PHALANX 9: August 2013 phalanx.in/index.html CONTENTS Editorial: The Trajectory of Cricket as a Metaphor for National History: Cricket has been transformed after the advent of the IPL. Strangely enough, the history of cricket in India runs a close parallel with the Nation itself. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Essays: Literary and Literal Translation: The Library of Babel by Jorge Luis Borges: Two different translations, one idiomatic and one literal, of the same story by the great Argentinian author shows facets of the story that every critic and translator dealing with Borges appears to have missed. Bilingualism in the Age of Globalization: The Reflections of a Bengali Writer: This is a personal response to the decline of bilingualism in bhasha literature which also tries to speculate on what is happening to literature in the Indian languages – as globalization takes its toll on language and literature. The Development of Form in Soviet/ Russian Cinema: Russian cinema today bears no resemblance to Soviet cinema of the 1920s although both are/were arguably the greatest cinemas of their respective times. This essay traces the formal transformation of Soviet/ Russian cinema from the silent era to the present day. History as Polyphony: Interpreting Aleksei German: This is an examination of the films of Aleksei German, perhaps the greatest Russian film-maker since Andrei Tarkovsky, who passed away earlier this year. The Portrayal of Disability in Indian Cinema: An Attempt at Categorization: Tries to look at the various metaphorical treatments of impairment especially in popular cinema and finds several parallels in mythology. The Taste of the Nation: Golwalkar’s Nationhood and its Implied ‘Mentality’: The essay looks at Golwalkar’s ideas dispassionately through his most important writing and examines their contradictions. Film review: The Reluctant Fundamentalist (Mira Nair) Ship of Theseus (Anand Gandhi)
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