Dr. R. Devanand Dept. Of English, GFGC Koratagere Abstract Mahesh Dattani is a unique contemporary “playwright of world stature” who needs no introduction. He is one of India’s finest dramatists, who engineers contemporary issues in his plays to the fullest extent. There is a quest for communal harmony in his plays. Communal hatred and religious […]
Volume IX
From Detention to Liberation : A Diasporic Experience in Manju Kapur’s The Immigrant
Dr. Nitasha Bajaj Assistant Professor, D.A.V. College for Girls, Yamunanagar Abstract This research paper is an attempt to study how in her The Immigrant, Manju Kapur aims to show the transformation of a character’s identity from her immigrant cum diasporic existence to a ‘new woman’. Change in cultural identity has its many facets and the […]
Metaphysics of Nature in Northeast Indian Writing in English
Dr. Nigamananda Das Professor, Department of English, Nagaland University Abstract In his The Red River and the Blue Hill (1954), Hem Barua for the first time canonically defined the Northeast India. Writing in English in the Northeast cropped up sporadically thereafter and was intensified after 2000 AD. The Northeast is geographically sandwiched between two major […]
The Tales of Therianthropes and Otherkins : A Study of the ‘others’ in Nature as Represented in Easterine Kire’s novel Don’t Run, My Love and When the River Sleeps
Nawab Tabassum Yasmin Research Scholar, Gauhati University (Assam) Abstract Folklores and nature are like two sides of the same coin. The stories that are narrated to children are enriched with lessons about nature and society. The witches and were-tigers form a large part of every folk tradition. These elements instill in us a sense of […]