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Partha Chatterjee's new book, 'The Truths and Lies of Nationalism, as narrated by Charvak,' has just been published in India by Black Swan. It will be released in the US, in March 2022, by SUNY press. From the back cover: "While the Covid-19 pandemic was still raging in the autumn of 2020, I found, one evening, placed outside the door of my home in Kolkata, a sealed packet. Apparently, it had been left there sometime during the day. It did not come by post or any of the courier services that usually deliver mail because, if it had, someone would have rung the bell and I was home all day.

From the nomination: 'Why do so many nation states struggle to accommodate minorities? Mahmood Mamdani argues in Neither Settler Nor Native that the colonial “define and rule” attitude towards ethnic or religious minorities lives on in postcolonial states. Such politicisation of identity (you could even call it identity politics) often leads to extreme violence. Mamdani includes the US as a settler-colonial nation due to its treatment of Native Americans, who still do not have full constitutional protections.

Rosalind Morris's documentary film, 'We are Zama Zama,' will have its world premiere at the ENCOUNTERS International Film Festival in South Africa, June 10 - 21. 'This is a great honor,' says Morris. 'ENCOUNTERS is one of the premiere documentary festivals in the world. Equally important is the fact that the film, which is of and about lives in South Africa, will appear in that country first.'

The festival is geoblocked, which means only people resident in Africa can obtain tickets.