Tradition and Terrain is an attempt to map out the emergence of an aesthetic awareness in terms of the land, region and creative consciousness. The essays trace the presence of adbhuta rasa as an the aesthetic of wonder, formulated a critique of ceremoney, and reach beyound the phenomenal into the innermost possibilities of ecological wisdom and alter/native discounrses, even while reconstructing a poetics of bhakti in the context of Indian tradition. Although written variously in diverse contexts and situations these essays evidence the mainfold concerns of the Indian creative/critical psyche.
