. There she met Kalpana, Abhinaya, Satya,
Lakshmi, and Pooja—all women working inside an electronics factory. In the
women’s rented room, they would gather regularly over the next year, drinking
tea, chatting, recording, and producing a radio podcast: Mobile Girls Koottam.

Challenging what theorisation and research can be, Mobile
Girls Koottam offers us a look into the complex lives of young
rural migrant women in their own words, and invites us (listeners) to engage in
a process of learning and unlearning, and to interrogate our own privileges as
we imagine the life-worlds of working class women.

Consisting of transcripts from the titular radio podcast, this book
brings to the page conversations between the five women, Madhumita, and her
interpreter, Sam. The group speaks of their lives as working class women, the
nature of their work and their dreams, each from her own unique and nuanced
perspective.

What results are playful, joyous, angry, and thoughtful discussions
on diverse topics like tea stalls for women, factory work, menstruation, and
much more, made all the more lively through illustrations by Madhushree.

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