Volume 14 Issue 2 April 2025

Contributors

 

 

Contents

Page No.

1

Books in the Biosphere: Plants, Insects and Print Culture

Isabel Hofmeyr

1-19

2

The Changing Concept of Aesthetics and Canon-formation in a Globalized Era

Partha Sarathi Mondal

20-33

3

NEP 2020 and the Discipline of Humanities: Shifting Trends and Holistic Education

Arti Jain

34-43

4

Who Am I: Outlining the Topoi of Self, Subject and Subjectivity

Akshita Chotia & Sneha Thakur

44-52

5

Echoes of Cherokee Existence: A Study of Diane Glancy’s Select Works

Sonima KK

43-64

6

Gender Dissent in Epic Adaptations: The Voice, Stance and Emancipation of Yajnaseni by Pratibha Ray

Lakshmi K Raghavan & D Lourdhu Mary        

65-76

7

Challenges in Translating Faiz Ahmad Faiz into English: A Select Study of Three Poems by Shiv K. Kumar

Shabeer Ahamd Shah

77-88

8

Re-imagining Superheroes:  Afrofuturism in the Animation Movie Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse

Chandamita Basumatary

89-100

9

Visual Stories of Resilience: Gender Violence and Trauma in Drawing the Line: Indian Women Fight Back

Ponnu Liz Malieckal & Rajesh V. Nair 

101-113

10

Women Identity and Space: A Study of MAI - A Netflix Series

Swati Sharma & Ruchi Goswami

114-128

11

Traditions Reimagined by K. G. Subramanyan for Modern Indian Art and Cultural Expression

Chauhan Vidya Girishchandra & Ujjvala M. Tiwari

129-149

12

Lack of Post-Registration Exploitation of GI: A Case Study from Bagru and Sanganer Hand-Block Prints

Gauri Kathju & Radha Kashyap

150-163

13

Echoes of Tradition: Ustad Lachhman Singh Seen’s Mastery of Tabla of the Punjab Gharana

Arupriya Seen

164-172

14

A Journey of a Mystic: Choice and Transformation

Marina Joyce Roche & R. Jayakanth     

173-182

15

Memes as Political Narratives: Dismantling the Cultural Stigma of Borderline Personality Disorder

Geethu V Nandakumar & Susan Mathew

183-195

16

Probing The Immortals of Meluha through the Prism of Maslow’s Need Hierarchy Theory

V.S. Nandhini Devi

196-205

17

Reflections on Psychological and Spiritual  Perspectives of Adults and Children in the  Selected Works by R.K. Narayan

Vinay Devrani & Vipin Kumar

206-219

18

Unleashing Pain in the Light of Affect Theory in John Grisham’s A Time for Mercy

Berdhisha P & S. Kalamani

220-236

19

Recounting History and Rendering Memories: Viceroy’s House as a Narrative of the Partition of India

Sruthy S.

237-245

20

Svetlana Alexievich’s Second-Hand Time: Interpretive, Dialogical Voicing of History

Shimi Moni Doley

246-258

21

Walking through Occupation: Reading  Selected Fictional Works on Everyday Palestinian Resistance and Remembrance

Shoaah Amjad & Rimika Singhvi

259-272

22

Survival as Resistance in Livia Bitton-Jackson’s I Have Lived a Thousand Years: Growing Up in the Holocaust

Prakash Kumar Meher

273-285

23

Intersectionality and Reproductive Justice in J.M. Coetzee’s Disgrace: The Confluence of Race, Gender, and Power in Post Apartheid South Africa

Rajesha HK & Prem Shankar Pandey

286-300

24

Unpacking the Cultural Politics of Race and Ideology in Toni Morrison’s God Help the Child

Dolly Ningthoujam

301-311

25

The Burden of Fate: Exploring Marginalization and Indigenous Struggle in Shailender Singh’s Hashiye Par: For a Tree to Grow

Sonav Dubey

312-321

26

Law and Legacy: Intersecting Realities in Kiran Desai’s The Inheritance of Loss

Sadaf Mushtaq Nasti

322-332

27

Symbiotic Serenity: Human-Nature Nexus in Sarah Joseph’s Gift in Green

R. Jayasree & Dhanalakshmi. A

333-346

28

The Precarious Female Body: The Dialectics of Body Politics in Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale

Anshul Dhankar & Devendra Kumar Sharma

347-361

29

Dynamics of Power Relations and Sexuality: A Narrative Discourse in Abdulrazak Gurnah’s Gravel Heart

Saroj Kanta Bhuyan     

362-371

30

Search for Diagnosis:  A Study of V.S. Naipaul’s India: A Wounded Civilization

Niraj Kumar Singh

372-387

31

Parallel Realities and Surreal Dystopias: An Analysis of Haruki Murakami’s 1Q84 

V. Thulasi Bala & V. Navaneethamani

388-398

32

‘A Sightless Eye’: Synaesthesia and the Unseen in Coleridge’s “Christabel “

Amit Narula

399-411

33

Reading Select Northeast Poetry in Light of Creation Mythology, Orality and Identity

Saswati Kashyap & Lakhipriya Gogoi

412-421

34

Everyday and the Posthuman: Moments of Being in Meredith Katz’s The Cybernetic Tea Shop

Ritu Ranjan Gogoi

422-435

35

Narrating the Resilience: An Ecofeminist Reading of The Four Winds

Suja Mathew

436-444

36

The Use of as if and -ing in English: A Multi-modal Analysis

Amar Ramesh Wayal & Anupama A.P.

445-456

37

Impact of Social, Psychological and Linguistic Factors in the Writing Skills of ESL Learners

M. P. Shabitha

457-475

38

The Twenty-First Century Pedagogies for ESL Teachers to Teach English Pronunciation at the Tertiary Level: A Survey Study in Coimbatore

K. Nandhakumar

476-489

39

Book Review

Abhyudita G. Singha & Himanshu Parmar

 

490-499

40

Pradeep Trikha

496-499

41

Film Review

Rama Choudhary

500-504