भारत के राजनेता शीर्षक शृंखला की यह किताब महाराष्ट्र के राजनेता, आरपीआई(अ) के राष्ट्रीय अध्यक्ष तथा राज्यसभा सांसद ‘रामदास आठवले’ की संसदीय सहभागिता और संसद में सामाजिक-राजनीतिक मुद्दों पर उनकी पहलों पर केंद्रित है। आठवले महाराष्ट्र में सामाजिक न्याय मंत्री के रूप में अपनी राजनीतिक पारी शुरू कर पिछले तीन दशक से राज्य और केंद्र की राजनीति में अप…[Read more]

सच्ची रामायण, पेरियार ई. वी. रामासामी की बहुचर्चित और सबसे विवादास्पद कृति रही है। पेरियार रामायण को एक राजनीतिक ग्रंथ मानते थे। उनका कहना था कि इसे दक्षिणवासी अनार्यों पर उत्तर के आर्यों की विजय और प्रभुत्व को जायज ठहराने के लिए लिखा गया और यह गैर-ब्राह्मणों पर ब्राह्मणों और महिलाओं पर पुरुषों के वर्चस्व का उपकरण है। यह किताब हिंदी में 1968में ‘स…[Read more]

This book was originally published in Hindi with the title ‘Bahujan Sahitya ki Prastavan” [Introduction to Bahujan Literature] in the year 2016. Its English translation was also published in the same year. This book presents a discussion on the concept of Bahujan literature in Hindi and Indian languages. On the one hand, this book monitors the…[Read more]

This book was originally published in Hindi with the title ‘Bahujan Sahitya ki Prastavan” [Introduction to Bahujan Literature] in the year 2016. Its English translation was also published in the same year. This book presents a discussion on the concept of Bahujan literature in Hindi and Indian languages. On the one hand, this book monitors the…[Read more]

शिमला डायरी हिंदी पत्रकार और लेखक प्रमोद रंजन के संस्मरणों की पुस्तक है, जिसका केंद्रबिंदु साहित्यिक गतिविधियां हैं। यह पुस्तक 21वीं सदी की शुरुआत में पत्रकारिता के नैतिक पतन की कहानी भी कहती है। हिमाचल प्रदेश पर केंद्रित इस पुस्तक में तत्कालीन राजनीति की भी झलक है।

This website provides contextual information and interpretations of the novel Texaco by Martinican writer Patrick Chamoiseau. It was started in spring 2022 as a collaborative project by students in the Honors Program at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville in conjunction with the course Honors 200-008: Caribbean Crucible of Globalization…[Read more]

Binary thinking is a way of understanding the world around. It is used to oversimplify the complex situations and reality. Dichotomous way of thinking usually uses an innate hierarchy of the two objects or situations it makes binary of. Urdu Novel since its inception used binary opposites to foreground the characters it likes or dislikes. In this…[Read more]

This essay focuses on territorial conflicts between European masonic bodies outside Europe, and on the impact of these conflicts on inner-European masonic relations. The period between c. 1870 and c. 1930 marks the height of the European expansion respectively the age of ‘high imperialism’. It also marks the first wave of decolonization. The tid…[Read more]

How did (Western) European freemasonries on a transnational level came to terms with the idea of a closer union of the European peoples? Concepts of “Europe” and “Europeanness” were the background music of the formation of masonic pan-European networks, building on transnational encounters either by individual freemasons (in the Universala Framaso…[Read more]

Abstract of presentation at 2023 MLA Convention session “193 – Poetics, Poiesis, Poeticity”

Abstract of presentation at 2023 MLA Convention session “193 – Poetics, Poiesis, Poeticity”

Presentation in the working group “History of Science in Early South Asia” at https://www.chstm.org/early-south-asia on Dec. 19th 2022.

Introducción: El nuevo escenario cubano implica formar actitudes personales y grupales comprometidas con los requerimientos transformativos de la sociedad, donde la comunicación social desempeña un papel trascendental debido a su capacidad educativa y relacional, como expresión de las pautas de socialización y otros procesos esenciales para el a…[Read more]

Alaska is OURS! * QRt by PRURITUS MIGRANS * CC: BY-NC-SA

Queer theorists have traditionally advocated for the adoption of an outlook of queer pessimism in order to develop a criticality that helps the queer community effectively address the issues it presently faces. Some queer theorists, however, have instead advocated for an outlook of queer optimism—an outlook which allows space for celebrating joy a…[Read more]

Occlusion is most commonly presented as an aspect of certain genres: occluded genres. Here, occlusion is proposed as a property of the processes by which genres are taken up. While routine use of genres creates expectations around when the genre’s uptake is commonly occluded, such expected practice can be subverted by deliberate disclosure. O…[Read more]

LO[CENSORED]E * QRt by PRURITUS MIGRANS * CC: BY-NC-SA

The idea of the North in Western society has a long and distinguished history. Indeed, the only ‘purely ethnographic treatise that survives from antiquity’ is Tacitus’s Germania, his description of the Germanic peoples (Mellor 1993: 14). Tacitus produced his short treatise as a way of forcing Romans to confront the luxurious decadence that he fe…[Read more]

The metatheatricality of A Midsummer Night’s Dream has invited recent directors to tell particular kinds of socially progressive stories. This article uses the notion of “social reparation” to theorize remedial uses of Shakespeare in adaptations that give artists and audiences more moral agency. By imagining more inclusive local habitations and s…[Read more]