“When I cannot see words curling like rings of smoke round me I am in darkness—I am nothing.” ? Virginia Woolf, The Waves Under the weight of goose down and split spine, I lingered in Orlando. How true it was that nothing “thicker than a knife's blade separates happiness from melancholy.” My rapist was the knife’s blade. His act upon me made me separate—lost. And … [Read more...]
Orientalism in Disney Movies | Arnima Singh
“The Orient is not only adjacent to Europe; it is also the place of Europe's greatest and richest and oldest colonies, the source of its civilizations and languages, its cultural contestant, and one of its deepest and most recurring images of the Other. In addition, the Orient has helped to define Europe (or the West) as its contrasting image, idea, personality, experience. Yet … [Read more...]
The Walking Man | John Richmond
The neighborhood- for a long time- had been relatively health conscious with quite a few people jogging and cycling, so, it came to be that almost no one paid any particular attention to a man walking. Well, at least, not right away. He first appeared at the beginning of summer- three years ago- simply walking- though intently and purposely- but, still, just walking down the … [Read more...]
Ethnic Anxiety, Cultural Clash reflected in the work of South Asian Writers | Indu Pandey
The present paper discusses the work of two most prominent South Asian born writers – Rohinton Mistry and Bapsi Sidhwa. The literature produced by these writers is community specific. Rohinton Mistry is an Indian origin Parsi novelist, who later immigrated to Canada. His work shows concern for the marginalised Parsi existence under the impact of modernity and globalisation. His … [Read more...]
Santiniketan | Nilmani Phookan
I can’t exactly recall when or where I had come across the name of Rabindranath Tagore. Certain faces of people once seen, certain names once heard get imprinted on the mind. The very name casts a spell --- Rabindranath ; what fascination the name holds, what resonance, what grace! Ever since the name ‘Rabindranath’ entered my mind, it has continued to remain ensconced in the … [Read more...]