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Interwoven Strands: Beyond Linearity

Volume XXXVIII No. 8 - AUGUST 2014By ThebookreviewindiaJuly 1, 2017Leave a comment

In the recent scramble to celebrate the 150th birth anniversary of Rabindranath Tagore, a host of scholars and enthusiasts have tried to recreate his image in terms of their own individual perspectives.

Modernity in a Novel Garb

Volume XXXVIII No. 8 - AUGUST 2014By ThebookreviewindiaJune 30, 2017Leave a comment

Novelist Tagore, the most recent endeav- our by established Tagore translator and scholar Radha Chakravarty, is proof that translation is the closest form of reading.

Collected Works of Rabindranath Tagore: Note on A New Edition

Volume XXXVIII No. 8 - AUGUST 2014By ThebookreviewindiaJune 30, 2017Leave a comment

Rabindranath Tagore often saw in his mind’s eye his writings turn into dust ‘under the wheels of time’, as he put it in 1939. When he was barely thirty-five years of age and a rather obscure poet he wrote a poem addressing his readers a century later: ‘A hundred years from now/ I wonder who you are reading this poem of mine’ (1895).

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Volume XXXVIII No. 8 - AUGUST 2014By ThebookreviewindiaJune 30, 2017Leave a comment

Judy Wakabayashi and Rita Kothari’s Decentering Translation Studies: India and Beyond, now in its Indian edition, seeks to unearth what the Introduction calls the ‘local stories of translation’, premised on the assumption that local cultures and contexts determine the nature of translation and translation theory.

Nothing Is, But What Is Not

Volume XXXVIII No. 7 - JULY 2014By ThebookreviewindiaJune 28, 2017Leave a comment

The nature of poetry has always been held to be fictive.

Ethnographic Explorations

Volume XXXVIII No. 7 - JULY 2014By ThebookreviewindiaJune 28, 2017Leave a comment

This work is a collection of essays written over the past decade exploring the issue of disability, culture and society in the Indian context.

Parodying A Reality

Volume XXXVIII No. 7 - JULY 2014By ThebookreviewindiaJune 28, 2017Leave a comment

The back page write up on this book reads thus: ‘A compendium in Prose and Verse of Crimes perpetrated after office hours on sundry aspects of economy and society by a lapsed social scientist in the cause of expanding the horizons and shaping the values of young and unpromising scholars.’

A Gigantic Framework

Volume XXXVIII No. 7 - JULY 2014By ThebookreviewindiaJune 28, 2017Leave a comment

The book under review opens with a con- ceptual framework for understanding local governance as it flows through the regions of good governance, decentralization and reforms in India. He has reiterated the fact that there is a vital need to shift the focus from ‘government’ to ‘governance’, there-by, emphasizing decentralization rather than delegation.

A Panoramic View

Volume XXXVIII No. 7 - JULY 2014By ThebookreviewindiaJune 28, 2017Leave a comment

The book under review is fascinating and disappointing at the same time. It is a masterly survey of the developmental and economic history literature on the significant changes that have taken place in the global economy over a long historical period stretching into many centuries.

The Story in Vignettes

Volume XXXVIII No. 7 - JULY 2014By ThebookreviewindiaJune 28, 2017Leave a comment

Long before the city became trendy, there was the Indian city. It existed in our colourful and incredible mythology. It existed when the first of human civilization took root on the subcontinent. It was central to the multiple kingdoms that flourished from corner to corner in this vast land for centuries.

Evolving Regional Identity

Volume XXXVIII No. 7 - JULY 2014By ThebookreviewindiaJune 28, 2017Leave a comment

Among the recent works on Bihar, men- tion may be made of Vinita Damodaran (Broken Promises, 1992), Papiya Ghosh (Community and Nation, 2008), Hitendra Patel (Communalism and the Intelligentsia, 2011), Narendra Jha (The Making of Bihar, 2012), Lata Singh (Popular Translations of Nationalism, 2012).

Return of the Peasant

Volume XXXVIII No. 7 - JULY 2014By ThebookreviewindiaJune 28, 2017Leave a comment

The postmodernist invasion has not only pushed certain traditional histories out of circulation but also relegated the extremely useful analysis of class and movements that Indian history was used to.

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