Arnapurna Rath
Biographic Data
| ID | 290214 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Arnapurna Rath |
| GIVEN NAMES | Arnapurna |
| FAMILY NAME | Rath |
| SIGNATURE | RATH A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3444-9127 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Textures of the Earth
The vision of the ‘rural’ in Indian literary and aesthetic traditions is significant for a critical interpretation of literary and cultural texts emerging from India. This article presents a critical reading of select short stories of the Bharatiya Jnanpith Award recipient Tarasankar Bandyopadhyay (1898–1971) in the context of rural writings. Having spent most of his life in Birbhum, Bandyopadhyay internalized the peculiarities of rural Bengal in…
Ecopoetics and Aranya in the Graphic Novel Aranyaka
The crucial nexus between ecology, forest, forest dwellers, and their position in the ancient genres of literature and art is a significant area of aesthetic contemplation. Ancient Indian literary traditions have remarkable eco-sensitivity and display their own style of ecopoetics (signified by genres such as the Aranyakas). This study presents a critical analysis of the graphic novel Aranyaka: Book of the Forest (2019) — an artistic retelling ba…
In the Semiosis of Characters and Colors
A semiotic approach to Indian epics offers unique perspectives to the epic traditions and their retellings across mediums. Graphic novels provide an enabling space for the retellings of epics like the Mahābhārata in new mediums. The paper presents a critical reading of interplay of the visual-verbal in Amruta Patil’s Adi Parva: Churning of the Ocean and Sauptik: Blood and Flowers. The focus of Patil’s graphic novels is interspersing colors and te…
Angela Barreto Xavier and Ines G. Zupanov, Catholic Orientalism
Catholic Orientalism: Portuguese Empire, Indian Knowledge by Ângela Barreto Xavier and Ines G. Županov provides fresh insight into the study of Orientalism. The focus of the book is on one of the earliest traditions of Orientalist knowledge production—Catholic Orientalism. The authors define Catholic Orientalism as “a set of knowledge practices geared to perpetuate political and cultural fantasies of the early modern Catholic protagonists and the…
Translation, transformation and genre in the Kristapurana
Thomas Stephens, in his Kristapurana (1616), attempted to negotiate the intercultural spaces between Christianity and Hinduism through the creative processes of translation. In this study, we take his translation of the term Vaicunttha as a place/space defining these intercultural encounters. Vaicunttha is a place in Indian mythology where the Hindu God Vishnu resides. Stephens translates “heaven” as Vaicunttha, while Christ is depicted as Vaicun…
“Musk among Perfumes”
The complexities of scriptural translation intensify in colonial, multilingual societies. In this study, we examine Thomas Stephens’s Kristapurana (1616) as a significant moment of cross-cultural encounters in the history of Bible translation in India. Stephens (1549–1619) was an English Jesuit, who worked in Goa, India. The Kristapurana is written in the Marathi language, in Roman script. Stephens’s Purana can be considered the first attempt to …
Practicing’ Cosmopolitanism in Knowledge Spaces, Cityscapes and Marketplaces
In this article, we observe the possibility of ‘practicing’ cosmopolitanism in three distinct experiential spaces intrinsic to human existence: knowledge spaces, habitation spaces and marketplaces. Although cosmopolitanism has been overwhelmingly deliberated upon across multiple disciplines, it has been confined to ‘conceptualisms’ in the Western scholarship. On the other hand, we find that some of the works of thinkers, such as, Rabindranath Tag…
Children of the Midnight in the Maximum City
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Children of the Midnight in the Maximum City
Practicing’ Cosmopolitanism in Knowledge Spaces, Cityscapes and Marketplaces
In this article, we observe the possibility of ‘practicing’ cosmopolitanism in three distinct experiential spaces intrinsic to human existence: knowledge spaces, habitation spaces and marketplaces. Although cosmopolitanism has been overwhelmingly deliberated upon across multiple disciplines, it has been confined to ‘conceptualisms’ in the Western scholarship. On the other hand, we find that some of the works of thinkers, such as, Rabindranath Tag…
Translation, transformation and genre in the Kristapurana
Thomas Stephens, in his Kristapurana (1616), attempted to negotiate the intercultural spaces between Christianity and Hinduism through the creative processes of translation. In this study, we take his translation of the term Vaicunttha as a place/space defining these intercultural encounters. Vaicunttha is a place in Indian mythology where the Hindu God Vishnu resides. Stephens translates “heaven” as Vaicunttha, while Christ is depicted as Vaicun…
“Musk among Perfumes”
The complexities of scriptural translation intensify in colonial, multilingual societies. In this study, we examine Thomas Stephens’s Kristapurana (1616) as a significant moment of cross-cultural encounters in the history of Bible translation in India. Stephens (1549–1619) was an English Jesuit, who worked in Goa, India. The Kristapurana is written in the Marathi language, in Roman script. Stephens’s Purana can be considered the first attempt to …
Angela Barreto Xavier and Ines G. Zupanov, Catholic Orientalism
Catholic Orientalism: Portuguese Empire, Indian Knowledge by Ângela Barreto Xavier and Ines G. Županov provides fresh insight into the study of Orientalism. The focus of the book is on one of the earliest traditions of Orientalist knowledge production—Catholic Orientalism. The authors define Catholic Orientalism as “a set of knowledge practices geared to perpetuate political and cultural fantasies of the early modern Catholic protagonists and the…
In the Semiosis of Characters and Colors
A semiotic approach to Indian epics offers unique perspectives to the epic traditions and their retellings across mediums. Graphic novels provide an enabling space for the retellings of epics like the Mahābhārata in new mediums. The paper presents a critical reading of interplay of the visual-verbal in Amruta Patil’s Adi Parva: Churning of the Ocean and Sauptik: Blood and Flowers. The focus of Patil’s graphic novels is interspersing colors and te…
Ecopoetics and Aranya in the Graphic Novel Aranyaka
The crucial nexus between ecology, forest, forest dwellers, and their position in the ancient genres of literature and art is a significant area of aesthetic contemplation. Ancient Indian literary traditions have remarkable eco-sensitivity and display their own style of ecopoetics (signified by genres such as the Aranyakas). This study presents a critical analysis of the graphic novel Aranyaka: Book of the Forest (2019) — an artistic retelling ba…
Textures of the Earth
The vision of the ‘rural’ in Indian literary and aesthetic traditions is significant for a critical interpretation of literary and cultural texts emerging from India. This article presents a critical reading of select short stories of the Bharatiya Jnanpith Award recipient Tarasankar Bandyopadhyay (1898–1971) in the context of rural writings. Having spent most of his life in Birbhum, Bandyopadhyay internalized the peculiarities of rural Bengal in…
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