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BOOK REVIEW OF FAMILY LIFE WRITTEN BY AKHIL SHARMA
Get PDFFamily Life is the 2ndsemi-autobiographical novel by Akhil Sharma, an award-winning Indian-American author. This novel was published in 2014 and had gone into New York Times best books list. Family Life tells about an Indian family that came to America in the late 1970s as part of the first large wave of Indian immigration to the U.S. and, two years later, suffered a terrible tragedy. The family has two children; two boys, ten and fourteen. The older boy dives into a pool and strikes his head on the bottom of the floor. After the accident, he has sufferred severe brain damage: he can no longer walk or talk; he can't move in his sleep; he has to be fed through a tube. After the brain-damagedboy spends a year in a hospital and a year in nursing home, the family decides to take him home and take care of him themselves. This causes the family to breakdown
Akhil Sharma contra la mística : el cuerpo sin conciencia
No full textEl trabajo se basa en la reciente novela de Akhil Sharma, Vida de familia (2015) y en la observación del cuerpo inerte de Birju, hermano mayor del narrador, postrado en cama y (acaso) sin vida, a causa de un accidente en la piscina. La novela (y el discurso de nuestro trabajo) se centra en el análisis de las diversas ilusiones que sanadores, médicos, religiosos y otros variopintos personajes van insuflando a la abnegada madre, y al alcohólico padre, con sus terapias. Ninguna de ellas funcionará, por lo que la elección de la familia será el traslado del cuerpo de Birju a alguna costosa residencia norteamericana. La crítica implícita ya la había expresado Akhil Sharma de una manera mucho más descarnada en una novela anterior: An Obedient Father (2000). En ella, se muestra el modo en que la corrupción se imbrica en todos los aspectos de la vida en la India, anulando cualquier posibilidad de religión verdadera, hasta volver una farsa cualquier modo de misticismo. Así, pretendemos relacionar esta vida de familia con las diversas teorías de las Escrituras hindúes (Vedas, Brahmanas, Upanisads), y sobre la ética de la compasión y el nihilismo (J.C. Mèlich, R. Ávila). Nos gustaría demostrar de qué modo la mística occidentalizada no arroja ninguna luz sobre un cuerpo, humano, o social, sino que es la ilusión egoísta la que lo hace.This article deals with Akhil Sharma's latest work, Family Life (2014), where Birju's dead body, after a pool accident, shows the possibility of living after mental death. This work analyses the different therapies doctors, gurus, and spiritual leaders try upon his body, while his sorrowful mother and his alcoholic father are least able to bear them: the family cannot afford the cost of American clinics and specialists either. This criticism was also shown in Akhil Sharma's previous novel, An Obedient Father (2000), where moral and political corruption invades all strata of life in India. In the end, the farce of mysticism becomes evident. I relate this family life with some classical theories from Hindu tradition (Veda, Brahmana, Upanisads), and with other Western traditions (compassion and nihilism, in J.C. Mèlich, and R. Ávila's works). I conclude by asserting that, according to these novels, it is egotistical illusion, instead of mysticism, which sheds a light upon political or social bodies
Akhil Sharma contra la mística : el cuerpo sin conciencia
Get PDFEl trabajo se basa en la reciente novela de Akhil Sharma, Vida de familia (2015) y en la observación del cuerpo inerte de Birju, hermano mayor del narrador, postrado en cama y (acaso) sin vida, a causa de un accidente en la piscina. La novela (y el discurso de nuestro trabajo) se centra en el análisis de las diversas ilusiones que sanadores, médicos, religiosos y otros variopintos personajes van insuflando a la abnegada madre, y al alcohólico padre, con sus terapias. Ninguna de ellas funcionará, por lo que la elección de la familia será el traslado del cuerpo de Birju a alguna costosa residencia norteamericana. La crítica implícita ya la había expresado Akhil Sharma de una manera mucho más descarnada en una novela anterior: An Obedient Father (2000). En ella, se muestra el modo en que la corrupción se imbrica en todos los aspectos de la vida en la India, anulando cualquier posibilidad de religión verdadera, hasta volver una farsa cualquier modo de misticismo. Así, pretendemos relacionar esta vida de familia con las diversas teorías de las Escrituras hindúes (Vedas, Brahmanas, Upanisads), y sobre la ética de la compasión y el nihilismo (J.C. Mèlich, R. Ávila). Nos gustaría demostrar de qué modo la mística occidentalizada no arroja ninguna luz sobre un cuerpo, humano, o social, sino que es la ilusión egoísta la que lo hace.This article deals with Akhil Sharma's latest work, Family Life (2014), where Birju's dead body, after a pool accident, shows the possibility of living after mental death. This work analyses the different therapies doctors, gurus, and spiritual leaders try upon his body, while his sorrowful mother and his alcoholic father are least able to bear them: the family cannot afford the cost of American clinics and specialists either. This criticism was also shown in Akhil Sharma's previous novel, An Obedient Father (2000), where moral and political corruption invades all strata of life in India. In the end, the farce of mysticism becomes evident. I relate this family life with some classical theories from Hindu tradition (Veda, Brahmana, Upanisads), and with other Western traditions (compassion and nihilism, in J.C. Mèlich, and R. Ávila's works). I conclude by asserting that, according to these novels, it is egotistical illusion, instead of mysticism, which sheds a light upon political or social bodies
sj-docx-1-fas-10.1177_19386400231183602 – Supplemental material for Patient Perceptions of Surgeon Reimbursement in Total Ankle Arthroplasty
No full textSupplemental material, sj-docx-1-fas-10.1177_19386400231183602 for Patient Perceptions of Surgeon Reimbursement in Total Ankle Arthroplasty by Austin B. Mike-Mayer, Vishaal Sakthivelnathan, Akhil Sharma, Vinod K. Panchbhavi and Jie Chen in Foot & Ankle Specialist</p
I Was Addicted to Sex With Married Women
No full textAs a young man, Akhil Sharma revelled in the most dangerous of liaisons, having sex with other men's wives – until the thrill began to pall
Recollections of a Hindu Hedonist
No full textNovelist Akhil Sharma grew up in a teetotaling Indian household. Here, he tells how discovering a passion for great wine helped him create a new identity out of a painful past
Maldives Resorts: Eco-Friendly Vacations
No full textLuxurious, exclusive and remote, the Maldives are the ultimate beach escape. They’re also a case study in the risks of global warming. Writer Akhil Sharma visits the country’s most eco-friendly resorts and discovers a remarkable cuisine worth protecting
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
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