Censorship, or the Wisdom of the Simian Trinity

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Published: Nov 22, 2018
DOI: https://doi.org/10.20896/saci.v6i3.401
Keywords:
Civilisation, memory, freedom, censor, repress, intolerance, arête, humanism, transgression, mystic

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Rupendra Guha-Majumdar
Associate Professor (Retired), Department of English, University of Delhi

Abstract

Since early civilisation, mankind has revealed the dual tendency, after acquiring the myriad skills of articulation, to control, repress, edit in subjective and objective terms, that which is naturally expressed by the human mind and body in the varied contexts of myth, history  and contemporary, socio-political consciousness. This urge has been simultaneously complemented by that of recording, composing and theorising the paradoxes of censorship through art, literature, philosophy and other pulses of meditation in cultures stretching across the world from the Orient to the Occident, with the implicit hope of counterpointing the gravitational pulls of mutability in mankind’s natural striving to ascend to the infinite beyond.

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Guha-Majumdar, R. (2018). Censorship, or the Wisdom of the Simian Trinity. Space and Culture, India, 6(3), 41-45. https://doi.org/10.20896/saci.v6i3.401
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Vol 6 No 3 (2018): Space and Culture, India
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