Drishti: the Sight

ISSN 2319-8281
Approved by UGC and enlisted in the UGC-CARE List in Arts and Humanities section.
About the Journal

National refereed Bi-annnual Research Journal in the disciplines of Arts and Humanities (English Literature, Assamese Literature, Folklore, Culture)

Chief Editor

Dr. Dipak Jyoti Baruah Professor, Department of English, Mahapurusha Srimanta Sankaradeva Viswavidyalaya (Assam)

Associate Editors

  • Dr. Manash Pratim Borah (Dept. of English, Birangana Sati Sadhani Rajyik Vishwavidyalaya & former Faculty of Central Institute of Himalayan Culture Studies)
  • Dr. Nizara Hazarika (Dept. of English, Sonapur College, Gauhati University)
  • Dr. Breez Mohan Hazarika (Principal, CKB Commerce College & former Faculty of DCB Girls' College)

Publisher

  • Rupjyoti Goswami

Announcement

Focus Area for May 2025 Issue
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Drishti-Vol-XIII-Issue-I

Volume XIII, Issue I May 2024 - Oct 2024

ISSN 2319-8281

Members of Advisory Body

  • Dr. Gayatree Bhattacharyya, Former Professor, Dept. of English, University of Gauhati
  • Dr. Dayananda Pathak, Former Principal, Pragjyotish College, Guwahati
  • Dr. Dwijen Sharma, Professor, Dept. of English, North Eastern Hill University (Tura Campus)
  • Dr. Bibhash Choudhury, Professor, Dept. of English, University of Gauhati
  • Dr. Kalikinkar Pattanayak, Former Associate Professor in English, Khallikote University, Odisha
  • Dr. Anway Mukhopadhyaya, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT-Kharagpur
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Issue II

by Drishti: the SightMarch 2, 2021 0

Dr. Bashabi Fraser’s The Ramayana: A Stage Play and A Screen Play

Debapriti Sengupta Student of Bachelors in English, Sanskrit College and University, Kolkata ([email protected])   To condense an epic of 24000 verses into a limited sphere without causing any harm to the age old sentiments that is associated with it is not a very easy task. However, Professor Emerita Dr. Bashabi Fraser in her book The […]

by Drishti: the SightMarch 2, 2021 0

Partition Trauma, Nostalgia and Rootlessness: A Reading of Manju Kapur’s Difficult Daughters

Dr. Dipak Kumar Doley Assistant Professor, Department of English, Dibrugarh University ([email protected]) Abstract The violence of the Partition of India in 1947 is comprised not only of physical wounding but of psychological wounding as well. The different tales of memory, nostalgia and trauma remain embroiled not so much in the national discourse as in the […]

Love, Compassion and Relationship: Balancing the Act in Andrew Stanton’s Finding Nemo

Dr. Alka Singh Assistant Professor of English, Dr Ram Manohar Lohiya National Law University ([email protected]) Abstract The concerns for the environment, fish biology and oceanography have gained growing importance in children’s literature. A considerable number of literary and visual texts have been found exemplary and exciting in disseminating knowledge, so far as children’s psyche is […]
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From Marginality to Congruity: Revisiting Marginality through a Canonicity of Jain and Sikh Literature

Dr. Varun Gulati Ministry of Social Justice & Empowerment ([email protected]) Abstract This paper examines the influence of Jain and Sikh literature, attempted to provide a critical discourse on marginality as a response to the widespread cultural and political violence, radical upheavals and individual differences. Marginality is universal phenomenon, mentioned in different cultural and genres with […]
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The Use of Food Imagery and Representation of Culture in Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Part and A Man of the People

Dr. Lakshminath Kagyung Assistant Professor, Department of English,Dibrugarh University ([email protected]) Abstract This paper is an attempt— to critically analyse the food and food habits of the Igbo society, to understand how the dominant discourses of the society shape the symbolic significance of or meanings associated with food, and in the process to examine the use […]
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Nation and Nationalism: Feminization of the Nation and its Evolutionary Transcendence in Sri Aurobindo’s Savitri

Arijit Goswami Assistant Professor, Department of English, Gorubathan Government College ([email protected]) Abstract National movements aim to achieve a geographically and politically identifiable construct primarily based on the otherness of the colonized selves involved in comparison to the colonizers. The masculine nature of any freedom struggle is imperative given the patriarchal nature of society at large. […]
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