Articles by G P Deshpande

G P Deshpande Adorno: The Stars Down to Earth and Other Essays on the Irrational in Culture, Routledge, London and New York, 1994; pp vi + 176,

Chinese White Paper on Arms Control and Disarmament G P Deshpande For China the times of naming imperialism are gone, perhaps for ever. As underscored by the White Paper on Arms Control and Disarmament released by the country' s State Council the right defence policy for China is now seen to consist in reminding the dominant powers that China knows the name of the game, which is power. But if power is the new logic, can hegemonism be far behind? Some people and states in South and Southeast Asia are bound to raise this question.

Problem of Culture G P Deshpande Both empirical and deterministic approaches to Indian culture have been destructive. They have assumed that there is no plurality within Hinduism or within Indian Islam. Indian culture is an organic and historically determined unity which has escaped us over a period of time almost parallelly and simultaneously with slow but hopefully not yet certain destruction of India.

Polity and Culture in the Wake of Ayodhya G P Deshpande Every time the communal monster bestirs itself, one goes through the usual routine: demonstrations, hunger-strikes, signatures on statements, etc. These fire-fighting operations are necessary and have to be undertaken. But fire-fighting is one thing, having a long-term strategy to fight the communal ideology is quite another.

Art in the Age of Mechanical and 'Utsav'ical Reproduction G P Deshpande REVIEWING Indira Ganesan's novel The Journey (Knopf, New York in the New York Times Book Review, Mark Dery wrote that her debut was a "symphony for the senses images in clean, economical prose