From dak at sarai.net Tue Jan 9 01:33:11 2007 From: dak at sarai.net (The Sarai Programme) Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2007 01:33:11 +0530 Subject: [Sarai Newsletter] The Power and the Glory by Professor Giorgio Agamben Message-ID: The Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS) cordially invites you to the 11th B.N. Ganguli Memorial Lecture "The Power and the Glory" by Professor Giorgio Agamben Seminar Room, Sarai-CSDS Thursday 11th January 2007. 5:30 p.m., 29 Rajpur Road Delhi-110054 Professor Mrinal Miri will chair the Session Please join us for tea at 5 P.M. R.S.V.P (regrets only) Tel.: 23942199 Fax: 23943450 E-Mail: riyal at csdsdelhi.org B.N.Ganguli Memorial Lectures are instituted in memory of the distinguished economist-intellectual Professor B.N.Ganguli, former Chair CSDS Board of Governors. Earlier speakers in the series include Professors Charles Taylor, Rodolfo Stavenhagen, Raimundo Panikkar, Bhikhu Parekh, Ernest Gellner, Ali Mazrui, Roberto Unger, Michael Walzer, John Keane and Amit Bhaduri. Giorgio Agamben, renowned philosopher, engages in particular with language and social conflicts, teaches at the Universit‡ IUAV di Venezia, CollËge International de Philosophie, Paris. Among his books are: Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life, Remnants of Auschwitz: The Witness and the Archive and The Open: Man and Animal. His most recent works are: State of Exception, and The Time that Remains: A Commentary on the Letter to the Romans. Mrinal Miri, eminent philosopher, former Director Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla & Chair Indian Council of Philosophical Research. Among his books are: Philosophy of Psychoanalysis, Tribal India: Continuity and Change and Five Essays on Kant. His most recent book is Identity and the Moral Life. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dak at sarai.net Wed Jan 10 20:25:17 2007 From: dak at sarai.net (The Sarai Programme) Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2007 20:25:17 +0530 Subject: [Sarai Newsletter] Readings from "The Tenth Rasa: An Anthology of Indian Nonsense" Message-ID: <759ABA2E-60D8-4DF0-8CCD-E89E48F2FEEB@sarai.net> Dear Friends, We welcome in the New Year with an afternoon of nonsense verse, "wit, wordplay and riotous rhymes". We hope to see you there for an afternoon of serious fun :) Warm wishes for 2007! Aarti =============================================== =============================================== Readings from: "The Tenth Rasa : An Anthology of Indian Nonsense" Penguin India, 2006 Edited by Michael Heyman, Sumanyu Satpathy and Anushka Ravishankar 3:30 P.M., Saturday, 13 January 2007 Interface Zone, Sarai-CSDS For the last eighteen hundred years Indian arts have been seen in terms of strictly classified emotional effects known as the nine rasas. 'The Tenth Rasa: An Anthology of Indian Nonsense' celebrates, for the very first time, the final, unacknowledged rasa--what Sukumar Ray called the 'spirit of whimsy'--through the topsy-turvy, irreverent, melodic genre of nonsense literature. This selection of poetry and prose, brilliantly translated from seventeen Indian languages across India, includes works by Rabindranath Tagore, Sukumar Ray, Vinda Karandikar, Gulzar, Dash Benhur, Manoj Das, Navakanta Barua, Mangesh Padgavkar, Sri Sri, Vaikom Mohammad Basheer, Kunjunni and other known, lesser-known and first-published authors. In forms as varied as Bollywood song lyrics and medieval court verse, lullabies, folk tales,stories and songs for children and adults, the writers open doors to wildy imaginative worlds populated by peculiar characters and fantastical creatures, where only nonsense makes perfect sense. Crackling with wit, wordplay, and riotous rhymes, this immensely entertaining collection is a treat for nonsense-lovers of all ages. The Editors Michael Heyman, head editor, is an associate professor of English Literature at Berklee College of Music, in Boston, USA. Sumanyu Satpathy, editor, is a professor of English at Delhi University. Anushka Ravishankar, editor, is the only Indian nonsense writer published in English in India.