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 […]
Volume IX
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 […]
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 […]