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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 ...
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.
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.
Strategic essentialism, a major concept in postcolonial theory, was introduced in the 1980s by the woman Indian literary critic and theorist Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak. [1] It refers to a political tactic in which minority groups, or ethnic groups mobilize on the basis of shared identity attributes to represent themselves.
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak [ edit ] Professor Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak , in 1997, took the example of a "dvaita" gaze of a "boy looking up obliquely at the clay and wattle frame of the image of Durga", writing that when we read the photo through Sigmund Freud's psychoanalysis it would be wrongly diagnosed as "double anxiety of castration and ...
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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.
The book received criticism from Indian postcolonial theorist Gayatri Spivak in the Cambridge Review of International Affairs. Spivak asserted that Chibber may not be the best person to begin exposing the flaws of postcolonial theory. [5] Chibber replied in the same journal, defending his choices in the original article. [6]