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12 clues for recontextualization of various discourses. The concepts of carnival and polyphony of simultaneities may be cited as two most important theoretical sites for the readers and researchers of Indian sub-continent. Undoubtedly the central concept of dialogue is heavily loaded with political nuances as well. Interpretations hovering on the dynamics of power, ethical imperatives and the domain of cultural politics undoubtedly reveal to us an endless vistas of possibilities. Many a margins amalgamate and proliferate into several architectonics of utterances. Bakhtin teaches us to propel dialogism into a fully blossomed worldview which can be shared by all participant observers. We comprehend meaning of event and objects only by participating in them dialogically.

Our own history has placed us in plenitudes of differences. We have to confront paradoxes, contradictions, discordant varieties, disruptions in linearity in our civil society. We swear by pluralism but nevertheless its manifestations both in public and private spaces even now remain elusive and enigmatic. Bakhtin can be our true preceptor in preparing the existential manifesto as well as the practical manual for the civil society plagued with hitherto unresolved differences and contradictions. However, one has to be aware that the task of reading Bakhtin is not quite easy and simplistic. Even the celebrated experts of Bakhtinian thought have also misled the readers with their biased and opinionated stance. The pronounced enthusiasm of the western scholars to disclaim ideological positions have often dragged them into the aporias of reason. In the wake of postmodernism, anything ideological is either frowned upon or ridiculed. The reception of Bakhtin in the west has been conditioned by this overriding tendency. Some critical observations suggest opportunistic duplicity in Bakhtin which is farthest from truth: "He discriminated between his public activities and his private life of the mind treasuring the last most. In his public utterances he accommodated the regime and its rhetoric. He