सामान्य तौर पर यह समझा है कि चूंकि दिल्ली स्थित जेएनयू के वामपंथ का गढ़ था, इसलिए दक्षिणपंथी ताकतें उससे नाराज थीं। अतएव, सत्ता में आने के बाद उन्होंने इस गढ़ को नष्ट कर देना चाहा। सन् 2016 में इस विश्वविद्यालय में घटी घटनाओं को इसी संदर्भ में देखा-समझा जाता रहा है।

लेकिन प्रमोद रंजन का यह बहुचर्चित लेख बताता है कि जेएनयू पर दक्षिणपंथ क…[Read more]

शिमला और हिमाचल से प्रमोद रंजन का गहरा नाता रहा है। वे अपनी युवावस्था के दिनों में यहाँ जीविका की तलाश में आए थे। पुस्तक का एक बड़ा हिस्सा वर्ष 2003 से 2006 के बीच हिमाचल-प्रवास के दौरान लिखी गई उनकी निजी डायरी है। जैसा कि रंजन स्वयं मानते हैं कि यह उनकी मनःस्थितियों का ‘विरेचन’ भी है और साथ ही साथ ‘तात्कालिक मनोभावों, घटनाओं व परिवेशगत…[Read more]

In this interview with The Hindu, Pramod Ranjan shared his view on Dalits and OBCs in Indian newsrooms, Phule-Ambedkarism, Bahujan literature, Dalit literature, Mahishasura Movement and the role of myth in a caste-based society.

यह आलेख भारतीय साहित्य में उभर रही बहुजन अवधारणा को रेखांकित करता है।
इस लेख में बताया गया है कि “बहुजन साहित्य का अर्थ है– अभिजन के विपरीत बहुजन का साहित्य और उनकी वैचारिकी। प्रगतिशील- मार्क्सवादी विचारधारा में जो ‘जन’ है, ‘बहुजन’ उसकी अगली कड़ी भी है। मार्क्सवाद के ‘जन’ का अर्थ भारत के सामाजिक-यथार्थ के संदर्भ में न सिर्फ अस्पष्ट और अनिश्…[Read more]

This material provides an explanation of the notion of learning and teaching, which is part of the learning theory teaching materials. The essential difference between learning and teaching is that learning is a unidirectional process carried out by the individual with the general goal of getting knowledge, whereas teaching emerges when two…[Read more]

A review of three poetry collections by Obiorah Momife titled So Far Away, Eyes of the One Who Loves and Where Two Roads Meet. The three books contain some of the most pungent poems penned by any poet in contemporary Nigeria. They are witty and engaging just as they inspire the reader to take steps to change the present decadent situation that…[Read more]

New evidence on scholarly patronage under the Roman empire can be garnered by analyzing the descriptions of learned magoi in several texts from the second to the fourth century CE. Since a common use of the term magos connoted flatterer-like figures (kolakes), it is likely that the figures of “learned sorcerers” found in texts such as Luc…[Read more]

The goal of the Kampung Inggris paper was to investigate any differences in the methodological and
conceptual framework of the English course. It was based on non-formal educational institution administration
and thus adaptable to different language course initiators, such as Sawai Village. The chronology in this
article, on the other hand,…[Read more]

In this paper, I argue that the traditional narrative of Iphigenia’s sacrifice lies allusively behind the opening scenes of the Iliad (1.8–487). Scholars have long suspected that this episode is evoked in Agamemnon’s scathing rebuke of Calchas (1.105–8), but I contend that this is only one moment in a far more sustained allusive dialogue: both th…[Read more]

Hellenistic literature and art commemorated victories over the Galatians through a variety of analogies and allegories, ranging from the historical Persian Wars to the cosmic Gigantomachy: each individual victory was incorporated into a larger sequence in which order constantly quelled the forces of chaos. This paper explores this analogical…[Read more]

Archaic Greek epic exhibits a pervasive eristic intertextuality, repeatedly positioning its heroes and itself against pre-existing traditions. Here I focus on a specific case study from the Odyssey: Homer’s agonistic relationship with the Catalogue of Women tradition. Hesiodic-style Catalogue poetry has long been recognized as an important i…[Read more]

In this note, I highlight a hitherto unrecognized literary resonance in the climactic final verses of Archilochus’ First Cologne Epode: Archilochus parodically and subversively reworks the Homeric description of a quivering spear. This Homeric resonance caps the poem’s ongoing clash between the generic conventions of epic and iambus, while also…[Read more]

In this paper, I investigate the repetition of Homeric hapax legomena in archaic and classical Greek poetry. Scholars frequently assume that fine-grained engagement with Homeric rarities is a distinctive feature of the Hellenistic period, but I reveal the significant precedent for this phenomenon in earlier poetry. Proceeding through comedy,…[Read more]

This paper seeks to shed fresh light on the aesthetic and stylistic affiliations of Lycophron’s Alexandra, approaching the poem from two distinct but complementary angles. First, it explores what can be gained by reading Lycophron’s poem against the backdrop of Callimachus’ poetry. It contends that the Alexandra presents a radical and polem…[Read more]

In this paper, I investigate how Ptolemaic poets’ presentation of their queens compares with and relates to the practice of their major rivals, the Seleucids. No poetic celebration of a Seleucid queen survives extant, but an anecdote preserved by Lucian sheds intriguing light on Seleucid poetic practice (Pro Imaginibus 5): queen Stratonice, bald…[Read more]

In this article for sixth-formers and school teachers, I explore the story of Achilles’ heel and Homer’s likely suppression of the myth in the Iliad. Homer’s Iliad appears to acknowledge, but simultaneously reject, an alternative tradition in which Achilles was more than mortal, part of a broader downplaying of heroic invulnerability and…[Read more]

वर्ष 2007 में मधुर भंडारकर की फिल्म ‘ट्रैफिक सिग्नल’ आई थी। इस फिल्म में शहरों में हाशिए पर रहने वाली जिंदगियों का चित्रण था। फिल्म में छोटे-मोटे काम करने वाले, भीख मांग कर गुजारा करने वालों के साथ किन्नरों के त्रासद जीवन को भी दिखाया गया था। उस समय हिमाचल प्रदेश के कुछ लेखकों ने फिल्म में हिजड़ों को किन्नर कहने का का पुरजोर विरोध किया था। परिण…[Read more]

“Chapter 7: Maintaining the City Enslaved Labor and Trade in Roman Philippi” in Philippi, From Colonia Augusta to Communitas Christiana: Religion and Society in Transition, edited by Steven J. Friesen, Michalis Lychounas, and Daniel N. Schowalter (Leiden: Brill, 2021).

वर्ष 2022 में मेरे द्वारा संपादित ईवी रामसामी पेरियार के लेखों और भाषणों का संकलन हिंदी में पुस्तकाकार प्रकाशित होने पर एक लेखक ने कुछ ऐसे मुद्दों को लेकर विवाद खड़ा करने की कोशिश की थी, जिसका कोई आधार नहीं था। मैंने यह लेख उनके द्वारा इस संबंध में की गई टिप्पणी के उत्तर में लिखा गया था।

इस लेख में मैंने बताने की कोशिश की है कि हिंदी के प्र…[Read more]