EDITOR’S NOTE : TheDaaK at 1:
15.01.2024
It is a great privilege and honour to bring TheDaak to its one year anniversary.
For a while, we were discussing a need for a journal for young scholars but it was the post pandemic world that made us a little more courageous and a little less anxious that we dived right in. I recall that in October 2022……
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BOOK REVIEW: DOMESTIC ECONOMIC ABUSE (by Supriya Singh)
31.12.2023
Economic abuse in itself is an intriguing topic. Growing up, I had a difficult relationship with money, primarily rooted in my fear of debt. Very recently, I have also realised that higher education ……………….
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BOOK REVIEW: FAMILY LIFE (by Akhil Sharma)
15.03.2023
Author Akhil Sharma had proven to be a critical hit when he first published in 2001 but had remained quiet for a very long time before coming with ‘Family life’ in 2014 which is a semi-autobiographical work. He writes in his acknowledgements, “When I handed it in, this book was nine years overdue. Each year, on the anniversary of the novel’s due date, Jill would email me and invite me to lunch…”(p234). In an interview with the Guardian, he discussed the problem of the sensorium……..
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BOOK REVIEW: INDEPENDENCE (by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni)
15.01.2023
Independence as opposed to swaraj, freedom and for that matter, liberty has a historical specificity. The commonsensical mind would go to the event(s) of 1947. The event of the birth of a nation, eulogized by some as India’s destiny and others as her awakening.1 What is it then that this book does to the narrative of independence? What do we hear there that we had not heard before? I must admit, this story will……..
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