Our Seamy Side
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The Thousand Faces of the Other
Posted on Jul 6 1999Growing up in Kashmir, my first Other was the khokha who sneaked in from across the mountains and stole little naughty children. Soon we were aware of its thousand different faces. Mother told us that hills and mountains held many secrets. This is what made Kashmir different from the plains, she said. Each fold in the mountains had its own dialect, its own costumes and customs. Beyond each forest lurked disembodied memories that possessed careless souls from time to time.
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Indology and Racism
Posted on Nov 5 1999Yet it has become common in Indic studies to write whole volumes on the discovery of the ``Aryan'' and ``Dravidian'' components of Indian culture!
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Longing and Despair
Posted on Aug 26 2003Which brings me to the main point of this little piece. Indians have been accused, not totally unjustly based on Sanskrit texts, of a preoccupation with imagined worlds. It is unusual to find historical narrative, autobiography, nature poetry, straight talk. The one exception is erotics, where Indians have excelled all other nations. Indian writing is suffused with the mystical, magical and philosophical.
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