This is a poem about fire.

This is a poem about fire.

Since H. Humbach’s Baktrische Sprachdenkmäler (Wiesbaden, 1966) the main etymological
proposal for Bactrian χϸονο ‘(calendar) year, (regnal) year’ has been A. Thierfelder’s suggestion of a loanword from Hellenistic Greek χρόνος ‘time’. In this article the plausibility of this etymology is re-examined, and it is further argued that it should b…[Read more]

This article invites the reading of Fernando Pessoa’s Fausto as a rhizomatic work, via three different critical lenses that lead to plurality: Traditions, Transcriptions, and Translations. Regarding different Faustian traditions, instead of seeing Pessoa’s Fausto merely as a competition with Goethe (as proposed by Eduardo Lourenço in his pref…[Read more]

यह फारवर्ड प्रेस की बहुजन साहित्य वार्षिकी: 2013 का संपादकीय है। इसमें बहुजन साहित्य और बहुजन आलोचना की अवधारणा पर संक्षेप में बात की गई है।
आलेख में कहा गया है कि बहुजन साहित्य का विकास वस्तुत: बहुजन आलोचना का विकास है। जैसे-जैसे हम बहुजन साहित्य को चिन्हित करते जाएंगे, अभिजन साहित्य स्वत: ही हाशिए का साहित्य बनता जाएगा क्योंकि हिंदी साहित…[Read more]

This is an editorial in Forward Press’s Bahujan Literature Yearbook: 2013. It briefly discusses the concept of Bahujan literature and Bahujan criticism.
Bahujan literature is a big umbrella, under which falls Dalit literature (For convenience’s sake we can describe it as “Atishudra literature”), Shudra literature, Tribal literature and Women…[Read more]