%0 Journal Article
%T Countless Ramayanas: Language and Cosmopolitan Belonging in a South Asian Epic
%A Rafadi Hakim
%J The ASIANetwork Exchange
%D 2014
%R http://doi.org/10.16995/ane.117
%X Department of Sociology and Anthropology Class of 2013 The Kiski Kahani project in Pune, India, is a not-for-profit program that compiles stories of the Ramayana, a South Asian epic, and publishes them in English. Kiski Kahani¡¯s ideology rejects the Hindu nationalist master narrative of the Ramayana, and privileges the fragmentary, improvised stories of the epics. As a socially grounded language practice, Kiski Kahani¡¯s retellings are grounded in pan-Indian, cosmopolitan modalities that index a sense of belonging to a pluri-cultural nation: the use of English rather than Hindi or Marathi, and a curation of stories from diverse Indian regions and languages that develops an emerging genre.
%U https://www.asianetworkexchange.org/articles/10.16995/ane.117/