In today’s troubled times, one associates the city of Srinagar with images of discon tent—protesting crowds, stone pelting youth, and armed patrols. In this context, the title of this book (A Street In Srinagar) draws expectations of a narrative on the troubled political situation in Kashmir. Instead, what Chandrakanta offers…
Take a dazzling Asian commercial entrepot, add to it a brief spell of Muslim rule, Portuguese conquest, and the early arrival of the Gutenberg printing press here. What emerges is Romi Konkani writing, built by early missionaries to Goa who used diacritical marks to make this ‘exotic’ language easier to pronounce, a language which incidentally also got damaged by subsequent colonial rulers…
This collection of 18 Bengali short stories spans a hundred years of Bengali women’s writing. Radha Chakravarty has already established herself as a skilled translator and this collection further validates the impression that she can transfer and translate with commendable ease, successfully eliminating the disconnect between the source text and the target text…
Once relegated to Sunday supplements of newspapers, and pushed to the margins of the academia, travel writing today straddles disciplines such as literature, ethnography, translation, film studies, anthropology, politics and history. While a number of cultural and theoretical factors are responsible for this development…
That a time when regional political parties continue to assert their identity, the rise of Bhojpuri films is only part of the remodeling of Indian cinema. The availability of cheap technology has allowed dozens of ‘little cinemas’ to flourish in dialects such as Chattisgarhi, Kumaoni, Gharhwali and Khariboli…
The book begins by attempting to address’a key weakness in film theory: the text governs the production of, and is also represented in, cinema. In this the author seeks to move beyond general film studies which deals only with ‘narrative and its thematic, stylistic and formal characteristics’, and also beyond traditional feminist…