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Freudian psychoanalysis, commonly critiqued for being rooted in a male-centric, Central European ethos, has surprisingly been an extremely fertile ground for the study of the Indian psyche. This volume brings together a rich variety of classical and contemporary writings on aspects of Hindu culture, and places these within the frames of understanding of psychoanalysis. The contributors include Girindrasekhar Bose, Sarah Caldwell, G.M. Carstairs, Alfred Collins, ...
T.G. Vaidyanathan has been the reviewer most film-makers, critics and movie-goers have always paid attention to. This collection of essays covers nearly three decades of film criticism by him. The book gathers together his essays on individual films in several languages, both Indian and foreign. The essays are energetic and acerbic, often partisan, but never dull. Written in an approachable style, they bring alive years of movie-watching in a manner neither ...
T.G. Vaidyanathan, TGV to his friends and students alike, taught literature and film criticism, played first-class cricket and thought the world was his subject. This book collects some of his best writings on literature, culture, film and cricket. In his essays on literature and culture, TGV displays his remarkable ability to take an apparently insignificant fact and use it to highlight matters of wider cultural import. From dictionaries to umbrellas to the ...