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Kannada Language Chair organizes book releasing function and Tulu Yakshagana

Kannada Language Chair organizes book releasing function and Tulu Yakshagana

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Kannada Language Chair, CIL/SLL&CS, JNU

Organizes

Releasing of its new publication

 

The Rain boy:  60 Tulu Folk Tales

 

Book release by

Prof. Ajit Kanna

Professor, Centre for French and Francophone Studies,SLL&CS, JNU 

 

A talk on Tulu Culture by

Dr. Ganesh Amin Sankamar

Professor, St. Aloysius College, Mangalore

 

Chief Guest

Mr. Nithyanada Pai

Producer, Paddayi, an award winning Tulu Film

 

 

Cultural Program

by the members of Delhi Tulu Siri

and

Tulu Yakshagana performance

Narakasura Moksha

By Yakshamanjusha, Mangalore

 

January 26, 2019, 3.30 onwards

Auditorium, School of Social Sciences-1

All are invited

 

The Rain Boy’ is a collection of sixty Tuḷu folktales, presented to the English readers, selected and translated by B. Surendra Rao and   K. Chinnappa Gowda, published by Kannada Language Chair.  These tales gives a glimpse of the folk sensibilities of the Tuḷu people of Karnataka State, India and illustrate the heterogeneity of their society.  The tales were narrated by various people in different time and space. However, enough care has  taken for including tales from actual narrators in real context. They have been chosen from different regions of Tuḷunādu and the people from whom the stories were tapped by the fieldworkers belonged to different castes, age groups and of both sexes.

A warm welcome to the modified and updated website of the Centre for East Asian Studies. The East Asian region has been at the forefront of several path-breaking changes since 1970s beginning with the redefining the development architecture with its State-led development model besides emerging as a major region in the global politics and a key hub of the sophisticated technologies. The Centre is one of the thirteen Centres of the School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi that provides a holistic understanding of the region.

Initially, established as a Centre for Chinese and Japanese Studies, it subsequently grew to include Korean Studies as well. At present there are eight faculty members in the Centre. Several distinguished faculty who have now retired include the late Prof. Gargi Dutt, Prof. P.A.N. Murthy, Prof. G.P. Deshpande, Dr. Nranarayan Das, Prof. R.R. Krishnan and Prof. K.V. Kesavan. Besides, Dr. Madhu Bhalla served at the Centre in Chinese Studies Programme during 1994-2006. In addition, Ms. Kamlesh Jain and Dr. M. M. Kunju served the Centre as the Documentation Officers in Chinese and Japanese Studies respectively.

The academic curriculum covers both modern and contemporary facets of East Asia as each scholar specializes in an area of his/her interest in the region. The integrated course involves two semesters of classes at the M. Phil programme and a dissertation for the M. Phil and a thesis for Ph. D programme respectively. The central objective is to impart an interdisciplinary knowledge and understanding of history, foreign policy, government and politics, society and culture and political economy of the respective areas. Students can explore new and emerging themes such as East Asian regionalism, the evolving East Asian Community, the rise of China, resurgence of Japan and the prospects for reunification of the Korean peninsula. Additionally, the Centre lays great emphasis on the building of language skills. The background of scholars includes mostly from the social science disciplines; History, Political Science, Economics, Sociology, International Relations and language.

Several students of the centre have been recipients of prestigious research fellowships awarded by Japan Foundation, Mombusho (Ministry of Education, Government of Japan), Saburo Okita Memorial Fellowship, Nippon Foundation, Korea Foundation, Nehru Memorial Fellowship, and Fellowship from the Chinese and Taiwanese Governments. Besides, students from Japan receive fellowship from the Indian Council of Cultural Relations.