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Towards Understanding Contemporary Indian Painting:
Modern Indian art is difficult to understand as an extension of modernism and postmodernism in the West. In this essay, an anthropologist looks at modern Indian art in the context of ‘extra-postmodernity, neo-postmodernity and modernity’.
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Translating Modernity
This essay examines how the colonizers' use of ‘modernity’ as a way of justifying colonialism was translated by the elite caste/class groups in India to justify systems of caste, class, religion and gender and how this is reflected in early children’s literature in Kannada.
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Subaltern Man:
Homi K Bhabha is best known as a post-colonial theorist but in the past few years he has begun to command much larger stretches of the cultural terrain and has gradually moved into the social sciences as well. The essay looks at the significance of Bhabha’s lateral movement..
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Nirmalyam: Resurrecting the 'Word’ and the 'World':
An appreciation of MT. Vasudevan Nair’s film classic of 1973. Being an adaptation of the director’s own story Pallivaallum Kalchilambum, the film provides a unique look at the interface between literature and film.
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Melodrama, ‘Loyalty’ and the Nation: The Trajectory of Hindi Cinema:
The essay looks at the decline of the melodramatic element in Bollywood cinema and speculates on its significance and causes.
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THE ALEPH by Jorge Luis Borges: Two translations.
Even authorized translations take huge liberties with the original texts. A new, literal translation of Borges’ celebrated short story is provided here alongside the best known one now in print.
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Retelling the Bihar Story:
An enthusiastic ringside view of the transformation which has taken place in Bihar. There is evidently more to Bihar than Nitish Kumar.
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