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The annual holiday season in India is in October/November when the festival of Diwali is celebrated across the country. In the state of Maharashtra, among the Marathi speaking communities, for over a century now there is a unique tradition of this festival being celebrated with the reading of the “ diwāḷī aṅka ” (the Diwali issue) of various periodicals, both high literary and middlebrow. Along with the excitement of new clothes,...Read more

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The Language Challenge: Modernisms in Multilingual South Asia
Preetha Mani and Jennifer Dubrow

The Imagist Ghazal: Urdu Modernism and Japan
Jennifer Dubrow

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Cluster

The aim of this cluster is to provide an alternative to the disciplinary reliance on Anglo-European imperiality as a structuring force for what is considered global within global modernisms. Collectively the cluster aims to expand understanding of the relationship between modernism, imperialism, and the global by reconceptualizing how modernism engaged with entangled colonial networks in which Europe is influential, but not the sole player....

Jul 31, 2025

Responses

Responses to the Responses to the Special Issue on Weak Theory

It’s been nearly a year now since the publication of M/m’s special issue on Weak Theory, a year of conversations both here on Print Plus—and, as Aarthi Vadde and Melanie Micir point out, across a range of other professional and para-professional spaces of engagement. Many thanks to all who...

Aug 15, 2019

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The Little Reviews

A Forum for capsule review of recent books of interest to our readers.

If you would like to write a capsule review (250-300 words) of one of the books featured in the Books of Interest section of our more recent print issues, we would welcome your submission at mmlittlereviews@gmail.com...

Oct 19, 2021

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Northeast Indian Literature in Planetary Time: Creation Myths, Zones of Extraction and Anthropocene Heterotemporality in Kynpham Sing Nongkynrih’s Poetics

Fig. 1. Cover of Kynpham Sing Nonkynrih, Around the Hearth: Khasi Legends.

Anglophone Literature from the borderland region of Northeast India has a relatively short history with the major works comprising the oeuvre published in the last four decades or so. One of the most visible...

Jan 14, 2026

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