Essays on Culture

This book contains eleven essays on varied subjects and dimensions and may create the illusion of heterogeneity. But on studying these essays one finds a thin thread connecting these essays with each other within the framework of culture. Most of the essays are on tribal practices, festivals, dance and rituals and a few are on the novel of Chiua Achebe and Gopinath Mohanty. But in all the eleven essays culture is the dominant theme, seen from a new perspective. These essays, mostly published, have been written at different points of time and at times it may create an impression of loss of continuity and discordance in presentation. But efforts have been put in place to present the essays before the readers primarily as cultural studies.