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The Scent of Becoming
Full text linkThe Scent of Becoming" by Lalitha Sridevi J. meditates on fragrance as a metaphor for identity and transience. Once raw and intimate—like crushed petals whispering to the self—it now lingers in commodified incense and atomizers, promising belonging amid branded shelves. Yet both natural whiffs of jasmine and misty rain dissolve like human choices, evaporating into traces not of past selves, but of ongoing transformation. Through sensory evaporation, the poem captures how we are remembered by our evolving essence
The Monk without Dharma: A Novel by Thukten Yeshi
Full text linkThe Monk without Dharma: A Novel by Thukten Yeshi, Routledge, ISBN 9798990353602, Amazon Digital Services, pages-366, 2024
The World of Illusion
Full text link"The World of Illusion" portrays a dystopian vision of a world consumed by deception, violence, and moral decay. Through vivid imagery, the poem contrasts the illusion of love with the brutal realities of war, betrayal, and suffering. References to mythological and religious symbols, such as Eden’s serpent and Kalki, highlight the cyclical nature of destruction and hope for redemption. The poem critiques societal cruelty, exposing the erosion of human values. It ends with a yearning for divine intervention, emphasizing the urgent need for justice in a world plagued by barbarism and disillusionment
A Glimpse of Maya Angelou’s Autobiographies: A Voice of Resilience in a White-Dominated Land
Full text linkMaya Angelou’s autobiographies stand as powerful testimonies of resilience, courage, and self-discovery in a racially oppressive America. Through works such as I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1969) and its sequels, Angelou chronicles her journey from childhood trauma to triumphant self-affirmation, channelling her way through the harsh realities of racism, sexism, and personal adversity. This article explores how Angelou’s narrative voice transforms pain into empowerment, offering a defiant yet poetic resistance to systemic oppression. By blending personal memoir with broader sociopolitical commentary, her autobiographies transcend individual experience, becoming universal symbols of Black endurance and dignity.
Angelou’s literary style, rich in metaphor, rhythm, and oral tradition, reflects her roots in African American storytelling and her background as a poet. Her works challenge dominant white narratives by entering Black female subjectivity, reclaiming agency in a society that sought to silence marginalized voices. Themes of identity, displacement, and reconciliation recur as Angelou moves across geographies and emotional landscapes, ultimately asserting an unbreakable spirit.
This article focuses on the key moments in her autobiographies that highlight her resilience, including her confrontation with racism in the Jim Crow South, Ghana, and her struggles with abuse and motherhood, and her later roles as an artist and activist. Ultimately, Angelou’s life writing not only documents her evolution but also serves as a testament to the collective strength of Black women in the face of systemic erasure. Her voice remains a beacon of hope and defiance in a white-dominated world
“Born to Live; The Struggles of Identity: Study of Revathi’s Narrative The Truth about Me: A Hijra Life Story”
Full text linkIndia is a country full of diversity. It is diverse in its culture, religion, sex, class and color. Sex as a matter of fact has always been diverse in its origin since ancient times and there has always been a wide acceptance of every religion, sex, and culture in our country since time immemorial. In ancient India we witness several tales starting from the Ramayana, Mahabharata reaching to Aryabhatta’s Arthashastra, these works highly witness the accounts of sexual diversity in the ancient Indian world. Devdutt Pattanaik, an Indian mythologist gives us accounts of various incidents like those of Shikhandi and Brihnalla which claim that Transgenders had a good position back in the ancient times. What exactly changed the position of these individuals was colonization. Colonization or the advent of British rule in India proved out to be a major cause which led to the deteriorating position of the Transgender community. The Britishers by categorizing them as criminals brought several laws which ultimately lead to their marginalization. The 2014 verdict of the Supreme Court however served a major historical change which seemed to be a ray of hope for the entire community. The aim of this paper is to bring forth the existing notions of gender and sexuality and its various alternatives in the Indian context. The researcher primarily aims to present her various interpretations through an in-depth study of India’s first transgender autobiography, The Truth About Me: A Hijra Life Story (2015). The paper will shed a major light on sexuality in India and its various understandings in the Indian context
Activity Segregation: Disrupting Snail-Sense Feminist Consciousness in Akachi Adimora-Ezeigbo’s Plays
Full text linkExtant studies on Akachi Adimora-Ezeigbo’s plays are mostly preoccupied with the female characters’ revolt against and liberation from patriarchy and traditional norms that undermine their rights in the African setting. This study dissents from attempts to conclude that the female characters achieve freedom from the other sex and debilitating tradition because of their feminist trait. The paper contends that the concept of activity segregation provides ephemeral conditions for the women to organize and rage against exploitative male folk; when such enabling environment is non-existent, the females are inclined to accept patriarchal tendencies and socio-cultural realities in the African world and this would make the sustenance of their liberation impossible. Using the snail-sense feminist theory, the study embarks on qualitative and introspective research. It examines how momentary spatial parting of female and male genders temporarily fuels what has been misconstrued by some critics as snail-sense feminist consciousness in Akachi Adimora-Ezeigbo’s plays, Hands That Crush Stone and Barmaid and the Witches of Izunga. In attempting to disrupt the stance of existing researches, the researcher randomly selects relevant characters, dialogues/language, situations and settings from the two play texts and analyzes them against the backdrop of the assumptions of snail-sense Afro-feminist strain. The strain under-explores the tendency for African women to embrace their gender roles and accept their conditions of living in the absence enabling environment for them to revolt against their perceived subjugation by the male-folk. The study finds that the female characters in the plays only seize the opportunity of social distancing from the males to launch their liberation bid, they fail to confront the male in the absence of action space. Thus, the researcher challenges the reliance on snail-sense feminist streak by previous studies on the plays to arrive at the conclusion that the female characters succeed in their revolt. That the women slowly act as snails, which are never as aggressive as the angered gender, to reach their goals does not suggest their total success in the battle of the sexes. Freedom from patriarchy and tradition continues to elude them
Three Poems from Jibanananda Das’s Jhora Palok (1927; Fallen Feather)
Full text linkThree Poems of Jibanananda Das translated by Tapas Sarkar
R. K. Narayan\u27s Pioneering Role in the Indian English Campus Novel
No full textK. Narayan, whose works are composed to reveal the commonness of daily routine in an uncommon style, is one of the most amusing names not only in Indian English Literature but also in World fiction. His canvas is rich with the characters- adult and senile, next door to us, struggling in their academic and personal lives. He has penned in the background of Malgudi, an imaginary region in southern India, and has explored diverse aspects of Indian society. His literary journey started with the publication of Swami and Friends and spanned approximately five decades. His novels and short stories explore various issues of the traditional and the modern generation, examining them from social, cultural, philosophical, and psychological perspectives. With M. R. Anand and Raja Rao, he helped Indian English fiction develop a distinct identity, moving away from imitating English literary styles and presenting them from Indian perspectives. Due to his thematic depth, narrative techniques, and straightforward, humorous writing style, he is often compared with the best writers of English and other languages. Campus fiction, which explores the complex lives of academicians and pupils within a university setting, has been popular since the second decade of the 20th century. Narayan’s novels are introspection into the academic and professional lives of the protagonists and give a glimpse into an intellectual inquiry and daily activities of academicians and criticize imposed English education on the natives- students and their struggle for personal and social upliftment. The present research paper is a study of Narayan\u27s selected novels from the perspective of campus elements
Tagore’s Advocacy of Women’s Cause in ‘Streer Patra’
Full text linkRabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) was a liberal humanist who wanted a new social order where women are not bound by shackles of patriarchy. Born into a progressive family, he had observed closely the stifling condition of 19th-century Bengal. His creativity captured the multifaceted torture on women in a conservative socio-cultural milieu. This paper is an exploration of Tagore’s advocacy of women’s cause in ‘Streer Patra’, the feminist perspective reflected in Tagore’s ‘Streer Patra’, analyze the concept of emancipation of women in 19th century Bengal and discuss the struggle of a woman to achieve emancipation from confinement. The issues of child marriage, forced arranged marriage, poor condition of childbirth room, subordination of women, and women’s helplessness in a joint family are all vehemently criticized with poignancy and insight. A woman would better embrace death like Bindu in ‘Streer Patra’ than live a life of ignominy and disgrace. Death is here symbolic of redemption from worldly cares and suffering. He also advocates another escape route of breaking the shackles of traditional roles of a woman to emerge victorious, just as Mrinal is emancipated in the story