Thinking Aloud

Thinking AloudCompelling essays that underscore the importance of inclusive storytelling in understanding our world. In Thinking Aloud, Jerry Pinto writes on Bollywood, biography, translation and teaching with candour and empathy. In Bollywood and the Idea of the Nation, Pinto examines the notion of Bollywood as a national cinema in a linguistically diverse India. He traces its evolution from early films like Kismet and Mother Indiawhich contributed to national

its resolute rejection of sacrificial ritual and embrace of vegetarianism

Tóth observes these characters with acute sensitivity and attentiveness to detail

decisiveness and withdrawal

Theresa Smalec reconstructs Vawter’s years in amateur theater

comparable temporal strategies are also present at the group level

He interrogates the structures that transmit cultural knowledge across generations while exploring whether tradition can serve as a viable framework for human endeavor in modern society

They are the handholds where something masses together in the infinite expanse

Polish director Jerzy Grotowski (1933–1999) was an international leader in experimental theatre who became famous in the late 1960s for his revolutionary approach to audience involvement

Sawad Hussain’s translation of the novel is excellent

Augé explores the need for place

the tone is always strangely and cruelly calm

Rather than feeling out of date