Gleanings: A Tenth Year Anniversary Issue

· Debaditya Bhattacharya
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How much of our classroom teaching in a government university can any longer afford to be critical of the world outside, the social lives we live and the social relations we reproduce on a daily basis? Isn’t that the meaning of freedom within a university – the right to freely criticise things that we do or we don’t, and to freely imagine ways of doing things better? Isn’t that the meaning of ‘academic freedom’? But of course, in our times, where governments (and ruling parties) decide what texts are teachable or what research is publishable or what opinions are permissible, is there any point left in doing ‘literary studies’ anymore? Given that the right to critique has now to be bargained for, is the teaching and studying of literature up for sale? Our unfinished conversation had closed off, with me saying: “Criticality is so rare that it has become the mark of elitism."

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September 21, 2023
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September 23, 2023
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September 19, 2023
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Debaditya Bhattacharya teaches literature at Kazi Nazrul University, India. He completed his doctoral work from Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), India - wherein he engaged with the relationship between literature and death, with specific reference to the testimonial speech-act. Bhattacharya researches on continental philosophy, and writes on contemporary modes of political articulation as well as practices of mobilization in the Indian context. His current interests cohere around a social-economic history of higher education, with specific attention to Indian policy-contexts. He is co-editor of Sentiment, Politics, Censorship: The State of Hurt (SAGE: 2016).

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