"Commonwealth" and "Postcolonial" Studies Journals: Some History

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A few years ago, when I was going up for tenure at Lehigh, I did a blog post compiling links to several postcolonial studies journals  I was...

A Brief Note About Jainendra Kumar's "The Resignation"

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I came across Jainendra Kumar's The Resignation ( Tyaga-Patra ; 1937) as I was combing through the library looking for work associated w...

Update on "After the Wars"

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Several friends on Facebook had further suggestions for the "After the Wars" course I mentioned in my blog post yesterday . Here a...

New Course in the works: After the Wars--Literature of Globalization

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I'm teaching a new course in spring 2011 called "After the Wars: Literature of Globalization." I got the idea after re-reading...

Mulk Raj Anand: on the Language Debate and his Aunt's Caste-related Suicide

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For a long time I resisted reading much of Mulk Raj Anand's work -- there simply seemed to be too much, and much of what I had looked at...

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 ...

Mir Baqi and the Babri Mosque: Some Historical Footnotes

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Many of us who follow the issue of communalism in India have found ourselves somewhat vexed by the recent verdict by the Allahabad high cour...

Translation Workshop: Prabhjot Kaur's "Bewildered" (UPDATED)

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My first attempt a couple of months ago at translating from Punjabi was humbling, but I'm back to give it another shot. As readers may ...

Why I don't like Mulk Raj Anand's "Untouchable" (and a few examples of novels dealing intelligently with caste)

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When asked to suggest a novel that describes the caste system in India, the first one that comes to mind for many people, especially outside...

Gordon Roadarmel and Modern Hindi Literature

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One of the key critics in looking at modernism in Hindi literature in particular is the American critic and translator, Gordon Roadarmel. To...

Thoughts on Premchand's "Godaan"

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The first surprise in reading Premchand's 1936 masterpiece Godaan is just how different it is from the blurb describing it. Here, for i...

Scattered Thoughts and Readings: Moorish Spain

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We recently did a quick jaunt through southern Spain, piggybacked on a business trip my wife had to do in Madrid. The places we visited, Gra...

Five Types of Hybridity: Steve Yao in Wasafiri

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A little while ago I did a long post on the concept of 'hybridity' , hoping to provide a resource useful for people who teach on thi...

Translating from the Punjabi -- K.S. Duggal

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I have been looking at an obscure volume of Punjabi poetry published in 1962, as part of a project I'm doing on South Asian progressive ...

How to Gender a Hawk ("Shikkra"): a look at a Shiv Kumar Batalvi poem

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I came across a link to the Punjabi poet Shiv Kumar Batalvi on YouTube earlier today, in the course of doing some research for an encycloped...