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Abstract: On being encountered by disease/illness we develop remedial measures to cope with it. These remedial measures may be seen as the operative health systems in a given culture. This, however, is not to assert that there is, and can…
Abstract: The aim of this article is to examine the ideological assumptions on which the discourse of the cosmetic surgery is based, in a leading women’s magazine, Femina. Within the jurisdiction of Framing Theory, deductive content analysis is done to…
Abstract: It has become commonplace in the US to speak of the epidemic of autism, with approximately 1 in 68 children being diagnosed with the disorder as of 2014. Characterised by impairments in social interaction and communication, as well as…
Abstract : Myths are at one and the same time consequent of and constitutive of culture. Culture as theory and precept is often interlaced with myth, and it reaches its praxis in the socio-political realm. Written in 1996, Manjula Padmanabhan’s…
Abstract: In contemporary India homoerotic love has a precarious status, as actual practice, as a conceptual issue and a subject of representation. The issue then in question, however remains the same—that of righteousness of an outrageously overt physical-sexual act, morally,…
Abstract: The concept of history in the works of Salman Rushdie is open to many interpretations and his daring portrayal of nations, events and people challenge the accepted notions about writing history into fiction. Rushdie’s vindication of the ‘imaginative variety…
Abstract : The Dirty Picture is a film that ruled the roost in the year 2011 along with Zindagi Na Milegi Doobara. Unlike the latter the former ruled the roost not only in the industry, the media, the awards, the…
Abstract : Jhumpa Lahiri is blazed again with her latest and sensitive collection of short stories entitled Unaccustomed Earth, focussing on the relationships and generational divide between first generation Bengali immigrants and their America-bred children. Once again she set forth…
Abstract: A writer of selected diasporas, Anita Desai traverses the cultural milieu in an attempt to discover the psyche of a woman whom others call ‘Mother’ giving a hitherto unknown version to wandering in her Journey to Ithaca. This latest…
Abstract: This article attempts to examine signification of intimacy in Kamala Das’ (Madhavikkutty alias Kamala Surayya) writings and analyses how relations incorporate themselves in her works. Patterns of intimacy in its various manifestations become the mechanics of Das’ output penetrating…