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=The South Asia Literary Recording Project, by the Library of Congress, with authors in many South Asian languages (including English) reading their own works: [site] =Annual of Urdu Studies, an indispensable resource for serious students. Current issues, edited by Prof. M. U. Memon, including an archive: [site]. Issues from 1981-1990, edited by Prof. C. M. Naim, online through DSAL: [site] =Sahitya Akademi, India's national literary association: [site] =Walt Whitman, "Passage to India," from Leaves of Grass (1900): [site] =William Butler Yeats, "Mohini Chatterjee," from The Winding Stair and Other Poems (1933): [on this site] =Daniel H. H. Ingalls, "Some Problems in the Translation of Sanskrit Poetry" (1982): [on this site] =K. R. Malkani, "The Sindh Story" (1984). A narrative dominated by the author's two strong prejudices: a dislike for Muslims (he is a longtime RSS member) and a love of Sindh. Since Sindh is full of Muslims, this produces a lively though very biased account: [site] =Krishna Sobti, "Ai
Ladki" (1991), an excerpt from the Hindi novel
translated by Shivanath, in The Little Magazine
1,1: [site] =Sisir Kumar Das, 1800-1910: Western
Impact, Indian Response, vol. 1 of "A History
of Indian Literature" (New Delhi: Sahitya Academy,
1991: [site] =Social Scientist: "Literary History, Region, and Nation in South Asia." Guest editor: Sheldon Pollock. 23, 269-71 (1995): [site] =Amitav Ghosh, "The Ghosts of Mrs. Gandhi," from the New Yorker, July 17, 1995, pp. 35-41: [site] =Frontline: "India Independent: the First Fifty Years," Frontline 14,16 (Aug. 9-22, 1997), a special anniversary issue with some excellent articles: [site]; and an issue commemorating Frontline's own 25th anniversary (Jan. 2-15, 2010): [site] =A. K. Ramanujan, A Flowering Tree and Other Oral Tales from India (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997): [site] =Satyajit Ray: A website devoted to his literary and film work (partly in English, partly in Bengali): [site] =Prof. Clint Seely provides a reader that includes careful and accurate translations of Bengali devotional lyrics: [site] =Nirmal Verma, "A Day's Guest" trans. from the Hindi by Prasenjit R. Gupta, in The Little Magazine 1,5: [site] =Ikramullah, "The Wind
Carried It All Away" (1962), trans. from the Urdu by
Moazzam Sheikh: [site] =Intizar Husain, Basti
(1979), trans. by FWP: [on this site] =Vikram Chandra, "The Cult of Authenticity," in the Boston Review, Feb/Mar 2000: [site] =James Traub, "Keeping Up With the Shidhayes: India's New Middle Class" (an exceptionally thoughtful look at Aurangabad), New York Times Magazine, April 15, 2001: [on this site] =Sanjay Subramanyam, "Golden Age Hallucinations," Outlook India, Aug. 20, 2001: [on this site] =Philip Lutgendorf, "A Superhit Goddess: Jai Santoshi Maa and Caste Hierarchy in Indian Films," Manushi 131 (July-August 2002): [on this site] =Time Asia: "The Journey Home" 162,6 (August 18-25, 2003). "Time invites some of the Asian diaspora's top writers to embark on physical and mental voyages of return." Authors include: Ved Mehta, Mohsin Hamid, Pankaj Mishra, Shyam Selvadurai, Hamid Karzai: [site] =William Dalrymple, "Sir Vidia Gets It Badly Wrong," in Outlook Magazine, March 15, 2004: [on this site]; on V. S. Naipaul. =Amy M. Braverman,
"The Interpretation of Gods," University of
Chicago Magazine, Dec. 2004: [site]; about recent
religio-political conflicts in the study of Hinduism =Pankaj Mishra, "The
Invention of the Hindu," Axess, 2004: [on
this site] =Madhav Deshpande, a letter to the editor of the Wall Street Journal about the history of Hinduism, Jan 26, 2006: [on this site] =P. P. Raveendran, "Genealogies of Indian Literature," Economic and Political Weekly, June 24, 2006: [site]; also [on this site] =Salman
Rushdie,
"The
Shelter of the World", New Yorker, Feb. 25,
2008: [site]; a story about Akbar =Ramachandra
Guha, "The Rise and Fall of the Bilingual
Intellectual," Economic and Political Weekly,
Jan. 23, 2010: [site];
also [on
this site] =C. M. Naim: an overview of his work: [on this site] =(just for fun:) "Lexicon of Indian Journalese": [on this site] |
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