Text WarsPub Date : 2021-10-26DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780199499076.003.0018
Dipti Nagpaul-D’Souza
{"title":"Caste on the Plate","authors":"Dipti Nagpaul-D’Souza","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780199499076.003.0018","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199499076.003.0018","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter discusses the politicisation of food in India. Not shying away from such controversial topics as meat-eating and vegetarianism, the chapter recounts how the documentation of culinary practices in India has discriminated against those of the Dalits, as a weapon of exclusion and oppression. The “cookbook tradition” is comparatively recent in India, and associated with urban middle-class women. A majority of the urban middle and upper-middle class is also upper-caste, so it is their tastes and “moral” preferences that are reflected in cookbooks. Food has always been central to the question of “untouchability”, and continues to be used as a means of censorship as well as of “otherisation”. Most recently, it has emerged as a factor defining national politics, with regard to the debate over cow-slaughter.","PeriodicalId":184872,"journal":{"name":"Text Wars","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116929665","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Text WarsPub Date : 2021-10-26DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780199499076.003.0003
Christophe Werner
{"title":"Freedom of Suppression","authors":"Christophe Werner","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780199499076.003.0003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199499076.003.0003","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter retells what it was like to live under repression in communist East Germany. This account would be very funny if it weren’t also bitterly sad. The chapter talks about how during his teaching career the author received a visit by the police. He was also spied on by informants working for the secret police, and was told what could and couldn’t be read. He was also bullied by school inspectors, and “betrayed” by pupils. The chapter describes the intimate relationship between the Communist Party and the media. The repression that the people of East Germany suffered was remorseless, yet it was also stupid and inflexible, so that when the crisis of the regime finally came, its leaders initiated their own downfall.","PeriodicalId":184872,"journal":{"name":"Text Wars","volume":"92 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133499524","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Text WarsPub Date : 2021-10-26DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780199499076.003.0014
M. Mohankumar
{"title":"Much Ado about a Bridge","authors":"M. Mohankumar","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780199499076.003.0014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199499076.003.0014","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter contains a poem by M. Mohankumar. As this poem, by a former IAS official shows, nowhere is the gap between words and actions greater than in government bureaucracy.","PeriodicalId":184872,"journal":{"name":"Text Wars","volume":"316 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133858525","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Text WarsPub Date : 2021-10-26DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780199499076.003.0009
S. Dasgupta
{"title":"A Failed Dream","authors":"S. Dasgupta","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780199499076.003.0009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199499076.003.0009","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter contains a poem by Sanjukta Dasguta. The poem ironically references a famous poem in Bengali by Rabindranath Tagore to warn of the bitter crisis into which the country might now be plunging. Where Tagore has fearlessness, truth and freedom, Dasgupta has fear, untruth and oppression.","PeriodicalId":184872,"journal":{"name":"Text Wars","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124675100","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Text WarsPub Date : 2021-10-26DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780199499076.003.0022
P. Paul
{"title":"Speak Memory","authors":"P. Paul","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780199499076.003.0022","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199499076.003.0022","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter asserts the vital importance of memory narratives, if such blunders of modern Indian history as Indira Gandhi’s Emergency of 1975-77 and the anti-Sikh pogrom of 1984―both under-narrated compared to the atrocities of the colonial period or of Partition―are not to be forgotten and then perhaps repeated in the future. It focuses on two novels, Rohinton Mistry’s A Fine Balance and K. R. Meera’s The Gospel of Yudas, and a film, Sashi Kumar’s Kaya Taran, based on a story by N. S. Madhavan, to illustrate the point that we all live in memory, and that the best books are memory-driven: without memory there is no history, because memory is the bridge linking the past with the present and future.","PeriodicalId":184872,"journal":{"name":"Text Wars","volume":"35 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132583575","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Text WarsPub Date : 2021-10-26DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780199499076.003.0017
Perumal Murugan
{"title":"Freedom of Expression and Values","authors":"Perumal Murugan","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780199499076.003.0017","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199499076.003.0017","url":null,"abstract":"In a powerful account that draws on personal experience, this chapter explains how traditional “values” have relentlessly crushed freedom of expression not only in caste-ridden Tamil society but also in Indian society as a whole. It reflects on the meaning of the term, and considers how these “values” have impinged upon the chapter’s author’s own life and development. The chapter notes the lack of freedom of expression that we have in our dealings with parents, elders and teachers, and how rigid the Indian value system is with respect to caste, government, and gender relationships. The glaring inequalities in everyday life must be addressed, and the social values that underpin them, Only then will freedom of expression be possible, on the basis of equality.","PeriodicalId":184872,"journal":{"name":"Text Wars","volume":"50 2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123570039","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Text WarsPub Date : 2021-10-26DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780199499076.003.0011
M. Padmanabhan
{"title":"The Censor’s Tail","authors":"M. Padmanabhan","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780199499076.003.0011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199499076.003.0011","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter contains a comic-strip cartoon by Manjula Padmanabhan. Here Padmanabhan that takes a cynical, tongue-in-cheek look at the role of the censor in India.","PeriodicalId":184872,"journal":{"name":"Text Wars","volume":"69 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127400372","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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