Explores the emergence of fresh end-of-life rituals in America that celebrate the dying & reinvent the roles of family & community at the deathbed. This title investigates a variety of solutions
- living funerals, oral ethical wills, & home funerals
- that revise the impending death scenario.

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Focusing on the period after WWII, & the fate of legislative proposals offered by presidents from Harry Truman to George W Bush, this title reveals that the presidency, Senate, & House rest on similar electoral bases, with little difference in their partisan textures as indexed by the presidential vote cast in the various constituencies. ...

The idea of jihad is central to Islamic faith & ethics, & yet its meanings have been highly contested over time. Drawing on historical, legal, & literary sources, this work traces the intellectual itinerary of jihad through several centuries & across the territory connecting the Middle East with South Asia. ...

Vic Sarin directs this love story, played out against a historical backdrop of political & religious upheaval as partitioning divides the nation of India in the late 1940s. At the end of the Second World War, soldier Gian Singh (Jimi Mistry) resigns his commission with the British Indian Army & returns to his childhood village, near what is to become the border between India & Pakistan. Haunted by the memories of war, Gian seeks a quiet life of farming, solitude & prayer. His peace is shattered, however, when India is granted independence. When the new border is drawn between Hindu-dominated India & Muslim-dominated Pakistan, the region is torn apart by massacres fueled by ancient animosities. During one such massacre, Gian finds 17-year-old Naseem (Kristin Kreuk), a Muslim girl, & takes her under his protection. The two gradually find themselves drawn to each other
- but the obstacles to their happiness are to prove all but insurmountable.
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The tumultuous events surrounding the sub-continent's partition in 1947 into India & Pakistan are re-imagined in Ken Mc Mullen's complex & visually striking film. A lunatic asylum in Lahore provides a mirror image of the political & social events happening in the outside world. The same actors are used for both inmates & rulers. This powerful film was made 40 years after partition by artist & director, Ken Mc Mullen, adapted in collaboration with Tariq Ali from the short story, ' Toba Tek Singh', by acclaimed Urdu writer, Sadaat Hasan Manto. ...