On the Outside Looking In(dian): Indian Women Writers at Home and Abroad
Author:
Phillipa Kafka
ISBN:
9780820458120
Binding:
Paperback
Year:
2003
Pages:
223
Size:
15 x 23 cm
Weight:
328 grams
Price:
INR
870.00
On the Outside Looking In(dian) analyzes works over the past century translated into or written in English by feminist Indian women writers such as Krupabai Satthianadhan, Rokeya Sakhewat Hossein, Maitreyi Devi, Kamala Das, Anita Desai, Bharati Mukherjee, and others. These writers condemn patriarchal customs and laws for depriving Indian women – of all castes and classes, as well as women of other cultures – of their basic human rights by sanctioning child marriage, sati, purdah, and the wearing of the burqa, while prohibiting widow remarriage, the expression of sexuality, and the pursuit of an education to promote self-sufficiency, and equal economic, political, and social status with men.
Mathew Varghese
Mathew Varghese is a scholar who works on classical philosophy, mainly, on the works of Nagarjuna, the second century Middle Path (Madhyamika) Buddhist philosopher. He shows keen interest in then discussing contemporary philosophical issues and interpreting them in classical philosophical framework. He has published two text-based interpretational works on Madhyamika philosophy: Principles of Buddhist Tantra (2008) and Exploring the Structure of Emptiness (2012); and also, several papers on Buddhist and comparative philosophy. He is a research fellow at The Nakamura Hajime Eastern Institute, Tokyo; and also teaches at Aoyama Gakuin University, Kanagawa University and Wako University, in and around Tokyo, offering courses on classical philosophy from a comparative perspective. As a researcher, he is keenly interested in researching the classical conception of Negation and its application possibilities.