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: 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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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:…
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…
