Book Reviews by Dhrijyoti Kalita
Climate fiction Assamese eco-fiction novels 'Maajher Char' and 'Jalajaah' reclaim elemental forms... more Climate fiction Assamese eco-fiction novels 'Maajher Char' and 'Jalajaah' reclaim elemental forms of the environment The novels pay close attention to the precarity of living on the outlying waterborne lands of Assam. Dhrijyoti Kalita "The elements are rulers…The elements are human." In Latitudes of Longing, a fantastic geological exploration of earthly elements in fiction, Shubhangi Swarup adopts a categorical approach of abstaining from any pursuit of sacred geography, a trap easy to fall into, on a planet of humans and in fictions of the long past. The sacred, as it is often seen, gives in to secularised ways of human expansion in a globalised sphere.
Chicago Review of Books, 2021
Of untold times, peoples and environments in Northeast India:
This book digs for the region’s ide... more Of untold times, peoples and environments in Northeast India:
This book digs for the region’s identity amid a web of pre-histories.
This Assamese book traces the origin, evolution and present-day destructiveness of the Brahmaputr... more This Assamese book traces the origin, evolution and present-day destructiveness of the Brahmaputra. Written by geologist Jogendranath Sarma, 'Brahmaputra' takes us through the journey of a very unique river.
Teaching Documents by Dhrijyoti Kalita
Bhairavi was trying hard to concentrate on her Haruki Murakami novel as she kept tossing on her m... more Bhairavi was trying hard to concentrate on her Haruki Murakami novel as she kept tossing on her mahogany bed. But she was frequently getting distracted by the beautiful sharp notes of Himachali folksongs she played on her laptop just a short while ago.
Drafts by Dhrijyoti Kalita
Jugaad, a North Indian colloquial word for workaround techniques, is a significant term to consid... more Jugaad, a North Indian colloquial word for workaround techniques, is a significant term to consider as we set about understanding Indian neoliberalism and resource-access mechanisms in the Global South. Instantly the word should invoke in our minds the image of the impoverished and frugal tinker/tailor working on their tools to carve out a makeover of fresh value by mangling and appending on the original. This is an affective event as the tinker/tailor reacts to their prima facie and unemotional encounter with the "original" idea. It reveals, for sure, differences posed by capitalist realities that separate the original from the rest, the formal from the "informal." Jugaad, in fact, disfigures capitalist norms. It entails practices that are outside and within capital and authoritarian systems. It challenges the image of the "original" and dismantles the boundaries between intellectual and manual labor. The jugaad image is affect per se -an original and a non-representational event caught in a phase of transition. It moves away from an organized and all-sorted out form toward complex assemblages that lack any semblance of equilibrium. It is a form deriving from no concrete ideology. Most importantly, it has been shaping itself as a technology that has stepped out of linear-global time to challenge given structures of power.
I wonder how long we can snub disasters that lacerate us unfailingly every year. It is time again... more I wonder how long we can snub disasters that lacerate us unfailingly every year. It is time again for the most abiding mammoth floods. In Assam, monsoons are soon getting underway and have we made headway since last year? No sooner would the rivers distend to break all barriers and in a surge would start devouring humans, animals and villages alike. Indeed, so uninhibitedly have the floods seeped into our cultures that we have often looked at the damage induced as sort of ineluctable from our lived (unlived) realities. And why not, it would certainly not be an exaggeration to posit overlooking as an integral activity of the monsoon culture in Assam every year.
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Book Reviews by Dhrijyoti Kalita
This book digs for the region’s identity amid a web of pre-histories.
Teaching Documents by Dhrijyoti Kalita
Drafts by Dhrijyoti Kalita
Books by Dhrijyoti Kalita
Papers by Dhrijyoti Kalita
This book digs for the region’s identity amid a web of pre-histories.