Papers by SIBAJI BANDYOPADHYAY
Cambridge University Press eBooks, Jun 1, 2021
Foreword Peter Ronald deSouza. Acknowledgements. Introduction. Part I: Narration 1. Of Gambling: ... more Foreword Peter Ronald deSouza. Acknowledgements. Introduction. Part I: Narration 1. Of Gambling: A Few Lessons from the Mahabharata Sibaji Bandyopadhyay 2. Methodology of the Critical Edition of the Mahabharata Saroja Bhate 3. Significance of the Early Parvans: Modes of Narration, Birth Stories and Seeds of Conflict Sibesh Bhattacharya 4. Understanding Yudhistohira's Actions: Recasting Karma-Yoga in a Wittgensteinian Mould Enakshi Mitra Part II: Aesthetics 5. Aesthetics of the Mahabharata: Traditional Interpretations Radhavallabh Tripathi 6. Karnoa in and out of the Mahabharata Nrisinha Prasad Bhaduri Part III: Ethics 7. Care Ethics and Epistemic Justice: Some Insights from the Mahabharata Vrinda Dalmiya 8. Who Speaks for Whom? The Queen, the Dasi and Sexual Politics in the Sabhaparvan Uma Chakravarti 9. Moral Doubts, Moral Dilemmas and Situational Ethics in the Mahabharata Prabal Kumar Sen 10. Of Sleep and Violence: Reading the Sauptikaparvan in Times of Terror Anirban Das 11. Himosa-Ahimosa in the Mahabharata: The Lonely Position of Yudhistohira Gangeya Mukherji 12. Just Words: An Ethics of Conversation in the Mahabharata Arindam Chakrabarti
Routledge eBooks, Sep 10, 2018
Just as ‘modernity’, ‘modernism’ too has variegated histories. Years back—to be precise in 1961—C... more Just as ‘modernity’, ‘modernism’ too has variegated histories. Years back—to be precise in 1961—Carl E. Schorske had zeroed in on Vienna to chart out a general chronicle for the European trend of modernism (1981). He claimed, if modernism were to be understood as an intellectual movement with its sights set on cherished nineteenth-century binaries, such as, rationalism and romanticism, individualism and socialism, realism and naturalism, then various twentieth century ‘Viennese Schools’ supplied ample ammunition to batter them all. Schorske’s belief was that the gesture of ‘shaking off the shackles of history’ which most broadly characterized European modernism could be most effectively foregrounded if one hazarded to give a symptomatic reading to the ‘new culture-makers in the city of Freud’. Needless to say, such an approach for Bengal would prove to be disastrous. Nonetheless, it is worth recording that whatever one may ascribe to the expression ‘Bengali modernism’, it mostly sprang from and flourished in Kolkata, the city of Rabindranath.
Routledge eBooks, Sep 10, 2018
<jats:p>Jibanananda Das was one of the pre-eminent Bengali poets of the first half of the t... more <jats:p>Jibanananda Das was one of the pre-eminent Bengali poets of the first half of the twentieth century. With the posthumous entry of his prose writings into the public domain, it is now generally accepted that Jibanananda was also a storyteller and novelist of the first rank.</jats:p> <jats:p>Jibanananda was born in the district town of Barishal (now in Bangladesh) in a Brahma household. After obtaining an MA in English from Calcutta University in 1921, he taught in various colleges.</jats:p>
Thematology-: Literary studies in India, 2004
Being Bengali: At home and in the world edited by Mridula Nath Chakraborty, 2014
The Bloomsbury research handbook of Indian aesthetics and the philosophy of art edited by Arindam Chakrabarti, 2016
Will to record may well be one of the more driving, more persistent passions that set apart man f... more Will to record may well be one of the more driving, more persistent passions that set apart man from other life-forms; a will that may very well tint man's being-hood with an indelible seal of distinction. Will to record is closely kneaded with man's propensity to play; which is the same as saying, it is firmly welded to the blend of a twofold inclination. One of the two play-inclinations has for its goal the framing of clear-cut rules for the smooth running of some or the other structure; the other looks forward to unearthing the disorderly and the messy inscribed at the very heart of the instituted structure. But this is not all. Will to record also alludes to another powerful and equally primitive predilection. that has to do with the compulsion to display-the uncontainable penchant to hold at bay things which, in the remorseless process of passing out, are inexorably turning into quiet nothings. the determination to refer back in the guise of standing witness, the grammatical grit to reorder the fading past in the tense of perennial present, the prying curiosity to review events already-viewed, is an impulse as pressing and stubborn as those of instincts. this near-absurd impulsion to instill a feel of durability to the ephemeral, to permeate a sense of fixity to the fragile, of necessity branches out in two directions. One courses along the vector set upon circumscribing the inherently flimsy with the aid of apparatus of marking, that is, upon the assigning of names, epithets, taxonomic nomenclature, classificatory characteristics, and so on, which make the integrally fuzzy repeatedly recognizable with some degree of certitude. the other follows the vector highlighting the selfimplicating artificiality involved in fabricating nonrepeatable unique specimens while capturing the fleeting in frieze. Simultaneously allied to the somber game of truth-claiming and to the comic prank of fiction-building, will to record is focalized on a special kind of monumentalizing the momentary-it composes stolid displays out of vagaries of play without however losing attention to fine distinctions; it invites libidinal investments that besides giving longer leases to staying power allow the participants to gaze at the self-same acts with discrimination.
Mahābhārata Now Narration, Aesthetics, Ethics edited by Arindam Chakrabarti and Sibaji Bandyopadhyay, 2014
Routledge Encyclopedia of Modernism
Just as ‘modernity’, ‘modernism’ too has variegated histories. Years back—to be precise in 1961—C... more Just as ‘modernity’, ‘modernism’ too has variegated histories. Years back—to be precise in 1961—Carl E. Schorske had zeroed in on Vienna to chart out a general chronicle for the European trend of modernism (1981). He claimed, if modernism were to be understood as an intellectual movement with its sights set on cherished nineteenth-century binaries, such as, rationalism and romanticism, individualism and socialism, realism and naturalism, then various twentieth century ‘Viennese Schools’ supplied ample ammunition to batter them all. Schorske’s belief was that the gesture of ‘shaking off the shackles of history’ which most broadly characterized European modernism could be most effectively foregrounded if one hazarded to give a symptomatic reading to the ‘new culture-makers in the city of Freud’. Needless to say, such an approach for Bengal would prove to be disastrous. Nonetheless, it is worth recording that whatever one may ascribe to the expression ‘Bengali modernism’, it mostly spr...
Books by SIBAJI BANDYOPADHYAY
This anthology contains eight independent essays. Excepting one, all are of recent origin. Of the... more This anthology contains eight independent essays. Excepting one, all are of recent origin. Of these seven were written in English. Six of those seven have been previously published. But since compiling the volume compelled me to re-visit the essays they have had had to undergo modifications. To fit them within the parameters I set for the book I have also had to alter the titles of two pieces. Although the revisions are not drastic I consider the versions printed here 'authorized' and final.
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