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Dr Sharon Rundle

INDO-PACIFIC LITERATURE

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AUSTRALIA AND SOUTH ASIA 2021 – 2022

More about these books on – Book Shelf – Dr Sharon Rundle

Journal Littéraire de l’Impish Lass – The Impish Lass

2024 E-book Edition

English edition by Dr. Bishakha Das

Literati Segment edited by Dr Sharon Rundle

Chat GPT, AI and Creative Writing

 Please click on the image or link above to read the E-book copy.

Meena Mishra, Sharon Rundle, Devika Brendon, Helen Whitehead, Dipima Buragohain, Neeti Parti, Bem Le Hunte, Surabhi Baruah Das.

Page 6 and pages 95 – 171,

Dr. Bishakha Das

 

 

                   Journal Littéraire de l’Impish Lass | Facebook

My thanks to The Impish Lass Publishing House for permission to share these links and images with you.


Hindi Cinema and Pakistan:

Screening the Idea and the Reality

Meenakshi Bharat, Routledge. 2024

Ever since the 1947 partition of the Indian subcontinent, Mumbai-based Hindi cinema has been returning compulsively to the idea of Pakistan, sometimes as the desirable other, sometimes as the horrifying antagonist. Hindi Cinema and Pakistan traces the genesis and development of this theme in Hindi cinema in the 1950s, showcasing its relevance as a tool that both reflects and shapes how India sees its neighbour, the India–Pakistan relationship, and itself.

The book is a serious, multi-platform, multi-pronged exploration of the appearances, invocations, representations and treatment of Pakistan and Pakistanis in Hindi cinema. It follows Hindi cinema’s efforts to come to terms with the ‘idea’ and ‘reality’ of Pakistan. Through in-depth analyses of the enmity and rivalry between the two subcontinental nations in Partition films, thrillers, epic war films and sports films, to screen depictions of the shared cultural past and similarities in films on cross-border love or in films that show a reaching out through humour, this book investigates the visualization of Pakistan and contextualizes these representations within the broader frameworks of India’s political, socio-cultural and popular discourse.

The extensive reach of the in-depth textual analyses of Hindi cinema will make this volume interesting and valuable both to the lay reader and to researchers and academics of cultural studies, media and film studies, and the study of socio-psychological violence in media and culture.

 

INDIA INDEPENDENCE DAY CELEBRATION 

15 AUGUST 2024 @  Cricket Ground Moore Park

SOUTH ASIAN FESTIVAL of  FILM, ART and LITERATURE SEPTEMBER 2024


Short Story Room Six by Sharon Rundle. Recorded at the BBC in London by actor Darlene Johnson for broadcast on radio stations around the Commonwealth


CONFLUENCE SOUTH ASIAN PERSPECTIVES (UK)

Confluence Issue November/December 2024

Sharon Rundle interviews Rekha Rajvanshi

 

  Dr Roanna Gonsalves interviews Perumal Murugan author at UNSW – Special report by Dr Sharon Rundle

              Dr Sharon Rundle in conversation with Professor Bem Le Hunte

Confluence South Asian Perspectives February/March 4

Indian Link Newsletter March, 2024  Roanna Gonsalves interviews   Perumal Murugan at UNSW

and in Indian Link March 2024 issue

Storytelling in India and Australia

at the Swami Vivekananda Cultural Centre, Sydney 

L to R: Director of Swami Vivekananda Cultural Centre – Indian Consulate in Sydney, Louise Fowler-Smth, Dr Roanna Gonsalves, Ronojoy Ghosh, Dr Sharon Rundle, Susan Gervay OAM.

Louise Fowler-Smth, Dr Roanna Gonsalves, Ronojoy Ghosh, Dr Sharon Rundle, Susan Gervay OAM.


CHENDA

at the Swami Vivikanada Cultural Centre, Indian Consulate in Sydney

A musical evening at the Swami Vivekananda Cultural Centre with Chenda from South India by musicians from Sydney, featuring Chenda, a documentary film, Chenda performances, and a discussion panel with

Dr G K Harinath OAM  Chairperson Emeritus, Multicultural NSW Advisory board;  Dr Sharon Rundle Writer, Editor, Academic;  Virat Nehru Film programmer, Writer, Founding member of Sydney Science Fiction film festival;  K P Jose, Artist and President, IndOz Rhythms. Moderator – Emie Roy.

Musicians on the day: IndOz Rhythms, percussionists performing in Sydney for a decade.

Special screening of Emie Roy’s documentary “Chenda”.

This film was commissioned by Blacktown Arts and proudly funded by Australia Council for the Arts, the NSW Government through Create NSW and Blacktown City Council.

Chenda is a majestic instrument widely used in Kerala. There is an ancient saying that all other 18 vadayas (instruments) come under Chenda. The loud and rigid sound of chenda makes it one of the rare instruments in this world. Chendamelam or the chenda percussion ensemble has an important place among the various percussion art forms of Kerala like Pandi, Panchari, Dhruvam, Adantha, Anjadantha, Chemba, Chembada and Tripuda. Of them, Pandi and Panchari are the most popular. Thayambaka is played on both Chenda and Mizhavu. Chenda is used in art forms like Kathakali, Keli and Melam and for temple rituals.

Chenda, Percussion Instrument (keralaculture.org)

Emie Roy and Sharon Rundle

 

 

 

 Uluru Statement

@‌KirstieMParker in conversation with Aunty Pat Anderson AO & Professor Megan Davis (@mdavisqlder )

 https://ulurustatement.org/education/our-voices-from-the-heart/

 


SAFAL FEST 2023

The South Asian Film Arts and Literature Festival in Sydney is a prestigious event that celebrates the rich cultural contributions of South Asian filmmakers, artists, and writers. It serves as a platform to showcase their work and recognize outstanding achievements in film, arts, and literature.
  

Relatively True, stories of Truth, Deception and Post Truth and

Glass Walls, stories of Tolerance and Intolerance

at the WORLD BOOK FAIR 2023 in New Delhi!

Watch | Facebook

https://fb.watch/iWp8k4QCpA/

   

Photos courtesy Orient BlackSwan

Our brilliant Relatively True authors

Eugen Bacon, Rashida Murphy, Devika Brendon

were “Telling the Truth” at the  Australian Short Story Festival 2022  

Relatively True, Stories of Truth, Deception and Post-Truth

is available at the New Edition Book Shop Fremantle, WA.


Masala Chai Meanderings

July 9 2022 @ 11am IST/3:30 pm AEST on ZOOM 

Thanks a million Professor Swati Pal for launching Relatively True at Masala Chai Meanderings with a memorable and astute speech. Our thanks to all the authors who contributed their stories to Relatively True and who read at the MCM launch; and to Devika Brendon for her poem especially written for the launch and read by Devika. Thanks, too, to our audience for their enthusiastic support and incisive comments. For those unable to log on for the MCM launch, here is the recording. Many thanks to co-editor and co-host Professor Meenakshi Bharat and to co-host of MCM Aparna Srinivas.


Articles, essays, stories, interviews and reviews

Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens – In Conversation with Shankari Chandran in Confluence South Asian Perspectives, August 2023

Understanding Copyright in Confluence South Asian Perspectives, May 2023.

Daisy and Woolf Review: Confluence South Asian Perspectives, February 2023.

The Colony of Shadows Review: Confluence South Asian Perspectives, February 2023

Transcending Boundaries: Publishing fiction by South Asian Australian authors in Australia, Confluence 20th Anniversary Issue, December 2022.

One Bright Moon Review: Confluence South Asian Perspectives, May 2020,

Chandani L okuge’s My Van Gogh Review: Confluence South Asian Perspectives, February 2020.

The Art of Sharing Stories And Bridging Cultures – FemAsia Magazine 15 January 2018

Transnation and Feminine Fluidity: New Horizon in the Fiction of Chandani Lokugé    Sharon Rundle, in Claiming Space for Australian Women’s Writing Chapter, Eds Sanjukta Dasgupta & Devaleena Das. Pages 323-336

“The politics and problematics of women’s writing universally has been the unfortunate paradox not about what to write or what has been written but whether to write at all. The creative journey of Australian women writers has not been any different. The introduction investigates the very significant trajectory of the origin, growth, publication and anthologizing of Australian women’s writing that includes white, aboriginal and immigrant women’s writing with focus on identity politics and cultural politics while foregrounding gender and sexuality politics and race relations. This essay therefore can offer itself as the required exploratory preface scanning the literary landscape by identifying the existence not only of Australian women’s writing but also enlists some extremely important comprehensive volumes of such writing as well as available literary criticism.” 

Us And Them -The Heady Elixir Of Power – FemAsia Magazine

Exegesis Transcending Boundaries: Fiction by South Asian–Australian authors, Sharon Rundle published University of Technology Sydney, Australia. May 2017  

Firebird Blog: Authors’ pick 23: Sharon Rundle. Today’s authors’ pick has been chosen by Sharon Rundle. Asylum,  Channa Wickremesekera, Published by Palaver. 

The Myth of Women Writers, Sharon Rundle, Samyukta Journal. January 31, 2005 .

The Oneness – An Australian Documentary Movie 2020 | Director – Dave Sidhu | Written By – Indranil Halder.

http://Orient Blackswan Private

ALIF Participants – Writing and Society Research Centre | Western Sydney University

Reviews

Only Connect  – Review by Kerryn Goldsworthy in the Sydney Morning Herald
EDITED BY SHARON RUNDLE AND MEENAKSHI BHARAT, BRASS MONKEY BOOKS

‘‘Only connect’’ is a phrase coined by E.M. Forster, whose A Passage to India remains the best novel about Anglo-Indian relations. So it’s a fitting title in a number of ways for an anthology of ‘‘short fiction about technology and us from Australia and the Indian Subcontinent’’. ‘‘Technology and us’’ is an intriguing shorthand way of describing the interventions of 21st-century technology into ordinary people’s lives. Focusing mainly on computers and cyberspace, the stories describe the central place that email, smartphones and social media hold in most people’s communicative lives. But other forms of technology also feature: dodgy hired vehicles, airport security screens, much-loved spice grinders. Highlights include the beautiful and moving story Digital Air-borne Chariots by Bem Le Hunte, Meenakshi Bharat’s very funny B Wid U Soon, and Sunil Badami’s touching, bittersweet semi-fantasy story, Leftovers.

https://www.mascarareview.com/sunil-badami-reviews-alien-shores/

Routledge Companion to Australian Literature, Edited Jessica Gildersleeve, “India”. Series of anthologies “edited by Meenakshi Bharat and Sharon Rundle, they choose a theme with relevance to both countries (as with Fear Factor Terror Incognito) and showcase writing from each place.” 

Readings: Conversations-with-small-publishers-brass-monkey-books

www.differenttruths.com/literature/criticism/agathokakological-aussie-summer-the-bengali-diaspora-in-australia-and-indian-cities/

 Lunching with Kiran Nagarkar Indian Novelist, playwright and screenwriter
By Susanne Gervay, on 8/7/2012
“Kiran Nagarkar was both loved and hated in homeland, India – one of the most significant writers of postcolonial India. One of India’s finest bilingual authors, writing in both English and Marathi, decries fundamentalism and calls religion a mental disturbance. His novels are epic – Cuckold, Ravan and Eddie, God’s Little Soldier, and just released The Extras:- the slums, the chawls, the abuses and the interwoven plots were all there in the guts and all of the city of Bombay. Kiran’s ‘In Search of Essar’ is one of the stories in Fear Factor: Terror Incognito edited by Meenakshi Bharat and Sharon Rundle (published Picador India and Australia) – an anthology where 10 Indian and 10 Australian authors wrote about the impact of terrorism from a personal perspective in narrative fiction. Included are stories by Salman Rushdie, David Malouf, Thomas Keneally and my own story Days of Thailand. [This collection is followed by a] new cross-cultural Indian-Australian anthology Alien Shores edited by Meenakshi Bharat and Sharon Rundle (published Brass Monkey) 

The warm and intimate lunch with Kiran Nagarkar at the University of Western Sydney with translators, writers – Dr Sharon Rundle, Professor Ivor Indyk, Dr Roanna Gonzales – was a very special experience in sharing Kiran’s courage of his convictions.”

A Language Without Words, Sibendu Chakraborty, in Understanding Women’s Experiences of Displacements: Chandani Lokuge interview with Sharon Rundle, 

Kiewa Creek, Sharon Rundle in Seeds and Skeletons, UTS 30th Anthology. 

New book of short stories boosts Bengal-Australia ties, December, 2020. 

Agathokakological Aussie Summer * An illustrated story mosaic

Of Asylum and Aliens, Michelle Cahill. Review of Alien Shores. 

Interview with Abdul Hekmat. Alumnus providing a voice for refugees. UTS News from our network: Winter 2013, 


Huge thank you to

Words on the Waves Writers’ Festival

and Woy Woy Library

For a successful launch of

Relatively True: stories of Truth, Deception and Post-truth

from the Indian Subcontinent and Australia

Publisher: Orient BlackSwan

Photos and videos of the Words on the Waves Writers’ Festival Book Launch of Relatively True

Please see Media Reports for photos and videos

https://wordsonthewaves.com.au


The Oneness

The Oneness – An Australian Documentary Movie 2020

Director – Dave Sidhu | Written By – Indranil Halder, Dave Sidhu

Host: Jane Alison Wilkins; DOP: Sumeet Pal Singh; Productions: 18 carat Pictures; Subtitling Production: Aks Mehraj; Label: Tracktouch Productions; Edit: Parwaaz Graphics; Poster: Navdeep Marketing Team: Supinder, Ashu, Nitin, Jacob.

We acknowledge the Traditional Owners and Custodians of this land. Dedicated to: People of Bengal & Australia

More Credits 1. Commissioned by: Halder Bari, Kolkata, Sydney and New Jersey 2. Concept / Story / Script: Indranil Halder 3. Assistant Director: Indranil Halder 4. Location Scout: Elaine Townsend 5. Makeup Artist Jane Alison Wilkins 6. Style: Swarnali Sikder & Charlotte Smith 7. Camera & Photography Director: Sumeet Pal Singh (Please use his logo) 8. Voice Over: Jane Wilkins 9. Recordist: Dave Sidhu, Media and Commerical Visual Productions 10. Studio: Radio2Triple0, Burwood, NSW 11. Script Editor: Sharon Rundle and Julia Booth 12. Kolkata, India Prop Co Ordinator: Tanmoy Halder 13. Heritage Revivalist Consultant: Ayan Chattopadhyay Acknowledgement: 1) Chidananda & late Kamala Halder 2) Catherine Hnidec, Sonia Ghandhi, John Zubrzycki, Jina Ray 3) Uttarpara Joykrishna Public Library, West Bengal Public Library Network 4) State Library of NSW 5) Naval Historical Society of Australia 6) Shipwreck Databases Western Australia Museum 7) Museum of Victoria 8) A Hundred Horizons: The Indian Ocean in the Age of Global Empire. By Sugata Bose 9) Imperial Connections: India in the Indian Ocean Arena, 1860-1920 By Thomas R Metcalf 10) Empire Recentered: India in the Indian Ocean Arena, By Thomas R Metcalf 11) The Empire of the Raj: Eastern Africa and the Middle East, 1858-1947, By R. Blyth 12) UTS University Library, Sydney 13) Imperial Opera: The nexus between opera and imperialism in Victorian Calcutta and Melbourne, 1833–1901 for Doctor of Philosophy of The University of Western Australia By by Esmeralda Monique Antonia Rocha BMus (Hons – First Class) 14) Sydney City Council 15) Balmain City Council 16) Road and Maritime , Transport for NSW 17) Biswa Bangla Store, Park Street 18) M J Bale Store, Queen Victoria Building, Sydney https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x84riaw

 

Panel – South Asian Festival of Arts and Literature


 

Rhythm 

Hosted by the Consul General of India in Sydney Mr Manish Gupta

 


Masala Chai Meanderings

Meenakshi Bharat and Aparna Srinivas bring you regular Zoom literary readings by authors.

For details, please email:  masalachaimeanderings@gmail.com 

Meenakshi Bharat interview inThe Hindu

Masala Chai Meanderings and Emerald Dove Learning are pleased to invite you to the launch of 

Gjv Prasad’s volume This World of Mine

Followed by poetry readings by Jagari Mukherjee, Irtika Kazi and Aparna Srinivas. On 27th November 2021 on zoom. 

 

Meenakshi Bharat and Aparna Srinivas bring you

Masala Chai Meanderings –

Regular Zoom discussion and readings by authors. 

           

Masala Chai Meanderings April 2021 video recording

Sharon has been supported through the Australia-India Council which is part of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade; Copyright Agency Limited Cultural Fund and the University of Technology Sydney.

 

#iabca2022

I acknowledge the Traditional Owners and Custodians of the Darkinjung lands, waters, and seas, on which I work and live, paying respects to Elders, past, present and emerging.

Next – Agathokakological Aussie Summer * An illustrated story mosaic

 

 

His Excellency The Australian High Commissioner to India, the Honourable Mr Barry O’Farrell AO

The aim of the project..
. – Agathokakological Aussie Summer (facebook.com)

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