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Gayatri Spivak turns 80 as scholar, critic, translator, excerpt from a rousing 1998 speech

Spivak, best known for his translations of Derrida and some of Mahasweta Devi’s works, was awarded…

Gayatri Spivak turns 80 as scholar, critic, translator, excerpt from a rousing 1998 speech

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Remembering Amrit Rai, the ‘Raj Kapoor of Hindi literature’

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