Far-Off Realities: Myth and Folklore in Oonya Kempadoo’s Buxton Spice and All Decent Animals
Folklore and myths are to literature what drops of water are to the ocean. Deciphering this…
This short story is a speculative fiction re-imagining of the future of my community, the Kristang or Portuguese-Eurasians of Singapore and Melaka. We are a creole / indigenous community descended…
भवतालच्या परंपरा, मिथक आणि मी
माणसे शरीराने निघून जातात. त्यांनी रचलेल्या, ऐकलेल्या, सांगितलेल्या कथा मात्र मिथकांच्या विविध रूपांत सर्वत्र पसरत राहातात. वेगवेगळ्या मिथकांबरोबर आपण वाढत असतो. आज आपण कितीही आधुनिक…
Making Silence Speak through Repetition: Reconstruction and Re-enactment as a Means to Materialise Erased History and Sometimes Correct it
Claude Lanzmann says that his film, Shoah (1985), was ‘made against…
A (family secret) memory: Late February nights. Final exams are either underway, or it must be revision holidays. An old jammkhana, a thick carpet once popular as wedding seating, long…
Art Practice as Pedagogy: Dialogues on Sanchayan Ghosh’s Institutional Art Practices
Affordances[1] are a set of important paradigms which comprehend how our sensory systems process and react to information. Here,…
The Ethics of Repetition and Gajānan Mādhav Muktibodh’s Ek Sāhityik Kī Dāyarī
In the latter half of the deeply turbulent and agonising decade of the 1950’s, Gajānan Mādhav Muktibodh contributed…
‘Touhoide’ and Meitei Women: Exploring ‘Fear’ in Select Meitei Oral Narratives
Every evening the children of the house would sit around the silver-haired woman who narrated stories of a far-off…
Performing Silence: Women in the Group Theatre Movement in Bengal Author: Trina Nileena Banerjee Publisher: Oxford University Press First edition published in 2021
A scene from Angar (Directed by Utpal…
निर्मिती आणि पुनरावृत्ती यांचा फार जवळचा संबंध आहे. निर्मितीची प्रक्रिया ही नेहमीच एक विशिष्ट प्रकारची पुनरावृत्ती असते. आपण घर बांधतांना विटा रचतो. विटा रचणे ही खरंतर एक पुनरावृत्ती आहे. आपण…
Reading the Repetitive Unity of Fort-Da: A Freudian Exercise
The earliest preoccupation of a child and, as it seems, his inevitable and ultimate preoccupation is to seek pleasure. Governed by…
गुपित म्हणजे काय असतं हे ठाऊक व्हायच्या आधीच मला गुपितं दडवायची सवय लागली. माझ्यापेक्षा वयानं बऱ्याच मोठ्या असलेल्या एका माणसानं मला नकोसा स्पर्श केला तेव्हा मला वाटतं, मी साधारण ५…