The place of arts in education

When I recently visited a school in my village, Tirthahalli, I was requested to teach a class. The children were very diffident and needed to be prompted and encouraged to tell a story. One particular boy stood out. He told a story, of course, but I remember him because he used several languages and dialects to tell it. He was a Sindhi child whose family had settled down in Karnataka, so he freely and un-selfconsciously used all the languages he was familiar with. To me, he was the most intelligent child in the school

Fabrication of a planar micro Penning trap and numerical investigations of versatile ion positioning protocols

We describe a versatile planar Penning trap structure, which allows to dynamically modify the trapping conguration almost arbitrarily. The trap consists of 37 hexagonal electrodes, each with a circumcirle-diameter of 300 m, fabricated in a gold-on-sapphire lithographic technique. Every hexagon can be addressed individually, thus shaping the electric potential. The fabrication of such a device with clean room methods is demonstrated. We illustrate the variability of the device by a detailed numerical simulation of a lateral and a vertical transport and we simulate trapping in racetrack and articial crystal congurations. The trap may be used for ions or electrons, as a versatile container for quantum optics and quantum information experiments.Comment: 10 pages, 7 figures, pdflatex, to be published in New Journal of Physics (NJP) various changes according to the wishes of the NJP referees. Text added and moved around, title changed, abstract changed, references added rev3: one reference had a typo (ref 15), fixed (phys rev a 72, not 71

Écrire en Inde aujourd’hui

Au temps de mon enfance, il y avait encore des tigres. Mon premier souvenir remonte aux vaches dans l’étable – chacune d’entre elles portait un nom – qui tremblaient dans un profond silence, que seul le balancement involontaire des cloches en bambou autour de leurs cous venait rompre parfois. Elles entendaient le rugissement avant nous, dans le silence d’une nuit constellée d’étoiles. Ma mère s’aventurait alors dans le noir vérifier si la porte de l’étable était solidement close, puis elle fe..

The place of arts in education

When I recently visited a school in my village, Tirthahalli, I was requested to teach a class. The children were very diffident and needed to be prompted and encouraged to tell a story. One particular boy stood out. He told a story, of course, but I remember him because he used several languages and dialects to tell it. He was a Sindhi child whose family had settled down in Karnataka, so he freely and un-selfconsciously used all the languages he was familiar with. To me, he was the most intelligent child in the school

A life in the world : U. R. Ananthamurthy in conversation with Chandan Gowda

A fascinating portrait of the life and ideas of the great Indian writer and public intellectual, U.R. Ananthamurthy. Between 2012 and 2013, Ananthamurthy shared his personal experiences in a series of lively conversations with academic and writer Chandan Gowda, and reflected on issues that would preoccupy him until the end. Besides the vivid accounts of his childhood, friendships, the evolution of his intellectual life, and public involvements, his passionate ideas on tradition, on India’s political culture, and on language and writing make the conversations an engaging and valuable document. A Life in the World – perhaps the first exercise of its kind done with an Indian writer – will enthral both general readers as well as admirers of Ananthamurthy’s works

La modernité littéraire indienne

L’émergence d’une « modernité » indienne est indissociable à la fois de la rupture coloniale et d’une continuité culturelle avec les traditions préexistantes. Les textes rassemblés ici proposent de réexaminer le sens et la portée de la question postcoloniale, entendue comme exploration critique de l’altérité et de la diversité, à la lumière de cette modernité. Dans ce but, cet ouvrage obéit à une triple visée : faire une large place aux littératures indiennes en langues vernaculaires, des littératures trop souvent méconnues par les études postcoloniales qui tendent à privilégier les textes en anglais ; offrir au lecteur des traductions de plusieurs textes littéraires reflétant la complexité des héritages et des métissages qu’inventent ces littératures ; et enfin proposer des articles critiques écrits par des universitaires français ainsi que par des auteurs et intellectuels indiens revenant sur leur pratique d’écriture et sur les tensions traversant les cultures composites qui ont nourri et façonné cette pratique. Il s’agit ainsi d’explorer dans leur spécificité poétique et sans jamais les réduire à une lecture documentaire ou exotique, les littératures indiennes modernes dans leur ensemble et dans leur diversité en étudiant le dialogue complexe et mouvant qui se développe entre ces littératures, généralement dissociées par la critique, et le processus historique au sein duquel elles émergent