Abstract : Modernity is a difficult concept to define. More so are modernity’s local and national versions, as the term ‘modernity’ is understood primarily as a universal and universalising mindset. That is why we see an internal schism develop within…
Abstract : Any attempt to describe the 1947 partition of British India into the two nation states of India and Pakistan inevitably brings to the fore the problematic configurations of modernity and tradition. The events that led to this moment…
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,…
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…
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.…
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…
Abstract: This paper attempts at analysing the stylistic methods that Rajalakshmi carefully incorporated into her writing. Rajalakshmi’s repertoire is indeed limited. But within her limited scope, she has succeeded in depicting life as it was lived, mostly by middle…
The following is a record of Rajalakshmi’s life, culled from the memories of a friend with whom Rajalakshmi shared accommodation both during their student days at the BHU and later during their teaching career at the NSS College for Women,…
Abstract: Rajalakshmi was the quintessentially reticent author, who guarded her silences with the same vigour that she filtered her expressions. Even after more than forty years of her death she still remains an enigma to a large number of the…
Abstract: Although at first glimpse, Rajalakshmi may seem to have well and truly painted herself into a corner with her choice of old, tried-and-tested narrative techniques, in fact, her stories, wittingly or otherwise, exploit the potential of narrative silence. This…
Abstract: The paper is an attempt at appreciating the literary works of Rajalakshmi without the sole attribution of her personal life to them. Extracts from various works of hers showcasing all the recurrent themes, the dramatic narrative technique and the…
Abstract: The following article analyses the different methods taken up by famous Malayalam women short story writers. In their attempt to accentuate their social standing within a male-centred and male-dictated society, they resort to short story writing. These short stories…
