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...
Brinda Bose Has the increasing visibility of the movement against Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code (that criminalises homosexual behaviour) in recent years brought any significant change to...
Manash Bhattacharjee Many writers and critics have complained about the term “magic realism” used to describe much of Latin American writing by the world publishing market. It was the Cuban novelist...
Hans Rudolf Vaget Joachim Köhler, in his Wagners Hitler: Der Prophet und sein Vollstrecker, goes so far as to suggest that the German dictator was “merely” the executioner of Wagner’s ideas. Köhler...
Prasanta Chakravarty (A Report on ‘The Everyday Life of a Discipline’- a colloquium on contemporary English Studies that took place on February 4, 2011, at the Department of English, University of...
Arindam Chakrabarti One good thing about collective pride seems to be that it has a tendency to curb or neutralize individual pride. One often takes pride in one’s family or school by...
To: Richard Schechner November 23, 1981 Dear Richard, You wanted me to write for the “Intercultural Performance” issue of The Drama Review. You wanted me to write about my experience with...
Akhil Katyal Tim calls from Brighton Tim calls from Brighton, panting, I ask him what’s wrong with you, he says he wants a bit of friendly advice but mainly needs my cue for ranting, I plop...
Jairus Banaji 3. The indeterminacy of ‘free labour’ and the return to materialist categories The last issue I‘d like to raise is the incoherence of the notion of free labour. Much is made of free...
Jairus Banaji What I‘d like to do in this paper is raise the general issue of how we can develop historical materialism in more powerful ways than Marxists have tried to do since the sixties. The...
Sharmadip (Toy) Basu The Bengali Marxist film-maker Mrinal Sen’s Kolkata Ekattor, or Calcutta ’71, is celebrated in the genealogy of Indian New Wave cinema as an exemplar of dialectical storytelling...