Recording the Refugee: Jatin Bala’s Legacy of Persistent Subcontinental Marginality

Mandakini Bhattacherya Associate Professor in English, Fakir Chand College ([email protected]) Abstract This paper seeks to situate the literary expressions of Bengali Dalit refugee writer Sri Jatin Bala amidst the paradigmatic terms ‘refugee’ and ‘exile’, and their political, humanitarian, cultural and literary ramifications. His autobiographical novel “Shikarh-chheñra Jibon”(My Uprooted Life) is one of the few Indian […]

Namita Gokhale’s Selected Novels Studied in Light of Dr Brian Leslie Weiss’ Parapsychological Studies

Dr Rati Oberoi Assistant Professor (S.G.), UPES ([email protected]) Vandana Sharma Assistant Professor, Baba Banda Singh Bahadur Engineering College Abstract The present paper is a qualitative study aimed at exploring unconventional healing through hypnosis. To achieve the aim, three novels of the Indian author Namita Gokhle namely Gods, Graves and Grandmother (2001), The Book of Shadows […]

Void, Alienation and Bereavement: Traces of Traumatic Experiences in Samuel Beckett’s Endgame

Dr. Sunita Rani Assistant Professor, Punjabi University College of Engineering and Management ([email protected]) Vandana Sharma Assistant Professor, Baba Banda Singh Bahadur Engineering College Abstract Human life is an incomprehensible phenomenon. Beneath the blissful appearance of harmonious human subsistence, there lurks the unremitting traumatic veracity of inescapable suffering, pain, violence, expulsion, terror, loss, misfortune, dishonour, oppression […]

Political Trauma among Common People Reflected in Selected Stories of Temsula Ao

Dr. Champak Kumar Bharali Assistant Professor, Dept. of Humanities, Jorhat Engineering College ([email protected]) Abstract This paper tries to explore the pattern of political trauma inflicted upon common people during Naga insurgency and the situation which brought fragility to socio-political life of the people. Nagas of Northeast were the first to oppose the concept “idea of […]