Lakshmi Bandlamudi
Dr. Lakshmi Bandlamudi grew up in Chennai in South India, which was a great cultural center and hence concert halls and theater were an integral part of her formative years. She has had a life long fascination with epic tales, instilled by her grandmother who was a master story-teller and this experiential knowledge eventually developed into scholarly inquiry that became a book - DIALOGICS OF SELF, THE MAHABHARATA and CULTURE: THE HISTORY OF UNDERSTANDING AND UNDERSTANDING OF HISTORY. (Anthem Press, 2010)
The most significant and transformative moment in her academic life occurred when she encountered the works of Mikhail Bakhtin as a graduate student and for more than 25 years, principles of dialogism have guided her scholarly work, be it inter-cultural or inter-disciplinary, and beyond in promoting intra-psychic and inter-faith dialogues.
Education
Ph.D. Graduate Center, CUNY. New York. 1994
MA. Teachers College, Columbia University. New York. 1984
B.Sc. Bangalore University. India. 1977
Areas of Research / Professional Expertise
1. Dialogic Consciousness. 2. Cultural Psychology. 3. Human Development. 4. Bakhtin Studies.
5. Socio-Historical Epistemology (Lev Vygotsky) 6. The Mahabharata - the life of the epic text in cultural and literary history and its significance in human consciousness.
Personal Interests
Dr. Lakshmi Bandlamudi enjoys adventure travel and has trekked in the Himalayas (in Tibet, Nepal and India) and her spiritual journey to Mount Kailash was recorded in the book - Movements With the Cosmic Dancer: On Pilgrimage to Kailash - Manasarovar. Foreword by H.H. The Dalai Lama and In Praise of the book by Dr. Karan Singh. New Age Books. New Delhi.
She has also trekked the Inca Trail leading up to Machu Pichu in Peru.
She enjoys classical music and has training in Carnatic music (South Indian Classical music)
Supervisors: Dr. Joseph Glick
The most significant and transformative moment in her academic life occurred when she encountered the works of Mikhail Bakhtin as a graduate student and for more than 25 years, principles of dialogism have guided her scholarly work, be it inter-cultural or inter-disciplinary, and beyond in promoting intra-psychic and inter-faith dialogues.
Education
Ph.D. Graduate Center, CUNY. New York. 1994
MA. Teachers College, Columbia University. New York. 1984
B.Sc. Bangalore University. India. 1977
Areas of Research / Professional Expertise
1. Dialogic Consciousness. 2. Cultural Psychology. 3. Human Development. 4. Bakhtin Studies.
5. Socio-Historical Epistemology (Lev Vygotsky) 6. The Mahabharata - the life of the epic text in cultural and literary history and its significance in human consciousness.
Personal Interests
Dr. Lakshmi Bandlamudi enjoys adventure travel and has trekked in the Himalayas (in Tibet, Nepal and India) and her spiritual journey to Mount Kailash was recorded in the book - Movements With the Cosmic Dancer: On Pilgrimage to Kailash - Manasarovar. Foreword by H.H. The Dalai Lama and In Praise of the book by Dr. Karan Singh. New Age Books. New Delhi.
She has also trekked the Inca Trail leading up to Machu Pichu in Peru.
She enjoys classical music and has training in Carnatic music (South Indian Classical music)
Supervisors: Dr. Joseph Glick
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Bakhtin is not an incidental figure, for he offers precise analytical tools to make sense of the incredibly complex differences at every level in the cultural life of India Indian heterodoxy lends well to a Bakhtinian reading and analysis and the papers herein attest to this. The papers range from how the ideas from Indo-European philology reached Bakhtin through a circuitous route, to responses to Bakhtin’s thought on the carnival from the philosophical perspectives of Abhinavagupta, to a Bakhtinian reading of literary texts from India. The volume also includes an essay on ‘translation as dialogue’ – an issue central to multilingual cultures – and on inherent dialogicality in the long intellectual traditions in India.
Interviews by Lakshmi Bandlamudi
Interview of five Bakhtinian experts: A Discussion on the Bakhtin Circle
Papers by Lakshmi Bandlamudi
Bakhtin is not an incidental figure, for he offers precise analytical tools to make sense of the incredibly complex differences at every level in the cultural life of India Indian heterodoxy lends well to a Bakhtinian reading and analysis and the papers herein attest to this. The papers range from how the ideas from Indo-European philology reached Bakhtin through a circuitous route, to responses to Bakhtin’s thought on the carnival from the philosophical perspectives of Abhinavagupta, to a Bakhtinian reading of literary texts from India. The volume also includes an essay on ‘translation as dialogue’ – an issue central to multilingual cultures – and on inherent dialogicality in the long intellectual traditions in India.
Interview of five Bakhtinian experts: A Discussion on the Bakhtin Circle
Sri Aurobindo and Mikhail Bakhtin lived through one of the most tumultuous and darkest periods in the history of their respective nations, and yet their writings were charged with forces of Life and Hope. They celebrated the plenitude of differences on this uneven earth as much as they took delight in the open-ended and unfinalized sky. They were both sent to jail: Mikhail Bakhtin for his activities in Russian Orthodox Church and for his writings that obliquely posed a challenge to the heavy-handedness of the Stalin era and, Sri Aurobindo was arrested for resisting and retaliating against the British rule and he was sent to jail on charges of planning and overseeing the Alipore Bomb Case. It was almost a miracle that saved both Mikhail Bakhtin and Sri Aurobindo from death sentence.
Sri Aurobindo and Mikhail Bakhtin abhorred simple minded solutions to complex problems. More importantly, they despised absolutist and single-voiced discourses.
The chapter engages in a productive dialogue between Mikhail Bakhtin and Sri Aurobindo. Such a dialogic encounter has significance akin to the meeting point between the river and the sea.
meaningful exchanges appear to take place. The Pran
Pratishtha of Ram Lalla on January 22, 2024, held in
Ayodhya is a momentous occasion and its significance
goes way beyond India.
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Mikhail Bakhtin (1895-1975) has been emerging as one of the most influential thinkers of the 20th century, crossing cultural and disciplinary boundaries. Although recognized as a literary theorist, he considered himself as a ‘Philosophical Anthropologist’ at heart – probing into the interconnections between Text, Life and Culture. Mikhail Bakhtin’s works that span several decades passing through the most tumultuous period in Russian history display incredible insights into the diversity of the world. Perhaps few thinkers in recent times have celebrated the cornucopia of differences in the world as much as Bakhtin did. However, long before Bakhtin came into the scene with theories of dialogicality, intellectual traditions in India – almost all the prominent thinkers belonged to the Kashmir region – Bhartrhari on Philosophy of Language and Abhinavagupta on Aesthetics and Laughter. Therefore, it seems appropriate to bring Mikhail Bakhtin to the Kashmir valley.
The webinar will review the main works of Mikhail Bakhtin, while weaving the ideas of thinkers from Kashmir. The talk will focus mainly on Bakhtin’s early philosophical works, as they lay the foundation for his later works.