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Hiyo! Do you follow Shanspear on YouTube?
I do. I love them. Their video on infantilization and body hair is one of my favourites, so well researched and articulately discussed.
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Heyo, you know Bengali literature so well!! Could you suggest me some pieces of fiction on the partition of Bengal and on the riotous period in Bengal when the refugee influx happened due to the partition. We don't get that much literary coverage about the plights of the east. Basically anything on the partition in the east. I'd love your recommendations.🐚🌼
I am so glad you asked me this. I haven't read much on this topic but this ask made me find out such gems.
Books
In English
Train to India : Memories of Another Bengal by Maloy Krishna Dhar. Based on his childhood experiences while escaping to a 'new' India from the 'old' one which became East Pakistan
Partition, Bengal and After : The Great Tragedy of India by Kaliprasad Mukhopadhyay. A comprehensive history.
The Spoils of Partition : Bengal and India by Joya Chatterjee. A comprehensive history.
The Shadow Lines by Amitav Ghosh. (Fiction) Follows the life of a young boy, up in Calcutta, who is educated in Delhi and eventually moves to London. It is set in the backdrop of Swadeshi movement, Second World War, Partition and Communal Riots of 1963-64 in Dhaka and Calcutta.
In Bangla
খোয়াবনামা ( Khoabnama ) by Akhteruzzaman Elias A depiction of rural Bangladesh in the waning few years of British Rule
পূর্ব-পশ্চিম ( Purba-Paschim ) by Sunil Gangopadhyay. On Partition, Naxallist Movement and the transforming Bengali society. Translated version : East-West by Enakshi Chatterjee
আগুনপাখি ( Agunpakhi ) by Hasan Azizul Huq. (Fiction) Narrated by a Bengali rural housewife and depicts the domestic life and change of dynamics with changing political climate during the Partition.
Movies
Meghe Dhaka Tara ( 1960 ) by Ritwik Ghatak
Komal Gandhar ( 1961 ) by Ritwik Ghatak
Subarnarekha ( 1962 ) by Ritwik Ghatak
Chinnamul ( 1950 ) by Ritwik Ghatak
Rajkahini ( 2015 ) by Srijit Mukherjee
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Also you don't know how happy I am that some enlightened souls actually used their braincells to see that Krishna was actually just like any other human being with loads of IQ and experience. Like I always found him to be a sly, manipulative charmer who just loved the company of men and women. But for all his socialising masterskills, he kinda kept to himself mostly. Enigmatic and dangerous. But I can't usually say this out loud. Cuz for some,he DEAR BELOVED LORD WITHOUT ANY TAINT.
He's basically like Loki. He's very much a trickster god and it's so funny how he's worshipped really.
Do you notice how sometimes people justify the fact that he was so blatantly polygamous as some kind of 'Bhakti' thing? Or like how some of the stupid shit he does is 'In the service of Dharma' when clearly he bends all rules on a whim anyway? 😂😂😂 Like cmon guys, that's less a god and more a strategist who will stop at NOTHING to get what he wants.
I guess Krishna is everyone's problematic fav 🤷🏽♀️.
-Mod G
What did you think after reading Lore Olympus? What's your opinion?
I did not like it at all. Very serious and dark issues are dealt with flippantly solely for the sake of furthering the love story; I personally felt the author didn't handle several aspects well at all. The power dynamics and the way Persephone is painted as a Lolita-esque picture of young coquettish fragility against Hades' wrinkled old CEO male (and she is an intern at his company.....it's literally so disgusting and weird) makes me nauseated. The author never forgets to remind you how young and virginal and pure Persephone is, intentionally drawing her with a sexualised design and big baby eyes. Demeter and Minthe are painted to be assholes, which is hilarious if you remember their stories in the original myths. The episodes alternate between poor slapstick comedy and horrific incidents of abuse. In general, I feel like the author cannot make up their mind between a dark, modern social commentary vs a floundering webtoon comedy series and it shows in the shoddy storytelling.
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Seeing you express disgust at books stereotyping South Asian names such as Rani Sharma and finding out a few months later that the new protagonist for Bridgerton Season 2 is named KATE SHARMA. Not a viewer of Bridgerton but... it's 2022 and for all it's bs, the franchise advertises wokeism...I had actually expected something better to come out of something like that. It's sad.
Actually Kate is short for Kathani, which is a common Tamil name, so I get this instance of naming! Although it's also significant that her anglicized name is given greater importance in marketing and promotion than the Indian name.
I feel about these names the same way I feel about casting light skinned biracial actors in roles written for POC characters. They exist, it's not like I'm out in blood and brimstone to erase the narratives of diaspora with english first names. But why are they so prevalent? Is it just because of diasporic naming trends or is it to also cater to the Western market + perceiving Indian ethnic names as ~ less quirky ~ and complicated?
Have you read The Shadow Lines by Amitav Ghosh? If yes then I'd love to hear your take on the character of Tridib 🌺🌺🌺
I am really sorry but I read Shadow Lines back in the first year of my undergraduate,, I sincerely remember nothing except that the main character was into his cousin
Hiya! Have you read Kayikeyi by Vaishnavi Patel? The online sites shower it with so much praise that it's got me on the fence. I'm apprehensive of picking up another retelling of an Indian mythological character after sour experiences from Amish tripathi, Divakaruni and a few others given that they tend to oscillate between bits and pieces of fresh, realistic, well-researched perspectives and the same ol' time tested clichéd, cheesy tropes which ruin the whole experience. And I really don't want to lose time and braincells on another "fascinating retelling" which ends up falling in the same category. 🌺🌺🌺
I haven't, but the only way to find out for yourself is to read the book. Ignore the praise and reviews and read it objectively, with normal expectations. If it's good, you have read a nice book and are the richer for it. If it's bad, well, bad books make for good rant reviews!
