International Journal on Multicultural Literature (IJML) Volume 11, Number 1, January 2021--Contents

 

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CONTENTS

Preface 5

RESEARCH ARTICLES

1. A Discourse Analysis of the Use of Code-switching

in the Novels The Alchemist and The Pilgrimage by Paulo Coelho 11

Albatool Abalkheel and Razia Sultana

2. Woman and Nature: An Ecofeminist Study of

Amitav Ghosh’s Gun Island 19

Vikash Gope

3. Contextualizing Socio-Cultural Dynamics in Tagore’s

Novel The Wreck 27

Monali Chatterjee

4. East-West Encounter in Ramesh K. Srivastava’s Short Stories 37

Leela Kanal

5. Symbolism in Ramesh K. Srivastava’s Cooperative Colony: Stories

and Masks and Men: Stories 44

Barinder K. Sharma

BOOK REVIEWS

1. William B. Irvine’s the Stoic Challenge: A Philosopher’s Guide to

Becoming Tougher, Calmer, and More Resilient 50

Gopinath Khutia

2. Rain Reveries of Recent Parlance: A Review of

Asim Kumar Paul’s Chap Book of Poetry Rain 53

Gagana Bihari Purohit

HOMAGES TO PROF. T. V. REDDY

1. Elegy on Professor T V Reddy 58

K. V. Dominic

2. In Memoriam 61

D. C. Chambial

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3. Counting Your Absences 64

Jaydeep Sarangi

4. Unforgettable Moments with Prof. T. V. Reddy 66

P C K Prem

5. Prof. T. V. Reddy: A Poet-Friend Par Excellence 68

Manas Bakshi

6. Tribute to T. V. Reddy 72

Sibasis Jana

7. Dr T. V. Reddy in West Bengal, the Land of Rabindranath Tagore 74

Rita De

8. Explication of T. Vasudava Reddy’s Light Eternal—A Spiritual Epic 78

Ramesh Chandra Mukhopadhyaya

SHORT STORIES

1. A Man of Gold 81

Ramesh K. Srivastava

2. Around the Death of a Poet 88

Bhaskar Roy Barman

3. Seetha’s Resolve 93

K. V. Dominic

POEMS

1. Sita’s Sisters 100

Sanjukta Dasgupta

2. Dhoti Dance 101

Sanjukta Dasgupta

3. The Path-Finder 102

Sanjukta Dasgupta

4. Hell with You, Corona 104

D. C. Chambial

5. Thank You Corona 105

D. C. Chambial

6. Surrogacy 107

Sagar Mal Gupta

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7. Poetry is Ubiquitous 109

Sagar Mal Gupta

8. Whither Heavenly Gaze? 110

S. L. Peeran

9. Dominance of Myths and Superstitions 112

S. L. Peeran

10. Where Gods Clash 113

S. L. Peeran

11. Life During Unlock-5 114

Asim Kumar Paul

12. For You, Sara Gilbert 117

Subodh Sarkar

13. A Piece of Bread 118

Subodh Sarkar

14. Relocation 119

Gopal Lahiri

15. Two Worlds 120

Gopal Lahiri

16. Femininity Unrivaled 121

Tangirala Sree Latha

17. Watan ki Mitti (Dirt-Earth of Your Homeland) 123

Anita Nahal

18. Know Your Wheel, Homo Sapiens 125

Anita Nahal

19. 50 Shades of Feminism 127

Adaa Dev

20. Traffic Lights 128

Adaa Dev

21. Chameleons or Humans 130

V. Meenashy

22. Shades Of Love 131

V. Meenashy

23. The Stream of Thought 132

Rita De

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24. Needle 132

Rita De

25. Aim 133

Dimple B Theophilose

26. What’s Me? 134

Dimple B Theophilose

27. Once the Hush Called Me 135

Dimple B Theophilose

28. b e i n g and beyonding … 136

Sudarshan Kcherry

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Preface 3

RESEARCH ARTICLES

S. Chelliah

The Fictional Forte and Evolution of Social Vision as

Projected in the Fictional and Non-Fictional Works of V.S. Naipaul:

A Brief Analysis 9

Satyam S. Moorty

John Keats’s Letters: Dialogue between Self and Soul 17

K. Balachandran

K. V. Dominic’s “God’s Tribunal” as the Departure from the Reality 22

Richa Bhardwaj

Community, Solidarity and Perseverance in the Times of Epidemic:

Albert Camus’s The Plague 29

C. Ramya

Sri Aurobindo as ‘The Pioneer of the New Age and

the Spokesman of the New Truth’: An Appraisal 36

J. Kavithanjali

Swami Vivekananda’s Religion as Man-making and

Spiritual Vision as Prophetic Tool Touching all Shores of

Human Life: An Appraisal 45

BOOK REVIEWS

Kh. Kunjo Singh

Dr. K. Balachandran’s For Whom Does It Rain? 52

Neelanjana Pathak

A Critical Appraisal of Ishika Bansal’s Threads of Life &

My Diary and Other Poems 57

ESSAYS ON COVID-19

Stephen Gill

Lockdowns Cannot Suppress the Spirit of Poets 61

Mousumi Ghosh

Ogress Karkati of Yogavasistha Ramayana and the Coronavirus 65

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SHORT STORIES

Ramesh K. Srivastava

The Reconciliator 69

T. Vasudeva Reddy

His Last Journey 75

Ketaki Datta

Kanhaiya’s Ordeal 82

Padmini Viswanathan

All for a Lark 87

POEMS

P C K Prem

1. Edgy Times 93

Laksmisee Banerjee

1. Corona Times 96

2. Migrant Crowds in Covid Times 98

D. C. Chambial

1. I Know Not 99

2. EMS 100

3. Birds of Peace 101

Jaydeep Sarangi

1. Dancing the Light 102

2. In My Home Town 103

Ramesh Chandra Mukhopadhyaya

1. Om Tat Sat 104

2. Global Family 105

Artha Perla

1. Untitled Deliberation… 106

2. Musings at an Uncertain time… 107

Asim Kumar Paul

1. Selection is Stalled 109

Barathi S.

1. Ode to my beloved Child 111

Bharati Nayak

1. If I can turn into a Poem 112

2. A Cracked Letter 114

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Bhaskar Roy Barman

1. The Crown 115

Biswanath Kundu

1. We shall overcome 117

2. Earth after Rebirth 119

Kasturi Siva Prasad

1. The Gift in Return 120

2. An Anathema 121

3. Now I Realise 121

A. Kayalvizhi

1. O My Gracious God! 122

2. Patriarchal Pitfalls 123

3. Thank You Corona! 124

P. V. Krishnamacharyulu

1. Covid Blues 125

2. Boomerang 126

Leena Rajan

1. Pristine Ambience 127

2. Planet Earth is closed for Repair 129

Naheed Akhtar

1. On Nature’s Calamity 130

2. The White Pigeon 131

Omkar Arunkumar Kundu

1. I Changed the Fact 132

S. Padmapriya

1. Our Own, Failed Us 133

Parthajit Ghosh

1. Carnivalesque 136

Pijush Kanti Maiti

1. Returning to The Land 138

2. Belongingness 139

3. Migrants 139

Rajiv Khandelwal

1. Covid Poem 1 140

2. Covid Poem 2 141

3. Covid Poem 3 141

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N. Ramamani Sampath

1. The Pandemic 142

Rita De

1. Waking Dream 144

2. Flapping 145

3. The Janus Mind 145

4. The Quest 145

Runjhun Kapoor

1. Let the Time Fade Away 146

Sabita Chakraborty

1. Globalisation of Love 147

2. Strange 148

Samridh Rela

1. The Epitome of Sacrifice 149

2. The Daunting Army 150

Shephali Chitre

1. Devil’s Fear 151

Sooshilla Gopaul

1. An Introspect 153

P. L. Sreedharan Parokode

1. The Interview Missed 154

2. The Evening Walk 156

Stephen Deepak

1. Corona Virus in India 157

2. What we couldn’t, the CORONA did 158

Taniya Chakraborty

1. Quarantine 160

2. Purification 161

Vignesh Thangavel

1. Haloed be thy Name 162

2. A River Called Love 163

3. The Judgment Predicament 164

V. Varsha Shree

1. My School – ‘BRV’! 165

Sudarshan Kcherry

1. Being & Beyonding 167

K. V. Dominic

1. Coronavirus, Mightiest Wizard of all Times 170

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RESEARCH ARTICLES

The Concept of a free democratic world and optimistic

vision of a perfect future as the essence of Whitman’s

Poetry: An Appraisal 07

- S. Chelliah

Subalternizing Nature Towards Ecological Crisis in the

Andamans: Reading Pankaj Sekhsaria’s

The Last Wave: An Island Novel 13

- Shruti Das

A Poet, Compassionate and Sensitive: An Evaluation of K. V.

Dominic’s Poetry 23

- Poonam Nigam Sahay

Brij Bhalla’s The Cosmic Dance Waltz in Spheres of

Divinity and Humanity 35

- Poonam Dwivedi

Human Rights and South African Literature 43

- M. Prabhakar & K. Ram Mohan

Sri Aurobindo’s Poetic Capability to Arrive at a Knowledge of

Secret Things and Potentialities of Nature through the Spiritual

Language of Poetry: An Appraisal 52

- C. Ramya

Nissim Ezekiel: An Insightful Analysis of Poetry-Philosophy

Interface 58

- Kanchan Mehta

Interpretation of O. Henry’s Short Story,

‘The Gift of the Magi’ Using Linguistic Approach 67

- B. Sushma

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History, Order and Transgression in Roy’s

The God of Small Things 72

- Kirtika Singh

Dream and Reality in Ramesh K. Srivastava’s

“Road Not Taken” 80

- Gurdeep Tripathi

Love and Gender Politics in As You Like It 86

- Rupesh Singh

When Love Plays Foul: A Feminist Perspective of

Toni Morrison’s Love 95

- Sebin Justine

Timeless Women in Kavery Nambisan’s The Scent of Pepper 103

- Veena. K. G

REVIEW ARTICLES

S. Kumaran’s Philosophical Musings for a Meaningful Life:

An Analysis of K V Dominic’s Poems—A Critical Appraisal 110

- Ramesh Chandra Mukhopadhyaya

T. Vasudeva Reddy’s Farewell Ring and Other Stories—

Stories Based on Real Incidents 115

- D. C. Chambial

BOOK REVIEWS

K. V. Dominic’s Sanchita Karma and Other Tales of Ethics

and Choice from India 120

- D. C. Chambial

Mai Van Phan’s Tinh Lang (Silence) 125

- Manas Bakshi

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POEM REVIEW

Review of K. V. Dominic’s “I can’t Count My country Free” 130

- Greshma Clement

SHORT STORIES

EXPIATION 133

- Ramesh K. Srivastava

World Environment Day 140

- K. V. Dominic

THEFT 144

- Manas Bakshi

CANCER 146

- Sabita Chakraborty

POETRY

THE FRIVOLOUS WHIMS 57

- D. C. Chambial

FLOWER AND BEE 151

- D. C. Chambial

WHEN OTHERS FAIL 152

- D. C. Chambial

Godavary River in Floods 153

- Satyam S. Moorty

Godavary River in Summer 154

- Satyam S. Moorty

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Sailing from Athens to Greek Islands 34

- Satyam S. Moorty

Fear in My Palm! 155

- Satyam S. Moorty

A Hamlet of Brahmin Widows 79

- Satyam S. Moorty

Breakdance of Democracy 109

- Manas Bakshi

All That’s Needed 124

- Manas Bakshi

Empty Lives... 156

- Neha Motwani

Interrogation: an Existential Enquiry 157

- Neha Motwani

Practice the ‘Pause’ 158

- Neha Motwani

I folded my Hands 159

- Omkar Kundu

Bharathiar’s Poem – “Nirpadhuve Nadapadhuve”

(To be or not to be) A Transcreation 160

- A. Vanitha

List of Contributors 162

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RESEARCH / CRITICAL ARTICLES

Shakespeare and Modern Times of Interdisciplinary Studies 07

- Mateti Prabhakar

Rewriting History in Poetry: a Study of Mary Oliver’s 16

“The Lost Children”

- Diwakar Regmi

Elemental Identities: Subservience, Resistance and Recasting 26

of the Subaltern Existence in Anand Neelakantan’s Vanara

- Lekshmi R. Nair

Spiritual Humanism in the Selected Poems of 33

Tagore and Devkota

- Khum Prasad Sharma

Exodus in the Dust Bowl Series of John Steinbeck 43

- J. Beaulah Joseline

Deliberate Self Harm: An Insight into Stephenie 49

Meyer’s New Moon

- S. B. Chandhini Priyadharshini

Eco-economy as a Solution to the Crisis Caused by 55

Globalization in Jeanette Armstrong’s Whispering in Shadows

- Gowri Priya Aanand & D. E. Benet

Portrayal of Social Life in the Novels of John Updike 63

- Mehrunnisa M. Yunus

Cow—A Wealth in the Ancient Indian Literature and 70

Archetypal in Present Indian Literature

- Mousumi Ghosh

Some Noble Thoughts on Ancient Classical Greek Tragedy 76

- S. Moorty

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Vraisemblablisation Initiates Restrained Performance: 81

An Analysis of Bollywood Tawaifs as Subalterns

- Sabita S Babu

Beauty and Delight: Sri Aurobindo and Romantic Poets 91

Towards Future Poetry

- Santanu Basak

Bioregionalism in Amitav Ghosh’s The Hungry Tide 99

- J. Thamaraiselvi

Scripting the Self: Traversing the Parallel Worlds in 105

Margaret Atwood’s The Blind Assassin

- A. Vanitha

REVIEW ARTICLES

Multicultural Symphony with Four Cords: K.V. Dominic’s 113

A Clarion Call of Conscience

- Poonam Dwivedi

Cultural Displacement and Identity Crisis in Diasporas 119

and Dilemmas: The Voice of an Exile

- G. Loganayaki

BOOK REVIEW

Ramesh K. Srivastava’s “Different from Others” in K. V. Dominic’s

(ed.) A Journey from Within to Beyond: A Bunch of Short Stories

Culled from Different Cultures 124

- Sabita Chakraborty

EXPLICATION OF THE POEM

K. V. Dominic’s “Salute to Farmers” 126

- Nandita Bhattacharya

GENERAL ESSAY

Education Scenario in India: A Few Limitations and their 130

Probable Solutions

- Ch. Swathi & Srivatsan Ramesh

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TRAVELOGUE

The Great Hospitality, Scientific Advancement and

Culture of China—A Travelogue 136

- Ramesh Chandra Mukhopadhyaya

INTERVIEW

The Unheard Voice of the Sylvan Children:

An Interview with Tribals of Villupuram District 140

- G. Loganayaki

SHORT STORY

Mother Tongue Impact 143

- K. V. Dominic

POETRY

In the Vision of a Child 150

- Manas Bakshi

A Wanderer’s Silhouette 151

- Manas Bakshi

Wither My Mother Tongue, Telugu!!! 152

- S. S. Moorty

Life!!! 69

- S. S. Moorty

Walking Together 123

- Biswanath Kundu

Every Time is the Right Time 142

- Biswanath Kundu

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Contact versus Connection 129

- Biswanath Kundu

Petition 153

- Rajiv Khandelwal

Mother in Our Joint Family 154

- Rajiv Khandelwal

That is Me 32

- Rita De

Beyond 15

- Rita De

A Glass Case of Emotions 155

- Tanuja Patil

The Proper Lady 90

- Tanuja Patil

Broken Mirror 156

- Tanuja Patil

The Tattoo Story 157

- Ansulika Paul

A Fallen Piece of Paper 158

- Ansulika Paul

My Soul 159

- Omkar A Kundu

A Day on a Beach 149

- Ishika Bansal

Dawn Time 42

- Ishika Bansal

List of Contributors 161