Amit Chaudhuri’s Poetic Dwelling in A Strange and Sublime Address and Afternoon Raag
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This article considers two early novels by Amit Chaudhuri, A Strange and Sublime Address (1991) and Afternoon Raag (1993). In the face of the twin phenomena of globalization and growing nationalistic sentiments, Chaudhuri focuses on the “local” in its full complexity as a site of both global and indigenous influences. Going beyond postcolonial dichotomies (global/local, national/foreign, East/West), he emphasizes the sensuous perception of everyday reality, of the “here” and “now” of his narrative world. In his writing, we see the influence of Shklovsky’s concept of defamiliarization as well as the Indian high modernist philosophy of Rabindranath Tagore. What is more, Chaudhuri’s fiction reflects cosmopolitan theory (Ulrich Beck, Jean-Luc Nancy) and embraces what Nancy calls mondialisation, or “the creation of the world”, a term which stays rooted in the specific, unassimilable singularities of the local in order to contribute to the preservation of the world in its diversity.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
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| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".