Cracow Indological Studies 2015. Vol. XVII. Crossing over "on Birds' Wings": Modern South Asian Literature in Local and Global Context

Tatiana Dubyanskaya Introduction Giorgio Milanetti Between Enduring Urban Models and Shifting Cultural Trajectories: Unravelling Narratives on Ayodhyā and Bengaluru Piotr Borek The Reliable Poem. A 17th-century Hindi Poet in his Words Nicola Pozza Wandering Writers in the Himalaya: Contesting Narratives and Renunciation in Modern Hindi Literature Monika Browarczyk From the Other One to the Only One Prabha Khaitan and Her Autobiography Gautam Chakrabarti ‘Pure and Mixed’ in East India: Gerasim Lebedev’s Intercultural Enthusiasms Namita Gokhale Travelling Tales: Some Stories from the Middle Himalayas Klaus Karttunen A Hundred Years of Tagore in Finland Donatella Dolcini Premchand’s Encounter with Tolstoy Teresa Miążek “...kahāniyā͂ ākhir bantῑ kaise hai͂?!” (“…how, after all, do stories originate?!”). The Clash between Indian and Western Literary Traditions in Ajñeya’s Short Stories Tatiana Dubyanskaya The Ivan Denisovich of Delhi—an Indian Story of Survival? Lucio De Capitani Weaving Cross-cultural Narratives: Hybrid Forms and Historico-political Discourse of the Anglophone Indian Novel Ira Sarma Khushwant Singh’s Train to Pakistan and Margaret Bourke-White’s Partition Photographs: Clash of Narratives or Postmemory Project? Toms Ķencis Heidegger on Poetry: What is Sudeep Sen for? Lidia Sudyka Kesavan Veluthat and Donald R. Davis, Jr. (Ed.) Irreverent History. Essays in Honour of M.G.S. Narayanan. Delhi: Primus Books. 2014, 328pp, ISBN: 978-93-84082-14-7