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Abstract: Awareness of cultural differences mostly exists in the context of tourism, where stereotypical representations of the “Other” are taken for authentic cultural “knowledge”. The “Other” is held at bay or expected to stay with her/his own kin. However, the…
Jean Arasanayagam is of Dutch Burgher origin. She has attracted attention as a highly imaginative and sensitive poet. Besides being autobiographical, her writings also project the tragic state of affairs in her country Sri Lanka, which is torn by internal…
Abstract: Indian women had been writing poetry in Prakrit, Pali, Sanskrit and the regional languages long before the problematics of nation-states, nationality, postcoloniality, feminism or naribad, nativism or desivad, power structures and the politics of identity and difference had claimed…
You arrive exactly at the appointed hour. You are in my room facing me silently as I emerge dripping from the shower. You say nothing. Only look at me with those cat eyes. Something rolls and sparks in my belly…
“Throw away that book, Santi,” said Sushama breaking the mid-noon silence below the casuarina tree in the Women’s College campus. Grabbing the copy of ‘Remanan’ from my hands and throwing it on the floor, she continued, “What’s there so much…
One of the avowed intentions of Samyukta is to define feminism from the Indian context. Very few Malayalam writers have been so staunchly for feminism and the woman centered perspective as Sara Joseph. In her writings, Sara Joseph has always…
Urmila, I remember you still The tears unshed, on the threshold, Turning those eyes swollen The smile on your lotus lips blossoming like a song of pain The firm feet settling to stillness; some sad message Awakening in the corner…
ONE The Vetaal As the hours of midnight ticked by, the Vetaal, hanging upside down on a branch of the coral tree in the graveyard, waited for the arrival of King Vikramaditya. Vikramaditya will have to come, for the story…
Abstract: By 2021 the growth rate of elderly persons in Kerala will be one and a half times higher than the growth rate of general population. Most of the states in India including Kerala have not decided on Old Age…
Abstract: A healthy population is considered to be a national resource. Hence, health is a critical component of planning, policy making and programme formulation in the human resource development of the country. Outside the framework of the State, the provision…