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In 1966, Margaret Atwood and her long-time artist friend Charles Pachter produced a handmade collaborative text entitled Speeches for Doctor Frankenst...

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"Monstrous Origins" offers a compelling analysis of the 2012 eBook re-release of Margaret Atwood and Charles Pachter's 1966 collaborative text, *Speec...

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Lidia Sudyka

The Landscape of the Battlefield

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The article presents an in-depth analysis of the description of the battlefield found in the poem Varadāmbikāpariṇaya or “The Marriage of V...

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The article, "The Landscape of the Battlefield," promises an intriguing and focused analysis of the poetic depiction of warfare within Tirumalāmbā’s *...

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Frank Köhler

Kṛpa

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In a recent study (Pontillo 2016) it has been argued that the Mahābhārata contains traces of a heterodox culture, the Vrātya-culture, and t...

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This paper proposes an intriguing expansion of a recent hypothesis (Pontillo 2016) concerning the presence of Vrātya-culture traces within the *Mahābh...

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Danielle Feller

Adding Insult to Injury

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In the Mahābhārata (MBh), whipping is mainly resorted to by charioteers while driving their horses and the terms designating whips are ther...

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This paper, aptly titled "Adding Insult to Injury," presents an intriguing examination of the concept and practice of whipping within the Mahābhārata....

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Weronika Rokicka

Gentle Violence

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The article examines narratives on domestic violence in middle-class families in selected novels of an acclaimed Indian author, Bani Basu,...

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This article proposes an examination of domestic violence narratives within the context of middle-class families, as portrayed in two selected novels...

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Monika Browarczyk

How to Speak of the Unspeakable?

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To date generations of people from South Asia grapple with traumatic experiences of havoc and violence prior to, during and in the aftermat...

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This paper tackles a profoundly important and sensitive subject: the lingering trauma of the Partition of British India, specifically focusing on the...

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Maria Puri

Reading Between the Lines

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A decades long attempt by the central government to control dissent in Punjab culminated in a military operation codenamed Bluestar (June 1...

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The paper, titled "Reading Between the Lines," presents a compelling and timely exploration of the traumatic events of 1984 in Punjab through a litera...

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S. Puja, L. Kavitha Nair

Grief, Anger, and In-between

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Śurpaṇakhā from the Rāmāyaṇa, though she plays a pivotal role in the epic, is often neglected in the main discourse. The character’s exclus...

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The proposed paper, "Grief, Anger, and In-between," addresses a highly pertinent and overdue subject within literary and cultural studies: the re-eval...

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Hermina Cielas Leão

Bombs and Shrapnel Drawing Verses

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The title "Bombs and Shrapnel Drawing Verses" immediately captures attention, suggesting a poignant and potentially insightful exploration of the inte...

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Anna Trynkowska

Indigenous People, Environmental Issues and a Reinterpretation of the Indian Epic Tradition in the Bengali Short Story A Bird’s Mother (Pākhir Mā) by Sunil Gangopadhyay

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This paper deals with the Bengali short story A Bird’s Mother (Pākhir Mā) by Sunil Gangopadhyay (1934–2012). First published in 1964, the...

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This paper presents a focused and timely analysis of Sunil Gangopadhyay's Bengali short story "A Bird's Mother (Pākhir Mā)," contextualizing its theme...