by Admin | May 1, 2014 | Vol 6 No 1
Delhi: Orient Blackswan, 2014 XV+ 325 Rs 875 ISBN: 978-8-125-05362-0 Review by Prateek Reviewed by Prateek, University of Queensland, Australia ‘However, this is in no conventional sense a history of Bombay cinema’ Rosie Thomas writes in Bombay before Bollywood: Film...
by Admin | May 1, 2014 | Vol 6 No 1
Hoshang Merchant’s Sufiana: Poems. New Delhi: Harper Collins. 2013. PP. 162. INR 350. Reviewed Rasheda Parveen, National Institute of Technology, Rourkela, Odisha Sex and Spirituality have no boundaries, so have been the articulations of the subjects in...
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Masculinity and Its Challenges in India: Essays on Changing Perceptions Edited by Rohit K Dasgupta and K Moti Gokulsing; Foreword by Ruth Vanita Jefferson, NC: Mcfarland. 2014, 252pp. $45 Review by Lipi Begum, University of the Arts London, UK This is book provides...
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Oliver Ross, Churchill College, Cambridge University, UK Introduction “A speechless Yudi welcomed his Milya with open arms. He wasn’t at all bitter about the manner in which Milya had dumped him. He was too old for self-respect, and too much in love. Tears...
by Admin | Apr 29, 2014 | Vol 6 No 1
Shinjini Chattopadhyay, Jadavpur University, India Abstract The advent of photography and the emergence of Modernism in literature are imbued with an essence of breaking away from the past. Photography shares with the Modernist aesthetic a similar mode of...
by Admin | Apr 29, 2014 | Vol 6 No 1
Swikriti Sanyal, Rabindra Bharati University, India Abstract With the politicization of sex around the nineteenth century, the categories of gender and sexuality became primary instruments of disciplining the personal as well as the public body. Sexual decorum,...