Debasish Lahiri teaches English literature at Lal Baba College, under the University of Calcutta. He is an internationally acclaimed poet and academic. Phone: 91-9836744879
Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe - HAL - Inria, 2018
About us Publishing your work Advisory board News FAQs Contact us Search Home / Heritage and Rupt... more About us Publishing your work Advisory board News FAQs Contact us Search Home / Heritage and Ruptures in Indian Literature, Culture and Cinema Picture of Heritage and Ruptures in Indian Literature, Culture and Cinema Heritage and Ruptures in Indian Literature, Culture and Cinema Editor(s): Cornelius Crowley, Geetha Ganapathy-Doré, Michel Naumann Subject: Indian Studies Book Description This book investigates the millennial history of the Indian subcontinent. Through the various methods adopted, the objects and moments examined, it questions various linguistic, literary and artistic appropriations of the past, to address the conflicting comprehensions of the present and also the figuring/imagining of a possible future. The volume engages with this general cultural condition, in relation both to the subcontinent’s current “synchronic” reality and to certain aspects of the culture’s underlying diachronic determinations. It also reveals how the multiple heritages are negotiated through the subcontinent’s long-term sedimentational history. It scrutinizes both conservative interpretations of heritage and a possibly incremental enrichment, and the additional possibility of a mode of appropriation open to a dialectic of creative destruction, in which the patrimonial imperative is challenged, leaving room for processes of renewal and rejuvenation. The collection is organized around four major topics: Orientalism, addressed by way of the Tamil Epic Manimekalai, through the evocation of the Hastings Circle and views on a possible Hindu-Muslim unity sketched out by Sayyid Ahmed Khan; modernism in Indian and Burmese texts written in English; pictorial art, through a consideration of the work of some modern and contemporary Indian artists and British Asian and Indian film directors; and, finally, the current state of a body of critical thinking on gender.
In this article I set forth Edward.W. Said's Musical Elaborations as a work where his awareness o... more In this article I set forth Edward.W. Said's Musical Elaborations as a work where his awareness of the apparent dichotomy of emotional response and theoretical responsibility is palpably reflected.
An essay on Apollinaire's prophecy and the life and times of Rabindranath Tagore, especially the ... more An essay on Apollinaire's prophecy and the life and times of Rabindranath Tagore, especially the circumstances surrounding his final journey. An exploration of the nexus between Modernism and the Occult.
Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe - HAL - Inria, 2018
About us Publishing your work Advisory board News FAQs Contact us Search Home / Heritage and Rupt... more About us Publishing your work Advisory board News FAQs Contact us Search Home / Heritage and Ruptures in Indian Literature, Culture and Cinema Picture of Heritage and Ruptures in Indian Literature, Culture and Cinema Heritage and Ruptures in Indian Literature, Culture and Cinema Editor(s): Cornelius Crowley, Geetha Ganapathy-Doré, Michel Naumann Subject: Indian Studies Book Description This book investigates the millennial history of the Indian subcontinent. Through the various methods adopted, the objects and moments examined, it questions various linguistic, literary and artistic appropriations of the past, to address the conflicting comprehensions of the present and also the figuring/imagining of a possible future. The volume engages with this general cultural condition, in relation both to the subcontinent’s current “synchronic” reality and to certain aspects of the culture’s underlying diachronic determinations. It also reveals how the multiple heritages are negotiated through the subcontinent’s long-term sedimentational history. It scrutinizes both conservative interpretations of heritage and a possibly incremental enrichment, and the additional possibility of a mode of appropriation open to a dialectic of creative destruction, in which the patrimonial imperative is challenged, leaving room for processes of renewal and rejuvenation. The collection is organized around four major topics: Orientalism, addressed by way of the Tamil Epic Manimekalai, through the evocation of the Hastings Circle and views on a possible Hindu-Muslim unity sketched out by Sayyid Ahmed Khan; modernism in Indian and Burmese texts written in English; pictorial art, through a consideration of the work of some modern and contemporary Indian artists and British Asian and Indian film directors; and, finally, the current state of a body of critical thinking on gender.
In this article I set forth Edward.W. Said's Musical Elaborations as a work where his awareness o... more In this article I set forth Edward.W. Said's Musical Elaborations as a work where his awareness of the apparent dichotomy of emotional response and theoretical responsibility is palpably reflected.
An essay on Apollinaire's prophecy and the life and times of Rabindranath Tagore, especially the ... more An essay on Apollinaire's prophecy and the life and times of Rabindranath Tagore, especially the circumstances surrounding his final journey. An exploration of the nexus between Modernism and the Occult.
Poppies in the Post and Other Poems | Debasish Lahiri | Authors Press, 2020 | ISBN-978-93-89615-5... more Poppies in the Post and Other Poems | Debasish Lahiri | Authors Press, 2020 | ISBN-978-93-89615-59-3 | pp 228 | 395 / $20.00 The momentary as mythic ...
Review of Luke Fischer's A Personal History of Vision in Transnational Literature, Volume 10, No.... more Review of Luke Fischer's A Personal History of Vision in Transnational Literature, Volume 10, No. 2, May 2018.
Satyajit Ray's archive of sketches for his iconic film Pather Panchali(1955) have been gathered i... more Satyajit Ray's archive of sketches for his iconic film Pather Panchali(1955) have been gathered in a book. These sketches interestingly served as his script. A review.
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