Another Asia, well researched and lucidly written, is a remarkable achievement. It undertakes an original project as much in forging new ground in its critical engagement with friendship between “two luminaries of Asia,” “break(ing) earlier myths of inter-Asian unity” (p. xv), as in delineating the political pressures on artists during times of global crises, as during World Wars I and II. Lessons of the past are represented for readers in our post-9/11 era.
Another Asia makes significant contributions to the fields of Asian studies (linking South and East Asia) and area studies, where Bharucha rethinks national and linguistic boundaries by deploying contemporary theories on postcolonialism and globalization. Bharucha is an established scholar with several pathbreaking books on theater and seminal essays on intercultural performance. His progressive politics never lose sight of his base in Calcutta, India.
Another Asia remains critical of “Eurocentric discourse and practice of interculturalism, marked by...
