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Life of Women Adversely Affected by Communal Frenzy in Felanee by Arupa Pathangia Kalita
Get PDFThe adverse consequences of war and violence are always more on women and children. Men are always the active participants in violence, and women are invariably observed as the passive receiver of the same. Women have to face the harmful effects of war and violence in the form of lost husbands and loss of self-respect. This paper explores the life and struggle of a single woman who lost her husband during the ethnic conflicts. Arupa Patangia Kalita is a famous Assamese novelist who lives in Darrang, Assam. Her novel Felanee was originally written in Assamese in 2003 and translated by Deepika Pukan in 2011. The story of Felanee reveals the awful experiences of a woman, Felanee in the midst of ethnic riots and frenzy atmosphere in Assam. The events mentioned in the novel relate to the real lives of the people living there. Through her protagonist, the writer describes some of the adverse experiences of people during ethnic conflicts, especially the women living in such places. At the time of Felanee’s birth, she was thrown into damp to die but somehow, she survives and starts her battle against all odds. The paper reveals how women sustain their families, especially children, while facing many troubles due to ethnic violence and bloodshed. It also explores how they are marginalized in society and how they support each other in difficult times. Felanee has to face all the brutal consequences of the communal frenzy. She lost almost everything she had, including her loving husband. She was once a queen, but after the riots, she was forced to live like a laborer
Asia Travels: Pan Asian Cultural Discourses and Diasporic Asian Literature/s in English by Himadri Lahiri
Get PDFAsia Travels: Pan Asian Cultural Discourses and Diasporic Asian Literature/s in English by Himadri Lahiri. Birutjatio Sahitya Sammiloni, Bolpur, September 2021. ISBN: 9788195306787, Rs. 600, pp 271
Introduction to Pashtun Women’s Poetry
Get PDFMuch of human emotions are expressed via poetry and other literary genres but when it comes to women in Pashtun society we lose their voices. Afzal Raza believes it is impossible for Pashtun women to speak about their pain and misery or any other feelings (Raza). As women could be persecuted for writing poetry in Pashtun society thus much of the folklore poetry came to existence by female speakers anonymously. Recently, New York Times reported about several young girls set themselves on fire after they were caught reciting poetry to an FM radio from home (Griswold). Reading about women casualties for their poetry, Raza shall be true saying that Tapa or Landay (a two-verse poetry) is the ancient form of poems mostly created by women that still exist as its writer is unknown but has its female speaker for us to understand it. To study Pashtun women and their poetry Tapa or Landay is the primary source to begin (Raza)
Universal Witness by P. V. Laxmiprasad
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Universal Witness by P. V. Laxmiprasad, Thematics Publications, Latur, MS, India, 2012
The Holocaust of Partition – A Critical Study of Saadat Hasan Manto’s Mottled Dawn (Fifty Sketches and Stories of Partition) by P. V. Laxmiprasad
Get PDFThe Holocaust of Partition – A Critical Study of Saadat Hasan Manto’s Mottled Dawn (Fifty Sketches and Stories of Partition) by P. V. Laxmiprasad, AuthorsPress, New Delhi 2021, ISBN 978-93-90891-45-0, Price- ₹600
Economy of Love as Manifested in William Shakespeare’s King Lear and The Merchant of Venice
Get PDFThis paper tries to make a study of William Shakespeare’s above plays with reference to his contemporary period’s views on money and love. Economy is inadvertently linked with love as we find during the time of Shakespeare. Two of the most important plays of Shakespeare – King Lear (1606) and The Merchant of Venice (1596-1598) shows how love is tested by economic considerations and how relationships get complicated when the two collide with each other. Market economics of the public sphere questions the love of the private sphere. Here love is equated to lust. This acquisitiveness is characteristic of the Elizabethan and Jacobean age with commerce and trade flourishing and the age itself being termed as the Golden Age. Gender roles are redefined in such a mercantile situation and the place of women in such society become endangered
Introspecting The Life of Tribal Women in Mahasweta Devi’s Rudali and The Hunt
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Mahasweta Devi is a distinguished Indian writer and an esteemed activist who worked hard to uplift the tribal communities. She has a deep knowledge of the socio-political condition of India. She is an iconoclast who, in her works focussed on the miserable condition of depressed and neglected classes and tribes. Her different stories and novels shower light on the day to day happenings in the interiors of our nation. She has also talked about the quest for equal rights for each and every individual, especially for females in terms of education, health facilities, employment opportunities and social well-being. The present paper discusses “’Rudali’ and ‘The Hunt’” in the light of atrocities done to the women in their tribes and the racist response given to them. Mahasweta Devi has portrayed the protagonists Sanichari and Mary Oraon, as the representatives of modern women searching for their own identity in the modern society. She presents the pitiable and pathetic condition of tribal women with their sorrows and sufferings and, more importantly, their infuriated inner self, which worked constructively to bring them to the level of mainstream individuals by injecting the sense of respect and appreciation for them
A Note on Feminism and Post-Modernism
Get PDFThe Western hemisphere\u27s physical and cultural ambience of the past four decades was the stage for the emergence of feminism and post-modernism. A study of the contrasts, similarities and interrelations, various artistic forms and media of expression render a vivid diversity and widespread popularity to these two isms- hence the apt title to this article should be – “A Note on Feminism and Post-modernism”. Recognizing and rejecting the flourishing undercurrent of unitary and biased, fictitious notions and extracting the different lifestyles, values, thoughts and history of another kind that are overshadowed by the rational logic, tradition, culture, and history of age old male chauvinistic perspectives; and accepting and encouraging the natural plurality in the existence and expression of human beings- if these are considered to be the general characteristics of feminisms, then post-modernism and feminism ought to be allies. But we find this connection very complex when we observe the changes in feminisms caused by the influence of post-modernism
Navigating the Divine: Sea Creatures in Greek and Indian Mythology
Get PDFThe sea has long been a potent image in mythology, symbolizing the immense unknown and the source of life, as seen in both Indian and Greek classical traditions. Indian mythology features various sea creatures like the Makara, Shesha, Timingila, Jalakanyas, and Uraga, each embodying cultural and spiritual beliefs, and symbolizing philosophical concepts. Greek mythology, with deities like Poseidon and epic tales such as the Odyssey, highlights the sea\u27s role in heroic journeys and divine influence. This research explores how these myths reflect human experiences of transformation, chaos, heroism, and love. Questions addressed include: How do sea myths symbolize human challenges and transformations? What roles do sea deities and creatures play in conveying cultural values? The analysis reveals that sea myths from different cultures emphasize the unpredictable nature of life, the necessity of respect for natural forces, and the enduring human spirit in the face of divine and natural adversities
Traces of Phallocentrism, Trauma and Holocaust Imagery in What the Body Remembers and Ice Candy Man
No full textApart from wars, the Partition of India and Pakistan was one of the most horrific events in human history. Massacres, rapes, and sexual torture were used to promote racial hate, and women suffered a great deal more than males. Many people lost their lives, their homes, and even their identities. Therefore, this essay explores how the horrific Partition era affected the lives of women by turning them into silent victims of phallocentric or male supremacy through the Partition novels from which Shauna Singh Baldwin\u27s What the Body Remembers and Bapsi Sidhwa\u27s Ice Candy Man have been taken. Women were kidnapped, raped, forced into prostitution, and died during Partition. In the Rawalpindi area, where Muslim mobs preyed on women, systematic violence against women first appeared in March 1947. Before further attacks, many Sikh women committed suicide by jumping into water wells to save honour and avoid conversion. Due to phallocentric society\u27s rules, the time of Partition was a traumatic experience for women on physical, emotional, political, social, and sexual levels. These female writers wrote about these experiences through a female perspective, which demonstrated resistance and retaliation against phallocentrism or the male point of view. Because of this, the present dissertation will add new aspects to the established canon of women, trauma, and phallocentrism