Category Archives: Periodical

Walking with the Comrades – Ghandians with a Gun?

The author of the The God of Small Things presents lively her illegal visit to the Maoist rebels in the forests of Chhattisgarth, centre India. Naxalits – whom the Indian government found its greatest security threat – in fact are fighting for protecting the tribes that lost their traditional life form and dignity and against industrial and mining companies that want to expel them and against central authorities supporting these firms.

Arundhati Roy: Walking With The Comrades Gandhians with a Gun?  Outlook [India], March 29, 2010. http://www.outlookindia.com/printarticle.aspx?264738.

Re-reading Harry Potter – Texts Produced by Fans

Inspired by the millions of fans of the Harry Potter books, the author addresses an important social question of our mediatised word how texts produced by fans, that can be created and shared on the net freely, influence the consciousness of people? Some authors believe that these texts are promoting a new, democratic and global political participation.  According to Gupta, this freedom is only virtual: fans do not question the existing order that produce profits only for the selected ones, while allow for "free" participation of the masses. Thus despite the creativeness of the texts no real exit points of the system offered by them.

Suman Gupta: Re-reading Harry Potter. Palgrave Macmillan, 2009, Chapter 24.