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    Alternative notions of sexuality and personhood: The case of Bal Gandharva
    ( 2018-07-03) Devare, Aparna
    This article examines the meteoric rise and enormous popularity of a Marathi stage actor and singer, Bal Gandharva, in early twentiethcentury western India. Gandharva was distinctive because he was a male artist who dressed and acted as a woman on stage and was adulated by both women and men for his powerful female roles. The article argues that Gandharva embodied ‘fuzzy’ boundaries between man and woman, drawing from indigenous traditions of gender fluidity. While maintaining strict boundaries between being a man in his personal life and a woman on stage, Gandharva tapped into alternative notions of masculinity. I argue that the adulation he experienced for his acting and singing as a woman points to transgressive possibilities in the otherwise conservative middle-class imagination and challenges what are colonial constructions of hyper-masculinity.
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    Dialogical international relations: Gandhi, Tagore and self-transformation
    ( 2018-01-01) Devare, Aparna
    In this chapter, I wish to take seriously David Blaney and Naeem Inayatullah’s (1994, 342) evocative call for the ‘possibility of a conversation of cultures that is found in the space bounded by an international society of both common values and commitments and diversity.’ An appeal made some time ago (in 1994), it remains as relevant in thinking about global encounters between cultures today given increasing global violence. Is it possible to think about non-hegemonic encounters between peoples in a world fraught with inequality, climate crises, and rising intolerance of various kinds? And those that celebrate plurality while also reasserting the language of universal(s)? Blaney and Inayatullah (1994, 342) do believe so, arguing that ‘this possibility, or hope, must be considered in the face of the serious barriers to conversation posed by a hierarchically ordered international society.’ Despite these constraints, how do they propose to undertake such a dialogue?.
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    Angels are turning red: Nurses' strikes in Kerala
    ( 2013-12-28) Biju, B. L.
    The nurses' strikes indicated the outburst of the self-concealed and politically ignored labour's unrest in the hospital industry. It is the beginning of a different form of class struggle, a demand for a more adaptive and communicative strategy from the established trade unions and the political left. This article looks at the labour-capital conflicts in Kerala's hospital industry, class formation and unionisation of nurses and the approach of political parties and the government to the question of labour.