Listening to the Loom Essays on Literature, Politics and Violence

includes index and biblioraphy

Kannada`s Cultural Imagination Critical Tensions in the History of Kannada Literary Culture The Creative Imagination of U.R. Ananthamurthy Chandrashekar Kambara: The Playwright of Comic Energy The Comic Collapse of Authority: An Essay on the Fears of the Public Spectator The Forms of Kannada Nationalism New Orality and Poetry Politics and Violence Beyond the Essentialist and Constructivist Paradigms: Notes on Indian Pluralism The Ethics and Aesthetics of Violence A Tibetan Dog, the Silent Sadhus, and the Peasants of Champaran: Notes on Violence, Non-Violence, and Counter-Violence in Gandhi Anxious Hindu and Angry Farmer: Notes on the Culture and Politics of Two Responses to Globalization in India The Tiger and the Magical Flute: Notes on Minorities Spirituality and Social Action Ashis Nandy: An Introduction