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 […]
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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 […]
Engaging the Body: A Study of Desire and Identity in Babyji by Abha Dawesar
Sriya Das M.A. in English Literature (UGC-NET) Visva-Bharati Abstract The depiction of queer sexuality and the emergence of multiple identities, as reflected in contemporary queer writings, has unveiled a very complex socio-political fabric along with its ambivalent attitude towards same-sex fancy. In the pre-colonial Indian scenario sexualities, positioned outside the heteronormative structure, were proclaimed to […]
Masculinity and Performativity in Patrick White’s The Solid Mandala
Manohar M Guest Faculty, Department of English Karnataka State Akkamahadevi Women’s University Vijayapura ([email protected]) Abstract In every community, the role of both women and men is important for all round development of their families in all aspects. When a man and woman lead their life together as a couple with their children then it is […]