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In Defence of the Ordinary

Everyday Awakenings

By: Dev Nath Pathak

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A splendid work of art, In Defence of the Ordinary returns drama, pleasure and awakening to everyday life ... in the tradition of cultural critics like Ashis Nandy and Umberto Eco... The book is one of a kind.' -Prathama Banerjee is a noted historian of the global south and Professor at Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS), New Delhi. '[A] flâneur of our everyday spheres of life, [the author] excavates the multiple layers of social, political and artistic thinking and experimentation ... with an unparalleled lightness of prose worthy of a Balthasar Gracián and Georg Lichtenberg.' -Ramin Jahanbegloo is a philosopher and Vice Dean and Director at Mahatma Gandhi Centre for Peace Studies, O.P. Jindal Global University, India. '[The] book builds an engaging web of thoughts about things which are ordinary but in their very ordinariness hide deep social truths... Dev Nath Pathak brings a lightness to his critical eye while reminding us of how much of the ordinary has been forgotten in academic pursuits.' -Sundar Sarukkai is a renowned philosopher and thinker in contemporary India. In Defence of the Ordinary is laced with light humour, soaked in serious sarcasm and powered with poetic polemics. Informed by sources such as psychoanalysis, philosophy, yoga, anthropology, popular cinema, folk songs and everything that is part of an ordinary living, it is a sociologist's sincere ruminations on the layered ordinariness. The book invites us to rethink the ways of seeing, understanding, enacting, emoting and relating with provocative ideas like why we don't value ordinariness and how our pursuit of extraordinary is misleading us into mishaps. The key objective of the human existence is that of the book too, namely, awakening the dormant potentials of emancipation every day rather than waiting for an occasional charisma induced by a holy book or a secular gimmick or an orchestrated leadership.

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Against the Nation

Thinking Like South Asians

By: Sasanka Perera,Dev Nath Pathak,Ravi Kumar

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Against the Nation

Thinking Like South Asians

By: Sasanka Perera,Dev Nath Pathak,Ravi Kumar

Against the Nation is an invitation to explore South Asia as a place and as an idea with a sense of refection and nuance rather than falling prey to the taken for granted and simplistic understanding of South Asia merely in geographic terms. To do so, the authors take the readers across a vast terrain of possibilities that deal with visual culture, music, film, knowledge systems and classrooms, myth and history as well as forms of politics that offer possibilities for understanding South Asia as a collective enterprise that has historical precedents as well as untapped ideological potential for the future. Further, the collection also attempts to look at how the idea of South Asia might be theorised. Though much of their thoughts are based on their own individual research interests, the authors' attempt in this present collection is to take the idea of South Asia as something that should surpass the boundaries of nation states from the limited academic circles in which it circulates at present to literally the 'streets' of South Asia and the world. While the authors take the nation state for granted, they also consider its influence as a hindrance to realising a sensible notion of what South Asia could be.

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Against the Nation

Thinking Like South Asians

By: Sasanka Perera,Dev Nath Pathak,Ravi Kumar

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Against the Nation

Thinking Like South Asians

By: Sasanka Perera,Dev Nath Pathak,Ravi Kumar

Against the Nation invites readers to explore South Asia as a place and as an idea with a sense of reflection and nuance rather than submitting to conventional understanding of the region merely in geopolitical terms. The authors take the readers across a vast terrain of prospects like visual culture, music, film, knowledge systems and classrooms, myth and history as well as forms of politics that offer possibilities for reading South Asia as a collective enterprise that has historical precedents as well as untapped ideological potential for the future.

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In Defence of the Ordinary

Everyday Awakenings

By: Dev Nath Pathak

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Living & Dying: Meanings in Maithili Folklore

By: Dev Nath Pathak

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Living & Dying: Meanings in Maithili Folklore

By: Dev Nath Pathak

A hermeneutic engagement with Maithili folk songs allows this book to hinge upon the notions of living and dying in the contemporary world despite the admission that medicine, insurance, market, and media may condition human experiences. Amidst the binaries of union and separation, rigid religion and fluid faith, popular and folk, modernity and tradition, central to this book is the pluralism of cultural script(s) and their philosophical musings on living and dying, folk philosophy, cultural subversion as well as reconciliation. Predominantly sung by women, the folksongs of Mithila are woven around calendar of events, rites of the passage, and everyday life situations. The cultural scape of sound and sight thus conjures a fusion of epistemology and ontology, knowledge and existential being, the classical Sanskritic-textual and the folk subaltern-oral. Straddling the particular context of Maithili folksongs and the generic aspects of folk world view, steering across Hinduism, tradition and modernity, and folklore in the age of mechanical reproduction, this book contributes to the sociology and social anthropology of, inter alia, folklore, religion, gender and mythology. Moreover, this makes for a contribution into sociology and social anthropology of death in South Asia.

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Primus Books

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