Solitary Stillness

Kiriti SenGupta

Hawakal Publishers

Hibiscus: poems that heal and empower

Literature & Fiction

Sengupta, Ed. Kiriti

Literary

Open Your Eyes: an anthology on climate change: poetry and prose

Agrawal, Ed. Vinita

The Mappila Verses

Khan A T, Ajmal

Poetry

Mukherjee has written—not just another book about what Sri Ramakrishna taught but—a literary analysis of his dialogic method of teaching. It offers an interestingly different perspective from which to study it. Sri Ramakrishna had such a profound influence on the intellectuals of his time that each succeeding age has tried to understand it in its own mode and medium. — Pravrajika Prabuddhaprana The Telegraph Mikhail Bakhtin, who insisted on the dialogic and communicative nature of human experience in all its forms, across linguistic and national boundaries, across genres and media, and across the abyss between ‘I’ and ‘Thou’, turns out to be a wonderful figure to guide Dr. Mukherjee in her original reading of the Kathamrita. — Prof. Janet Walker Prabuddha Bharata That interactions between Ramakrishna and Datta were compounded to a great degree by songs is beautifully demonstrated in the book. — Swami Tyagarupananda The Statesman This book locates the Sri Sri Ramakrishna Kathamrita within the critical framework suggested by Mikhail Bakhtin in The Dialogic Imagination, where he posits that the novel is intensely dialogic or dialogue-ridden. This perspective uncovers in the Kathamrita many moments of the dialogic interface between song and philosophy (epistemology), faith and empiricism, myth and scientific actuality, story-telling and historical documentation, bhava and reason. These multiple dialogues become a powerful portrait of the swirling, teeming, history-making and epoch-creating energies of the 19th century in Bengal, much in the way that in the England of Charles Darwin (1850's), the rival claims of faith versus reason drove thinking minds to the ultimate borders of intellectual questioning. Through his multiple interactions with leading intellectuals of the time like Keshab Chandra Sen, Girish Ghosh, Dr. Mahendralal Sarkar, Mahendranath Gupta, and also Narendranath Datta, Sri Ramakrishna posits the power of urjita bhakti whereby a devotee exists in a state of joyous freedom that enables engagement with the world without being entrapped in it. Sri Ramakrishna insisted that God was the highest rasa of all and 'loksiksha' should be the prerogative of those who firmly followed 'sadhana' in their lives.

The Many Dialogues of the Sri Sri Ramakrishna Kathamrita

Religion & Spirituality

Mukherjee, Sreemati

Hinduism

My Father, the Watchmaker

Biographies & Memoirs

Monga, Gaurav

Community & Culture

Highway O Annanya Galpo

Joydip Chatterjee

A collection of translated Tamil poems by S. Vaidheeswaran.

Mounts Valleys & Myself

S, Vaidheeswaran

World Literature

outside the lines

Splake, T. Kilgore

Kakka—the novel that “turned Telegu literature on its head,” Vemula Yellaiah’s 2000 debut is a stylistic Cirque-du-Soleil act. Boy and body politic come of age together in Kakka—stark, minimalist realism meets the symphonic forms and registers of fantasy. A storytelling triumph, in particular Dalit, and at large, the novel is a pioneering record of slavery’s myriad manifestations, and of the productive work Madigas render unto the landlords. Even as their daily inter-caste encounter is described as never before by Yellaiah—never before has the marginalization of a Dalit within his Dalit kinships been written about as in Kakka. Eponymous hero and reader alike grow into their cast through one after another outcast(e). K. Purushotham and Gita Ramaswamy’s sparse translation is as unapologetic as its source, and as exceptionally beautiful.

Kakka: a Dalit novel

Yellaiah, Vemula

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