This article examines Mary Magdalene’s biblical identity and poetic representation in selected sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Spanish texts. An alternative reading or “re-visioning” (Adrienne Rich’s term) of the narratives that tell her story reclaims her figure from masculinist characterizations of Mary Magdalene that have made an enduring…[Read more]

The partition of British India into two sovereign independent nations of India and Pakistan in 1947 was one of the most defining moments of the socio-political course of the sub-continent. The fight for independence from colonial rule and the rise of nationalism rooted in the religious discourse of two prominent religious communities- Hindus and…[Read more]

Article about the composer Pauline Viardot

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]