Lectures

Friday Colloquium

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSS_ccUKY2kThis was a Special Lecture at a Friday Colloquium, Centre for Himalayan Studies, North Bengal University, 2019. The Lecture was on, “The Eastern Himalayas: Myth, Mysticism and Narrative Aesthetics”.

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Translation Studies Lecture 1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ObGrYtemsM This is the second in the series of my academic lectures for students and interested fellow academics. The first lecture was on “Of Dreams of Indian Feminine and the Aesthetic Sublime”, which was a virtual presentation for the SARI Conference in Paris, 2019. This lecture is particularly meant for students who had enrolled for

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“Of Dreams of Indian Feminine and the Aesthetic Sublime”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYp9qSmboU8 To agree with Boris Efimovich Groys, art has its own power in the world. It has the power to compel a voyeuristic gaze, just as it has the power to transform the mindset of the gazer through the magic of enchantment. Art also reveals the processes of secondary imagination or the creative process involved

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