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However, Binoy Majumdar's most famous work is Phire Esho, Chaka (Come back, O Wheel, 1960 - Here the Bengali word for Wheel, Chaka, most likely refers to the surname of Gayatri Chakravorty), written in the format of a diary. The book is dedicated to Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, a fellow-Calcuttan and contemporary of Majumdar.
Come back, O wheel) is a Bengali poetry book written by Binoy Majumdar. [1] The book was published in 1961 and then republished in 1962 under the title Phire Esho, Chaka. The book was initially published as Gayatrike (lit. To Gayatri). This book is a collection of romantic poems written for Majumdar's contemporary Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak. [2 ...
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Spivak was born Gayatri Chakravorty in Calcutta, India, to a Bengali family. Her father was Pares Chandra Chakravorty and mother was Sivani Chakravorty. [10] After completing her secondary education at St. John's Diocesan Girls' Higher Secondary School, Spivak attended Presidency College, Kolkata under the University of Calcutta, from which she graduated in 1959.
Spivak's understanding of the term was first introduced in the context of cultural negotiations, never as an anthropological category. [4] In her 2008 book Other Asias, [5] Spivak disavowed the term, indicating her dissatisfaction with how the term has been deployed in nationalist enterprises to promote (non-strategic) essentialism. [6]
[139] [140] Postcolonial literary theorist Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak wrote that Ramakrishna was a "Bengali bhakta visionary" and that as a bhakta, "he turned chiefly towards Kali." [141] Indologist Heinrich Zimmer was the first Western scholar to interpret Ramakrishna's worship of the Divine Mother as containing specifically Tantric elements.
1997 – Gayatri Chakrabarti Spivak – Imaginary Maps (short stories, English tr. from Mahashweta Devi), Prasad Brahmbhatt – Amritasya Putri (novel, Gujarati tr. from Kamal Das), Shiva Shamsher Rasaily – Biraj Dulahi (novel, Nepali tr. from Sharat Chandra Chattopadhyay ),
Gayatri Spivak writes that Sarada Devi "performed her role with tact and wisdom, always remaining in the background." [11] She initiated several prominent monks into the Ramakrishna Order. Swami Nikhilananda, who was a freedom fighter and a follower of Mahatma Gandhi, [46] accepted Sarada Devi as his guru and joined the Ramakrishna Order.