Volume 9, No. 1 – 2009

Articles

• Gender Roles,Women and the Ethics of Wellness by JAYASREE KRISHANANKUTTY, MEERA V. MENON AND SHAJU K. FRANCIS Posted in: Philosophy, Health, Articles Abstract: Though specific gender roles had been allocated from the beginning of mankind, ensuring the wellbeing or wellness of the whole family has always been largely the responsibility of women. The idea of wellness indicates the presence of well-being and… Continue Reading
• Bio-Ethics an Overview by FEROSH M. BASHEER & LEENA K.R. Posted in: Philosophy, Health, Articles Abstract: The article highlights some of the major considerations in the important branch of applied ethics, Bio ethics. This branch of ethics is concerned with the study of ethical issues and decision-making associated with the use of living organisms. Bio… Continue Reading
• The Ethics of Living in Andals Tiruppavai by PREMA JAGANNATHAN Posted in: Philosophy, Literature & Literary Studies, Culture, Articles Abstract: Andal’s Tiruppavai recognises the unity of all the living beings of the world. It encodes the quintessence of all the religions of the world as it highlights the basic values of charity, good will, self-discipline, universal love, and the… Continue Reading
• Pandita Ramabai Saraswathi: Making of a Social Entrepreneur by UDAYA KUMAR IRVATHUR & RAJALAKSHMI N.K. Posted in: Life writing, Society, Articles Abstract: Sustenance and support of a strategic caste system and hierarchical patriarchal system that prevailed in India, was at an enormous social cost. Women of higher caste had to bear a considerable part of this social burden of the patriarchy… Continue Reading
• The Gendered National Subject in ‘Gandhi,’ ‘the Making of the Mahatma’, and ‘Dr.Babasaheb Ambedkar’: A Subaltern Reading by RENJINI.R Posted in: Power, Society, Articles Abstract: Subaltern theories of nation, gender and historiography have shown that gender was mobilized to guard the ‘Indian’ against the ‘western’, as part of Indian renaissance. This was, indeed, a play to hide the inadequacies in Indian history. Historical cinema,… Continue Reading
• Implementation of Women Component plan in Rural Governance: Glimpses of a Rising Trend by GIREESAN K & JOS CHATHUKULAM Posted in: Development, Articles Abstract: In this paper, an attempt has been made to analyse the implementation of WPC in the local government institutions of a Block Panchayat in Thrissur district during the Kerala Development Programme (KDP). The need for taking up an overall… Continue Reading
• Identity Trauma in Jhumpa Lahiri S Women Characters by ELIZABETH JOHN Posted in: Literature & Literary Studies, Articles Abstract: This study tries to represent the identity crisis suffered by the women characters in Jhumpa Lahiri’s works. Identity can be conceived as a ‘production’ which is never complete, always in process, and always constituted within, with no outside representation.… Continue Reading
• Translation as Interpretation by CHITRA PANIKKAR Posted in: Literature & Literary Studies, Culture, Articles Abstract: The attempt here is to highlight how the process of translation is at every step an interpretation of the source text much beyond the limits of language. The translation activity is influenced and directed by the reader-translator’s interpretation of… Continue Reading
• The Key to the Room: Celebrating Eight Decades of Virginia Woolf’s a Room of One’s own by ROSHAN THOMAS Posted in: Literature & Literary Studies, Articles Abstract: Woolf notes that women have been kept from writing because of the constraints they face and their relative poverty: “In the first place, to have a room of her own, let alone a quiet room or a sound-proof room,… Continue Reading

Interview

• A Conversation with K. Satchidanandan by RIZIO RAJ Posted in: Interview Keywords: Ayyappa Paniker, modernism, series poem, Malayalam literature, Malyalam modern poetry, women’s emancipation Your early poetry shows strong strains of melancholy, morbidity and skepticism: could you please explain their sources? My first collection of poems, Anchusooryan (Five Suns,1971)is indeed dominated… Continue Reading

Poetry

• Gandhi and the Tree by K.SATCHIDANANDAN Posted in: Poetry Gandhi was walking in the sun that had survived Naokhali. ‘Come, have some rest.’ Gandhi turned back: It was a shady tree. ‘You? It is not yet time for me to rest, ‘replied Gandhi. The tree complained: ‘The world is… Continue Reading
• Prayer by SHANTA ACHARYA Posted in: Poetry Praise the sun, powerful yet unwavering in its journey across the sky, light pulsing through clouds, mists; life sustaining. Praise the earth as it moves on its axis; inner and outer cores holding on to each other, partners on the… Continue Reading

Translation

• To the Workplace by ANTHARJANA SAMAJAM Posted in: Translation Characters Devaki: A high school girl who is carried away by modern, fashionable and luxurious life. Yet she is sincere and idealistic. Parvathy: Another high school girl. She is eager to lead an independent life dedicated to social service. Savithri:… Continue Reading
• My Story or the life Journey of a Young Malayali Woman by VINAYA Posted in: Autobiography, Translation A few admire her for her grit and self-confidence. Some condemn her for her brazen outspokenness. Many call her a stormy petrel. Others dismiss her as a seeker of cheap fame. Whatever the impression she leaves on people’s minds, whatever… Continue Reading