The Rape of Parwana: Mukul Kesavan's Inscription of History and Agency
It would not be too much of an exaggeration to claim that, with the odd and honourable exception (such as Amitav Ghosh's The Calcutta Chromosome), the current Indian English fiction boom-boom depends...
View ArticleKANYAKUMARI
Forget the bird's-eye view; from a bus window you can touch gutters on both sides of the street.
View ArticleIndian Plantation ('Coolie') Experiences Overseas.
The slave trade in Africans is perhaps the worst blot on recorded human history, given the trade's duration, the numbers involved and, above all, its appallingly cruel nature. The effects of the trade...
View ArticleRaghupathi Bhatta
Raghupathi Bhatta, whose work features on the cover of this issue, is an artist of Mysore, Southern India. His art draws upon themes and images of the Ramayana, Mahabharata, Bhagavad-Gita and the...
View ArticleRaghupathi Bhatta: Reviving a Dying Art
Raghupathi Bhatta of Mysore, one of India's most promising traditional artists, hails from a family of South-Indian Pandits (Brahamin priests). It was in the ancient town of Nagamangala, seventy...
View ArticleAunt Yogi
'Children, children, call your father.' That was mother calling from the ulmuththam. There was a tone of urgency, as though the end of the world was at hand; and in mother's case she believed that...
View ArticleThe Ashram at Akaroa: Blanche Edith Baughan, Lidia and the Literature of...
On April 13th, 1905, at eight o'clock in the morning, a young English woman, Blanche Edith Baughan, was standing among the pine trees of Long Look-out, a hill on Banks Peninsula, New Zealand. She was...
View ArticleInterview with Patricia Grace
Patricia Grace, one of New Zealand's most prolific and influential Maori writers, was bom in Wellington (New Zealand) in 1937, of Ngati Raukawa, Ngati Toa and Te Ati Awa tribal descent. Grace began to...
View ArticleMaking the Sign of the Cross: Interdisciplinary Intersections in Theology,...
This paper posits that there is a meeting place between Theology, Australian Studies and Postcolonial studies and that it lies in the intersections of culture, the crossroads which determine spaces of...
View ArticleST FRANCIS CHURCH, COCHIN [1503 Portuguese, 1776 Dutch, 1795 British, 1949...
Dropping free of the blue tinted cool onto hot sand, they trust to collective carapace, elbow through the call, dart, tug of predatory gulls to sanctuary
View Article'It's Not a Story. It's History'
In 1844 George Fyfe Angas promoted South Australia as a 'model colony', possessing 'a more highly moral, religious and intelligent population with Christian privileges than any other of our colonies'...
View ArticleEarly Days on Point Pearce
Anyway, I was born in Wallaroo in 1934. Those years, on Point Pearce, for some reason they didn't take the women into Maitland Hospital to have their baby. They had to go to Wallaroo, being a...
View ArticleBinlids at the Boundaries of Being: A West Belfast Community Stages an...
Much work has been attempted to forge identities beyond the dominant topographies of the political divisions within Northern Ireland; divisions which are expressed most visibly in the so-called 'peace...
View ArticleCONSPIRACY OF DELIGHT
It is something of a miracle to me that at the age of fifty, I should take up all-year- round swimming and grow addicted to the Newcastle Ocean Baths. I've learned to know the Baths through limpid...
View ArticleMYSTERY OF THE OCEAN BATHS
E\ en- time the two of them go for a ride in the car. there is an argument. "I don't want it on. It's too tight.' "It's got to be tight to keep you safe.' She pulls against the strap. "Look I'll hold...
View ArticlePalaver Sauce: A Thematic Selection of Some West African Proverbs
If you never offer your uncle palmwine, you'll not learn many proverbs, prompts a Ghanaian saying. The advice seems to have been well-heeded. Whether painted across the fronts of speeding mammy-wagons...
View Article'Tableaux of Queerness': The Ethnographic Novels of John White
Describing European writing about the orient, the critic Edward Said once noted that literary accounts of its peoples tended to be organised round ‘tableaux of queerness' (Said 103). The phrase,...
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