Article on the illustrations of the Different Tales
Sneha Raghavan, has studied Ph.D. in English and Foreign Language University. She has written an article on the illustrations of the Different Tales books. Click [...]
Disciplines, inter-disciplines and languages
- Prathama Banerjee The third set of questions I have in mind relates to language. The issue of language has most commonly been raised in [...]
World, force and concept
Three aspects of translation (A broadsheet team discussion) - A Suneetha, M A Moid and R Srivatsan What do you mean by the idea of [...]
Language of Silence: Interview with K Lalita
- Gogu Shyamala and A Suneetha Was there a discussion about Telangana idiom when the book was first released? The book was published in 1985. [...]
Assault of the Grantha Gaze on Dalit Bahujan Gramya Language
- N Manohar Reddy When dalit literature emerged with full force in the 1980s and 90s, many upper caste intellectuals, starting from orthodox brahmin pundits [...]
Holy Shit: A Brief History of Swearing – Melissa Mohr
Book Review - R Srivatsan [ezcol_1half]Eulale, may you enjoy good health with your wife Vera, and good fucking.” (Graffito found on a Roman wall around the [...]
The swearword is not the last word in Dalit poetry
- Jilukara Srinivas Can profanity be poetry? True, all critics agree that only impassioned poetry has the power to move the reader. There are many [...]
Language and Lifeworlds
- Deepa Srinivas This article draws on my experience of working with Anveshi for a project titled Different Tales. Popularly known as the ‘stories project’, [...]
Mother Tongue in Disguise
- Prasen Which language, which idiom, whether classical or colloquial, I have now no doubts! As I stammered with elastic words and stumbled through alien [...]
Language Flow in Modern Telugu Dalit Poetry
- Gogu Shyamala Historically, dalits have constantly waged a battle against the false epics, literary and art forms and propaganda of Manuvaada. In another direction, [...]
Vemana and Joshua
- Katti Padma Rao Vemana’s language is one of social revolution, it is the agitation of a philosophical life, the all consuming flame of a [...]
Language, the political commons
- M Madhava Prasad What is the relation between language and the nation-state form? A recent essay on a somewhat unrelated topic includes this passing [...]
‘Chera’: An Unfinished Task*
- K Srinivas *This translation of the title does not do justice to the play on words the author was able to achieve in his [...]
Thinking beyond “standard language”
- Duggirala Vasanta Much has been written in the sociolinguistic literature about what constitutes a ‘standard’ language and what a ‘dialect/vernacular’. Much has also been [...]
‘Language is infinite’: Interview with Vemula Yellaiah
- N Manohar Reddy and R Srivatsan Till you published your work, Dalit writing used standard Telugu, more or less. When you wrote, people often said they [...]