Issue 5.2 Performing Arts and South Asian Literature, Table of Contents more

Contents EDITORIAL SHIRLEY CHEW INTERVIEW CLAIRE CHAMBERS, An Interview with Geetha Upadhyaya FICTION GITHA HARIHARAN, Subbalakshmi’s Sari, Imelda’s Fan HAMID ISMAILOV, From The Railway TRANSLATED FROM RUSSIAN BY ROBERT CHANDLER 1 136 61 64 88 119 60 VINOD KUMAR SHUKLA, Weight TRANSLATED FROM HINDI BY SATTI KHANNA RUKHSANA AHMAD, Karachi POETRY AMIT CHAUDHURI, Death of a Bust ARTICLES SALIMA HASHMI, ‘The Hue of the Garment’: Faiz Ahmed Faiz and a New Idiom for the People AAMER HUSSEIN, Re-reading Sughra Humayun Mirza RANJANA SIDHANTA ASH, Growing up with Tagore: Finding the Personal and Political in Rabindranath’s Works ANANYA JAHANARA KABIR, Beyond Narrative: Song and Story in South Asia RACHEL FAREBROTHER, ‘Music and National Identity in Vikram Seth’s A Suitable Boy SATTI KHANNA, The Consciousness of the Listener: An Exploration in Video ROBERT CHANDLER, Translating The Railway CLAIRE CHAMBERS, ‘Purity of the Classical Forms’: Sexuality, Gender, and Bharata Natyam in texts from South India PALLABI CHAKRAVORTY, Modernity in Bhakti and Bhakti in Modernity: Kabir and Kathak ALEX TICKELL, Great Stories and Small Gods: Epic and Performance in The God of Small Things NELUKA SILVA, Cultural Resources for Peace: Teledrama and Conflict Transformation in Sri Lankan Society REVIEWS NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS 2 16 23 28 43 53 70 74 91 104 126 147 151