This chapter presents a discussion of a literary genre called puthis, a premodern tradition of religious stories and plays in what is now Bangladesh, as an example of vernacular cosmopolitanism in an Asian context. The language of this genre, called Dubasha, is a “mixed language mode” (Seely 2008) characterized by the replacement of Sanskrit voc…[Read more]

प्रेमकुमार मणि की यह संपादकीय टिप्पणी पटना से प्रकाशित मासिक पत्रिका ‘जन विकल्प’ की साहित्य वार्षिकी, 2008 में प्रकाशित हुई थी। यह टिप्पणी ‘समय से संवाद’ पुस्तक में भी संकलित है।
जन विकल्प के संपादक प्रेमकुमार मणि और प्रमोद रंजन थे।

The forty poems in this collection have percolated through more than forty years of meditation on “city” that began when I was an undergraduate studying with Richard Luecke at Valparaiso University. The title, In the Path of Totality, references a phrase made familiar by media coverage leading up to the total solar eclipse that was visible acr…[Read more]