The Word in the World

Acknowledgements

Preface

Foreword

Introduction

The Bhakti World

1 Transmutations of Desire and Power in Bhakti Expressions

2 Bhakti Poetics: An Example from Kannada Vachanas

3 Transformations of the Hero in Medieval Indian Literatures

4 The Poetics and Aesthetics of Labour

5 Fight for Symbols in the History of Religions in Medieval South India: The Karnataka Example

6 Dasimiah - The Divine Weaver

7 Journeying to Kalyana

8 From Temple to Body-temple: Kannada transformations of Tamil Shaivism

9 What Were You Before I Knew Myself? - Notes on De-creation and Recreation of Virashaiva Myths in

Cultures of Karnataka

The Kannada World

10 Rethinking Medieval Kannada Literature

11 Contributions of Karnataka Devotional Movements to the Creation of New Theatres

12 Migration of Karaga from Tamil Nadu Karnataka

13 Modernism and After: Some Reflections on Contemporary Kannada Poetry

14 KSNa: The Heart-Bee has Flown . . . Do Not Ask Me Where

The World of Drama

15 The Search for the New in Indian Drama and Theatre

16 Rasa Production: A Poet's Perspective

17 Theatre as Performed Literature?

18 The Evolution of Modern Indian theatre

19 Shakespeare and the Indian Theatre Tradition

20 The Regional, the National, and the International in Theatre

21 Manipuri Theatre: Myth and Reality

22 Metamorphosis of Poetry on Stage

23 The life and Death of White Desdemona and Black Othello: Through Abhinava Kalidasa - A Re-interpretation

The World of Indian Cultures and Literatures

24 Currents and Cross-currents of South Indian Cultures

25 Dynamics of Pre-modern South Indian Culture

26 Through Each Other's Eyes: Rodin and Nataraja

27 Indian Culture beyond India

28 Contemporary Indian Literatures

29 Dreaming Indian Literatures Anew

30 Exploring Unchartered Territories of Indian Literature

31 Changing the Sun: Notes on Modernity, Modernism and After in Indian Literatures

32 The Outcaste at the City Gate

33 Some Problems and Politics of Translation

34 Translating the Tehsildar

35 Loss of Home: Notes on Diasporic Writings