(Special Issue on Autobiography,
edited by Rajkumar)

(Special issue on Fiction To Film,
edited by Simran Chadha)

SECTION 1 – POPULAR BOLLYWOOD ADAPTATIONS

SECTION 2 – HERITAGE CINEMA

JASBIR JAIN: Critiquing Colonialism through Cinematic Frames: Shatranj Ke Khilari and Ghare-Baire
ANURADHA GHOSH: Fiction into Film: Inter-Semiotic Translation as Interpretation and Adaptation
NOVY KAPADIA: The Contrasting Film and Novel Text of Ghore Baire
VIJAYA SINGH: The Colonial Discourse of the British Heritage Films of the 1980s
NIDHI MADAN: The Art of Adaptation in Heritage Cinema

SECTION 3 – WESTERN ADAPTATIONS

MEGHA ANWAR: A Never-ending Love Story: Multi-media Inter-texting with the Bard, Five Centuries Down
DEEPA NAIR: From Page to Screen: A Study of Octave Mirbeau’s The Diary of a Chambermaid and the Screen Adaptations by Jean Renoir and Luis Buñuel
ANAND PRAKASH: Madame Bovary and Maya Memsaab: Narrative and Image vis-à-vis Form
ANAS TABRAIZ: The Holocaust as Film and Literature in Schindler’s List
ANUJA JAIN: Maya Memsaab: A Narrative in which Nothing Happens

SECTION 1 – DALIT WRITINGS

APARNA LANJEWAR BOSE: Crossing the Boundaries: A Critical Analysis of Marathi Dalit Poetry
BRATI BISWAS: Society, Environment, and Technology: The Native Indians and the Dalits
VIVEK KUMAR: Literary Representation of Ambedkar: A Survey from Hindi Dalit Literature
SATYADEV TRIPATHI: Contemporary Dalit Writings: Autobiographies and Novels in Hindi
JOYA JOHN: “Who Needs Autobiography?”: A Critique of Kancha Ilaiah’s Why I am not a Hindu
VANDANA PATHAK: Autobiography with a Difference – Limbale’s The Outcaste (An Ante partum and Postpartum Chronicle)

SECTION 2 – GENERAL LITERATURE

SHASHI RANI: Characterization in Stephen Crane’s Works: The Relationship between Naturalistic Art and his Characters
ANITA LASHKARIAN: Existentialism and the Concept of Alienation in Edward Albee’s The Zoo Story
MOJGAN ABSHAVI: Equilibrium: A Spiritual Translation of the Physical Attraction – Go Tell it on the Mountain
PRADEEP TRIKHA: Fredy Neptune: The Idea of ‘Being’ and ‘Becoming’…
EUGENE NGEZEM: T. S. Eliot, Samuel Beckett, and Women’s Predicament     

BOOK REVIEWS

The Postcolonial Encounter: India in the British Imagination
by Rita Nath Keshari
Reviewed by R. K. SINGH

Voices of the Present: Critical Essays on Some Indian
English Poets
by R. K. Singh
Reviewed by Y. S. RAJAN

Ripples in the Lake
by C. L. Khatri
Reviewed by R. K. SINGH

The Life Tree: Poems
by A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
Reviewed by R. K. SINGH

Jumping Genes
by Y. S. Rajan
Reviewed by R. K. SINGH

The River Returns: A Collection of Tanka and Haiku
by R. K. Singh
Reviewed by (Ms.) ANGELEE DEODHAR

(Special issue on Comparative Poetics,
edited by Bhavatosh IndraGuru)

KAPIL KAPOOR: Cultural Determination of Literary Theory
RADHAVALLABH TRIPATHI: Creative Process in Art
REKHA JHANJI: Mimesis Re-examined in the Light of Aristotle and Abhinavagupta
ACHYUTANANDA DASH: Bhartrhari on Linguistic Understanding
DHANANJAY SINGH: The Fable as Narrative in the Indian Tradition
GIRISH NATH JHA: Indian Theories of Knowledge Compared with Western Theories and Artificial Intelligence
VANDANA PATHAK & URMILA DABIR: Flavours of Flowers: A Rasaesthetics of Karnad’s ‘Flowers’
RAJNISH MISHRA: Some Reflections on Bharata’s Natyasastra
BHAVATOSH INDRAGURU: Dhvani and Dissociation of Sensibility

(Special issue on Popular Culture Studies,
edited by Saugata Bhaduri & Simi Malhotra)

SECTION I - THE FOLK/RITUAL SPACE AND POPULAR CULTURE

JAVAID IQBAL BHAT: Bhand Pather: Loss of a Syncretic Theatrical Form
DEBASISH CHAKRABARTY: Hybrid Identities: A Reading of Jain Migrants Celebrating Durga Puja in a Communist State

SECTION II - MATERIAL CULTURE: LIVED REALITY AS POPULAR CULTURE

MURIMI GAITA: Constructing Youth, Identity, and Nation: Matatu Culture in Kenya
GUNJEET AURORA: Caffeinising the Masses: Barista and Café Coffee Day
SANGEETA SHARMA & VIRENDRA SINGH NIRBAN: New Role of Women in Advertising

SECTION III - THE ELECTRONIC MEDIA: AUDIO, VISUAL, CYBERNETIC

SWARALIPI NANDI: The Resurrected Radio: A Note on the FM Channels of Delhi
IPSITA SENGUPTA: Of Virtual License in
Imaginary Homelands: A Study of the Bengali (audio play) Priyo Bondhu
ANURADHA GHOSH: The Narrative of Nation-Building and the Popular Hindi Cinema
SUKHDEV SINGH: Cypower: A Virtual Challenge to Actual Power

SECTION IV - LITERATURE AND POPULAR CULTURE

T. RAVICHANDRAN: Cybernetic Culture in William Gibson’s Neuromancer
C.L.L. JAYAPRADA: Anurag Mathur’s The
Inscrutable Americans as Pop Fiction
BUKOYE AROWOLO: The Black Man: Still a Savage in Condé’s Great Black Hole
YINGGUO XU: American Feminism with Taoist Spirit:
A Reading of Maxim Hong Kingston

(Special issue on Perspectives on Women’s
Writing in India, edited by Mona Sinha & Anupama Jaidev)

LAKSHMI KRISHNAN: The Costs of Legitimacy: Women and “High” Culture in Ambai’s Wrestling                
RAJ KUMAR: Narrative, History, Politics: Study of Gender Oppression in Mahasweta Devi’s Draupadi
SWARALIPI NANDI: The Personal and the Political: A Study of a Dalit Woman’s autobiography through Bama’s Karukku
GITANJALI CHAWLA: In Search of Dignity: A Study of the Unspoken Voices from the North-East      
DEEBA ZAFIR: The “Unspeakable” in Ismat Chughtai’s ‘Lihaaf’ ‘(The Quilt)’
MONA SINHA: The New Woman in Pratima Verma’s ‘Raakh’ (Ashes) and ‘Doorasth’ (Distanced)      
P. P. AJAYAKUMAR: The Ideology of the Aesthetic: Nayantara Sahgal’s Pluralistic Narratives and the Politics of Polyphony           

NAMIKA: Translating the ‘translated’: Women’s Poetry in Translation
KAMAL KUMAR IN CONVERSATION WITH SRI RAJESHWAR VASISHTH: Creativity is the ambrosial source of joy

i. Poems in Translation

ii. Stories in Translation

Virgin Vessel by AMRITA PRITAM
Ashes by PRATIMA VERMA 
Male Authorship and the Female Experience by MAHASHWETA BAXIPATRA
Barren Gandhari by RABI PATTANAYAK  

SECTION IV: BOOK REVIEW

Bride at Ten, Mother at Fifteen (Autobiography)
by Sethu Ramaswamy
Reviewed by ANUPAMA JAIDEV

(Special issue on Partition re/visioned,
edited by Sherina Joshi & Preety Gupta Dewan)

NILANJANA MUKHERJEE: Khowabnama: Nationalism’s Dream Other
PAULAMI SENGUPTA: The Onus of Dishonor: Women and the Anxieties of Partition in Bengali Short Stories
NOVY KAPADIA: Partition and the Parsi Novel
HINA NANDRAJOG: Sand Dunes of Memory: Edited Memories of Partition in Punjabi Short Fiction
DEEBA ZAFIR: Of Loss and Remembrance: Banno’s Pakistan in Kamleshwar’s “How Many Pakistans?”
SIMRAN CHADHA: Nationalism in Times of Rising Communal Violence: The Archive and the Politics of Resistance in Sabiha Sumar’s Khamosh Paani
GULSHAN TANEJA: The Light of Tamas
BISWAJIT MOHANTY: Beyond Specularity

TRANSLATIONS

‘Ill-Koko’–The Imaginary Kite
by Illias Ghuman
Translated by MADHURI CHAWLA
           
The Mortar
by Sukhwant Kaur Mann
Translated by HINA NANRAJOG

“Aadaab”
by Samaresh Basu
Translated by KRISHNA DUTT & and AJANTA DUTT

The Carnage
by Gurdev Rupana
Translated by MADHURI CHAWLA

Homeland
by Devendra Satyarthi
Translated by HINA NANDRAJOG

RANO RINGO & RASHMI GAUR: Towards a Woman’s World: A Post-Feminist Reading of The Stone Angel
A. SELVARAJ: The Transformative Dimension of History and Myth in James Reaney’s The Donnellys
MORTAZA YAMINI: Phonological, Linguistic and Graphological Considerations in the Interpretation of ‘yuduh’
LI LI: Ideological Manipulation in Translation in a Chinese Context: A Case Study on Su Manshu’s Translation
of Les Misérables
MICHAEL PAUL HOGAN: The Influence of Painting and Sculpture on the Poetry of P. B. Shelley
R. K. SINGH: Niranjan Mohanty: A poet of the Bhakti Cult
SUH JOSEPH CHE: Prescriptive versus Descriptive Approaches in Drama Translation Research
RASHMI GAUR: Society, Husband and the Other: The Dilemma of Indian Wives in the Novels of Shashi Deshpande
KAMAYANI KAUSHIVA: Sylvia Plath: Echoing Women’s Perspectives and Predicaments

BOOK REVIEW

Mouse or Rat? Translation as Negotiation.
Reviewed by ALEXANDER KOZIN

(Special issue on Indian Literatures in Translation, edited by Saugata Bhaduri & Simi Malhotra)

SECTION I: CRITICAL DISCOURSES ON INDIAN LITERATURES IN TRANSLATION

N. KAMALA & G. J. V. PRASAD: An English for Translation
ATANU BHATTACHARYA: The Dialectics of Praxis and Gnosis: Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak’s Translation of Mahasweta Devi’s Stories
ANURADHA GHOSH: Indian Writing in English: A Critical Conjuncture
ANTARA DATTA: The Cultural Politics of Translation: Teaching Indian Literature to Eng Lit                              Students
MAYA JOSHI: Drama in Translation: Two Teaching Texts

ANISUR RAHMAN: Constructing Identities in Two Languages: A Personal Account
ARVIND JOSHI: In Translation
AJANTA DUTT: Translating and Teaching Jibanananda

Selected Poems from Banalata Sen by Jibanananda Das
Translated by AJANTA DUTT.

Eight Poems
Translated by KAMAL KUMAR

‘The City of Death’ by Amarkant
Translated by PREETI GUPTA DEWAN

Kālidāsa’s Megha-dūta
Translated into Hindi Verse by KRISHNA GOPAL SRIVASTAVA
Reviewed by SUSHEEL KUMAR SHARMA

(Special Issue on New Literatures in English, edited by Prem Srivastava)

EDITORIAL

HARPREET KAUR BAHRI: In Memoriam of Prof. Ujjal Singh Bahri
R. K. SINGH: A Tribute to Mr. U. S. Bahri

NOVY KAPADIA: The Legacy of Partition in Amitav Ghosh’s The Shadow Lines
NGEMUNANG AGNES NGALE LYONGA: Ernest Gaines’s Of Love And Dust: A Celebration of the African-American Folklore
BASAVARAJ NAIKAR: Treatment of Wolé Soyinka’s Kongi’s Harvest as a Political Satire
ROGHAYEH GHANBARALIZADEH: God and The Black Poet: The Attitude of Harlem Renaissance Poets to Religion
LEELA KANAL: The Woman Artist as Protagonist – An Overview of Shashi Deshpande’s Female Protagonists
RASHMI GAUR: Machismo and Gender Discrimination in Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart
TEJINDER KAUR: Cultural Dilemmas and Displacements of Immigrants in Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Namesake
SHUBHA R. MISHRA: Exuberance of Immigration: Bharti Mukherjee’s The Middleman and Other Stories
R. K. SINGH: New Indian English Writing: Postcolonialism, or the Politics of Rejection?
ANDREW TATA NGEH: Anglophone Cameroon Poetry and the Politics of Liberation: The Poetic vision of Emmanuel Fru Doh and Bate Besong

Divinity in Action: The Poems of Myriam Pierri and
Giovanni Campisi in the Trilogy Collection Pacem in Terri
Reviewed by R. K. SINGH

Metaphysical Dimensions in Yann Martel’s Life of Pi
Reviewed by O. P. SHYAMA