Translating Caste
Stories Essays Criticism
Edited by Tapan Basu
Katha
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Translating Desire
The Politics of Gender and Culture in India
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Katha
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There is something peculiarly delimiting about deconstructionist readings. Few admirers of Munshi Premchand, for instance, return to his writings repeatedly because he portrayed the plight of the underprivileged masses like perhaps nobody else.
They read him simply because he remains one of the greatest short story writers of all time
