MIDS - Chennai Invites...

THE INSTITUTE SEMINAR SERIES - October 2016

Topic 

The “Discouraged Worker Effect” in Public Works Programs: 

Evidence from the MGNREGA in India

 Speaker

Dr. Sudha Narayanan, 

Associate Professor, 

Indira Gandhi Institute for Development Research (IGIDR), Mumbai

Chair

Dr. M. Vijayabaskar, 

Associate Professor, MIDS

Date & Time: Friday, 21 October 2016, 3:30 p.m.

Venue: Adiseshiah Auditorium, MIDS

The Nobility of A Writer's Thoughts...

It’s indeed a rarity to come across good events where you can listen - in rapt attention - to writers and their thought processes!

In this regard, today’s rendezvous with S. Ramakrishnan - author, novelist, thinker, littérateur, in the 'packed to capacity' Anderson Hall, MCC, on the occasion of the inaugural of the activities of the Tamizh Mandram, was way beyond ordinary - and an intellectual and inspirational treat of sorts. 

EsRa (S. Ramakrishnan) spoke on the 'three people' who mould and influence our lives –

great teachers

great thinkers

great artists

But unfortunately for the younger generation, they are so addicted to the internet, to sportspersons and to hero worship of actors that they forget to reminisce on these three great moulders of minds, he added.

He persuaded the audience to read Umberto Eco’s letter to his grandson – which had a great influence on him, he said. So i thought of promptly putting it down here - that letter of yore - more for the inspirational relevance it has for our times...

About Umberto Eco: Umberto Eco was a prolific Italian writer and semiologist, best known for his novel, The Name of the Rose.

This excerpt is a translation of his heartfelt “Letter to My Grandson,” in which he counsels the youth on the incalculable value of historical memory and of memorizing for its own sake—especially in the computer age.

Caro nipotino mio,

I would not want this Christmas letter to sound too “old school,” dishing out advice about love for your fellow man, country, the world, and such things. Even if you did listen to me, when the time came to put it into practice (you as a present tense adult and I gone to the past perfect), the value system will be so changed that my recommendations would be outdated. 

Still, at the risk of sounding like a lecturing fogey, allow me first to offer one recommendation that you can put into practice right now while surfing on your iPad.

If by chance you happen on any of the hundreds of porn sites that show the relationship between two human beings, or between a human and an animal (in all variety of ways), try not to believe from this that sex is, among other things, so monotonous. That kind of sex is staged to keep you from leaving the house to look at real girls (I start from the principle that you are heterosexual; otherwise, adjust my recommendations to your particular case). Look at real girls, at school or at play, because the real ones are better than those on television, and there will come a day when they give you greater satisfaction than those online.

Rendezvous with Ramakrishnan...

Dear Students of Literature,

Come and be a part of the

Inauguration of the

Tamil Association

Madras Christian College (Autonomous)

at 10. 30 am on 18 October 2016

in the Anderson Hall, MCC

and meet

renowned author, story teller, writer, film critic,

and a recipient of various literary awards

S. Ramakrishnan

About S. Ramakrishnan: He is a full-time writer who has been active over the last 25 years in diverse areas of Tamil literature like short stories, novels, plays, children’s literature and translations.

He has travelled all over India and has experienced living in the different parts of the country. His short stories are noted for their modern story-telling style in Tamil. He had, as Editor, brought out the literary publication, Atcharam for five long years. Now, his web site www.sramakrishnan.com serves as a serious literary movement for young readers since it has become an important website where contemporary literary innovations, world literature and world cinema congregate in a fertile ambience. An inspiring aspect of this site is that it has secured 13 lakh visits from readers all over the world. His short stories and articles have been translated and published in English, Malayalam, Hindi, Bengali, Telugu, Kannada and French.

Checklist for Winners!

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Essay Competition by ICPR

Essay Competition-Cum-Young Scholar’s Seminar – 2016-17

Indian Council of Philosophical Research invites Young Scholars (between the age group of 20-25 years as on 30.11.2016)  to participate in an Essay Competition–Cum-Young Scholars’ Seminar for the Year 2016-17 on the theme, "Indian Identity and Cultural Continuity". The competitors standing First, Second and Third on the basis of their essays and performance in the seminar will be awarded prizes of Rs. 25,000/-, Rs.20,000/-and Rs.15,000/-, respectively.  Essays in Hindi or English of about three thousand words on the theme along with the proof of date of birth are to be submitted by 30^th November, 2016.  Essay may be sent to:-

The Director (A)

Indian Council of Philosophical Research,

Academic Centre : 3/9, Vipul Khand, Gomti Nagar, Lucknow-226010

Advertisement in detail may be seen on their website www.icpr.in

Preparation for NET/JRF English - 5

Topics so far – 

The Road Map for NET/JRF in English

Outline to NET/JRF English – Papers II& III - Syllabus January 2017

Geoffrey Chaucer: An Overviewof the Poet and His Age

The Age of Chaucer: His Contemporaries

Now –

Chaucer’s Imitators and Disciples in England

John Lydgate: Lydgate was a friend of Chaucer, upon whom he models much of his poetry. But as a poet he is no Chaucer. Throughout the fifteenth century the authority of Chaucer was paramount, and Lydgate pays tribute to him on numerous occasions, always in the same tone, as “The noble poete of Breteyne, My mayster Chaucer.” John Lydgate has the distinction of being the most voluminous poet of the 14^th century and even of all the Middle Ages in England - about 140,000 lines of verse. His longest poems are The Storie of Thebes and Troye Book.

[Classical times and the Middle Ages took a strange interest in the unnatural story of Oedipus and his marriage to his own mother. When his sons quarreled over the right to rule Thebes and the party of Polynices laid siege to the city, the opportunity existed for an epic narrative, comparable to that which described the siege of Troy. The Virgilian epic, the Thebaid, by Statius, a Roman poet of the Silver Age, gave western Europe such a treatment. Either the Thebaid or an epitome of it was made into a French poem in the twelfth century called the Roman de Thebes, and this in turn became the basis of other romances. The only English poem on the subject was Lydgate’s Siege of Thebes].

Stephen Hawes, while he is too much an echo of the past, is also an allegorist, and faintly heralds Spenser. Hawkes, who acknowledges as his masters the trinity - Gower, Chaucer and Lydgate – and especially Lydgate, is like a ghost from the past. His chief work is The Pastime of Pleasure.

Essay Writing Contest - 2016

ESSAY WRITING CONTEST 2016

Contest starts on October 10, 2016, and lasts for two months.

Any student, regardless of academic level and location of studies, can participate.

The aim of the Essay Writing Contest is to give students the opportunity to demonstrate their writing talents and win an award for them.

The aim of the contest is to identify individuals who have both critical thinking and writing skills.

The 2016 Essay Writing Contest focuses on two aspects:

The ability to think critically

The ability to express thoughts clearly and logically

Cheers Bob! - Nobel Laureate in Literature - 2016

Song in the History of English Literature

Literature DOES exist outside the traditional, stereotyped roles into which it has been pigeon-holed! Dylan’s Nobel is a recognition of this liberative power of the performative tuned to profound contemplations that stir many a chord in you and thereby lay a claim to your soul! Moreover, when you look at the plethora of books that have paid yeomen tribute to this pop-icon, and at the reams of paper that have sung peons to his novel poetic expressions, you cannot help but wonder at his rage of a passion - popular music! For those of you critics who feel that literature means, 'written works', well, Bob has written a kinda stream-of-consciousness work too, which comes under Experimental Literature, titled, Tarantulla way back in 1971. 

Well, one such book that celebrates Bob-the-singer is Michael Gray’s monumental 756 page, prodigious and passionate study of Dylan’s artistry - that's way way way beyond ordinary. Indeed, the title says it all – THE BOB DYLAN ENCYCLOPEDIA. Published in 2006, the book pays glowing tributes not only to Bob but also to hundreds of his fellow ‘troubadours’ in the vineyard!

 ‘Why a Monumental Encyclopedia on Bob Dylan’? Ask the author himself – and he replies -

Bob Dylan’s reach is too wide, too deep and too long for any book about him to cover it all. He’s a senior citizen. His career spans 45 years of American history, and that history has intersected with his prolific songwriting, recording, touring, acting, filmmaking, TV appearances and interviews. He has published a novel and a book of drawings, composed for film soundtracks and written a best-selling first volume of memoirs. He has found a place in the world of literature and academic study as well as in popular music. He is important to the history of the times, having given voice to a generation at a time of huge social change and political struggle; his songs are enmeshed in the story of the US civil rights movement as well as the Folk Revival movement. His busy life has embraced everything from bohemian excess to being Born Again.

His work has revolutionised song, reaching into every area of popular music from folk to blues to rock to gospel. He has met and worked with untold hundreds of musicians, politicians, celebrities, singers, poets, writers, painters, film-makers, actors and activists. He has released several dozen albums, written many hundreds of songs, in many cases adapting them from older folk and blues material, and recorded songs by many other composers. He has been the subject of an enormous number of books, academic conference papers, showbiz stories, essays and concert reviews. He has attracted more fanzine enthusiasm, and inspired more websites, than almost anyone in the world.

 

‘If in 100 years’ time Dylan’s art goes unheard and discounted, well, in 200 years’ time it may bounce back’, he signs off.

Song in the History of English Literature by WILFRID MELLERS

Professor of Music and former literary critic of Scrutiny

[this article has been excerpted from Gray’s Encyclopedia on Bob Dylan]

Wilfrid Mellers fell under the rigorous influence of the pre-eminent and now deeply unfashionable literary critic F.R. Leavis, becoming a literary critic himself and writing for Leavis’ defiant journal Scrutiny before turning towards music, publishing his book Music

Preparation for NET/JRF English - 4

The Age of Chaucer

France now boasted of Froissart, Chaucer’s contemporary, while Italy prouded itself with Boccaccio.

Chaucer also had his own contemporaries in England – but they still used Latin as their medium. The reason was because, English was still a disinherited tongue, used mainly for translations, and the first of our great translators was Sir John Trevisa, a contemporary of Wyclif at Oxford. He translated Higden’s Polychronicon into English. But soon, the situation changed. After the Black Death, English was used as a medium of instruction in schools. A statute of 1362 ordered legal proceedings to be conducted in English on the grounds that French was no longer sufficiently understood.

Chaucer’s Contemporaries

Chaucer was widely known amongst the literati of the day. His English contemporaries were:

John Gower,

John Wyclif,

John Trevisa,

John Mandeville,

Thomas Hoccleve,

William Langland, etc.

Piers the Plowman

John Gower: Chaucer seems to have been particularly close to ‘Moral’ Gower, as he dubs him in Troilus and Criseyde, giving him power of attorney when he left for Italy in 1378. In the first version of his Confessio Amantis, Gower makes a flattering reference to Chaucer as composing ‘ditees and songes glad’ in the flower of his youth. John Gower wrote his best-known work Confessio Amantis (A Lover’s Confession) in English, was written at the King's command. Gower’s ‘confession’ uses the concept with a degree of irony. He uses stories to recount the seven deadly sins of love (Amans), deriving considerable inspiration from the Latin poet Ovid, in a mock-religious dream vision. At the end, when the speaker has confessed all his sins, he announces that he will renounce love – but only because he is old, and nature has overtaken his capacity to love. A farewell to love rather than a vow of chastity is the ironic outcome.

‘Gower and Hoccleve were seemingly their equals in popularity in the fifteenth century’.

Thomas Hoccleve: His principal works are The Regement of Princes, written for the edification of Henry V, consisting of a string of sermons; La Male Regie, partly autobiographical, The Complaint of Our Lady; and Occleve's Complaint.

As the fourteenth century wears on we notice the greater use of prose. The writings of four men in particular - Mandeville, Trevisa, Wyclif and Nicholas of Hereford are of importance to us. 

The Adventures of John Mandeville

John Mandeville compiled and published a French book of travels between 1357 and 1371. This French work was very popular, and it was translated into several languages, including English.

Everyone knows about the incredible things he pretends to have seen: the gigantic race with one eye in the middle of the forehead, people with no heads but with eyes in their  shoulders, others with great ears hanging to their knees, snails so great that many persons may lodge in their shells, and scores of other marvels. Setting out to write merely a guide-book for those who might be making a pilgrimage to Jerusalem, he gives the usual account of routes, and towns, and places of interest at the more important points. But when this

Preparation for NET/JRF English - 3

Geoffrey Chaucer – An Overview of the Poet and His Age

The Background: FRENCH INFLUENCE AND ENGLISH AFFIRMATION: The world of Old English literature is a world of warriors and battles, a world where the individual, if not under the protection of his local lord, is a solitary outsider in a harsh and difficult society. The world was to change, slowly but radically, as a result of the most famous single event in English history – the Norman Conquest of 1066. The Normans (originally ‘North Men’) crossed the Channel from France, won the Battle of Hastings, and took over the kingdom of England, which legitimately belonged to the family of the new king, William the Conqueror.

The Normans brought with them the French language and culture. The two centuries after the Conquest were a period of consolidation, as the two languages struggled to integrate: bilingualism was widespread, with French being widely read and written in England from the twelfth century to the late fourteenth century. It was, however, only after 1204, when King John’s losses of French lands led the aristocracy to opt for England or France, that the Norman conquerors themselves began to develop a fuller English identity and a desire to use the English language. Subsequently, more and more French words entered the English language.

At this time, London established itself as the capital city. The characteristics of the dialect which came to be recognised as the London dialect show that its main influences came from the north: from the university cities of Oxford and Cambridge and from the Midlands, rather than from the south.

The idea of an author comes into English literature significantly with Layamon, in the early thirteenth century. He wrote Brut, the first national epic in English, taking material from many sources and recounting tales of the Dark Ages, the two centuries between the departure of the Romans at the beginning of the fifth century and the first traces of the culture of the Britons. He takes the story up to the arrival of Saint Augustine, the first Archbishop of Canterbury, in 597, telling the story of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table – which will feature time and again in English literature as a mixture of history, legend, myth and magic.

GEOFFREY CHAUCER, 1338−1400. Chaucer (the name is French and seems to have meant originally ‘shoemaker’) came into the world probably in 1338, the first important author who was born and lived in London, which with him becomes the centre of English literature.

Chaucer was a professional courtier, a kind of civil servant. His patron was Duke John of Gaunt. His writing was a sideline rather than a vocation: the full-time English writer was still a couple of centuries in the future. Geoffrey Chaucer used a wide range of cultural references from throughout Europe in his writing, but he wrote almost exclusively in English.

Preparation for NET/JRF English - 2

An Overview of what you’ve got to focus on!

Outline to NET/JRF English – Papers II & III - Syllabus January 2017

English Paper II

Unit 1   : Chaucer to Shakespeare

Unit 2  : Jacobean to Restoration Periods

Unit 3  : Augustan Age : 18th Century Literature

Unit 4  : Romantic Period

Unit 5  : Victorian Period

Unit 6  : Modern Period

Unit 7  : Contemporary Period

Unit 8  : American and other non – British Literatures

Unit 9  : Literary Theory and Criticism

Unit 10 : Rhetoric and Prosody

English Paper III ( A ) ( Core Group )

v  British Literature from Chaucer to the present day

v  Criticism and Literary Theory.

Unit – I               : Literary Comprehension. (with internal choice of poetry stanza and prose

passage; four comprehension questions will be asked carrying 4 marks each)

Unit – II             : Up to the Renaissance.

Unit – III           : Jacobean to Restoration Periods.

Unit – IV            : Augustan Age 18th Century Literature.

Unit – V             : Romantic Period.

Unit – VI            : Victorian and Pre – Raphaelites.

Unit – VII          : Modem British Literature.

Unit – VIII         : Contemporary British Literature.

Unit – IX            : Literary Theory and Criticism up to T. S. Eliot.

Unit – X             : Contemporary Theory.

English Paper III ( B ) ( Elective / Optional )

Elective – I       : History of English Language, English Language Teaching.

Elective – II     : European Literature from Classical Age to the 20th Century.

Elective – III    : Indian writing in English and Indian Literature in English translation.

Elective – IV    : American and other non – British English Literatures.

Elective – V      : Literary Theory and Criticism.

*****

Preparation for NET/JRF English - 1

a sample road map

Take a Resolve to be Away from anything that ‘clutters’ you

A preparation for a test/exam requires a great degree of commitment from your part. Nothing has ever been achieved without a proper dedication, determination, passion and commitment.

Leave your Television sets off for at least twelve hours a day. You'll be surprised at the extra time you have. Leaving it off may even become a habit!

Don't be a slave to the phone: Keep it far away from you, unless it is on very important business.

Have a clean-up bin: Pick up clutter and put it in a sort-through-later bin. A clean room can make your mind more at peace with yourself.

Make a Road Map

Before you start your intensive preparation, have a panoramic overview of your road map for yourself. Make sure that you have an overview on the various stops you’ve got to make as you start on your journey through UNITS One to Ten in Paper II of the paper. 

The Myth of the Medusa in Literature

“You unbend your forehead at last,” said Mr. Rivers.  “I thought Medusa had looked at you, and that you were turning to stone.  Perhaps now you will ask how much you are worth?”

“How much am I worth?”

“Oh, a trifle!  Nothing of course to speak of—twenty thousand pounds, I think they say—but what is that?”

“Twenty thousand pounds?”

Here was a new stunner—I had been calculating on four or five thousand.  This news actually took my breath for a moment: Mr. St. John, whom I had never heard laugh before, laughed now.

-          From Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

Medusa, one of the three Gorgons, is celebrated for her personal charms and the beauty of her locks. Neptune being enamoured of her, went ahead and received favours from her in the temple of Minerva, who was angered by this desecration of the sanctity of the temple,  and hence she changed the beautiful locks of Medusa to serpents. You may read more on the myth at your leisure.

Now, Medusa, in myth can thus be seen as a representation of the Other by virtue of her ‘antagonizing’ difference.

This function of Medusa as a representation of the Other, has been bandied about extensively by a host of 19^th & 20^th century writers too. Let’s have a look at some of the important ones here!

The Raft of the Medusa (1818) by Théodore Géricault, which subsequently became an icon of French Romanticism.

The Head of the Medusa (1963), in Greek novelist Pandelis Prevelakis’s trilogy,

 “The Laugh of the Medusa” (1975) by Hélène Cixous

Look, Medusa! (2014) by Suniti Namjoshi

Eve Meets Medusa (1993), by Michelene Wandor

“Sphinx and Medusa” by Clark Ashton Smith

Medusa's Mirrors: Spenser, Shakespeare, Milton, and the Metamorphosis of the Female Self (1998), by Julia Walker

Medusa (1970), by Ann Stanford

“Medusa” (1980), by Rachel Blau DuPlessis

Know your theorist - Bakhtin

Mikhail Bakhtin

The Twentieth Century – The Century of Gifted and Innovative Critics

The twentieth century produced a remarkable number of gifted and innovative literary critics. Indeed it could be argued that some of the finest literary minds of the age turned to criticism as the medium best adapted to their complex and speculative range of interests. This has sometimes given rise to regret among those who insist on a clear demarcation between ‘creative’ (primary) writing on the one hand and ‘critical’ (secondary) texts on the other. Yet this distinction is far from self-evident. It is coming under strain at the moment as novelists and poets grow increasingly aware of the conventions that govern their writing and the challenge of consciously exploiting and subverting those conventions. And the critics for their part – some of them at least – are beginning to question their traditional role as humble servants of the literary text with no further claim upon the reader’s interest or attention. Quite simply, there are texts of literary criticism and theory that, for various reasons – stylistic complexity, historical influence, range of intellectual command – cannot be counted a mere appendage to those other ‘primary’ texts.

Literary Theory and Human Sciences

A speculative approach to questions of literary theory has proved to have striking consequences for the human sciences at large. This breaking down of disciplinary bounds is among the most significant developments in recent critical thinking. As philosophers and historians, among others, come to recognize the rhetorical complexity of the texts they deal with, so literary theory takes on a new dimension of interest and relevance. It is scarcely appropriate to think of a writer like Derrida as practising ‘literary criticism’ in any conventional sense of the term. For one thing, he is as much concerned with ‘philosophical’ as with ‘literary’ texts, and has indeed actively sought to subvert (or deconstruct) such tidy distinctions.

Bakhtin – A Pioneering Figure in Twentieth Century Philosophy and Literature

Mikhail Bakhtin is one of the most influential theorists of philosophy as well as literary studies. His work on dialogue and discourse has changed the way in which we read texts – both literary and cultural – and his practice of philosophy in literary refraction and philological exploration has made him a pioneering figure in the twentieth-century convergence of the two disciplines. One of the most remarkable facts about Bakhtin is that, the concepts that he developed in the midst of his obscurity in Soviet Russia so came to dominate Western literary theory towards the end of the twentieth century.

Myriad literary-critical papers published in academic journals and books in the humanities utilize Bakhtinian concepts such as: chronotope; dialogism; polyphony; heteroglossia; and most famously, carnival. 

The Frankfurt School and Critical Theory

The Frankfurt School of German Social Theory has exerted a considerable influence over the sociology of the last two generations. Originally a centre for the study of Marxist theory brought into being in the first years of Weimar Republic Germany, the work of its principal figures has nonetheless always had a somewhat ambiguous relationship with mainstream Western Marxism, right through from the early writings of Max Horkheimer in the 1930s to the very recent work of Jürgen Habermas.

However, the development of a distinct ‘critical theory’ of society by Horkheimer and Adorno and its reworking by later Frankfurt theorists constituted a (sometimes tenuous) thread of ideas and concepts which gave the Frankfurt School an important role in the expansion of modern sociology. Despite the somewhat paradoxical rejection of Marxist concepts by many Frankfurt School writers, it was especially instrumental in the renaissance of Marxist sociology which took hold in the late 1960s.

As Tom Bottomore makes clear in drawing this parallel, the Frankfurt School thinkers were led by their pessimism into a retreat from Marxian social theory, and then towards an essentially philosophical and neo-Hegelian critique of ideology. Perhaps best seen as ‘radicals in despair’, Horkheimer, Marcuse and Adorno were responsible for a theory of capitalist society which emphasized its cultural manifestations above all other aspects. Caught in a climate of cultural loss and decline which must be linked to their experience of the rise of Fascism in Germany, the ‘critical theory’ developed by these men during this period was overwhelmingly concerned with the mounting irrationality of social and cultural values, and their reflection in the ideas of positivism and ‘scientism’.

Herbert Marcuse’s version of ‘critical theory’ shares many of these aspects of Ideologiekritik conducted not from empirical observation but philosophical speculation. His One-Dimensional Man (certainly his best known work) thus remains firmly within the contemplative cast of Frankfurt School work, its nature as a philosophical critique of advanced capitalism perhaps explaining why its great popularity did not lead to any significant attempts at extension or empirical demonstration of the thesis which it contains.

The Frankfurt School is a complex phenomenon, and the style of social thought which has come to be principally associated with it—‘critical theory’—has been expounded and interpreted in a variety of ways. The institutional basis upon which the school developed was the Institute of Social Research, officially established on 3 February 1923 by a decree of the Ministry of Education, and affiliated with the University of Frankfurt.

The founding of the Institute took place in the particular conditions produced by the victory of the Bolshevik revolution in Russia and the defeat of the Central European revolutions, notably that in Germany; and it can be seen as one response to the need felt by left wing intellectuals to reappraise Marxist theory, and especially the relation between theory and practice, in the new circumstances.

Assignment topics for I MA/II MA Classes are HERE

Negotiating the 'betweens n betwixts' of the Third Space

Postcolonial Film Review of Unseen by Perivi Katjavivi

Synopsis

Unfolding more like a conversation than a narrative, 'The Unseen' follows the story of three wandering souls as they navigate the emotional and physical realities of post-colonial Namibia. First there is Marcus, an African American actor tasked with portraying one of Namibia’s historical leaders. Seeking authenticity in his craft, he embarks on an earnest research mission to unveil the true history of his character. Then there is Anu, a talented local musician who is having trouble negotiating between his influences and identity. Lastly, there is Sara, a depressed young woman uncertain of whether or not her environment provides anything worth living for.

Press

“The Unseen is an entirely new kind of cinema, inventing for itself a new language, refusing to be trapped in the past or shaped by white or western film models the way many South African films still are.  It’s one of the most exciting and visually beautiful films you’ll see this year.“ – Charles Blignaut, CityPress, South Africa

“Brilliant and refreshing. …. [Katjavivi’s] characters negotiate forces of neoimperial homogeneity in the present, while trying to make sense of the past. … This portrayal of life in the impact zone of post-colonialism and post-modernity has real substance and weight.“ – Sarah Dawson, Mail & Guardian, South Africa

“The Unseen is a powerful commentary on what it means to be a young person in modern-day Africa.” – Screen Africa

MIDS Invites you!

INSTITUTE SEMINAR SERIES -September 2016

Topic: Nationalising Bharati: The State, the Public and the Battle for Copyright, 1948–1963

Speaker: A.R. Venkatachalapathy, Professor, MIDS

Chair: Santhosh Abraham, Assistant Professor

Dept. of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT-M

Date & Time: Wednesday, 28 September 2016 at 3:30 p.m.

Venue: Adiseshiah Auditorium, MIDS

All are Invited!