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Lion Or Mouse? The Circus Worlds Of Salman Rushdie And Peter Carey, Paul Sharrad
Lion Or Mouse? The Circus Worlds Of Salman Rushdie And Peter Carey, Paul Sharrad
Faculty of Arts - Papers (Archive)
A reading of Rushdie's 'Shalimar the Clown' and Carey's 'The Unusual Life of Tristram Smith' as fictional uses of the circus, dramatising the writer's role and allegorising political dynamics of terrorism and postcolonial liberation.
Convicts, Call Centres And Cochin Kangaroos: South Asian Globalising Of The Australian Imagination., Paul Sharrad
Convicts, Call Centres And Cochin Kangaroos: South Asian Globalising Of The Australian Imagination., Paul Sharrad
Faculty of Arts - Papers (Archive)
This paper considers a history of imaginative links between Australia and India, offering readings of Suneeta Perez da Costa's 'Homework' and Christopher Cyrill's 'The Tributaries of the Ganges'.
The New Age Hydra: India's Experiences With Terrorism And Counter Terrorism, Swati Parashar
The New Age Hydra: India's Experiences With Terrorism And Counter Terrorism, Swati Parashar
Faculty of Arts - Papers (Archive)
India’s experiences with terrorism, insurgency and violence date back to 1947, when the nation as a distinct political, national and geographic entity was realized. Ironically, after being home to a non–violent resistance against the British colonial rule, the new nation woke up to its ‘tryst with destiny’1 amidst unprecedented violence and terror resulting out of the partition of the country on religious grounds. Worse still, Mahatma Gandhi, the greatest apostle of peace and non–violence who had led the Indian struggle for freedom, was a victim of brutal political assassination carried out by a religious fanatic! Terror as strategy to settle …
The 'New' Middle Class In India: A Re-Assessment, Timothy J. Scrase
The 'New' Middle Class In India: A Re-Assessment, Timothy J. Scrase
Faculty of Arts - Papers (Archive)
[extract] This paper seeks to go some way towards unravelling the impact of neo-liberal policies on classbased cultures in India. Specifically, it focuses on the experiences and worldviews of the middle classes, the class group or fraction said to have expanded greatly in recent times and to have been the main beneficiaries of the neo-liberal reforms of the Indian economy instigated in the early 1990s. In this paper, we explore two dimensions of these changes: work and discourses of efficiency; and the impact of these reforms on gender and class relations.