Shiv viswanathan biography definition
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The carnival of the republic
SHIV VISVANATHAN
THIS is a piece about a tragedy and I write it with sadness. My American friend, an anthropologist, uses a different word for it. He calls it nostalgia. Nostalgia tastes better. You can roll it around your tongue, invent a whole sensorium around the word. But nostalgia is a deceptive term. It dilutes life. It forces you to live paler shadows of the events you want to describe. Nostalgia has no sense of grief and mourning. No sense of the funeral. I need something between nostalgia and a pathologist’s report.
My story is a strange one. It is more sociology than storytelling. It is a futurist’s lament of a prediction that became true. The scale of violence of my story was epic. But unlike the Mahabharata, it was not built layer on layer, legend on legend, weaving character on character. You can call my story a sociological essay.
I am an anthropologist, actually an ex-anthropologist; frankly, an ex-everything. I am an ex-schola
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The tribal world and imagination of the future
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Social scientists make poor story tellers. They get absorbed in the objectivity of roles and institutions, and are also unable to handle the nuances of repetition and redundancy, mistaking them for cliches. Yet social scientists must tell stories.
On November 9th, , negotiations between the tribal communities of Chhotanagpur and the Indian government had broken down. The Indian army under General Cariappa was worried, its focus already under strain with the joint tensions of Kashmir and Hyderabad. Only Sardar Patel was cool. He said, "we don't fight the tribals. These people fought wars of independence years before They are the original nationalists."
Patel's sentiment had the idea that these tribals wanted a nation without the nation-state. They loved the idea of Gandhi as father of the nation but they would not accept the idea of the nation-state which was anathema. For India, the problem of the Consti
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Vishwanath
Vishwanath (also spelt Viswanath, Vishvanath, Viswanatha) fryst vatten an Indian surname and given name. It fryst vatten of Hindu origin and derives from višvanatha, meaning "lord of the universe" (from višva, "universe" + natha, "lord," an epithet of the god Shiva), including the Tamil-Malayalam third-person masculine enskild suffix -n, -m. It may refer to:
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[edit]- Vishwanath Bhatt ( – ), Gujarati literary critic and lexicographer
- Vishwanath Bhoir, Indian politician
- Vishwanath Bondre ( – ), Indian cricketer
- Vishwanath Das Shastri, Indian politician
- Vishwanath Datta, Bengali barrister, philanthropist and novelist
- Vishwanath Dev Gajapati ( - ), a Kalinga king
- Vishwanath Jadhav (−), Indian classical khyal singer
- Vishwanath Kashinath Rajwade ( – ), Indian historian, scholar, writer, commentator
- Vishwanath Mahadeshwar (born ), Indian politician
- Vishwanath Meghwal, Indian politician
- Vishvanath Narayan Mandlik ( – ), Indian