Saturday, July 30, 2016

The (De) Void Between Us


Volume 1, July,2016



An Introduction to this Volume:

The present volume explores the notions of different spaces and places, from the eyes of insider-outsider, having connections with the place and yet amused as a curious traveler adamant upon exploring the myriad layers of a specific place.Manila, Habana and Nagaland are worlds apart not only in distance and cognition yet the authors in this present volume seem to be questioning the formations of place and their fluid transcedental nature in being one in many and many in one space/s. As a conclusion as well as contribution by our In-Space columnist, Rajib tries to explore the question of Permanent Address, distributed across absolute and psychological space and yet in search of a amalgamation of both.


This volume contains:

Manila: A Brief Sentimental History by Charlie Samuya Veric 
The post tries to mediate memories, spaces and feelings between two worlds, two spaces by a person trying to question and rediscover the ways of belonging in what was/is old and new. In performing belongingness, feelings of one place are frequently being juxtaposed upon the facade and experience of the (re)newed old.

La Habana by Tapo Banerjee
Habana has a very stereotypical representation in media especially in photographs. The present photo essay is an attempt to portray the myriad facades of Habana, the diversity in composition in terms of people, places and their objects of being.

Looking Nagaland from Ting Ya & Monai Ting Naga Villages by Juri Baruah

Most often, the interest lies not in boundaries or relations across it but in the spaces which are created by practices, beliefs and institutions.  The imagination of Nagaland as a different state and the political conflict in the border areas always remains debatable. While questioning the ways in which the insider outsider perspective relatively draws the b/order, it is necessitated to examine the reactions and the discourse of state and its fragmented spaces observed through heterogeneous spaces of the two Naga villages namely; Ting Ya and Moina Ting located in Sivasagar district.


Silver Side of the Mirror by Rajib Nandi: In Space Column

The latest contribution titled Permanent Address discusses and questions about the notions of home, place making and what and how a permanent address, a rootedness in space can be defined along with questioning its connection with one's identity; both formal and informal.







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