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Editorial Issue 13 April 2018
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Review 01 Issue 13 April 2018
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The IPTA and the Political Trajectory of Ritwik Ghatak:
An informative piece on the relationship between Ghatak and the Indian People’s Theatre Association which brought left-wing theatre to India.
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The Disruption and Reconstitution of Spectatorial Pleasures in Telugu Cinema:
Telengana was a territory often lampooned in Telugu cinema, where the production apparatus was based in Andhra. How did Telugu cinema respond when Telengana became a reality as a state?
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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo: The Female Avenger and Women's Empowerment:
Stieg Larsson’s The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo has been hailed as a ‘feminist’ novel because it deals with female abuse and vengeance. The essay looks at the novel from a feminist perspective, taking into account what feminism really means politically.
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The Library is Total:
Phalanx 9 (August 2013) carried two translations (literal and literary) of JL Borges’ story The Library of Babel. In this essay the translator attempts to interpret the same story.
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Formalities Preserve Us:
This is an interpretation of a poem Pisgah by the great English poet Geoffrey Hill (1932-2016). As to the origin of ‘Pisgah’ it is taken from Pisgah (biblical Hebrew Pisgah) a mountain summit in the land of Moab, in the territory of Reuben, where Balak a king of Moab described in the Hebrew Bible offered up sacrifices, and from which Moses viewed the promised land (Deuteronomy 3:27). It also designates a faint view or glimpse of something unobtainable or distant, especially as in in ‘Pisgah sight’ or ‘Pisgah view’.
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The Laboratory and the Theatre:
This is an annotated translation into English of a 1949 Kannada essay by the great Kannada writer Purohita Thirunarayana Narasimhachar, which constructs an analogy between the chemistry laboratory and theatre and proposes a means by which this might be used to political ends.
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Claiming Independent India: Reflections on Ideological Conflict:
The essay traces the decline of the Congress to the narrative of the independence struggle – the founding myth of the INC – having become irrelevant to a public predominantly of the post-Nehruvian neo-liberal era. What is the narrative a political party must construct for an India which is a 21st century fact, which does not need to refer back to freedom from colonialism for its legitimacy?
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