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BRAINS AND COURAGE

Ambat Madhav Menon

COMPLIMENTS FROM THE ARMY COMMANDER

Ambat Madhav Menon

MY LETTER TO THE CHIEF

Ambat Madhav Menon

THE BRIGADIER ON LEAVE

Ambat Madhav Menon

THE GUARDSMAN'S LANYARD

Ambat Madhav Menon

THE BASKET BALL COURT

Ambat Madhav Menon

SKI-ING HOLIDAY

Ambat Madhav Menon

THE PRESIDENT'S VISIT

Ambat Madhav Menon

Female Embodiment: Narrating Gender/Narrating Body in Mieko Kawakami’s Breasts and Eggs

Body narratives by women writers hold an important place in contemporary cultural studies. This paper seeks to analyse Kawakami's Breasts and Eggs within the ambit of culture, gender and narration. Kawakami as a Japanese writer narrates the intimate organs of the female body in order to interpret woman's mind and soul. Writing serves as an act of ventilation for woman's thoughts. The novel explores contemporary womanhood in Japan by bringing into focus three different protagonists namely Natsuko Natsume, Makiko and Midoriko. Body shaming and stigmatization are the reasons for woman's trauma. Social and cultural constructs create an illusion that a woman should be fair with an appealing body without any blemishes in order to attract men. Thus the novel raises questions about woman being a mere reproductive machine. In Cultural Studies body is examined as a site of contestation. It is culture that constructs bodily identity and behavioral code. Culture and society oppress women and alienate them. This study unearths the condition of East Asian women who suffer due to poverty, misogyny, cultural and social constraints as portrayed in Kawakami's Breasts and Eggs and how a woman's body resists and conforms to this construction.

'The Subjection of Women' in 'A Doll's House'

This research paper endeavours to provide a combined and intertextual analysis of the lives and principal works of two of the most important writers of the Victorian era, John Stuart Mill and Henrik Ibsen. The two men have largely influenced the modern outlook towards feminism and the representation of women in literature as well as the real world. Mill's 'The Subjection of Women' is hailed as an exemplary text in the formulation of the tenets of liberal feminism. In the same way, Ibsen's play, 'A Doll's House', is often thought to be revolutionary for being the first in its representation of a feminist woman on stage. This paper attempts to study Ibsen's play using the feminist framework provided by Mill. In doing so, it seeks to highlight and inspire men aligned toward equality for women.

Water Hyacinth

Madan Sarma

Almost Eldest

PADMAJA SRIRAM

Aandhai malai (In Western Ghats)

SARANYAN BV

Religious and Cultural Confluence of Eastern and Western India: Revisiting of the Folk Philosophy

Language has been conceived to be the most effective medium for communicating one’s ideas and emotions to others . The journey of any language in order to earn recognition undergoes rigorous changes and testing through ages . Language of any particular place or region which is popularly known as the “Dialect” takes the form of a complete expression only after it becomes customary to the lives of the people. The process of getting accustomed in the social order includes its travel through the folk literature, indigenous tales and the travelogues native to their places. This work would accentuate how the folklores in the provinces of Jharkhand and West Bengal, inspite of being geographically divided hold on to have some common features . Their similar historical backgrounds have laid the foundation for many local dialects to not only thrive and develop but to maintain its strong roots till today.

Long walk to somewhere

Hindu devotees apply sacred ash - also called vibhuti in Sanskrit traditionally as three horizontal lines across the forehead to honour Lord Shiva, the third of the Hindu Trinity.

Exploration of Femininity in Motherhood

In this study the author be analysing the plays, a tragedy, Desire Under the Elms (1924) by American playwright Eugene O'Neill and a drama, The House of Bernarda Alba (1936) by Spanish playwright Federico Garcia Lorca. The author will be analysing the characters of the mothers, Abbie (Desire Under the Elms) and Bernarda Alba (The House of Bernarda Alba) and how their dysfunctional characters and behaviours are because of the influence and impact of patriarchy. A typical feminine quality assigned to a mother is of a nurturer who protects her children. But what are the consequences when she does otherwise? These plays depict the actions taken by the women that the society doesn't associate to their role as a mother and doesn't approve of them. The author will be looking at several tragedies and analyse the characters of the mothers. The author will be looking at the act of maternal filicide. So, this comes to us as a shock because we are not ready to accept this aspect of her character. Abbie kills her own son to prove her love for Eben and Bernarda Alba, a matriarch who controls the lives of the women around her, doesn't shed a tear at the suicide of her daughter and exempts anyone from doing so. By the means of this study, The author wants to show that a mother is a human and she functions according to her desires and passions and they are allowed to diverge from their so-called perfect roles. They have been trying to break away from the stigma of being perfect and their stereotypical role of a selfless being. They want to place the individual above the society's image of a mother. The author will compare and contrast the motherly and the un-motherly characteristics.

Determination of the Factual Anti-Hero in Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House: A Critical Study

This study targets testing Nils Krogstad's portrayal in Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House. Primarily, it attempts to demonstrate that Krogstad is the real anti-hero in Ibsen's work of art by examining the adversarial credits in his portrayal, his inspirational motivations towards villainy, just as his emotional impact on the hero and the plot. After the logical conversation, the study tracked down that the intentions of Krogstad allude to social, passionate, and monetary factors. On account of Krogstad's emotional impact, the study attests his sensational impact is solid on Nora by carrying her near the truth of her existence with Torvald as a doll. Besides, the aftereffects of the study demonstrate Krogstad's cheerful end is certainly not proof that he isn't opposed to the hero, Nora, yet in addition, it is to show an example, defrauded in an unforgiving society. At last, the study demonstrates that Krogstad is the top character to be the play's adversary for his opposing highlights incorporating the contentions with Nora, the solid sensational impact on her, and the emotional impact on the play's occasions.

Transmigration

FARZANA QUADER

Wordsworth’s The Prelude: Poetry Through the Means of Philosophy

William Wordsworth’s epic poem The Prelude was not intended by its author to be an epic, rather a precursor to an upcoming work only comparable to Paradise Lost. However, the small self-reflective piece intended for his then friend S.T. Coleridge was expanded over the course of about 40 years. In the poem, Wordsworth proposes to Coleridge and effectively to himself the matter of his intended epic. The Prelude is the germ that translated into The Recluse but in itself it supplanted all other works of his for being deeply philosophical. Wordsworth’s style is elliptical as he hovers around the center of his own psyche, in attempt to understand the subject of his epic i.e. man. This essay proposes that Wordsworth achieves a Copernican turn in likeness to Kant’s philosophy when he makes himself the object of study and through this transposition, the modern human subject is conceived.

May all beings everywhere be happy and free!

SALIGRAMA K. AITHAL

May all beings everywhere be happy and free!

SALIGRAMA K. AITHAL

Aandhai malai (In Western Ghats)

SARANYAN BV

श्रेष्ठ बनने के मार्ग पर 7 डिवाइन लॉज़

जिस प्रकार भौतिक घटना विधानों से बँधी होती है, उसी प्रकार जीवन यात्रा को नियंत्रित करने के लिए आध्यात्मिक विधान होते हैं। उनकी जानकारी से हम समझ पाते हैं कि कुछ लोग इतनी आसानी से सफल कैसे हो जाते हैं, जबकि दूसरों के लिए सफलता एक संघर्ष बनी रहती है

अंतर्मन की ओर

यह पुस्तक हमें विचलित विचारों को शांत करने के लिए ध्यान का उपयोग कर वर्तमान में जीने, अपनी ऊर्जा को फिर से केंद्रित कर समस्याओं को दूर करने तथा उत्तरोत्तर आगे बढ़ने के साधन उपलब्ध कराती है

कुबेर की जीवन-गाथा के जरिए सामाजिक और आर्थिक विचार

कुबेर : लंका का पूर्व राजा

मनुष्यता और प्रेम की वैचारिक पृष्ठभूमि तैयार करती कविताएँ

आदमी बनने के क्रम में

'किताबें तब तक ही बची रहेंगी जब तक कि वे कागज़ पर लिखी जाएँगी' डॉ. अबरार मुल्तानी

डॉ. अबरार मुल्तानी एक बेस्टसेलर लेखक हैं, जिनकी किताबों के विषय विविध हैं। वे पेशे से चिकित्सक हैं। डॉ. मुल्तानी ने हिंदी और अंग्रेजी में कई सेल्फ हेल्प पुस्तकों की रचना की है, जिन्हें खूब पढ़ा जाता है। सोशल मीडिया पर भी वे काफी सक्रिय रहते हैं तथा उनके फोलॉवर्स की संख्या लाखों में है। दो साल पूर्व उन्होंने मैंड्रेक पब्लिकेशंस की शुरुआत की थी। इस प्रकाशन के जरिए क्लासिक कृतियों के साथ-साथ नए लेखकों को एक बहुत शानदार मंच मिला है। पिछले दिनों डॉ. अबरार मुल्तानी ने स्कूली शिक्षा पर एक खास किताब 'मत रहना स्कूल के भरोसे प्रकाशित की जिसमें उन्होंने शिक्षा, छात्र, अध्यापक आदि पर विस्तृत चर्चा की है। समय पत्रिका ने उनकी इस नई पुस्तक तथा प्रकाशन-लेखन से संबंधित कई विषयों पर चर्चा की, प्रस्तुत हैं बातचीत के मुख्य अंश :

कुछ अलग, कुछ ख़ास

सन्मति पब्लिशर्स ने तीन ख़ास किताबों को प्रकाशित किया जिन्हें पाठक खूब पसंद कर रहे हैं।

देखो हमरी काशी बनारस का शब्द - चित्र बनाती जीवन-यात्रा

यह पुस्तक संस्मरण विधा में एक नवोन्मेष है। यह संस्मरण काशी की संस्कृति और बनारसी जीवन का रंगमंच प्रतीत होता है। इसमें वर्णित व्यक्तियों के जरिए काशी की संस्कृति, परंपरा और जीवनधारा की खोज की गई है। जो सदियों से सामाजिक-सांस्कृतिक जीवन के अपरिहार्य अंग रहे हैं। ऐसे लोगों को केंद्र में रखकर कथा बुनी गई है। इस पुस्तक के पात्र चाहे जो हों, वे सामाजिक जीवन में साधारण भले माने जाते हों, पर कथा में वे असाधारण हैं।

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