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This volume brings together, for the first time, an extensive collection of writings on ageing from a range of Indian languages. From the abandoned old woman in Krishna Baldev Vaid's play who becomes a Mother India, to the ageing female beggar in Kolatkar's poem who forces the almsgiver to confront her abjection, and in the process, his own, to the ninety-one-year old man in Chaman Nahal's story who returns to his old haveli as if he were finding his ...
This anthology of writings on food brings together a wide range of literary and non-literary texts from South Asia. It draws on writing in English from the subcontinent, as well as the Diaspora. The volume covers a broad range of areas: scholarly, narrative, philosophical, literary, anthropological, and cultural. Striking a balance between 'food writing' and 'food cultural studies', the anthology offers something of interest for everyone. The persuasive and ...