TY - BOOK AU - Nandy, Ashis TI - A very popular exile SN - 0195693221 U1 - 321.03 PY - 2008/// CY - New Delhi PB - Oxford University Press KW - Popular culture KW - Civilization KW - Ethnology KW - Motion pictures--Social aspects N1 - Introduction. I. The Tao of Cricket: On Games of Destiny and the Destiny of Games: Preface. 1. Tradition, transgression and norms -- 2. The wistful camel and the eye of the needle -- 3. Victory, defeat and the future of the savage --- II. An Ambiguous Journey to the City: The Village and Other Odd Ruins of the Self in the Indian Imagination: Preface. 1. The journey to the past as a journey into the self: The remembered village and the poisoned city -- 2. The city as the invitation to an antique death: Pramathesh Chandra Barua and the origins of the terribly effeminate, Maudlin, Self-destructive heroes of Indian Cinema -- 3. The journey to the village as a journey to the centre of the self: Mrinal Sen's Search for a Radical Cinema -- 4. The Invisible holocaust and the journey as an Exodus: The poisoned village and the stranger city --- III. Traditions, Tyranny and Utopias: Essays in the Politics of Awareness: Foreword by Roger Garaudy. Preface. 1. Evaluating Utopias: Considerations for a dialogue of cultures and faiths -- 2. Towards a Third World Utopia -- 3. Reconstructing childhood: A critique of the ideology of adulthood -- 4. The tradition of technology -- 5. Science, authoritarianism and culture: On the scope and limits of isolation outside the clinic -- 6. From outside the imperium: Gandhi's cultural critique of the West ER -