Teaching Cisneros in India: Post(?)colonial Parables

Nehruvian science and postcolonial India.

This essay uses the seminal figure of Jawaharlal Nehru to interrogate the nature and representation of science in modern India. The problem posed by Nehruvian science--the conflict between (yet simultaneity of) science as both universal phenomenon and local effect--lies at the heart of current debates about what science means for the non-West. The problematic of Nehruvian science can be accesse...

Constitutional Law and the Teaching of the Parables

Information technology offshoring in India: a postcolonial perspective

In recent years India has become the information technology (IT) offshoring destination of choice for many Western organizations. From the perspective of vendor organizations in India, however, the IT offshoring phenomenon is more than just a business relationship with Western firms. It is also embedded within the context of the longstanding imbalances of power in the relationship between the W...

Entering Heart of Darkness from a Postcolonial perspective - Teaching Notes

Eschatology and the Parables

In any attempt to understand the teaching of Jesus as recorded in the Synoptic Gospels, a consideration of the parables must take an important place. This is demonstrated not merely by the plethora of critical study and popular exposition to which the parables have given rise, but above all by the place which the parables occupy in the Synoptic tradition. According to A. M. Hunter roughly one t...