Collated by Tusar Nath Mohapatra
Time Matters is a luminous journey through the fluidity of time, memory and existence. With a voice both introspective and expansive, this collection explores the paradoxes of experience - where past, present and future coalesce, interact and separate; where materiality is a speed of perception; and where waking, dream and death are interchangeable mysteries. An exercise in bi-cultural understanding and a meditation on translocality, this book invites readers to step back, enter and experience the magic space of its multidimensional poetic landscapes.
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The book is about what posthumanism means in the contemporary Indian context and what different lines of consideration this can take.
The world today has universalized a Eurocentric history of the human with its privileges, oppressions, exploitations and exclusions. On the one hand, this has led to the triumphalist narrative of technology, the blurring of biological embodiment through prostheses and the dream of transhumanist self-exceeding. On the other hand, we are witness to the contemporary eruption of dystopian anomalies due to the dis-balance or revolt of the “others” of humanism – climate crisis, chronic pandemic, religious, ethnocentric and geopolitical violence, ideological and authoritarian state control. Posthumanism is both an acknowledgement of these blurred boundaries of humanism and a critical response to it.
The editors of this volume opine that the discourse of posthumanism in India warrants urgent consideration, if we are to adequately address both national and global emergencies and look for solutions that India may be in a unique position to offer. Essays in the volume are by scholars in the area dealing with representative directions relating to posthumanism in India. The essays are divided into five areas of cultural relevance – (1) internal selves and others; (2) technology, normativity and ethics; (3) human and animal; (4) bodies and their discards; (5) becoming-cosmos. Together they form the beginnings of an approach to a critical cartography of posthumanism as it pertains specifically to India.
https://www.amazon.com/Posthumanism-India-Cartography-Debashish-Banerji/dp/9356404186/
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Kolkata, West Bengal: BJP leader Anirban Ganguly says, "Today is Independence Day, it is the 80th Independence Day. Today is also the 154th birth anniversary of Sri Aurobindo, Maharshi Aurobindo. That is why the Chief Minister coming here after 50 years, the elected Chief Minister of West Bengal is coming here. And the subject he has brought up so spontaneously, the faith he has expressed in the entire life and legacy of Sri Aurobindo—I feel that this is a very important day..."
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WB is undergoing a CHANGE. On the birth anniversary of Sri Aurobindo,Suvendu Adhikari becomes 1st CM of WB to visit his birthplace in 50 years. CM further hailed Dr. Anirban Ganguly for his contribution to research works related to Dr. Syama Prasad Mookerjee and Sri Aurobindo.
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Sri Aurobindo, in his own darshana, brought out these spiritual explorations of our ancient forefathers, such as the culture of constant self-refinement and establishing a divine life on earth which would not reject the physical world as illusion. Rather, the Vedic way accepted the earthly existence of humanity as a fit instrument and station for a life of Light, Truth, Immortality and Joy. - Pariksith Singh
[PDF] On an outrageous remark by John Rawls: a reply to my commentators
Pei Wang, and Brian Yue Shun Wong on Liberalism as a Way of Life (2024). It
begins with John Rawls’s claim that unreasonable comprehensive doctrines must …
Foreword: Beyond a Parsing of Violence: Remaking Asian “American” Knowledge in the Colonial Present (pp. ix-xiv)
multiple global contexts: US political discourse, anti-caste and anti-Hindutva campus
activism by Indian students, and the Indian and diasporic news media, particularly in …
[PDF] BEYOND REALISM: A CONSTRUCTIVIST INTERPRETATION OF INDIA–PAKISTAN RELATIONS THROUGH IDENTITY, HISTORICAL MEMORY, AND RELIGIOUS …
explained by traditional realist assumptions that focus on material power asymmetry,
nuclear deterrence, and territorial disputes. While realism captures the structural …
Land, Identity and Constitutional Anxiety: The Politics of Scheduled Tribe Recognition in Manipur, Northeast India
ethnic conflict in contemporary India, producing mass displacement, territorial
segregation and a prolonged breakdown of civic life. This article examines how the …
Contested Identity and Historical Truth: The Rohingya as an “Indigenous” yet “Stateless” People
supportive of the current Hindutva ideology, is sufficient reason to depreciate the
Rohingya as they seek protection from persecution and refugee support while being …
Big structures, large processes, and the minutiae of everyday practice
histories of South Asia necessarily bear upon this account. Contexts–as sociologists
know–impinge upon the writing of texts. As someone more familiar with the practice …
A BRIEF INTRODUCTION (pp. xi-xiv)
about nothing as such but which to my mind is the ideal of a book written for readers.
Or rather, as that should describe every book, I should say that it is a volume in … Leaves in the Wind, a name distilled from some lines of book VI of the Aeneid:...
[PDF] Ayodhya as a Narrative Instrument in Post-1991 Ramayana Retellings
this essay shows how Ayodhya becomes an object that adaptations repurpose to
reposition their meanings. It begins not with the post-1991 novel but with Valmiki's …
Art as Archive and Antidote: A Story
long-term value"(Winand, 2023, p. 70). So when we think of archives, we think of"
authenticity, reliability, integrity, and usability”(Winand, 2023, p. 70), but archives are …
Masculinity, Poverty and Marginalisation: Emotional Struggles and Coping Strategies
the face of economic and social exclusion, focusing on the coping behaviours that
emerge as responses to their lived realities. Drawing on one year of fieldwork in …
