Abstract: The Rig Vedic period was the golden period for the women of India, it not only granted economic, political, social and intellectual freedom to its womenfolk but gave them full liberty to excel in the spiritual arena also. It…
Abstract: K. Ayyappa Paniker has created a niche for himself in the academic world as a poet, professor and critic. He heralded the dawn of modernism in Malayalam poetry and created a new perspective in the area of literary criticism.…
Abstract: This article is an overview of Paniker as a poetic personality of Malayalam literature. It addresses aspects of his personality that shaped him to become one of the most renowned Malayalam poets. Instances that led him to convey poetry…
Abstract: A creative writer who attempts to analyse literature often gains insights which an ordinary critic may not obtain. The uniqueness of Ayyappa Paniker can be understood when his genius, as a writer who dared to inaugurate new techniques and…
Abstract: The paper Ayyappa Paniker’s status as a literary critic and his flair for, or rather skill in, applying theories, Eastern as well as Western, to texts of all hues and shapes, which have never been either disputed or doubted.…
Abstract: Ayyappa Paniker’s evolution in his poetry is one to be noted and valued. His style of poetry writing transcends from a typical romantic one to a more modernist inclusive approach. The paper aims at analysing the change in expressionism…
` Abstract: This paper looks into Namjoshi’s speculations about radical possibilities. She exposes the mental and physical constraints that the ideology of femininity imposes on all women such as motherhood and child rearing. She questions the centrality of dominant heterosexist…
The Nehru Centre, London organised its debate of the month on 28 July 2004 on Women and Censorship in collaboration with Samvukta, Journal of Women Studies published from India. The participants included Ritu Menon, founder-member of Women World and…
Forum for Discussion In this issue of Samyukta we discuss contemporary women writers `A woman writer,’ wrote Miles Franklin in the early 1900s, ‘except in rare instances, has no protection such as enjoyed by men who use their…
Review of the contributions of a Major Thinker This issue of Samyukta highlights the contributions of Jawaharlal Nehru Born on 14 November, 1889 into an aristocratic family of Kashmiri Pandits who had migrated from Kashmir to Delhi and from…
Abstract: This paper addresses at a general level the role of feminism in revitalising epistemology. This is hoped to be achieved neither by understanding feminism as a separate and distinctive branch of philosophy, nor by arguing for the ability…
Samyukta – A Journal of Women’s Studies in association with the National Book Trust, New Delhi organized a Malayalam Women Writers’ Meet at the Government Guest House, Thycaud, Thiruvananthapuram on March 31, 2004. The function was well-received and was graced…
