Conference Presentations by Varsha Singh
It is a truism that human beings understand their world through stories. Stories have accompanied... more It is a truism that human beings understand their world through stories. Stories have accompanied the evolution of society in its structuration as well as in its ordering. One would not exaggerate if one says we make sense of reality by its linguistic construction. This might be seen as a linguistic turn in conceptualising reality; this has to be accepted that the imagination itself is constructed around the language or the languages we are acquainted with. Cutting across disciplines we can understand reality through literature-oral, written, historical, mythical or philosophical. In the times we live in this very fact has led to the concept of multiple realities, even a fragmentation of reality leading to the pluralising attitude to the erstwhile essential concepts about universal themes. In our age when literature is being written not in its traditional manner but on devices having its own brains, under the huge pressures of the unstoppable force of globalising and globalised realities which in turn are at best fragmented and fragmenting. This seminar proposes to bring in scholars primary from the world of literature, theory, philosophy, history, as well as other disciplines feeding the thoughts. Any fruitful discussion about literature right now can only take place when we can situate literature in its context of its engendering philosophy and history, myth and reality. We should also be courageous enough to imagine the world which is progressive, liberal, and futuristic with dignity and integrity of the human being at its centre. This seminar proposes to read, understand, analyse literature in its myriad forms in their various locations, origins and presences. Papers are invited to be presented in the seminar to be submitted electronically as attachment in MS Word (for editing, designing, etc.) as well as PDF (Font: Times New Roman, Size: Title-14, Body-12, Single Spaced). Broadly speaking, articles which deal with the idea of imagining our world in its representation-textual, literary, mythic and historical are to be accepted. A request is made that it will be desirable if as a way of textual practice we invest ourselves in finding our resources from actual literary textual materials or literary artefacts.
Papers by Varsha Singh
Published by: Sahitya Akademi, 2019
Will You Come Becoming the Light, Ayra?
Author(s): Vimal Kumar and Varsha Singh
Source: Indian ... more Will You Come Becoming the Light, Ayra?
Author(s): Vimal Kumar and Varsha Singh
Source: Indian Literature , March-April 2019, Vol. 63, No. 2 (310) (March-April 2019), p. 204 / Published by: Sahitya Akademi
"Forgiveness" Author(s): Anamika Anu and Varsha Singh Source: Indian Literature , January–February 2023, Vol. 67, No. 1 (333), pp. 39-40 Published by: Sahitya Akademi, 2023
"Forgiveness"
Author(s): Anamika Anu and Varsha Singh
Source: Indian Literature , January–Februar... more "Forgiveness"
Author(s): Anamika Anu and Varsha Singh
Source: Indian Literature , January–February 2023, Vol. 67, No. 1 (333) (January–February
2023), pp. 39-40
Published by: Sahitya Akademi
Indian Literature , March-April 2019, Vol. 63, No. 2 (310), 2019
Shobha Nihalani’s Curse of the Kalingan- NINE is a fantasy thriller which churns up an astonishin... more Shobha Nihalani’s Curse of the Kalingan- NINE is a fantasy thriller which churns up an astonishing tale from the depths of ancient times. The novel is a mix of fact and fiction with an imaginary plot, while its foundation is based in historical fact. Nihalani has named the book after the legend of 'The Nine Unknown Men,' which is also the inspiration for the story. In the 3rd century BCE, this secret society was founded by King Ashoka. It is often cited as one of the oldest secret societies in the world, and is believed to still exist today, with the Nine holding tremendous powers and knowledge, which were handed down through the ages. The historical background of this story is engrained in the famous War of Kalinga. When Ashoka, the son of the Mauryan emperor Bindusara and the grandson of Chandragupta Maurya, ascended the throne of Magadha in 273 B.C. treading in the footsteps of his forefathers he set out to expand his empire. In the 12th year of his reign, he sent a messa...
Postmodernism reciprocates history, not in a positive and simple sense, but critically, probing t... more Postmodernism reciprocates history, not in a positive and simple sense, but critically, probing the entire supposition of historical cognizance. Rather than eliminating the existence of history totally, its techniques and denotations are diversified. Postmodernism augments pressure in order to review and reconsider the idea of what history is; observing the cultural presumptions on which any account of history is based. The essential change within postmodernism is the way of conceiving history, with the expanding perception of the limits and flaws of any creation and rendition of the past. Contemporary writers pursuing with the rewriting of history are stimulated by the requirement to foreground the cleft which is intractable to fill-between the factual past and any depiction of it. Historiographic metafiction ripostes the twofold necessity to reflect on history as well as reality and to interrogate the ability to represent them. In an attempt to offer a definition of Historiographic metafiction, Linda Hutcheon suggests, " by this I mean those well-known and popular novels which are both intensely self-reflexive and yet paradoxically also lay claim to historical events and personages. " Dominated by history, Historiographic metafiction concerns with historical occurrences; it makes history its subject and contemplates on historiography.
I have had the privilege of translating R. K. Singh’s poetry. That effort was rewarding for me as... more I have had the privilege of translating R. K. Singh’s poetry. That effort was rewarding for me as it was done under the keen presence of the poet himself. I had the benefit of reading my own translations, or – to use the metaphor of Raji Narasimhan – using ‘translation as a touchstone’ to understand the original. Indeed, translation – as they say – is the most intimate interpretation of the original text. This paper is an attempt to situate Singh’s poem in its cultural and critical tradition and reading them with the help of my own translations in Hindi.
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Turning and turning in the widening gyre
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The Criterion: An International Journal in English
The phrase Midnight’s Grandchildren stands for the generation tending to take forward the remarka... more The phrase Midnight’s Grandchildren stands for the generation tending to take forward the remarkable accomplishments made by the Post-Independence era of India towards new dimension. In 1980, “Midnight’s Children” was the name which Salman Rushdie gave to India’s first Post-Independence generation. Today, as Midnight’s Children head into retirement, a new generation of Indians – the
Midnight’s Grandchildren are entering towards adulthood. Born in the reform era that started in the mid-1980s and then accelerated in 1991, they are, above all, liberalization’s children. This article focuses on the tendencies of postmodernism being set by one of those liberalization’s children, Tabish Khair through his novel
The Thing About Thugs.
The main aim of translation is to serve as a cross-cultural bilingual communication vehicle among... more The main aim of translation is to serve as a cross-cultural bilingual communication vehicle among people. In the past few decades, this activity has developed because of rising international trade, increased migration, globalization, the recognition of linguistic minorities, and the expansion of the mass media and technology.
Feminism is both an intellectual commitment and a political movement that seeks justice for women... more Feminism is both an intellectual commitment and a political movement that seeks justice for women and the end of sexism in all forms. It was in the late 18 th century that for the first time Feminism took its origin in the struggle for women's rights, more particularly with Mary Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Women (1792). Male authors like J.S. Mill in The Subjection of Women (1869) and Friedrich Engels in The Origin of the Family (1884) wrote of the need to rethink the role of women and social oppression against them. In the early twentieth century, Olive Schreiner, Virginia Woolf and later Simone de Beauvoir wrote on gender questions from the perspective of and oriented towards issues like education, marriage, economics, sexuality and morals.
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Conference Presentations by Varsha Singh
Papers by Varsha Singh
Author(s): Vimal Kumar and Varsha Singh
Source: Indian Literature , March-April 2019, Vol. 63, No. 2 (310) (March-April 2019), p. 204 / Published by: Sahitya Akademi
Author(s): Anamika Anu and Varsha Singh
Source: Indian Literature , January–February 2023, Vol. 67, No. 1 (333) (January–February
2023), pp. 39-40
Published by: Sahitya Akademi
Midnight’s Grandchildren are entering towards adulthood. Born in the reform era that started in the mid-1980s and then accelerated in 1991, they are, above all, liberalization’s children. This article focuses on the tendencies of postmodernism being set by one of those liberalization’s children, Tabish Khair through his novel
The Thing About Thugs.
Books by Varsha Singh
Author(s): Vimal Kumar and Varsha Singh
Source: Indian Literature , March-April 2019, Vol. 63, No. 2 (310) (March-April 2019), p. 204 / Published by: Sahitya Akademi
Author(s): Anamika Anu and Varsha Singh
Source: Indian Literature , January–February 2023, Vol. 67, No. 1 (333) (January–February
2023), pp. 39-40
Published by: Sahitya Akademi
Midnight’s Grandchildren are entering towards adulthood. Born in the reform era that started in the mid-1980s and then accelerated in 1991, they are, above all, liberalization’s children. This article focuses on the tendencies of postmodernism being set by one of those liberalization’s children, Tabish Khair through his novel
The Thing About Thugs.
Included in the anthology- A Duet poem of Varsha Singh with Santanu Halder
The poets who have contributed in Scaling Heights are- Aju Mulhopadhyay, Ananya S. Guha, Angad Singh Saluja, Anup Datta, Anupam Naskar, Anupam Roy, Aparna Pathak, Atreya Sarma U, Chandra Sekhar Dubey, Chitra Banerjee, Diwakar Pokhriyal, Gayatri Majumdar, Gopal Lahiri, Jacob Isaac, Jagdish Kesav, Jaydeep Sarangi, T.R Joy, Jubin Ghosh, Jyothsna phanija, Kiriti Sengupta, Madhumita Ghosh, Mary Annie V, Mohini Gurav, Moinak Dutta, Monika Pant, Nitin Soni, Payal Pasha, Perugu Ramakrishna, Prabhanjan K. Mishra, Prabir Roy, Prakash Joshi, Pradipta Kumar Mohanty, Prahhlad Satapathy, Purabi D Bhattacharya, Ram Sharma, Ramakanta Das, Ratan Bhattacharya, Reena Prasad, Sangeeta Sharma, Sarala Ram Kamal, Sanhita Sinha, Srishti Sharma, Seshu Chamarty, Shruti Das, Shruti Goswami, Subrata Roy, Sudama Chandra Panigrahi, Sumita Nandy, Sunil Sharma, Surabhi Bhattacharya, Tapeshwar Prasad, Umarani Jasraj, Varsha Singh, Vihang A. Naik, Vivekanand Jha, Yaseen Anwer.
To quote Greg Bear, “Once, poets were magicians. Poets were strong, stronger than warriors or kings — stronger than old hapless gods. And they will be strong once again.” Here is the time, when poets are reclaiming their stance, which was long lost, or faded, at least. We have now poets of strength, rebellion, evolution and much more. They are beyond the confines of any such thing, which tries to take the freedom of their thoughtfulness away.
One such poet is Dilip Mohapatra, a navy veteran, who began writing almost four decades ago. It is impossible to sail on two boats, altogether, however, Mohapatra made it possible and that too masterly. His creative urge (secretly) went hand-in-hand with the urge to serve his nation.