Amardeep Singh

"Just remember that your real job is that if you are free, you need to free somebody else. If you have some power, then your job is to empower somebody else." --Toni Morrison

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Mimicry and Hybridity in Plain English (Updated and Expanded)

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Update from April 2017: I added a new section called "Close Reading Bhabha's 'Signs Taken For Wonders.'" Also, for fol...

Revisiting the Calcutta Writers Workshop

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I remember finding volumes printed by the Calcutta Writers Workshop while browsing the library as a young graduate student, but at the time ...

Untrendy Topics: Modern Hindi Poetry

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I've been doing some research on Indian writers from the 1930s-1960s for a long-term scholarly project, and in the process I've been...

A Book with "@" in the Title

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There's a profile in the New York Times of Chetan Bhagat (thanks, Pocobrat ), author of One Night @ The Call Center , which was release...

Suriname's Linguistic Khichri

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The New York Times has an article on Sranan Tongo , the creole language that is spoken by a majority of people in Suriname , in South Ameri...

Subcontinental Scripts: Hindi vs. Urdu

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As I mentioned earlier in the week, I recently taught myself how to read the Urdu script, and it was quite challenging. Reading from right t...
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