Volume II number 2 and volume III number 1 of Samyukta carried Act I and Act II of Lanka Lakshmi, Sri C.N. Sreekantan Nair’s dramatic rendering of the war episodes of the Ramayana from the point of view of Ravana…
Preface Novel books in the Malayalam language being absolutely nil, I have been trying for a long time to write and publish such books so that I can earn the name, ‘the first Malayalam novel writer’, just as the great…
How was life like for a woman of high birth in Kerala some fifty-sixty years back? Popular belief has it that she had a privileged existence with the joint family set-up and the matrilineal system of inheritance, enjoying all emotional…
Abstract: The General Agreement in Trade in Services (GATS), aim at promoting international trade in health and education. With reference to education, it encourages private enterprise and allows foreign universities/institutions to enter the Indian educational market either by scouting for students…
Abstract: Dealing with ecological crises brings forth many questions in terms of its cultural, political and economic manifestations. Concerns of ecofeminism vary from the obvious connection between patriarchy and the subjugation of women and nature to a sustainable economy…
Abstract: This article is a stylistic analysis of Arundhati Roy’s. The God of Small Things which attempts to assess the nature and incidence of linguistic deviations in Roy’s use of literary language, and also to determine their special effects in…
Ingrafting: A Response to the Theory of Interiorization This essay by the late Professor Krishna Rayan is perhaps the first published response to the concept of antassannivesha or interiorisation as it was being formulated. Abstract: This article looks closely…
Abstract: The essay examines interiorisation, a mode of textual exploration, which through a hermeneutical process enables us to effect entry into the interior of those literary works that, through word, sentence and metrical line, render palpable the bhava-artha-rasa born of…
