{"id":173,"date":"2018-07-01T08:06:56","date_gmt":"2018-07-01T08:06:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/edict.ashoka.edu.in\/index.php\/2018\/07\/01\/your-complete-summer-list-part-2\/"},"modified":"2019-03-17T14:04:19","modified_gmt":"2019-03-17T14:04:19","slug":"your-complete-summer-list-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/edictarchive.the-edict.in\/index.php\/2018\/07\/01\/your-complete-summer-list-part-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Your Complete Summer List | Part 2"},"content":{"rendered":"

Recommendations from Prof. Clancy Martin, Prof. Madhavi Menon and Prof. Arghya Bhattacharya<\/h4>\n

We hope you have had a chance to devour the content recommendations from our first article<\/a> in this series, which has contributions from Prof. Rudrangshu Mukherjee, Prof. Bikram Phukoon and Prof. Gilles Vernier.<\/p>\n

For part two, we bring recommendations from our professors in the Literature, Philosophy and Economics departments.<\/p>\n

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From Left to Right\u00a0: Professor Clancy Martin, Professor Madhavi Menon and Professor Arghya Bhattacharya<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Professor Clancy Martin is a visiting professor of Philosophy at Ashoka University. Last semester, he taught two courses at Ashoka, \u2018Existentialism\u2019 and \u201819th Century Philosophy\u2019, both topics he specializes in.<\/p>\n

Professor Madhavi Menon teaches English Literature at Ashoka, and recently took a course titled \u2018Advanced Theory\u200a\u2014\u200aThe Law of Desire\u2019. Professor Menon has also recently published a book, Infinite Variety\u00a0: A History of Desire in India<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Professor Arghya Bhattacharya is a member of the Economics department. His academic interests include macroeconomics (markets with frictions), monetary economics, and international finance. To know more about Professor Bhattacharya, read his interview<\/a> on The Edict.<\/p>\n

Movies<\/h3>\n

From Professor Clancy Martin\u00a0–<\/h4>\n
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  1. Badlands. (American existentialist classic)<\/li>\n
  2. Full Metal Jacket (Kubrick\u2019s best movie)<\/li>\n
  3. Vara (great study of women, love and dance by the Buddhist lama and filmmaker Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    From Professor Madhavi Menon\u00a0–<\/h4>\n
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    1. Pedro Almodovar, Bad Education (More on the pleasures and dangers of education)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      2. Asghar Farhidi, A Separation (Impeccable and Insightful Iranian drama)<\/p>\n

      3. Sanjay Leela Bhansali, Goliyon ki Rasleela Ram-lila (Dangerous Desires)<\/p>\n

      4. Michel Haneke, Cache (What you can\u2019t see can kill you)<\/p>\n

      From Professor Arghya Bhattacharya –<\/h4>\n
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      1. Lawrence of Arabia<\/li>\n
      2. Moonrise Kingdom (Wes Anderson movie)<\/li>\n
      3. Grand Budapest Hotel (well, another Wes Anderson movie)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

        Books<\/h3>\n

        From Professor Madhavi Menon\u00a0–<\/h4>\n
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        1. Salman Rushdie, Midnight\u2019s Children
          A breathtakingly inventive use of language. Magic!<\/li>\n
        2. Marcel Proust, Swann\u2019s Way
          Richer than rasgullas; more delicious than a Dharwar peda<\/li>\n
        3. Tana French, The Likeness
          Haunting treatment of students and the simultaneous dangers and pleasures of education<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

          From Professor Arghya Bhattacharya<\/h4>\n
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          1. Haruki Murakami, Hear the Wind Sing<\/em> & Pinball<\/em>
            Murakami\u2019s first two novels\u200a\u2014\u200abeautifully written (like his later novels). Wind is his first novel and Pinball is more of a sequel to Wind. He calls them \u201ckitchen table fiction\u201d since he wrote them at the kitchen table in his tiny apartment back in 1979.<\/li>\n
          2. Atif Mian and Amir Sufi, House of Debt
            <\/em>An important book on the 2008 financial crisis and the Great Recession. The Financial Times aptly calls it \u201ca summary of a highly serious programme of economic research\u201d.<\/li>\n
          3. Aziz Ansari & Eric Klinenberg, Modern Romance<\/em>
            A hilarious and entertaining narration of a serious multi-country study of dating habits & dating dynamics by American comedian Aziz Ansari and NYU sociology professor Eric Klinenberg. Interestingly these days a section of macroeconomists is showing increased interest in the matching mechanism of, and optimal strategies in the dating \u201cmarket\u201d.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

            From Professor Clancy Martin\u00a0–<\/h4>\n
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            1. Celine, Journey to the End of Night<\/em> (Must read, inspiration to Jim Morrison)<\/li>\n
            2. Basho, Narrow Road to the Deep North<\/em> (One of the best books ever written, a travelogue with occasional haiku from a poet who was also enlightened)<\/li>\n
            3. Lydia Davis, The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis<\/em> (the greatest living master and innovator of short fiction)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

              TV Shows<\/h3>\n

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              1. Dark (German TV series)<\/li>\n
              2. Broadchurch<\/li>\n
              3. Halt and Catch Fire<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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                1. Barry (very funny, creative new show by a great comedian)<\/li>\n
                2. Ru Paul\u2019s Drag Race (my wife\u2019s favorite show, I haven\u2019t seen much but my wife and daughters love it)<\/li>\n
                3. Luther (violent but entertaining\u200a\u2014\u200aI watched the whole thing while down with food poisoning from a bad oyster in a loft in the 8th arrondissement in Paris)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

                  From Professor Madhavi\u00a0Menon<\/h4>\n
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                  1. The Sopranos
                    Hell hath no fury like The Family<\/li>\n
                  2. Prime Suspect
                    Taut, brilliant, charismatic Helen Mirren<\/li>\n
                  3. Dae Jang Geum
                    Korean soap about the first woman physician in 16th century Korea. It\u2019s also a show about food. Lots and lots of it!<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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