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For a new cartography

IS a history of Indian literature possible? If so, can it strictly follow a chronological protocol? What will be the norms of its periodisation? Can i

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Voices of dissent

Kabir's oppositional thinking has been traced by scholars like Hazari Prasad Dwivedi to Ramanand, the

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Against religious dogmatism

THE Bhakti movement assumed new forms in the central and northern parts of India. An important attempt at creating an alternative community af

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Spiritual revolutionaries of the South

THE Bhakti movement can be seen as a great revival and reinforcement of the

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The poet as critic

While the West has several examples of poet-critics, and even poets who were not well-known as critics did a lot of critical writing in the form of le

Of Dalit life and resistance

Dalit writing in India has come a long way since its beginnings in the late 19th century and its flowering in the closing decades of the 20th. While i

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Creative border crossings

THE unity of arts has been a major theme in philosophy since long. In ancient Indian texts like

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The idea of home

WHILE writing these lines following a visit to the West Asia in 2004 in a poem—

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Finding her voice

“ON or about December 1910 human nature changed,” wrote Virginia Woolf, one of the pioneers of 20th century feminism, in her essay “Character

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Rereading Gandhi

It is in the search for the ethical foundations of democracy that we will be forced to rediscover the relevance of Gandhi.

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HYDERABAD.18/01/2013: Sitakant Mohapatra, eminent bilingual poet, critic, and Scholar at the multi-lingual Hyderabad Literary Festival-2013 that got flying-colors at Maulana Azad National Urdu University, Gachibowli Campus in Hyderabad on Friday. Governor of Andhra Pradesh E. S. Lakshmi Narasimhan opens a four-day event in presence of huge gathering of writers and artistes from India, Germany, and France..Photo: Mohammed Yousuf

Chiselled poetry

SITAKANT MAHAPATRA, one of the leading poets of India, belongs to the second generation of modernist poets in Odiya. His works have been avail

NEW DELHI, 15/04/2014: For Metro Plus: Poet Mangalesh Dabral during an interaction, in New Delhi . Photo: V. Sudershan

From the earth and the sky

ONE of the dubious privileges of senior writers is that they get a lot of books as gifts; I said “dubious” for many reasons. While, at times, they are

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Critiquing nationalism

—Rabindranath Tagore

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A candle burns in the former cell of Nelson Mandela during a visit of a group of activists, religious leaders and former prisoners (unseen) at Robben Island on December 13 2013, in Cape Town, for an all night vigil to commemorate Nelson Mandela, who was a prisoner on the island during the Apartheid era. Mandela, the revered icon of the anti-apartheid struggle in South Africa and one of the towering political figures of the 20th century, died in Johannesburg on December 5 at age 95. Mandela, who was elected South Africa's first black president after spending nearly three decades in prison, had been receiving treatment for a lung infection at his Johannesburg home since September, after three months in hospital in a critical state. AFP PHOTO / RODGER BOSCH

Squeezing the olives

LIFE in prison has inspired or provoked writers throughout the world to think of the deeper meanings of history, freedom and punishment and to

Dreams of a lost land

THE readers of this column may recall my earlier discussions of the poetry of north-eastern India when my focus was on the diversity of its traditions

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The power of the myth

THE term “myth” is not used here exclusively or chiefly in the extended sense in which Roland Barthes uses it in his

Sri Lankan Tamils along with various religious leaders taking out procession condemning attack on Tellipalai Durgai Amman Temple in Jaffna, Sri Lanka on June 05, 1992.
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Sri Lankan stories

IS it proper to read fiction as a form of sociological documentation? Or as ethnography, as a lot of Third World fiction seems to have been re

BANGALORE, 24/09/2013: Jnanpith award recipient U.R. Ananthamurthy, addressing the media at Press Club of Bangalore, at Cubbon Park, in Bangalore on September 24, 2013.
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Living with many tongues

WALTER BENJAMIN had conceived the act of translation as one way in which human beings strive to retrieve their long-lost common tongue. The idea of an

Shared traumas

THE oldest surviving collections of Sinhala poetry in Sri Lanka date back to the 12th century. If we include the 700 verses written on the walls of Si

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