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Awasthi gives us a first hand report of Hindi in Suriname. The contemporary scene in poetry and prose is always an amalgam of older and younger generations writing at the same time. While we have eminent poets like Alok Dhanwa and Arun Kamal, we also have Vimal Kumar and Neelesh Raghuvanshi to herald the new wave. The short story form rejuvenates itself from author to author so that there is no watershed in its progress. We bring you Tejinder, Harjendra Chaudhary and Awadhesh Preet in translation. Films form an important area of study. Lalit Joshi’s article on Iranian cinema gives a window view of attitudinal differences in the cine medium. Sudha Arora is frank and forthright in expressing her dissent and dissociation with the outcome of the film ‘Bawandar’. With this issue we begin a much awaited column, the book-review. Vibhuti Naraian Rai’s latest novel ‘Prem Ki Bhoot Katha’ has drawn much attention of the Hindi reader and critic alike. Recently it was presented on stage by students of National School of Drama in New Delhi. We bring you a review of the novel. Publishers and writers are requested to send us their recent publications for this column. This is the centenary year of five great Hindi writers like Sachchitanand Hiranand Vatsyayan Agyeya, Shamsher Bahadur Singh, Kedarnath Agrawal, Nagarjun and Upendra Nath Ashka. We hope to bring their heritage to our readers. 6 :: April-June 2010
Focus JOOTHAN Om Prakash Valmiki Translated by Arun Prabha Mukherjee Our house was adjacent to Chandrabhan Taga’s gher or cowshed. Next to it lived the families of Muslim weavers. Right in front of Chandrabhan Taga’s gher was a little johri, a pond, which had created a sort of partition between the Chuhras’ dwellings and the village. The name of the johri was Dabbowali. It is hard to say how it got the name of Dabbowali. Perhaps because its shape was that of a big pit. On one side of the pit were the high walls of the brick homes of the Tagas. At a right angle to these were the clay walls of the two or three homes of the Jhinwars. After these there were more homes of the Tagas. On the edges of the pond were the homes of the Chuhras. All the women of the village, young girls, older women, even the newly married brides, would sit in the open space behind these homes at the edges of the pond to take a shit. Not just under the cover of darkness but even in daylight. The purdahobserving Tyagi women, their faces covered with their saris, shawls around their shoulders, found relief in this open-air latrine. They sat on Dabbowali’s shores without worrying about decency, exposing their private parts. All the quarrels of the village would be discussed in the shape of a Round Table Conference at this same spot. There was muck strewn everywhere. The stench was so overpowering that one would choke within a minute. The pigs wandering in narrow lanes, naked children, dogs, daily fights, this was the environment of my childhood. If the people who call the caste system an ideal social arrangement had to live in this environment April-June 2010 :: 7
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I have to tell them each time that
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Said—I used to love this man. Had
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Poetry FIVE POEMS Nilesh Raghuvansh
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How dear it is to hear him so! His
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Books Never willed anybody for a gi
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Discourse POST MODERNISM: A CRITICA
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(Daniel Bell), or ‘post-modern ti
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According to Jameson and Baudrillar
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Modern Architecture’, 1977), impl
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perpetuation of dissensus - on a pe
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information because of media’s bi
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catastrophe and progress together
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theories, it has encouraged identit
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11. J. Baudrillard (1975), “ The
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article was published in 1901 and f
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Conversation FIRAQ GORAKHPURI IN HI
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and set definition for everything.
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e hard put to explain. Or take this
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Short story CAMEL WITH SILVER WINGS
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“No sir, you require rest.” His
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next month.” “To marry you?”
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from the jungle or people in their
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They were refugees of permanent kin
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offer it to a man! He had thought.
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“At times they charge so much for
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I have been in this job for a numbe
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emembered my old friend Professor S
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time I got home it was ten at night
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about her school, syllabus, timing,
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my paralysed wife from bathroom to
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to the Oxygen mask. And then, there
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treatment like bonded labourers, it
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forehead. His mind wandered towards
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in search of any senior doctor. Sin
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The inquiry commission felt it was
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Films GENDERING THE ‘LOOK’ IN C
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Mumbai) was released in Iran and ci
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early years of the revolution, the
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of getting their scripts approved b
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subverting the rules of modesty and
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9. Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, Isl
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ack insulted & a loser . She was so
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credits of the film. Jagmohan’s e
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Language HINDI LANGUAGE AND LITERAT
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It is for these reasons that the Ro
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Language TRANSLATION: A QUEST OF PO
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called words but whole languages we
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Translation in the global village T
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Book Review COUNTER-TELLING OF THE
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the Victorian legal system, run on
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The mention of Madam Ripley Bean’
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