Dr. Arun Singh Assistant Professor, Department of English, University of Rajasthan ([email protected]) Abstract The paper explores the newly emerging structures of the ‘Empire’: the insidious forms of neo-imperialism seeping into a ‘primitive’ society. Buchi Emecheta’s novel The Rape of Shavi deals with the accidental intrusion of a group of Western people into an indigenous African […]
Author: Drishti: the Sight
Women and the Domestic Space in Rashid Jahan’s Parde ke Peechey
Kanika Lakra Ph. D Research Scholar, University School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University ([email protected]) Abstract Rashid Jahan is remembered today for her radical writings on women’s issues and as an early champion of women’s rights. Her consciousness, as a writer and as a social reformer, is shaped by her life-long […]
Quo Vadis: A Study of K.V. Raghupathi’s The Images of a Growing Dying City
Dr. P.V. Laxmiprasad Assistant Professor, Department of English, University Arts College (Satavahana University) ([email protected]) K.V. Raghupathi’s third poetry collection: “The Images of a Growing Dying City” is taken up for critical assessment and evaluation in this paper. The volume is a collection in which K.V. Raghupathi has presented 81 sordid images of a city showing […]
Indigeneity in a Nationalist Context: Exploring Alternative Modernity in Upendrakishore Raychaudhuri’s Popular Science Writings
Sutista Ghosh Assistant Professor of English, WBES Kabi Jagadram Roy Government General Degree College, Mejia ([email protected]) Abstract This paper attempts to explore the traits of alternative modernity in Upendrakishore Raychaudhuri’s popular science writings by focusing on how he incorporates indigenous elements in the evidently derivative space of popular science writing for children in the juvenile […]