Contents
RESEARCH ARTICLES
The ‘I’ in the
Poetry of Kamala Das: A Study of Displacement
--Bibhudutt Dash
Struggle of the
Ineffectual Angel in Manju Kapur’s Difficult
Daughters
--M. R. Chandran
‘Unspeakable
Suffering’ and ‘Calm forbearance’ as projected in Kamala Markandaya's Nectar
in A Sieve and A Handful of Rice: A Brief
Analysis
--S. Chelliah
Analysing
the Dichotomy of White Culture and Aboriginal Culture in
Patrick
White’s Voss
--Chithra
S.
Communal Folk Life and Individual Identity in
Richard Wright’s Black Boy
--S. Khethzi
Kerena
Gender, Culture and Nation in Bapsi
Sidhwa's The Pakistani Bride
--Lata Mishra
Culture, Mediation and Conflict Resolution in Nayana
Currimbhoy’s Miss Timmins’ School for
Girls
--Lekshmi R.
Nair
Multiculturalism and Decentering the Racial Identity
in the Fictional World of Hanif Kureishi
--Md. Sajidul
Islam
Indian Ethos and Gandhian Ethics in
R. K.Narayan’s The Vendor of Sweets
--Mini
V. S.
Infertility and
Identity Crisis in Kapur’s Women
--Nirjharini
Tripathy
Suniti Namjoshi’s
The Blue Donkey Fables--The Writer as a Poet
--Keerthi
Krishnamoorthy & Raichel M. Sylus
--Roselin
Linitta George
Survival of the “Other”:
The ‘Staying Alive’ of Female Characters in Sefi Atta’s Swallow
--Sajna P.
Image of Women: An
Analysis of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Half
of a Yellow Sun
--S.
Umarani & S. Kumaran
Telling
the Untold: A Reading of Toni Morrison’s A
Mercy as an Eternal Story of Love and Betrayal
--Syed
Wahaj Mohsin & Shaista Taskeen
A Dalit Avatar
and Matua Cult
--Manohar Mouli Biswas
REVIEW ARTICLE
The
Grief of Arjuna and Sri Krishna’s Response: Shrimad Bhagavadgita
Revisited
--Ramesh Chandra Mukhopadhyaya
Love, Loneliness, Desire and Despair in Kamala
Das’s Summer in Calcutta
--P. Gopichand
& P. Nagasuseela
Colours
of Life in C. L. Khatri’s ‘Haiku’
--Sudhir K.
Arora
BOOK REVIEWS
K.
V. Dominic & Mahboobeh Khaleghi’s (eds.) Multicultural Studies on Three Nobel Laureates—Rabindranath Tagore,
Toni Morrison and Alice Munro
--Ketaki Datta
K.
V. Dominic’s Who is Responsible? (A
Collection of Short Stories)
--Kavitha Gopalakrishnan
Jaydeep Sarangi’s The Wall and Other Poems
--Mahuya
Bhaumik
GENERAL ESSAYS
Sanathana Dharma as the Life-Force of India in the light of
Swami Vivekananda’s Message
--T. V. Reddy
Swami
Vivekananda and Socialism with Special Reference to the Present Indian Polity
--Manas Bakshi
INTERVIEWS
Interview
with Ketaki Datta
--Elisabetta Marino
An
Interview with Patricia Prime
--Mark Pirie
SHORT
STORIES
Into Father’s Shoes
--Ramsh K. Srivastava
Branded Witch
--Manas
Bakshi
A Lesson Well Taught
--Shaista
Taskeen
POEMS
ON
THE NEW YEAR
--Stephen Gill
Straight is
the Way
--Sheikh Rabiul Haque
In the Path of
Life
--Sheikh Rabiul Haque
Canvas
--Patricia Prime
The
Eyes Have It
--Patricia Prime
Road Sweeper
--Patricia Prime
The Return
--Patricia Prime
Grief
--Patricia Prime
Illusive
Contours
--Manas Bakshi
Smile a Day
--Manas Bakshi
Parental Duty
--K. V. Dominic
Karma is Akarma
--K. V. Dominic
The
Season of Harvest
--Hrushikesh Singh
Yet
A Smile
--Hrushikesh Singh
Our Home
--Saroj Bala
Life
--Saroj Bala
A Poet Was Killed That Very Night
--Anisha Ghosh Pal
Our Esteemed
Contributors