Performing Arts and South Asian Literature

Volume 5 Number 2

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• Contents

  • EDITORIAL

    • Shirley Chew

  • INTERVIEW

    • Claire Chambers, An Interview with Geetha Upadhyaya

  • FICTION

    • Rukhsana Ahmad, Karachi
    • Githa Hariharan, Subbalakshmi’s Sari, Imelda’s Fan
    • Hamid Ismailov, From The Railway

      Translated from Russian by Robert Chandler

    • Vinod Kumar Shukla, Weight

      Translated From Hindi by Satti Khanna

  • POETRY

    • Amit Chaudhuri, Death of a Bust

  • ARTICLES

    • Ranjana Sidhanta Ash, Growing up with Tagore:

      Finding the Personal and Political in Rabindranath’s Works

    • Pallabi Chakravorty, Modernity in Bhakti and Bhakti in Modernity:

      Kabir and Kathak

    • Claire Chambers, ‘Purity of the Classical Forms’:

      Sexuality, Gender, and Bharata Natyam in texts from South India

    • Robert Chandler, Translating The Railway
    • Rachel Farebrother, ‘Music and National Identity in

      Vikram Seth’s A Suitable Boy

    • Salima Hashmi, ‘The Hue of the Garment’: Faiz Ahmed Faiz and

      a New Idiom for the People

    • Aamer Hussein, Re-reading Sughra Humayun Mirza
    • Ananya Jahanara Kabir, Beyond Narrative:

      Song and Story in South Asia

    • Satti Khanna, The Consciousness of the Listener:

      An Exploration in Video

    • Neluka Silva, Cultural Resources for Peace:

      Teledrama and Conflict Transformation in Sri Lankan Society

    • Alex Tickell, Great Stories and Small Gods:

      Epic and Performance in The God of Small Things

  • REVIEWS

  • NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS