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Dear home: Letters from an NRB-Roots of Nostalgia in Bihar: what makes patriarchy a successful institution?
Dev N Pathak
Dear home: Letters from an NRB
Roots of Nostalgia in Bihar: what makes patriarchy a successful institution?
By Dev N Pathak
I wish Sigmund Freud had an Indian mother. Just imagine him as an infant, frolicking around his motherly woman, who often happened to be a muse for Raja Ravi Verma’s portrayal. Nagging her and being slammed here and there, he would have grown into a different kind of psychoanalyst. His theory/thesis would have been qualitatively different. The bliss of hiding behind that woman’s body, clutching on the end of the border of her cotton Saari, peeping out to...