Dr. Rabi Narayana Samantaray Dept. of English, Aeronautics College, (Berhampur University), Odisha Email: [email protected] Abstract William Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice as a sixteenth century English drama incorporates many elements of cosmopolitanism and has a universal appeal. The title of the play is suggestive of the broader themes that Shakespeare wishes to encompass within the […]
Author: Drishti: the Sight
From Oppression to Empowerment: Dual Representation of Female Identity in Bapsi Sidhwa’s Cracking India
Dipak Kumar Doley Assistant Professor, Department of English, Dibrugarh University (Assam) Email: [email protected] Abstract The 1947 Partition of British India into two independent nations (India and Pakistan) was accompanied by communal violence unspeakable in its brutality and ferocity. In the months immediately preceding and following the creation of “free” nation-states, untold numbers of murders, kidnappings, […]
The Tempest : A Study through (Post)colonial Discourse
Sanjeet Kumar Das Asstt. Professor, Dept. of English Language and Literature, Central University of Orissa Email: [email protected] Abstract This paper is an attempt to shed light on the triggering force of English Renaissance spirit that through the character of Prospero is best exemplified by the scientific temperament of venturing into the New Land. That to […]
Editorial: Films on immigrants’ issues: hitting the road to big time
Although the globalization has in its wake brought fresh economic, political and social challenges to the humanity, ironically, there is a diminishing sense of the borderlines between man and man. The present time is time of migration and mobility and this impacts a paradigm shift in the survival-ways of the people at large. The shifts […]