Kuhiro Class Reading Circle

This week’s reading is David N. Lorenzen’s The Kāpālikas and Kālāmukhas: Two Lost Śaivite Sects, which explores two Śaiva traditions from medieval India that are largely known today through fragmentary and indirect sources: The Kāpālikas and Kālāmukhas.

The work highlights how much of what we “know” about these groups comes from inscriptions, scattered references, and outsider narratives, and how historical reconstruction depends on reading these sources carefully and critically.

Kindly head over to the Kuhiro Class Reading Circle Google Classroom to access the text. Looking forward to hearing different perspectives on the text here in Chautara.

When the first atom bomb was dropped on 6 August 1945, it devastated a great city and knocked Japan out of the war.

John Hersey, the distinguished American writer, was sent nine months later to Hiroshima to find out in human and not scientific terms,what had happened. Little over a year after the event his account appeared in the New Yorker (occupying a complete issue) and as a Penguin.

Hersey's unforgettable narrative, which is built round the experiences of six survivors in a city where some 100,000 men, women and children were killed, is now a Penguin Modern Classic.

It supplies an epitaph to those who died in one of history’s most catastrophic events and a grave warning to the present and the future.

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“Power is shaped not only through force, but through narrative.”

This week’s reading explores the relationship between narrative, identity, and international politics, examining how states construct stories about themselves and others to shape legitimacy, diplomacy, and global perception. The article encourages readers to think beyond conventional ideas of power and consider how language and historical memory influence political realities.

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This week's reading is a collection of short-stories compiled by Kuhiro Class with author Janice Pariat for our "Short Stories in Ghandruk" excursion last January. The collection provides examples of stories that cover key themes including origin stories, Folk stories, Point of View, writing charaters and dialogue.

I particularly enjoyed how varied the selections were. Moving between oral storytelling traditions and more modern forms of fiction while still exploring similar human emotions, tensions, and relationships. It makes the collection feel both diverse and interconnected at the same time.

Kindly head over to the Kuhiro Class Reading Circle Google Classroom to access the text. Looking forward to hearing different perspectives on this week’s reading here in Chautara.