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Chapter & Verse with Ari Gautier – Pondicherry’s Past Meets its Eccentric Present

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Kurusukuppam, the working-class locality in Pondicherry is far from the quaint picturesque portrait of the erstwhile French colony that most tourist brochures paint.

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Pondy Lit Fest: Lack of Diverse Opinions Makes the Event Dubious

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The three-day fest scheduled for August 17 should be viewed in the context of the right-wing’s historical attempts to disturb social harmony of Pondicherry…

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Locked down, born again: Covid-19 and the search for ‌Indian‌ ‌Francophone‌ ‌literature‌

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Franco-Tamilian writer Ari Gautier traces the history and future of French writing out of India….

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ET LITTERÆRT VITNESBYRD OG POLITISK STANDPUNKT

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Veldig få har brukt sitt eget morsmål som verktøy for å bekjempe lingvistisk imperialisme. Ngugi wa Thiong’o var en av de første som utfordret kolonimakten gjennom lingvistisk kamp. Selv om de brakte ham i landflyktighet kunne de ikke sende ordene hans i eksil.

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