Ashoka University is a private university located in Sonipat, Haryana, India, focusing on liberal arts and sciences. It was established in 2014.&nbsp;It is guided by an academic council of academics and scholars from around the world. The council sets the university&#39;s academic standard, advising on matters of curriculum, faculty hiring and research.&nbsp;

Ashoka University offers a full-time 3 (+ 1) year undergraduate programme. The University comprises of&nbsp;2500 plus students, with a mix of both national and international students.&nbsp; &nbsp;

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This article builds on Terence Hawkes' 'jazz' reading of Hamlet to suggest ways in which music can shed light on radical aspects of Shakespeare's theatrical and linguistic craft. Turning specifically to Hindi cinema and the convention of the 'item number', the article considers the latter's translingualism and how it can help us understand the relations between Shakespeare's own polyglot language and the border-crossing nature of desire in Romeo and Juliet.

Department of English

Critical Survey

Telmah thel: The hustle-bustle of a hindi romeo and juliet

This essay attends to the flesh of Thomas Stephens, also known as Tomás Estêvão, also known as Pâtri Guru. Stephens, a dissident Catholic, fled his native England in 1575 and eventually joined the Jesuit mission in Portuguese Goa in India, where he spent the rest of his life. He became a student of Indian languages and wrote an epic 11,000-stanza poem, the Kristapurana, in Marathi. The poem is a story of transformed flesh – not just the flesh of the Jesus commemorated in his poem but also Stephens’ own, altered by his exposure to new cultures and a radically new climate. It is, additionally, a story of the transformative power of non-human flesh: the flesh of the coconut.