New Orientations of Comparative Literature in Germany
Sieghild Bogumil
Translating Poetry into Japanese
Kyoko Niwa
Comparative Imagination: Indian and African Autobiographies
Tony Afejuku
The Genesis of Comparative Literature in the University of Delhi: Some Lesser Known Facts
Nandita Bose
Cultural and Literary Interrelations between India and Pakistan: The Liberal Sindhi Sufi Link
Charu Gidwani
The Immigrant Space: Readings of Obasan, Chorus of Mushrooms and The Electrical Field
Annapurna Palit
Reading The ‘Cheapness’ of Cheap Prints: Karbala Narrative in the Early Print Culture
Epsita Halder
Revisiting Krishnabhavini: England and India
Sayantan Dasgupta
Mirroring the Self in the Light of the ‘Other’: Early 20th Century Travelogues on Japan
Pratyay Banerjee
SPECIAL ARTICLE
The Journey of Comparative Literature: India and Beyond (Keynote Address)
Indra Nath Choudhuri
RESEARCHERS’ FORUM ON KEY TEXTS IN COMPARATIVE LITERATURE
Comparative Literature: Theory, Method and Application (Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek)
Debarati Chakraborty
Answers Claudio Guillén in The Challenge of Comparative Literature
Debaroti Chakraborty
Theory of Literature (Rene Wellek and Austin Warren)
Ritika Batabyal
The Idea of Comparative Literature in India (Amiya Dev)
Madhurima Mukhopadhyay
Aspects of Comparative Literature: Current Approaches (Chandra Mohan ed.)
Swagata Bhattacharya
TRANSLATIONS
Extracts from A Bengali Lady in England (Englondey Bangamahila) (Krishnabhavini Das)
Translated from Bangla by Sayantan Dasgupta
Price (Himanshi Shelat)
Translated from Gujarati by Nandini Bhadra and Pratixa Parekh
Taalnabami (Bibhutibhusan Bandyopadhyay)
Translated from Bangla by Joyjit Ghosh
BOOK REVIEWS
Ghumantoos: The Roadies of India and Canada
Swagata Bhattacharya
Jora Sanko: The Joined Bridge
Ritika Batabyal
INTERVIEW
Tomson Highway: An Interview
Amrapali Chatterjee
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