Gayathri Varma U Research Scholar,Department of English,St. Joseph’s College, (Autonomous)(Kerala) ([email protected]) Abstract The paper is an attempt to read the novel Oorukaaval(2008) by the Malayalam writer Sarah Joseph, translated as The Vigil (2014), a reworking of select episodes of the Ramayana through the perspective of Angadan, Bali’s son,in the light of present-day ecological, animal-centric awareness. […]
Author: Drishti: the Sight
Focus Area for November 2021 Issue
Gender And Its Representation In Literature And Popular Culture Gender has been an issue, inextricably related in various forms to literature and popular culture. Gender as a cultural concept cuts across the traditional notion of a ‘man’ or a ‘woman’. It has rather encompassed all kinds of human existence. In the post modern era, gender […]
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 […]
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 […]