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Split between political occupation and exile, scattered across continents, languages, new professions and lifestyles, what common self can Tibetans muster today? With its appetite for and attentiveness to experience, Old Demons New Deities disarms the question. Tenuous belonging is the theme of choice in these stories, explored with warmth and style, worldly wisdom and sly humor. Choosing not to lean on the armature of nationalist cant or religious tradition, ...
In the pantheon of global liberation heroes, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi has pride of place. Leaders like Mandela have lauded him as being part of the epic battle to defeat the racist white regime and prepare the way for a non-racial country. A popular sentiment in South Africa goes: India gave us Mohandas, and we returned him to you as Mahatma.
Against this background, The South African Gandhi: Stretcher-Bearer of Empireunravels the complex story of a man who, ...
Premanand Gajvee writes with a fierce urge to expose unspoken histories and set right historical wrongs. His plays, never complex,have the unerring ability to unsettle and move the reader,and compel us to reckon with discomfiting realities.The three plays translated from Marathi in this collectioneach representing a distinct style in Gajvees oeuvreprobe contentious questions of contemporary relevance, often evoking widespread debate.The one-act Ghotbhar Pani (A ...
A poet tracks his journey from a dalit colony on the edges of Magadi town-where he would rather roam the hills and wade in rivers than attend school-to the hardships of living in dalit hostels in the city. Instead of despairing in his poverty, he turns to poetry. This makes the poet look at the benefits of sleeping on the streets of Bangalore: ‘The imagination of people who sleep under the star-studded sky takes wing. They become close to the moon.’ ...
Why do adivasi societies defend themselves so desperately against the state? What is it that sparks so much protest and conflict in India’s adivasi regions?
These are some of the questions this book seeks to answer. The first part shows how the bhils of western Madhya Pradesh were affected by colonialism, the perceptions and notions that shaped colonial policy, its effects on material life and politics, how bhil groups adapted to these developments and ...
What does it mean to be an untouchable in India? Why do some Indians despise the touch of others? Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar (1891-1956), one of India's foremost revolutionaries, recounts his experiences of growing up untouchable and being routinely discriminated against: in school at the age of 10, in Baroda after his return from Columbia University, and while traveling. Battling odds, Ambedkar drafted the Constitution of India and eventually embraced Buddhism. ...
As we walk into another night of the newest phase of imperialism, this book asks: What is the Marxists quarrel with Derrida, especially with Specters of Marx? Why do they seem panic-ridden when Derrida seeks to resurrect the ghosts of Marx? Though Derrida moves far beyond what his deconstructive brief would allow him, certain readings view Specters merely as a work of deconstruction/poststructuralism. This, argues Nissim Mannathukkaren, the Marxists can do only ...
That's Namdeo Dhasal, the maverick Marathi poet who hardly had any formal education. Born in 1949 in a former 'untouchable' community in Pur-Kanersar village near Pune in Maharashtra, as a teenage taxi driver he lived among pimps, prostitutes, petty criminals, drug peddlers, gangsters and illicit traders in Bombay/Mumbai's sinister and sordid underworld. In 1972, he founded Dalit Panther, the militant organisation modelled on Black Panther. The ...
In this provocative book, the author takes a look at the question of human agency in a post modern world. From the sinking of the Titanic to Hitchcock's rear Window, from the operas of Wagner to the science fiction, from the Alien to the Jewish Joke, zizek's acute analyses explores the ideological fantasies of wholeness and exclusion that make up human society.Linking Philosophical and psychological concepts to social phenomenon such as totalitarianism and ...