India’s way of teaching and learning was dialogic and sacred texts right from Vedas to Mahabharata and Upanishads had been in dialogues, said South Asian University president Kavita A. Sharma. “Dialogue becomes essential in South Asia because of multiplicity of speakers and cultures”, she observed while delivering a talk as chief guest at the valedictory […]
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Experts in literary historiography from University of Delhi observed that India and Pakistan fall behind Bangladesh in terms of inclusiveness of regional literatures and authors from various communities. Discussing state-sponsored literary histories and anthologies from India, Pakistan and Bangladesh at the International Conference of CLAI on South Asian Narratives, Anuroop Kaur, Zarqua Adam and Dr. […]
Eurocentric theorisations limit the scopes of understanding real meanings of texts in the Asian literatures or any non-European literary works, observes Prof. Rebecca Ruth Gould at Biennial International Conference of Comparative Literature Association of India (CLAI) in Hyderabad on Monday. The four-day conference, which began today, is jointly organized by CLAI and Department of English, […]