Alok Bhalla
Biographic Data
| ID | 3762325 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alok Bhalla |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alok |
| FAMILY NAME | Bhalla |
| SIGNATURE | BHALLA A |
| AFFILIATIONS | English and Foreign Languages University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1986 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Silence, Sympathy, and Violence
Through a variety of literary texts (including Ramayana) and historical events (India's 1947 Partition; 1992 Demolition of the Babri Masjid), I offer a brief meditation on three intertwined themes: the possibilities of nonviolence; identity politics, which almost always leads to violence and genocide; and the need for sympathy as invoked by poet William Blake and philosopher Simone Weil. Blake reminds us that there is, on any given day when viole…
Tagore’s Dark Vision of Humanity
Tagore struggled against his dark vision of humanity to assert that the earth was a place of hierophanies and human life had a divine purpose. He failed. He called, with skepticism, for peace, equality and the restoration of earth’s loveliness: “I know I am crying in the wilderness, when I raise my voice of warning...” In a war-haunted and hungry Europe and Asia, he was confronted by a strange, cruel, and obstinately tribal world with its “legacy…
The Politics of Translation
On one level translating Saadat Hasan Manto into English is not very difficult. As a storyteller he never retreats from the complexity of lived experience to find easy refuge in political posturing or moral and religious sermonising. That is why the style of his best stories, devoid of all metaphoric excess and sentimental inflections, is always precise, bare-boned and conversational. Most of his narrators are either hard-drinking and whoring men…
Garcia Marquez and Latin America
Plains of darkness
The Gothic novel in England is not a pastoral idyll invulnerable to historical or political changes and undisturbed by moral or spiritual anxieties. The rural landscape in it is a part of the complex social, economic and ethical history determining the agrarian arrangements of the age. It rejects pastoral nostalgia as a demonic illusion, and concerns itself with those specific conditions of inequality, power, work and ownership of land which dete…
Silence, Sympathy, and Violence
Through a variety of literary texts (including Ramayana) and historical events (India's 1947 Partition; 1992 Demolition of the Babri Masjid), I offer a brief meditation on three intertwined themes: the possibilities of nonviolence; identity politics, which almost always leads to violence and genocide; and the need for sympathy as invoked by poet William Blake and philosopher Simone Weil. Blake reminds us that there is, on any given day when viole…
Plains of darkness
The Gothic novel in England is not a pastoral idyll invulnerable to historical or political changes and undisturbed by moral or spiritual anxieties. The rural landscape in it is a part of the complex social, economic and ethical history determining the agrarian arrangements of the age. It rejects pastoral nostalgia as a demonic illusion, and concerns itself with those specific conditions of inequality, power, work and ownership of land which dete…
Plains of darkness
The Gothic novel in England is not a pastoral idyll invulnerable to historical or political changes and undisturbed by moral or spiritual anxieties. The rural landscape in it is a part of the complex social, economic and ethical history determining the agrarian arrangements of the age. It rejects pastoral nostalgia as a demonic illusion, and concerns itself with those specific conditions of inequality, power, work and ownership of land which dete…
Garcia Marquez and Latin America
The Politics of Translation
On one level translating Saadat Hasan Manto into English is not very difficult. As a storyteller he never retreats from the complexity of lived experience to find easy refuge in political posturing or moral and religious sermonising. That is why the style of his best stories, devoid of all metaphoric excess and sentimental inflections, is always precise, bare-boned and conversational. Most of his narrators are either hard-drinking and whoring men…
Tagore’s Dark Vision of Humanity
Tagore struggled against his dark vision of humanity to assert that the earth was a place of hierophanies and human life had a divine purpose. He failed. He called, with skepticism, for peace, equality and the restoration of earth’s loveliness: “I know I am crying in the wilderness, when I raise my voice of warning...” In a war-haunted and hungry Europe and Asia, he was confronted by a strange, cruel, and obstinately tribal world with its “legacy…
Silence, Sympathy, and Violence
Through a variety of literary texts (including Ramayana) and historical events (India's 1947 Partition; 1992 Demolition of the Babri Masjid), I offer a brief meditation on three intertwined themes: the possibilities of nonviolence; identity politics, which almost always leads to violence and genocide; and the need for sympathy as invoked by poet William Blake and philosopher Simone Weil. Blake reminds us that there is, on any given day when viole…
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