Aditi Singh

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Turning to Visual Memory in Search of a Lost Time: Marcel Proust and the Visual Arts – Aditi Singh

November 29, 2022

Thanks to art, instead of seeing one world only, our own, we see that world multiply itself and we have at our disposal as many worlds as there are original artists, worlds more different one from the other than those which revolve in infinite space, worlds which, centuries after the extinction of the fire from …

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Memory and Memoir in Intizar Husain’s Basti: A Study of Memory in Exile – Aditi Singh

October 3, 2022

The past is not dead. In fact, it is not even past. William Faulkner, Requiem for a Nun (1951) Amidst the clamorous turbulence, turmoil and tumult of the Partition, Basti sits in a sombre, solemn, albeit ruptured, landscape. At the outset, the reader encounters a mythic, almost mystic echo-chamber of voices of a reminiscing history …

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