REGD. NO: KARENG/2009/29264 ISSN 0975- 5810 ArtConnect A An IFA Publication r An IFA Publication tConnect Volume4,Number 1 January-June 2010 Volume 4 Number 1 Contents January-June 2010 Rs.100 Editorial 3 INCESSANT SEARCH FOR LANGUAGES: SOME THOUGHTS ON HINDI POETRY TODAY Teji Grover V 6 ol u IN SEARCH OF THE OTHER SONG: m TRAVELS AMONG THE TAWAIFS OF BANARAS e4,N Saba Dewan u 21 m be THE SCRAMBLE FOR SOUND r 1 Vibodh Parthasarathi 40 SOCIETY IN MINIATURE: DASARA DOLL DISPLAYS Annapurna Garimella 56 A STRANGE CROSS-CULTURAL INFANCY: J CHILDREN'S LITERATURE NINETEENTH CENTURY BENGAL a n Gargi Gangopadhyay u 70 a r y- J KELAI DRAUPADI! u n (LISTEN DRAUPADI!) e 2010 Sashikanth Ananthachari 86 India Foundation for the Arts ‘Apurva’ Ground Floor, No 259, 4th Cross Raj Mahal Vilas IInd Stage, IInd Block, Bangalore-560 094 Phone/Fax: 91- 80 - 2341 4681/82 Email:
[email protected] www.indiaifa.org MAINIFA ArtConnect-3-1:Layout 3 12/29/2009 6:00 PM Page 1 Contents EDITORIAL 3 INCESSANT SEARCH FOR LANGUAGES: SOME THOUGHTS ON HINDI POETRY TODAY Teji Grover 6 IN SEARCH OF THE OTHER SONG: TRAVELS AMONG THE TAWAIFS OF BANARAS Saba Dewan 21 THE SCRAMBLE FOR SOUND Vibodh Parthasarathi 40 SOCIETY IN MINIATURE: DASARA DOLL DISPLAYS Annapurna Garimella 56 A STRANGE CROSS-CULTURAL INFANCY: CHILDREN’S LITERATURE NINETEENTH CENTURY BENGAL Gargi Gangopadhyay 70 KELAI DRAUPADI! (LISTEN DRAUPADI!) Sashikanth Ananthachari 86 MAINIFA ArtConnect-3-1:Layout 3 12/29/2009 6:00 PM Page 2 ArtConnect An IFA Publication Editorial Volume 4, Number 1 How does an artist internalise the spirit of older artistic forms while also keeping her art alive to e contemporary context? And, as Frantz Fanon asked 50 years ago, how, in post- January-June 2010 colonial societies such as ours, might the artist engage with traditional culture in a dynamic instead of reflexive way? Shanta Gokhale considers this question the starting point of her novel Tya Varshi, from Editor which we carry an excerpt in this issue.