The formalization of sound changes as finite state transducers is implicit already in the Neogrammarians. For at least six decades scholars have recognized the potential of transducers for improving the speed and rigor of research in historical linguists, but almost no historical linguists actually use them. This article identifies the obstacles…[Read more]

हिंदी कथाकार राजकुमार राकेश और प्रमोद रंजन की यह लंबी बातचीत शिमला में जनवरी, 2003 में हुई थी, जिसे पटना से जाबिर हुसेन के संपादन में प्रकाशित पत्रिका दोआबा ने जून, 2007 अंक में प्रकाशित किया था। उसी वर्ष इसे इसे पटना के मंडल विचार प्रकाशन ने एक पुस्तिका के रूप में भी प्रकाशित किया था। इस बातचीत में जादूई यथार्थवाद, मार्क्सवाद, दलित व…[Read more]

जून, 2018 के पहले सप्ताह में फारवर्ड प्रेस के पत्रकार नवल किशोर कुमार फोन पर सैकडों लोगों ने जान से मारने की धमकियां दी थीं। उन्हें ये धमकियां रणवीर सेना के कुख्यात सुप्रीमो ब्रह्मेश्वर मुखिया के बारे में फेसबुक पोस्ट लिखने के कारण दी गईं थीं। फारवर्ड प्रेस के तत्कालीन प्रबंध संपादक प्रमोद रंजन का यह लेख उन धमकियों के संदर्भ में है।

Forward Press is not a novice when it comes to getting threats. Our Hindi editor Naval Kishore Kumar, who is at the receiving end this time, is not only a journalist but also a sensitive poet. Brahmeshwar Mukhiya, on the other hand, is a synonym for terror and has shamed humanity.

This is a prologue to the Spanish translation of Joanna Zylinska’s The End of Man. A Feminist Counter-Apocalypse (2019).

This paper examines a strand in British television historical drama that presents what I term a “Gothicised” version of history. This actively engages with historical trauma as returning to confront its originating society, as the classic Gothic text represents the returning or ongoing effects of a traumatic past in the narrative present. In Peaky…[Read more]

This paper examines a strand in British television historical drama that presents what I term a “Gothicised” version of history. This actively engages with historical trauma as returning to confront its originating society, as the classic Gothic text represents the returning or ongoing effects of a traumatic past in the narrative present. In Peaky…[Read more]

This paper considers the 2018 television adaptation of Picnic at Hanging Rock as an example of Gothicised historical television drama, which uses the Gothic mode to present a past in a way that challenges our expectations of what prestige historical drama should be like, and to emphasise historical traumas and the way that they are still relevant…[Read more]

This paper considers the 2018 television adaptation of Picnic at Hanging Rock as an example of Gothicised historical television drama, which uses the Gothic mode to present a past in a way that challenges our expectations of what prestige historical drama should be like, and to emphasise historical traumas and the way that they are still relevant…[Read more]