![]() ![]() Artists and intellectuals can depict and dissect such matters, but rarely can resolve them. ![]() Yet, people live-they are born, educated, work, marry, bring forth children-and worry and laugh and fight and dance and starve and play. Asia, like Africa, can seem to be in at least two historical eras at once, the modern and the ancient: the technologies are new but many of the rituals and rages are old. ![]() Is it possible to rise above the supposed fundamentals of property, profit, and politics to embrace complexity? India possesses one of the world’s oldest and most complex cultures, and it, a nation with twenty-three official languages and one of the world’s largest economies, has been a land of conflicts and controversies and the partition of Pakistan from India in the mid-twentieth century has been haunting-what was supposed to solve the problem of religious contentions between Hindus and Muslims merely made it more concrete. ![]() The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mira Nair (2012) In Search of Complexity: America, India, and Pakistan in Mira Nair’s The Namesake and The Reluctant Fundamentalistīy Daniel Garrett Volume 27, Issue 1-2 / February 2023 25 minutes (6168 words) ![]()
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