K. V. Dominic's Multicultural Symphony (A Collection of Poems)

Contents

Multicultural Harmony

Siachen Tragedy

Horoscope

Global Warming’s Real Culprits

Cohabitance on the Planet

Multicultural Kerala

On Conservation

Charles Darwin, Patron Saint of Animals

Elephant Mania

India, Number One!

Child Labour

Caste Lunatics

Bulbul’s Nest

Beena’s Shattered Dreams

Mullaperiyar Dam

I Wish I could Fly Back

Pearl’s Harbour

Dignity of Labour

Drowned Dreams

Hungry Mouths

Ananthu and the Wretched Kite

A Spider in My Bathroom

Fruit of Labour

Sail of Life

Valueless Education

Musings on My Shoes

Multilingual Black Drongo

Mukesh’s Destiny

Lottery Ticket Sellers

Mahi’s Fourth Birthday

Who am I?

Bathroom Monologues

Martyrs at the Borders

Mother’s Love

Tears of a World Champion

Thodupuzha Municipal Park

Why is Fate So Cruel to the Poor?

Women’s Cricket World Cup 2013

ACTS--Saviors on the Roads

Beach Beauticians

A Tribute to Sakuntala Devi

Celebration of Girl-Child’s Birth

Where shall I Flee from This Fretful Land?

Homage to Swami Vivekananda

Agitation through Farming

An Ideal Festival

Protest against Sand Mafia

K. V. Dominic's New Edited Book--Multicultural Literature of India: A Critical Evaluation of Contemporary Regional Literatures

Contents

Contemporary Hindi Literature from Himachal--An Overview (A Secular and Universal Approach to Life)

--P C K Prem

Regionalism and Cultural Specificity: A Study of Mahasweta Devi’s Short Stories

--Trayee Sinha

Mahasweta Devi’s Mother of 1084: A Saga of the Naxalite Movement

 --Aju Mukhopadhyay

Tarashankar Bandyopadhyay: A Writer of the Masses

--Bhaskar Roy Barman

From ‘Nothing’ to ‘Something’: Bengali Dalit Literature Today

--Jaydeep Sarangi

Interview with Swati Guha

--Jaydeep Sarangi

Bibhutibhushan Bandopadhyaya: Life and Literature Weaved into One

--Aju Mukhopadhyay

Unveiling the Soulful Songs of A. Ayyappan

--Latha Nair R.

M. T. Vasudevan Nair’s Mist: A Narrative through the Long Winter Seasons of Loneliness

--Jubimol K. G.

Exorcizing the Voiceless to Voice: K. J. Baby’s Nadugadhika as an Apt Dramatization of the Marginalized Tribal Community

--Kavitha Gopalakrishnan

Sagas of Insensitivity: A Reading of Vaikom Muhammed Basheer’s “Birthday” and Munshi Premchand’s “The Shroud”

Vani. K

(St)Uttering Caste in Another Tongue: A Critique of volte-face in Sundaram’s Poetic and Political Ideologies

--Hemang Desai

‘Transnational Connections’: The Nature of Indian Nationhood in the Novels of Jayanti M. Dalal

--Jayashree Palit

The Making of a Terrorist: Regional Crisis and International Exigencies in Jayanti M. Dalal’s Bleeding Heights of Kargil

--Rajshree Parthivv Trivedi

Experience of Discrimination and Dalit Identity as Reflected in the Dalit Autobiography of Omprakash Valmiki’s Joothan

--Grishma Manikrao Khobragade

The Realm of Women’s World in the Stories of Sarojini Sahoo

--Prameela K. P.

Dalit Feminist Perspective of Bama's Karukku and Sangati

--J. Jaya Parveen & V. Rajesh

Democratic Multiculturalism in David Davidar’s The House of Blue Mangoes

--Y. Vidya

Deliberation and Discernment: A Study of Mridula Garg’s Anitya: Halfway to Nowhere

--V. V. B. Rama Rao

Beyond and Above Culture and Cultures

--V. V. B. Rama Rao

Feminism to Humanism:  Reflections of Contemporary Hindi Verse

--Prameela K. P.

Our Esteemed Contributors

K. V. Dominic's New Edited Book--World English Fiction: Bridging Oneness

Contents

A Quest for ‘the Otherness’ at the Crossroads of African Culture:  A Study of Achebe’ Things Fall Apart and Arrow of God

--Monir A Choudhury

The Helpless Male: Breaking with the Traditional Male/Female Roles in C. J. Cherryh’s Pride of Chanur and Foreigner 

--Krunslav Mikulan

Patriarchy and Racial Vulnerability: Love and Hate in Toni Morrison’s Love

--Mahboobeh Khaleghi

“Without Contraries Is No Progression”: Pictures from Italy (1846) by Charles Dickens

--Elisabetta Marino

Dialectical Exhumation of the Past in Keki Daruwalla’s For Pepper and Christ

--Asha Viswas

R. K. Narayan’s The Dark Room: A Twist to Conventional Notions of Feminism

--Ketaki Datta

The Place of Women in an Ecological Dystopia: A Revisit to Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale

--Jubimol K. G.

Contemporary Resonance in the Select Novels of Amitav Ghosh and Rohinton Mistry

--Chikkala Swathi

Between Two Worlds: Reading Diaspora in Kavita Daswani’s The Village Bride of Beverly Hills

--Charulatha Ravi

The Vision of Freedom in Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Namesake and Rabindranath Tagore’s Farewell My Friend

--Y. Vidya

Concerns within the Multicultural Mosaic: Henry Hwang’s F.O.B. as a Representative Chinese American Play

--Kavitha Gopalakrishnan

Love and Music: The Universal Emotion and Expression in Vikram Seth’s An Equal Music

--T. Ganga Parameswari

The Footsteps are Lost but Experiences Remain: A Critical Exposition of Silviu Craciunas’s The Lost Footsteps

--Aju Mukhopadhyay

Alienation and Mother Fixation in Stephen Gill’s Coexistence

 --Rupal Amyn Farista

Indian Omnipresence in Global Literature: Textualising the Diasporic Metaphors in K. S. Maniam’s The Return and Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Namesake

--Soumya Jose and Sony Jalarajan Raj

Silence and Words as Means of Resistance: A Reading of Resistance to Subalternity in Leopoldo Lugones’ “Yzur” Using Western and Indian Aesthetic Theories

--Vani. K

Discourse in Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni's Sister of My Heart

--V. Rajesh & J. Jaya Parveen

Journey from Self-alienation to Self-identification as Reflected in Shashi Deshpande’s The Dark Holds No Terrors

--Grishma Manikrao Khobragade

Exploring the Feminine Psyche--A comparative study of Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes were Watching God and Shashi Deshpande’s Roots and Shadows

--S. Ambika

Gora: Tagore’s Formulation of the Spiritual Domain of Indian Nationalism

--Banibrata Goswami

Post Independence Political Scene as Presented in the Nigerian/African Novel

--Kiran Thakur

Emotional Crisis in Willa Cather’s The Professor’s House

--K. Rajaraman

Githa Hariharan’s The Thousand Faces of Night: Resistance to Patriarchy

--Sandhya Singh

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K. V. Dominic's New Edited Book--Indian Literatures in English: New Directions, Newer Possibilities

Contents

Indian Writing in English: New Introductions

--Murali Sivaramakrishnan

Voicing Eco-Critical Concerns: Water in Indian Women’s Oral Narrations and Eco-Spirituality

--Usha V. T.

Jayanta Mahapatra’s Poetry: Transcending the Regional

--Ratan Bhattacharjee

The Wheel that Turned: Manoranjan Byapari Writes back in Itibritte Chandal Jiban

--Jaydeep Sarangi

Rabindranath Tagore’s Gitanjali: A Microcosm of Life

--P. Gopichand & P. Nagasuseela

A Reading of Jaal in the Light of Campbell's The Hero with A Thousand Faces

--Lata Mishra

The Philosophic Enlightenment in Rabindranath Tagore’s Poetry

--Bhaskar Roy Barman

R. K. Narayan’s The Dark Room: A Twist to Conventional Notions of Feminism

--Ketaki Datta    

Enlightening Earth Consciousness and Affirming Self-Realization: A Comparative Deep-Ecological Study of Sri Aurobindo and Jayanta Mahapatra’s Poetry

--Sibasis Jana

Family as a Metaphor: A Study of Women and Superstitions in Rohinton Mistry’s Such a Long Journey

--Akula Sreenivasulu & A. Kiranmayee

Voiceless Voice, Songs of Fakir Lalon Shah: A Short Discourse on Lalon Geete and the Position of Women in Baul Community

--Anirban Mondal 

The Relation between God, Nature and Man: A Study of K. V. Dominic’s Poems in Advaita Vedanta Lines

--Anisha Ghosh

Stephen Gill’s The Flame: A Saga of World Peace
--Anne Dominic

Confrontations and Negotiations: Marriage and Motherhood in Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Lowland

--Ashwathi Purushothaman

Poetry that Pricks: Social Concerns in the Poetry of K. V. Dominic

--S. Barathi

Girls of the Past: Children’s Historical Fiction and the Construction of Indian Girlhood in Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni’s Victory Song and Anu Kumar’s Girls of India: A Chola Adventure

--Finitha Jose

Odishan Landscape in Jayanta Mahapatra’s Land: A Study

--Gagan Bihari Purohit

Gendering of Desire: Critical Perspectives on Indian English Poetry

--Indrani Das Gupta & Pratibha Biswas

Narrative Reinhabitation: Reading Sarah Joseph’s Gift in Green from a Bioregional Perspective

--Joji John Panicker    

Behind the Mask: Mahesh Dattani’s Final Solutions and Consolidations of Hindu Hegemony

--Joshma Chathoth Thazha     

Husband­-Wife Alienation in Nayantara Sahgal’s Novels

--G. Kamatchi  

Cycles of Nature and Thought Process in Asha Viswas’ The Rainbow Cave and Other Poems

--S. Kumaran

Voices of Women Consciousness in Mamta Kalia’s Tribute to Papa

--K. Mangayarkarasi

The Big Fat Indian Wedding: A Reading of Karnad’s Wedding Album

--Namratha Manoharan

Countering Brahminical Orthodoxy: An Analysis of Girish Karnad’s The Fire and the Rain

--Nandhakumar K

The Bildungsroman strain in Hanif Kureishi’s The Buddha of Suburbia

--J. Pamela

Time’s Sovereignty: A Study on Aju Mukhopadhyay’s Selected Poems from The Paper Boat

--Praseeda P. Nair

Breaking the Tinted Glass: A Study of Homoeroticism and Homosexuality in Ruskin Bond’s Delhi is not Far and Mahesh Dattani’s Bravely Fought the Queen

--Pritha Chakraborty   

Piece de Resistance: A Study of Nalini Jameela’s The Autobiography of a Sex Worker

--Prudha S. Raja

A Comparative Study of Pradip Chattopadyay  and Jaydeep Sarangi

--Radhamani Sarma

T. V. Reddy’s Echoes: A Relentless Battle against Corruption

--Rincy Mol Sebastian

Myth: Functional or Ornamental in Amitav Ghosh’s The Hungry Tide and Tilottama Majumder’s Rajpaat

--Santanu Basak

From Endless Female Hunger to the Purity of Soul: Poetry of Kamala Das

--Santhosh Kumar Padhy

Body, Sex, Identity: Socio-Political Agenda in Jaishree Misra’s Ancient Promises

--Seena N.

Rewriting Mythology in Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni’s The Palace of Illusions

--Sreeja Nair

An Ecofeminist Reading of Kamala Das’s Poetry

--M. Subbiah

Behind the Beauties: Politics Explored and Exploded in      Rohinton Mistry’s A Fine Balance    

--Syndhya J.        

The Bi-Lingualism of Nirad C. Chaudhuri

Tamal Guha

Struggling Within, Yet . . . : A Feminist Study on Selected Online Short Stories

--Tharun Kurian Alex

Exploring Shillong: A study of Anjum Hasan’s novel Lunatic in My Head

--Wandiphranglin W.  Diengdoh

Passion, Protest and Hope: A Reading of Irom Chanu Sharmila’s Fragrance of Peace

--I Watitula Longkumer

Our Esteemed Contributors 

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL ON MULTICULTURAL LITERATURE (IJML) 5.1 MARCH 2015--CONTENTS

Contents

RESEARCH ARTICLES

A Foucauldian Study of Women in Vishal Bharadwaj's Film Adaptations of Three Shakespearean Tragedies

--Lata Mishra

Historicizing Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness: A Critique of King Leopold II's Colonial Rule

--Isam M. Shihada

(En)Gendering Translation: Understanding Feminist Politics and Praxis

--Hemang Desai

Vasudaiva Kutumbakam:  Cognizance and Significance in the Present World

--K. V. Dominic

Allegory of Displacement: Studying Grace Nichols’ “Waterpot” and

Langston Hughes’ “Ballad of the Landlord”

--Bibhudutt Dash

Conceptualizing the self and Paradox of motherhood in Margaret Laurence’s The Fire Dwellers

--Prithiviraj Singh Chauhan

Effective Use of Simple Language and Flawless Style in Kamala Markandaya’s Nectar in A Sieve and A Handful of Rice: A Brief Analysis                                                                       

--S. Chelliah

The Theme of Spiritual Isolation in Carson McCullers’ “The Heart is a Lonely Hunter”

--SarikaTiwari

Common Cultural Traits of Man-Woman Relationship in Markandaya’s Nectar in a Sieve and Achebe’s Things Fall Apart

--Smita Das

Subject to Male Gaze: Studying the Representation of Heroines in Twenty First Century Bollywood Cinema

--Bhawana Pillai

Subversion of power structures and assertion of self: A reading of Mahasweta Devi’s “Draupadi”

--Sona George

Betrayal vs. Loyalty in Graham Greene’s The Man Within

--Dhruv Shankar

The Different Perceptions of Working Class in the Alan Sillitoe’s  Saturday Night and Sunday Morning and Birthday

--Mohammed Wayez

Exploring the Parent-Child Relationship in Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Lowland

--Neha Motwani

Rohinton Mistry’s A Fine Balance: A Postcolonial Novel of Crass Imbalance

--Sebin Justine

Identity in the poems of Mamta Kalia, Kamala Das and Sujata Bhatt

--Shruti Singh

Existential Images in the American Based Novels of Jhabvala

--Smitha S.

SHORT STORIES

Silver Lining

--Ramesh K. Srivastava

False Confession

--Pronab Kumar Majumder

POEMS

The Fag End

--Hazara Singh

March of Life

--Hazara Singh

Lord! Bless Them Too

--Hazara Singh

Destination

--Hazara Singh

Puri Sea Beach

--Pronab Kumar Majumder

Darkness Again

--Manas Bakshi

Accept It or Not

--Manas Bakshi

Child Labourer

--Sangeeta Mahesh

Celestial Love

--Anisha Ghosh Pal

The City Never Sleeps

--Anisha Ghosh Pal

The Collage

--Soumyodeep Pal

I See

--Soumyodeep Pal

Tonic

--Rajiv Khandelwal

Washing on Sunday

--Rajiv Khandelwal

Poem                       

--B. V. Siva Prasad

Initiation

--Vishakham Joseph

BOOK REVIEWS

K. V. Dominic’s Sarojini Sahoo’s Feminine Reflections

--Kavitha Gopalakrishnan

Jaydeep Sarangi’s A Door-Somewhere? (Poems)

--Marta Pikor-Niedziałek

Sangeeta Mahesh’s Ocean Of Thoughts: Poems about Social Issues and Human Values

--Rob Harle

Our Esteemed Contributors