This is a compilation of some of the published general articles/book-reviews/creative writing by me in English. This is not a complete list.
Most of my general writing is in Hindi.
For material in Hindi please see: http://faculty.iiit.ac.in/~laltu/hindi.html
Articles
in Books:
2021 : Eurocentrism, Brahmanical Hegemony and Colonial Science Education : Conflict and Collaboration, in Education and Inequality: Historical and Contemporary Trajectories, ed., Vikas Gupta, Rama Kant Agnihotri, Minati Panda, Orient Black Swan, New Delhi
2021 : Contestations that refuse to die: the battle for language as a primary marker of identity, in The Imbecile’s Guide to Public Philosophy, ed., Edited By Murzban Jal, Jyoti Bawane, Muzaffar Ali, Routledge India, New Delhi
2016: Contextualising curriculum in contemporary times: issues and alternatives in Neoliberalism, Critical Pedagogy and Education, ed., Ravi Kumar, Routledge, Taylor and Francis, London and New York
Mar 2013: The language question: the battle to take back the imagination, in Education, State and Market: Anatomy of Neoliberal Impact, ed., Ravi Kumar, Aakar Pubications, New Delhi
in
Liberation :
Sep 2023 : Whither science after Chandrayaan
in Economic and Political Weekly
2013: Comments on Bangalore Literary Festival
08.07.95: Chandigarh: Planned Urbanisation?
Other magazines :
2017 Why Translate : A Personal Commentary, in Osmania Journal of English Studies : Special Section on Translations, p.75
May 2010: Bangla Bizarre in Himal Magazine
Oct 2003: Proceedings of UGC Golden Jubilee Seminar (Chandigarh) on Access and Accredition of Education Manpower Management and Quality of Higher Education
2001: How about listening to the teachers for once? In Panjab University Teachers Association Souvenir
Feb 98 The Academic-Media Interface in Media Mail
in The Tribune
01.03.97: Poet of the aching spririt rests at last (Kumar Vikal)
15.11.96: Protest yes: Violence No! (on persecution of M F Hussain)
30.05.96: The Continuing Struggle: Poll, People and Democracy
28.01.96: To inform, and not to sell
Oct '95: What is Scientific Temper?
25.03.95: Isn't Chandigarh already new?
23.01.95: In the depths of a black hole (on provincial university)
1993: Crisis in Higher Education in India, J. Soc. Sc. Res. (Panjab Univ.) 2 (1993) 33-45.
1986: Comments on Female Literacy in India, Paper presented in National Women's Studies Conference, Chandigarh
10 Mar 1982: A Voice from the Third World in Daily Princetonian, Princeton University, USA
Book Reviews
Current Science:
May 97: Deterministic Chaos: Complex Chance out of Simple Necessity by N Kumar, University Press, Hyderabad 1996
Aug 96: Symmetry Orbitals by H F Verheyen, Birkhauser, Boston
Economic and Political Weekly:
May 1994: Economic and Political Weekly: Review of Samaj Darshana, by Satyapal Gautam
J. Soc. Sci. Res. (Panjab Univ.):
1993: Basic and Applied Sciences in the World: Past Strategies and Present Status: Role of UNESCO by A Badran, UNESCO
The Tribune:
28 Apr 2024 : Why we die : the new science of ageing and the quest for immortality, by Venky Ramakrishnan
14.10.01: The Alternative to Capital's Social Order by Istvan Meszaros
'99: My Own Country by Abraham Verghese
06.06.99: The Kitchen Chronicles: 1001 Lunches with J Krishnamurti by Michael Krohnen
Mar 99: Communities and Conservation: Natural Resource Management in South and Central Asia, ed. Ashish Kothari
Mar 99: Spit and Polish, by Carl Muller
24.01.99: Poverty, Population and Sustainable Development by S R Mehta
Dec '98: Communities and Conservation: natural resource management in South and Central Asia, eds. A Kothari, N Pathak, R V Anuradha and B Taneja,
18.10.98: Micor-foundations of Bengal Communism, by Harihar Bhattacharya
13.09.98: Hyperspace: A scientific odyssey through parallel universes and the 10th dimension. by Michio Kaku
19.04.98: Education, Development and Underdevelopment, eds, Suresh Chandra Shukla and Rekha Kaul.
29.03.98: The Song of the Dodo: Island Biography in an Age of Extinctions, by David Quammen
08.03.98: Education and Social development, by D R Chaudhry
02.11.97: Scholar Extraordinary: The Life of Friedrich Max Mueller by Nirad C Chaudhuri
12.10.97: Trees: AN Ecology Book for Children on Asian/Pacific Tres, ed. Regional editorial committee for asian/Pacific Copublication Programme, NBT
03.08.97: South Africa: Designing New Political Institutions, by Murray Faure and Jan-Erik Lane
Jun '97: Scientific Communities in the Developing World ed., J Gallard, V V Krishna and R Waast
16.03.97: Shadows of the Mind: A Search for the Missing Science of Consciousness, by Roger Penrose
04.03.97: Jharkhand Movement: Ethnicity and Culture of Silence, by Sajal basu
23.02.97: Indian Socialists: Search for Identity, by Sonal Shah
15.12.96: The Web of Life: A New Synthesis of Mind and Matter, by Fritjof Capra
Jun 96: Women and Sustainable Development: An International Dimension by Krishna Ahooja-Patel
28.04.96: Can India Win the Electronics Revolution and the questions related to India's strategic strengths and Security, compiled by V Iswarmurti
17.03.96: The Crest of the Peacock: Non-European roots of mathematics, by George Gheverghese Joseph
1996: Gender, Genre and Power in South Asia Expressive Traditions, ed. By Arjun Appadurai, Frank J Korom and Margaret A Mills
14.01.96: Religion and Politics in the United States, by Kenneth D Wald
12.11.95: Economic Dimensions of the Sardar Sarovar Project, by Y K Alagh
24.09.95: Delhi is not Far, by Ruskin Bond
09.07.95: Farewelll to a Ghost, by Manoj Das
11.06.95: Tender Ironies: A Tribute to Lothar Lutze edited by Dilip Chitre, Gunther-Dietz Sontheimer, Hedirun Brueckner, Anne Feldhaus and Rainer Kining
09.04.95: Narmada and Environment: An Assessment by Y K Alagh
21.03.95: Technological self-reliance in India by Surendra J Patel
05.03.95: Environmental Pollution: A Scientific Dimension by G K Ghosh
In The Book Review India
Nov 2024 Baste Mein Sawal by Lokesh Malti Prakash
Nov 2022 Persian books translated into English and Hindi (i) A House to Let and (ii) Awakening Dream, by Farideh Khalatbaree;, by Farideh Khalatbaree; (iii) The Happy Tortoise, by Akram Ghasempour; Moon Hunters, by Mohammed Reza Shams
Nov 2022 AAO BHAI KHILLOO by Prabhat; JUNGLE Ke BEECH TRAIN KHADI THI, by Manoj Kumar Jha; JUGNU BHAI by Balaswaroop Rahi and three other books
Poems
2009 English translations of seven of my Hindi poems by Monica Mody in Pratilipi, New Delhi
1985 in Third World Calling, New Delhi
1983 Ten poems in Thoughts – a in-house magazine published by the International centre, Princeton University