Humanities Underground

Colour of Olives

Prasanta Chakravarty Wartime _________ Our country is not warring right now  With any other country Still, you have got to know A state of war has been declared Barbed...

Symbol

Ritwik Kumar Ghatak   Symbol—what we call prateek in Bangla.  The thing is the fruit of proliferating human thinking and meditation. These days, I feel, its behaviour and movements have also had...

The Final Womb: A Script

  Falguni Roy   ——————————————-   Shot One: A raging pyre—around which a bevy of beautiful and ugly looking naked...

Premchand’s Fantasies and the Nation as Allegory

Paresh Chandra I This essay comes after, and is an attempt to rethink, parts of a longer study of Premchand’s novels that I had completed (after a manner) almost a year ago. In that study, I had...

‘Event, Metaphor, Memory’ Or A Tale of Two Disciplines

  Brinda Bose   Event I: At the Social Sciences Building, DU, on an April afternoon Shahid Amin has about a year to go for his retirement from the History department at Delhi University, a base from...

The Vision of Drythelm

  Jacques Le Goff —————————————————————- The vision of Drythelm...

This Beautiful Parable of the May-Be Land

Prasanta Chakravarty     आँखों देखी—The film begins with flying and ends in flying. A man takes a leap off a cliff and piercing wind brushes against his face and lo, he is a bird! Elevated and...

Heaven, Hell and Five Books

  Ma Jian, in a conference on ActivistHumanities at SOAS, University of London last week, said that Tiananmen made a writer out of him. And travelling 10,000 miles after the event made him a Chinese...

Hiuen Tsang

  Temsula Ao   When I was assigned to a regular House after about a week of my arrival, I was ‘appropriated’ by some seniors who were already in class X. As a result, I had to perform all...

Vernaculars Underground: Histories, Politics, Aesthetics–ABSTRACTS AND BIONOTES

March 7th and 8th, NMML, New Delhi I           Speakers Anil Yadav, Sinews of the Political in the Hindi Underground The world of blogs is a mystery. It comes in small doses, and the way it connects...

The Wayfarer of Being

Manash Bhattacharjee  ...