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The Wait put up with Other Stories by Damodar Mauzo, translated from say publicly Konkani rough Xavier Cota, Penguin Bharat,

Damodar Mauzo is a short parcel writer, novelist, and critic hailing implant the Asiatic state make acquainted Goa. Put your feet up writes wrapping Konkani current his totality have antique translated smash into English give up Vidya Pai in uniting to his long-time associate, Xavier Cota. The Stand by and Curb Stories, a short tale collection, has been translated by interpretation latter. Multiply by two , of course was depiction recipient reminiscent of the Jnanpith Award, India’s highest legendary honour. Description writer Vivek Menezes calls Mauzo “an exemplar depart Goa’s vapour cultural affect, marked be oblivious to an blatant pluralistic universalism that persists despite threats and depredations.” His stories seamlessly condense the distance between endless and coeval, invoking rendering great as a result story writers of say publicly nineteenth century—de Maupassant, O Henry, Saki—in terms identical how regularly they right an unforeseen turn concede the achieve, but along with modern practitioners of rendering form remove post-Independence Bharat like Anjum Hasan weather Aruni Kashyap, in say publicly way they evoke both a close by and public sense be keen on place.

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Aruni Kashyap’s new poetry collection, There Is No Good Time for Bad News, grapples with the violent history of an armed separatist movement in India’s northeastern state of Assam, which formed in around its demand to secede from India. In the collection’s title, Kashyap reminds us that, preoccupied with writing testimonies of globalization and nation-building, there never arrived a good time for Indian intelligentsia to reckon with the bad news of state violence in Assam. The largely haunting silence in the Indian public sphere about the trauma of lives lost, however, finds an unflinching voice in Kashyap’s poetry. Critiquing the willful blindness of national public discourse towards this trauma, Kashyap writes, in a poem titled “News from Home”:

People here,
they tell me these are lands unfamiliar, so I must not speak about them.
I should yearn for a language, which goes well with people who decide
who should know what, how much,
how many times, when, in which perspective
and how many days news from home
should take to reach where I live,
so that tears dry up, hence no TRPs.

In stark contrast to the language, in state-controlled narratives of the Assam insurgency, that sanitizes the brutality of the violence taking place, Kashyap’s poetry yearns to tell the ha

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Postcolonial Studies

As Timothy Brennan argues, postcolonial studies brings together “globalizing features of world history and human societies” and “colonial practices and anticolonial challenges”. The interdisciplinary approach embraced by postcolonial studies provides a variety of academic tools and perspectives to study the social, cultural, and psychological aftermath of colonialism and the identity crisis generated in the wake of decolonization. Independence efforts in the Indian subcontinent following the World War II as well as the grassroots movements targeting colonial regimes in Northern Africa have paved the way towards a rethinking of the power dynamics by challenging Eurocentric and orientalist ways of defining the other. Postcolonial theory disrupts western cultural and political hegemony by “giving natives the permission to tell their own stories”—as Edward Said puts it. An important aspect of this critical approach is to scrutinize the dehumanization and exploitation of the native under colonial rule (Albert Memmi, Aime Cesaire), the formation of national consciousness (Bill Ashcroft et al.), and the role of violence in establishing sovereign states as well as sovereign individuals (Fanon). In addition, postcolonial studies s