Papers by Tilottoma Misra
NERC-ICSSR Library Shillong, May 3, 2013
<jats:p>Navakanta Barua was one of the best known Assamese modernist writers of the twentie... more <jats:p>Navakanta Barua was one of the best known Assamese modernist writers of the twentieth century who worked through multiple genres. A graduate from the Visva Bharati University and with an MA from the Aligarh Muslim University, he joined Cotton College, Guwahati as a Lecturer in English in 1954, where he worked till his retirement from service. During his lifetime, Navakanta published more than a dozen volumes of poetry and songs, five novels, eight volumes of non-fictional prose and literary criticism, besides a substantial body of children's literature. He edited two children's magazines (Jonbai and Pohar) and a journal of art and culture (Seerolu). He translated into Asamiya the verses of Kabir and some of the major works of Euripides, Goethe, Pushkin, Rabindranath Tagore, Nazrul Islam, Sumitranandan Pant, Subramanyam Bharati, Walt Whitman and T. S. Eliot. Some of his best translations render the texture and nuances of the original in a brilliantly creative manner.</jats:p>
This chapter argues that notwithstanding his vital critique of nationalism, Tagore was accountabl... more This chapter argues that notwithstanding his vital critique of nationalism, Tagore was accountable for invoking the Indian traditions which, according to him, would represent the well-founded moral base of the Indian civilization that could never be sullied by any form of aggressive Western nationalism. Although Tagore has spiritedly rejected aggressive nationalism that is detrimental to the human civilization, he could never detach himself completely from the emotional dimensions of the national sentiment, more so in his writings on language and a sustainable print-community which, consequently, allows him to be affiliated among those who sang for the nation.
INTRODUCTION POETRY / ARUNACHAL PRADESH: MAMANG DAI, 'THE VOICE OF THE MOUNTAIN', 'TH... more INTRODUCTION POETRY / ARUNACHAL PRADESH: MAMANG DAI, 'THE VOICE OF THE MOUNTAIN', 'THE SORROW OF WOMEN', AND 'AN OBSCURE PLACE' / ASSAM: NAVAKANTA BARUA, 'JUDAS', 'BATS', AND 'SILT' NILMANI PHOOKAN, 'POEM', 'AFTER A COUPLE OF DAYS', AND 'MATING MUSIC' HIREN BHATTACHARYA, 'THE LONE PRAYER FOR POETRY' AND 'THE EARTH MY POEM' RUPANJALI BARUA, 'SYLVAN SONG' AND 'LET THERE BE CROP' HAREKRISHNA DEKA, 'ANOTHER ONE', 'A WORD FOR LOVE', AND 'TOWARDS FREEDOM' NILIM KUMAR, 'I HAD NOTHING TO OFFER' AND 'TO MY SON' SAMEER TANTI, 'THE NIGHT OF KADAMS IN BLOOM' AND 'AS THE NIGHT THICKENS THE STARS NOD OFF' ANUBHAV TULASI, 'PRODIGAL' AND 'THE INFERNAL PLAYGROUND' JIBAN NARAH, 'RHYTHM', 'COLOURS', 'MOTHER', AND 'THE SUBALTERN' SHAKTIPADA BRAHMACHARI, 'ONE BIRTH OF LOVE, ANOTHER OF HOUSEHOLD ...
Indian horizons, 2001
Centrant son analyse sur quelques ecrivains significatifs pour chaque groupe, l'A. examine le... more Centrant son analyse sur quelques ecrivains significatifs pour chaque groupe, l'A. examine le mode de representation de la culture tribale de l'Assam (Inde du Nord-Est) dans des romans ecrits par des locuteurs natifs de l'assamais, ainsi que l'auto-representation par des auteurs tribaux ecrivant en assamais. Il montre notamment comment la langue assamaise a ete enrichie par l'usage qu'en font les auteurs tribaux dans les descriptions qu'ils font de leurs societes et des relations avec les autres. Selon l'A., les auteurs tribaux ont cree un nouveau type de litterature fondee sur leur experience culturelle unique, differente de celle des auteurs natifs.
Written in 1857, Ramnabami-Natak was the first modern Assamese play on a secular theme. The playw... more Written in 1857, Ramnabami-Natak was the first modern Assamese play on a secular theme. The playwright, Gunabhiram Barua, drew upon certain liberal intellectual trends in contemporary Bengal to write extensively on women's education, child marriage, and polygamy.
Economic and Political Weekly, Jan 4, 1986
Economic and Political Weekly, Jan 11, 1986
Satya P Mohanty edited, 2011
Colonialism, Modernity, and Literature, 2011
Economic and Political Weekly, Sep 14, 1985
... society which they felt were responsible for its continued backwardness, especially in compar... more ... society which they felt were responsible for its continued backwardness, especially in comparison with the ... society covering the tribals, Ahoms and even Muslims.&amp;#x27;9 But in the case of women ... This mission, however, could not make much of a mark in the socio-cultural atmosphere ...
Economic and Political Weekly, Dec 31, 2011
Economic and Political Weekly, Apr 4, 2009
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