For all the apparent simplicity of its plot, Yash Chopra’s Deewaar (1975) — on which I have written a book [HarperCollins, late December 2010] to which I made reference in my blog earlier this month — twists and turns on a number of phenomena, none perhaps as remarkable as the act of writing. Though Deewaar [...]
Archive for December 14th, 2010
*Mujhe Tumare Sign Chaiyen: The Act of Writing in Deewaar (1975)
Posted in Cinema, The Politics of Indian Culture, tagged Amitabh Bachchan, betrayal in Deewaar, conversation and intimacy, Deewaar - Hindi film (1975), fraternal conflict, signature as identity, the pen and the sword, the signature, the written word in Deewaar, writing, writing vs. orality on December 14, 2010 | 6 Comments »
*Thesis Four – Nonviolence: A Gaping Hole in Postcolonial Thought
Posted in American Society and Culture, Globalization and Cultural Politics, Postcolonial Thought, The Politics of Culture, tagged Christianity vs. Christ's teachings, Edward Carpenter, Edward Said, Eugen Weber, Frantz Fanon, Leo Tolstoy, Martin Luther King Jr., modernization of France, nation-making, nation-state and violence, nonviolence, nonviolence and Western thought, philosophic anarchism, Ranajit Guha, violence of the nation-state on December 14, 2010 | 4 Comments »
The enterprise of making a nation is fraught with violence. People have to be not merely cajoled but browbeaten into submission to become proper subjects of a proper nation-state. Overt violence may not always play the primary role in producing the homogenous subject, but social phenomena such as schooling cannot be viewed merely as innocuous [...]
