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Amartya
Sen - The
smallness thrust upon us (Essay)
- We all have multiple, overlapping identities, and we have the right
to prioritise them irrespective of communitarian pressures. |
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Megan
Vaughan - Either nobody or a nation (Essay)
- Traces the development of culture in Mauritius, from melting pot
to salad bowl, from Créolité to the loss of Creole dominance in the
politics of multiculturalism. |
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Kancha
Ilaiah - A suffocating nation (Essay) -
The 19th century reform movements aimed to Brahminise the lower castes.
Now, the lower castes feel the need for the reverse the 'Sudraisation'
of Indian society. |
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Soma
Wadhwa - Behind the veil (Essay)
- It is difficult for Indian Muslim women to belong to the times because
of curious interpretations of personal law. |
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Krishna
Baldev Vaid - The Otherlanders (Essay) - The writer
recalls
the alienated people of the post-Partition era who were to become
characters in his work. |
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Vinay
Lal - The passions of distance
(Review essay) - A
look at Edward W. Said's Reflections on Exile and Other Essays. |
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Parsa
Venkateshwar Rao Jr
- Sermons for the sceptics (Review
essay ) -Reading The Transformed Mind of
the Dalai Lama. |
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S.
Diwakar - The orphans (Fiction, translated from
the Kannada) |
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Ambikasuthan
Mangad - He who sleeps in water (Fiction, translated
from the Malayalam) |
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Nabaneeta
Dev Sen - In the service of the Lord (Fiction,
translated from the Bengali) |
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Manju
Kak - The inheritance (Fiction, translated from the Hindi) |
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Anjum
Katyal - Fragment (Poetry) |
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Nirupama
Dut - Cityscape (Poetry, translated from the Oriya) |
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Ramakanta
Rath - A kissing episode (Poetry, translated from the
Oriya) |
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Amarjit
Chandan - Lasan garlic (Poetry, translated from
the Punjabi) |
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Rohena
Gera - How to drive in Pune (Poetry) |
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Tenzin
Tsundue - Exile House (Poetry) |
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PLUS:
Mapping India - Tracking
the caste equations, while Vishwajyoti Ghosh
deals with the backlog. |