Dr. Sudakshina Bhattacharya¹ , Dr. Sulagna Mohanty² & Dr. Ankusha Bandyopadhyay³
¹ ³Assistant Professor (Sr. Gr), Department of English & Humanities, Amrita School of Arts, Humanities & Commerce, Coimbatore, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, India. *Corresponding author.
²Assistant Professor, Department of Language, Culture and Society, Faculty of Engineering & Technology, SRM Institute of Science and Technology, Kattankulathur, Chennai.
10.21659/9788197513022.08Abstract
The concept of spatiality in India is continually evolving with transitions in the social, cultural, political, and economic spheres, shaping our perspectives on spatiality. India is now beginning to be recognised not only as a principally rural and agrarian country but is also attracting notice for its urban spaces and urbanity, including its innate intricacies. The Indian scholarship in this direction is proliferating in commendable ways. Apart from the critical enquiries, several writers have produced brilliant literary works about Indian cities, like Khuswant Singh, Amitav Ghosh and Mamang Dai, to name only a few. However, an extensive literature review reveals that a minimal eclectic analysis is seen about the smaller urban places in India, such as Sikkim’s capital city, Gangtok. Our study stems from this huge research gap because the process of urbanisation is happening ubiquitously in India, and hence, scholarly probes cannot be limited to the comprehension of the established Indian metropolises alone. Through an interpretive analysis of Satyajit Ray’s detective fiction Trouble in Gangtok (1971) and the documentary film titled Sikkim (1971), and Prajwal Parajuly’s novel Land Where I Flee (2014), the present research attempts to understand the urban nuances of Gangtok within the broad framework of spatial studies to highlight the existence of unique Indian urbanity.
Keywords: Spatial turn, Urbanity, Gangtok, Satyajit Ray, Prajwal Parajuly.
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Urban Imaginaries and Indian Cities in Literature
Table of Contents
Urban Imaginaries and Indian Cities in Literature: An Introduction
Dr. Neethu P Antony and Dr. Arpana Venu
Olivia Joseph
Multilingual Metropolis: The Politics of Language and Belonging in Guwahati Through Sheelabhadra’s Fiction
Sangeeta Bhagawati
Spatial (re)orientations and Epic structures of the urban in Fareeda Mehta’s Kali Salwaar
Elroy Pinto
Between Tramline and Traffic Jam: Mapping Indian City through Satyajit Ray’s Mahanagar and Anurag Basu’s Life in a…Metro
Trisha Sengupta & Dr. Sanghamitra Baladhikari
Reimagining Kolkata: Subaltern Narratives and the Colonial Urban Dystopia in Kallol Magazine’s Literature
Nandini Gayen
Walking, Writing and Resisting the City: Spatial Tactics and Postcolonial Reimaginings in Janice Pariat’s Everything the Light Touches
Parvin Sultana
Mimesis, Montage and Mapping: A Spatial Analysis of Gangtok City Scapes in the Select Works of Satyajit Ray and Prajwal Parajuly
Dr. Sudakshina Bhattacharya, Dr. Sulagna Mohanty, and Dr. Ankusha Bandyopadhyay
