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S. Shankar

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S. Shankar

S. Shankar is Professor and Director of Creative Writing in the Department of English, University of Hawai'i at Mānoa. He is a novelist, cultural critic and translator; and his current booklength project is a novel tentatively titled Ghost in the Tamarind. He blogs at sshankar.net.

Articles by S. Shankar

Poetry and the Curse: On Censorship in India
By S. Shankar
If the free exchange of ideas is the oxygen of democracy, India’s vaunted open society is in grave danger of asphyxiation. On the morning of August 30, 2015, renowned Kannada rationalist scholar…