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A Cultural Materialist Comparative Study of Mulk Raj Anand’s Untouchable and Om Prakash Valmiki’s Joothan
Full text linkThe paper attempts to identify the caste-based social structure of India by implementing the theory of cultural materialism. It evaluates how caste becomes a tool for social dominance and oppression of individual identity by comparing Mulk Raj Anand’s Untouchable and Om Prakash Valmiki’s autobiographical work Joothan. Both protagonists, Bakha (Untouchable) and Valmiki (Joothan), faced cultural dominance through ideologies of one class over another and how it completely blocks an individual\u27s progress. It shows how people are subjected to both physical and psychological violence and how the Power of money and materialism shapes this society. While Indian culture is often projected as rich and diverse, the analysis reveals underlying materialism and inherent biases. The study demonstrates how inter-generational social practices, as depicted in Untouchable and Joothan, severely restrict social mobility for lower cast members
The Vegan
Full text linkThe poem is satire on the cruelty towards animals in the name of taste and flavour
Derrida in JNU: A Novel by Nigitha John
Full text linkDerrida in JNU: A Novel by Nigitha John, New Delhi: Magic Moon Publishers Private Limited, ISBN 978-8198144584, Pages-172, 2025, Price: 600/
American Violence as a Catalyst for the Oppression of Muslim Identity in Post-9/11 Attacks: A Study of H.M. Naqvi’s Home Boy
Full text linkThe contemporary British-born Pakistani novelist, Naqvi, has written two novels. His first novel, Home Boy (2009), narrates the sociocultural dilemma of the Muslim character Chuck, who faces stereotyping, insult, and torture from his American counterparts, just because he is a Muslim. This study, accordingly, focuses on the oppression of Muslim minority characters in America, positing that the American society represents a violent society, which is central to the oppression of Muslims in the selected novel. The objective of this study, thus, is to examine the author’s depiction of the American society as a violent society that oppresses the Muslim minority characters in the selected novel. To achieve this objective, the author’s depiction will be examined using a textual analysis methodology and applying Young’s concept of violence and its related critical insights on oppression to selected textual evidence from the novel. The findings will demonstrate the Muslim minority characters’ oppressed state as a signifying factor of their vulnerable position amidst the violence of the American society
The Silent Companion
Full text linkThe story follows Ananya, a bright and hardworking girl whose dreams of higher education are delayed by financial hardship. While her friends move on to prestigious colleges, she remains behind, struggling with self-doubt and constant comparisons to others. Despite her challenges, Ananya begins teaching neighborhood children and eventually becomes an assistant teacher, finding purpose and strength in small victories. Over time, she learns to silence her inner critic, accept her worth, and define success on her own terms. Years later, as a teacher herself, she passes this wisdom to a student, reminding her that being oneself is enough
My Forecast by R Revathi Ramamurthy
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R Revathi Ramamurthy, Former Dean & Principal of Shri Krishnaswamy College for Women, Annanagar , Chennai -4
While Everything Changes
Full text linkThe poem is a reflection on how our world and our relationships, in fact, change silently, and as a college kid I find myself looking at the world changing into the world of deadlines and group projects, of the world of the warm and easy strolls on the campus to a cold and emotional world of winter semesters. The friends who once used to be close, friends who think they should go study together over a pizza, are becoming distant slowly, as their hearts are closing like the dorm basement door, it seems that we all are just making casual swings around the hub of the silent halls. That shift generates this feeling of separation and betrayal, in a way of demonstrating how quickly the gentleness of a lecture discussion can get into indifference, in a manner that a class discussion can become cold as soon as the mark is put in. Through all these changes, one thing remains constant to me, and that is myself. In this world where everything in the cafeteria menu, as well as the professor expectations, is subject to change, my very presence of consistency serves as a soothing anchor of its own, giving me the experience that resilience and self-knowledge truly hold in a world of emotional storms