Humanities Underground

The Child is Given Over to a Stepmother

Prasanta Chakravarty Unappeasable and plain. That is the reason Simone Weil is able to unburden and pull us deeper into relentless entanglements and by doing so, sets us free. “The woman who wishes...

The Silence of the Lambs: The Case of Presidency

 Brinda Bose   “My word’s but a whisper, your deafness a shout” Jethro Tull Some serious questions arise from the imbroglio this month at Presidency University, Calcutta, the latest in a series...

Scholar no Intellectual ? : Trends in Humanities Overground

————————————————————- James Turner, in his monumental work Philology: The...

The Nineteenth of May, Selections

  Translations: Arjun Chaudhuri —————————————- Feeling the Nineteeth–of Poetry and Resistance   Tushar Kanti Nath  ...

Keisham Priyokumar and the Economy of Fragmented Narratives

Loiya Leima Oinam ——————————— Keisham Priyokumar is perhaps the most important author in this regard since his stories capture the...

Fafamau

    Prasanta Chakravarty   ওর আর কোনো গতি নেই জানো, কবিতা লেখা ছাড়া—she does not have any recourse, you know, other than writing poetry. This is what rings in my ears. This is how Anindita...

Fake Tree, Real Death

     Anil Kumar  Yadav   —————————————– Among the things with which the future shall take stock of and...

No More Flat Feet

Serge Berna, Jean-Louis Brau, Guy-Ernest Debord & Gil J. Wolman Internationale Lettriste #1 (November 1952) _________________________________________ Sub Mack Sennett director, sub-Max Linder...

Gathering Shadows, Shamsher Bahadur Singh

Lakshmidhar Malviya (Gathering Shadows, Shamsher Bahadur Singh. Years covered: 1961-1975) __________________________________________________ ईमान गड़बड़ी में है दिल के हिसाब में लिक्खा हुआ कुछ और मिला...

The New Between Past and Future: The Question of Method

Dear HUG Readers: Here are the youtube links to the video clips of the forum (second & final in the series) on ‘The New Between Past and Future: The Question of Method in the Humanities...

Boundaries and Porosities: The Question of Method in the Humanities

Dear HUG Readers: Here are the freshly uploaded youtube links to the video clips of the first forum on ‘Boundaries and Porosities: The Question of Method in the Humanities’ —a...