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THE SIXTY-YEAR JOURNEY: BHASHA LITERATURE BENGALI: Arunava Sinha This conversation between Amit Ray, the protagonist of Rabindranath Tagore's Shesher Kobita, and Srikanta, the protagonist of the eponymous novel by Sarat Chandra Chatterjee, was conducted over the Otherworld Wide Web.Srikanta: Amit ... THE SIXTY-YEAR JOURNEY: BHASHA LITERATURE HINDI: Mridula Garg Unlike post-modern fiction the world over, post-Independence Hindi writing continued to adhere to the realistic, often social reformist mode. The trend was bolstered rather than reversed by the Dalit and feminist works, despite their ... THE SIXTY-YEAR JOURNEY: BHASHA LITERATURE MARATHI: Shanta Gokhale When you look at the literature of any language over a sweep of 60 years in order to offer some sort of an overview that will make sense to the outsider, you inevitably see only those works that stand up as peaks in a terrain that is otherwise ... THE SIXTY-YEAR JOURNEY: BHASHA LITERATURE 
TAMIL: Vasantha SuryaT he risky ‘goings-on' in Tamil literature today have miraculously failed to deflect many acts of creation. The preferred medium for social and political awareness-raising in the Tamil country from the days of A. Madhaviah, Subramania ... THE SIXTY-YEAR JOURNEY: BHASHA LITERATURE 
URDU: Ziya Us SalamThe other day, in the course of a discussion on NDTV India on Ramgopal Varma's Rann, somebody quoted Ghalib. It was the least likely of possibilities, considering we were talking about media, and Urdu has all but disappeared from multi-media ... THE SIXTY-YEAR JOURNEY: BHASHA LITERATURE 
MALAYALAM: G.S. JayasreeThe literary history of Kerala of the last 60 years has concerned itself with the issues of defining the nation and defining the self. Perhaps such a generalisation is true of each one of the bhashasin our country where writers were taking the ... THE SIXTY-YEAR JOURNEY: BHASHA LITERATURE ORIYA: Himansu Mohapatra
BHASHA CONFLUENCE Preserve our languages The Bhasha Research and Publication Centre was founded in Baroda in 1996 to stop the erosion of Indian languages - bhashas - and to conserve oral traditions in the bhashas of marginalised communities. On March 8 and ...
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When the bees singInstinctive and faithful to the original, M.L. Thangappa's translation of Sangam poetry in Love Stands Alone opens a window to Tamil culture…excerpts from the introduction by A.R. Venkatachalapathy FROM THE BLURB 
AnthologyPoetry with Prakriti began in 2007 and has taken place in schools and colleges, sari shops and boutiques, art galleries, hotels, cafes, nightclubs, banks, a gym, bookshops. Audiences have ranged from four to 40 to 400. This anthology is a ...
For a new world order Slavoj Zizek interrogates the strategies used by the state to meet the economic crisis in a forthright manner.
ENDPAPER Reading terror War has rarely received such a nuanced uncovering in Indian writing. SECOND THOUGHTS Good bye, phoney world Against the troubled backdrop of J.D. Salinger's life, The Catcher in the Rye stands out like a shining gem.
SHORT STORIES Insightful tales With first-hand experience of war and displacement, Mahmud Rahman weaves together a beautiful set of stories. TRANSLATION Caustic allegory A multi-layered story about power and the power-hungry, The Beast brings the Urdu novella to a new audience. ANTHOLOGY For fine reading A collection with a rich range of experience between the covers. |
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