Rahul Sankrityayan: Untangling a Legacy

Speaker: Dr. Maya Joshi is Associate Professor at Lady Shri Ram College, University of Delhi. She has also worked in close association with Tibet House, New Delhi for over a decade

 

Chair: Apoorvanand

 

Rahul Sankrityayan (1893-1963), the partially-remembered polymath, deserves a closer, clearer look. Based on a decade-long engagement with the subject, the illustrated talk will delineate the major contours of his remarkable intellectual and political growth, and dwell on ways in which his vast oeuvre compels us to join him in his adventurous travels across borders disciplinary, linguistic, generic. His ghumakkari engages dialogically with the categories of nation, culture, religion, and identity