Publications

Sight and sound in JU archive (The Telegraph)

12 Oct 2008

Film and theatre scripts, political pamphlets, election manifestoes and street publications have found pride of place along with Bengali literature of the post-Tagore era in the School of Cultural Texts and Records at Jadavpur University (JU).

Editor arrested in south Sudan over corruption exposé (AFP via Yahoo! News)

11 Oct 2008

A local newspaper editor said on Saturday he was being held by southern Sudanese authorities for publishing an article critical of corruption in the semi-autonomous, post-conflict region.

Austrian rightist leader Joerg Haider dead at 58 (AP via Yahoo! News)

11 Oct 2008

Austrian politician Joerg Haider, whose far-right rhetoric at times sounded sympathetic to the Nazis and contemptuous of Jews and led to months of international isolation for the Alpine republic, died Saturday in a car accident. He was 58.