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Power and Rebellion: Exploring the Master-Servant Relationship in Preeti Shenoy’s A Place Called Home
Full text linkThe master-servant relationship has long been prevalent in many communities and is frequently marked by notable differences in privilege, authority, and resource availability. The domestic labour marketplace reflects the life management styles of various social classes, whether they are employers or employees of domestic workers. However, her happy married life is in danger of being destroyed when Mrs. Shetty reveals her history. However, she fearlessly confronts it all by going to Mrs. Shetty’s house in Delhi, exposing the humiliation she and her mother have experienced and warning Mrs. Shetty not to meddle in her affairs ever again. This article discusses how the relationship between masters and servants in the book A Place Called Home reflects societal inequalities. Alka’s story highlights the potential to declare one’s individuality despite structural obstacles and demonstrates the bravery needed to face societal prejudice. As a result, A Place Called Home turns into a moving meditation on the pervasive problems of class inequality and the human price of social mobility
Immigration and Cognitive Conflict in Bharati Mukherjee’s Desirable Daughters
Full text linkBharati Mukherjee, a Bengali Indian-born American settler is known for her diasporic novels. Her novels mainly explore the migrated women, their struggles, cultural conflicts and identity crisis. Her early novels expressed her personal struggles later on expanded general issues of immigrated women. Among her several writings this article deals with Desirable daughters, one of three novels which is considered as three sisters. This paper throws light on the protagonist’s movement to America from India and how its character gradually Americanizes. 
Storytelling Techniques in the Panchatantra: Narrative Intelligence, Ethical Pragmatism, and the Poetics of Counsel
Full text linkThe Panchatantra attributed to Visnu Sarma
The Dialectics of the Domestic: Examining the Intersection of Traditional Indian Values and Modern Globalized Identities in Amit Chaudhuri’s A New World
Full text linkAmit Chaudhuri’s A New World (2000) serves as a profound meditation on the quietude of domestic life amidst the churning tides of globalization. This paper explores the "dialectics of the domestic"—the ongoing tension between traditional Indian familial structures and the fragmented, globalized identities of the modern diaspora. Set in a sweltering Calcutta summer, the novel follows Jayojit Chatterjee, a divorced academic living in America, as he returns to his parents’ home with his young son, Vikram. Unlike the high-octane drama typical of post-colonial literature, Chaudhuri utilizes a "poetics of the mundane" to highlight the subtle shifts in cultural allegiance and personal identity. Through an analysis of spatiality, food, and the breakdown of the nuclear family, this research examines how Jayojit embodies a "third space" identity—belonging neither to the nostalgia of his parents’ Calcutta nor the clinical efficiency of his life in the West. By expanding the lens to include the socio-economic backdrop of West Bengal’s transition and the psychological ramifications of the "non-event," this study concludes that Chaudhuri’s domesticity is not a site of stagnant tradition, but a fluid, often uncomfortable arena where the global and the local negotiate their existence through silence, ritual, and sensory experience
An Ecocritical Perspective on Australian Aborigine by Jack Davis
Full text linkThis paper is an attempt to study Jack Davis poem Australian Aborigine from an ecocritical perspectives.
The poet laments on Warrwa people of Western Australia. The atrocities of the Europeans that happened in the history are briefly revealed in the poem. The poet highlights on the struggles faced by the aborigines and touches upon several events to show how a tribe was erased without any trace of existence. The poet expresses anger in a straight forward manner. The brutalities of the European colonisers are vividly shown. The oppression and suffering that the colonizers caused to them is the heart of the poem. The loss of people living around the Lake George Hills and Murray tribe without a trace are the major focus. The disaster has taken place by all ways and means to such an extent that the race has disappeared. As a result the aborigines cultural values, children and lands were snatched away
Effectiveness of Flipped Classroom Method in Enhancing Students’ Academic Achievement and Retention in Learning English at Tertiary Level
Full text linkThe present study explored the effectiveness of flipped classroom methods in the context of English learning outcomes at the tertiary level. The learning outcome of the study is to measure the academic achievement and retention level of the students. Moreover, the study verified the influence of moderate variable, such as gender, on this instructional method. Quasi-experimental research method and a parallel group design were adopted, with postgraduate students acting as the sample of the study. The study results clearly showed that flipped classroom methods favoured students\u27 English learning outcomes, particularly in terms of academic achievement and retention ability. Based on the findings of the study, the researchers also provided detailed recommendations
Reclaiming Indigenous Environmental Wisdom: An Eco-critical Analysis of Mahasweta Devi’s Aranyer Adhikar
Full text linkAranyer Adhikar by Mahasweta Devi can be counted among the most renowned historical novels, even though it narrates the struggle of the Adivasi leader Birsa Munda in late nineteenth-century Chotanagpur. The novel transcends the standard boundaries of a political novel; it is also profoundly ecological. Devi’s writing conveys a strong sense of urgency about present-day environmental crises, including climate change. She constructs a narrative in which land, people, and survival are inseparably linked, while also condemning the violence that emerges when these relationships are disrupted by colonialism and consumer capitalism.
This paper discusses Aranyer Adhikar as an eco-critical work within the broader discourse of environmental justice. It foregrounds the lived realities of India’s Adivasis, whose identity and survival remain deeply tied to land and forest ecosystems. Drawing upon eco-critical theoretical approaches such as ecofeminism, deep ecology, and postcolonial ecocriticism, the study suggests that Devi’s narrative allows indigenous cosmologies, forest ethics, and ecological knowledge systems to emerge and flourish. Devi avoids romanticising the tribal world; instead, she reveals the intricate balance that sustained it, the rituals and practices that held it together, and how it was systematically dismantled by the state and corporate forces.
Central to this interpretation is the figure of Birsa Munda, whose vision of revolt combines political liberation with ecological renewal. His uprising becomes a rebellion of land and people against erasure. His life is not only a human tragedy but also symbolic of ecological devastation.
By re-reading Aranyer Adhikar eco-critically, this paper proposes that Devi’s novel serves as an exhortation to reclaim indigenous environmental wisdom. It calls for an ethic of reciprocity and care, transforming the novel into not merely a historical document but a living manifesto for sustainable and equitable futures
Cross-Cultural Nonverbal Communication in Global Workspaces: A Behavioural Perspective
No full textIn today’s globalized economy, workplaces are increasingly multicultural, where employees from diverse cultural backgrounds interact on a daily basis. While verbal communication has long been studied in organizational contexts, nonverbal communication—such as gestures, eye contact, facial expressions, proxemics, and silence—plays an equally crucial role in shaping professional relationships. This paper explores cross-cultural nonverbal communication in global workspaces through a behavioural perspective, emphasizing how cultural differences in interpreting nonverbal cues can influence collaboration, trust, conflict, and overall productivity. Drawing upon theories such as Edward T. Hall’s proxemics and Hofstede’s cultural dimensions, the paper critically examines how implicit communication norms vary across Western, Asian, and Middle Eastern workplace settings. Case studies demonstrate how misinterpretations of nonverbal cues often lead to misunderstandings, while successful intercultural workplaces employ adaptive behavioural strategies to bridge these gaps. The study adopts a mixed-method framework, combining surveys, interviews, and observational data, to investigate the practical challenges and adaptive mechanisms in multicultural teams. By situating nonverbal communication at the intersection of culture, psychology, and workplace studies, the paper contributes to a deeper understanding of global organizational behavior. Findings highlight the necessity for intercultural training, behavioural awareness, and digital communication adaptation in hybrid workspaces. Ultimately, the study underscores that effective cross-cultural nonverbal communication is not merely a soft skill but a strategic necessity in fostering inclusivity, cooperation, and success in global organization
Material Bodies and Immaterial Loss: Failed Marriages, Female Subjectivity, and Emotional Displacement in Sunetra Gupta’s Memories of Rain and Moonlight into Marzipan
Full text linkMarriage is frequently imagined as a space of emotional security and social completion, particularly for women in patriarchal cultures. However, literary representations increasingly challenge this ideal by exposing the emotional fractures and psychological costs embedded within marital relationships. Sunetra Gupta’s fiction offers a sustained interrogation of marriage by foregrounding women whose inner lives are shaped by betrayal, emotional neglect, and cultural displacement. This paper undertakes a comparative study of Memories of Rain and Moonlight into Marzipan to examine how failed marriages generate forms of immaterial loss—losses that are emotional, psychological, and existential rather than material in nature.
Drawing on feminist literary criticism and sociocultural theory, this study analyzes how Gupta represents marriage as an unequal emotional structure in which women disproportionately absorb pain while male autonomy remains largely unquestioned. This paper argues that Gupta’s female protagonists respond to marital failure through varied strategies, ranging from emotional withdrawal and silence to psychological collapse. By situating these narratives within diasporic contexts, this study further demonstrates how cultural displacement intensifies female alienation within marriage. Ultimately, this paper contends that Gupta’s novels dismantle the romantic myth of marriage and foreground the urgent need to acknowledge women’s emotional suffering as a legitimate form of loss
Unraveling the Splintered Self: A Study of Alaska Young in John Green’s Looking for Alaska
Full text linkIn the contemporary times, the most common crisis that increasingly needs attention is splintering of self. This generally occurs among the young adult who faces problems and challenges, like broken relationships, mental health, family dynamics, social pressures and inner conflicts such as self-doubt, identity crises, alienation and emotional struggles. John Green, an eminent writer of the modern Young Adult Fiction delves deeper into the minds of these young adults and address their inner struggles by his exceptional writings. This paper aims to unravel the splintered self of the main character named Alaska Young in the Green’s novel Looking for Alaska. It intends to analyze the inner conflicts experienced by Alaska, examining her character traits. The novel showcases her dark past or improper childhood and portrays Alaska as an eccentric, quirky, fun- loving, risk-taking, imaginative, attractive and prankster young adult. Although she is portrayed as a strong and independent girl character, her splintered self remains concealed, without expressing her self-destructive or self-damaged traits. Eventually she faces death in order to escape her labyrinth of suffering. Thus, this paper critically explores the sufferings and problems of the young adult girl character named Alaska Young and attempt to give a deeper insight of her mind which leads to her splintered self. It also tries to highlight how her behavioral patterns reflect broader elements of dissociation, detachment and identity through psychoanalytical aspect of the character