Vol. 7, Issue 4: October, 2026
Academic Section
(Poetry, Drama & Book Review)
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Cloud, Landscape, and Ecological Reciprocity: An Ecocritical and Ecofeminist Reading of Kālidāsa’s Meghadūta
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Staging Singlism: A Critical Reading of Selected Plays of Vijay Tendulkar and Mahesh Elkunchwar
30
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Understanding Mediatised Play and Participatory Culture Within Kidfluencers’ YouTube Content Phenomena: The Case of Emmanuella
47
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The Politics of Darkness Visible: Bringing to Light Urdu, Identity, and Cultural Memory in Parchhaiyan
62
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Disciplining Dissent: A Foucauldian Analysis of Power Structures in Girish Karnad’s Taledanda
76
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Bengali folk rhymes and New Historicism: playful fantasy, experience and conflict in selected rhymes from Khukumanir Chhora
88
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Ethical Values and Purposeful Living: A Comparative Study of the Thirukkural and Select English Poetry
100
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Beyond the Fervour of Spiritual Hegemony: Bhakti, Moral Manifestation and the Critique of Dogmatic Tapasya in Girish Karnad’s The Fire and The Rain
109
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RK Singh and Philip Larkin: Some Similarities
117
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Against the Waiting Room: Reading River and Mountain Time in Mamang Dai’s “The Voice of the Mountain” and “Small Towns and the River” through Dipesh Chakrabarty’s Critique of Historicism
131
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Anti-colonial Subtext in Victorian Verse: Hari Singh Gour's Resistance Through Form in Stepping Westward (1891)
144
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Gazi Abdulla-hel Baqui’s Rubaiyat Unveil a New Horizon to View Modern Life Reconnecting with Optimism through Spiritualism in the Age of Turmoil
162
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Who Acts, Who Is Acted upon: A Transitivity Analysis of Agency and Erasure in Harold Pinter’s War Poems
180
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The Autopoiesis of Dullness: Literary Succession and Self-Observation in Dryden's Mac Flecknoe
194
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Disguised Identity as Dialectic of Pleasure, Defence, and Surrender in The Good Person of Szechwan
207
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Idea of Longing and Loss: A Thematic Study of Gemological Aesthetics in Selected Sanskrit kāvya
219
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The Postmodern Absurd: Linguistic Violence, Epistemic Uncertainty, and the Erasure of Subjectivity in Harold Pinter’s The Birthday Party
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Re-exploring the Non-humans: Mirroring Speciesism and Racism in Ben Jonson’s Volpone Practising what he preaches? Theory and Poetic realism in Sir Philip Sidney's Defense of Poesy and Astrophil and Stella
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BOOK REVIEW
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Manas Bakshi’s My India is Great and Other Stories
269
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Dr. Jernail Singh Anand’s The Post-Truth Trilogy
279
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Jaydeep Sarangi’s Notes on the Rock of Job Charnock
286
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Dr. Dipak Giri’s Indian Minorities: A Critical Study
291
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Isabel J. Kim’s Sublimation
300
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Amitav Ghosh’s Ghost-Eye
307
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Stefania Barca’s Workers of the Earth
310
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Lalit’s (Lalitesh Mishra’s) Prithviputra: Son of the Soil
316
Vol. 7, Issue 4: October, 2026
Academic Section
(Novel & Short Story- Part-I)
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Unravelling the History of Opium Trade: A Study of Amitav Ghosh’s Ibis Trilogy as Historiographic Metafiction
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Finding a Voice: Women, Tradition, and Resistance in Attia Hosain’s Sunlight on a Broken Column
24
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Storytelling for the Environmental Cause in Indigenous Cultures: A Study in Akoopar, Jungle Nama, and The World We Once Lived In
43
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Analysis of women’s experiences, gender roles, and resistance against patriarchal structures in The Namesake and Interpreter of Maladies
53
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Violence and Victimization in the Postcolonial landscape: Dilemma, Moralityand conflict Resolution in J. M. Coetzee’s Disgrace
70
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Conceptualising Palimpsest: Reimagining Macondo in Netflix's One Hundred Years of Solitude
80
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Sexuality, Selfhood, and the Negotiation of Agency in Taslima Nasrin’s French Lover
103
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Memory, Migration, and the Making of Diasporic Identity in Lan Cao’s Monkey Bridge
117
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Human Values vs. Materialistic Desires: A Humanistic Perspective in Ruskin Bond’s The Blue Umbrella
129
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Beyond Diagnosis: Reading Edgar Allen Poe’s “The Tell-Tale Heart” through Mad Studies
137
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Cosmopolitan Cities and Hybrid Identities: Representing Global Urban Consciousness in Sarnath Banerjee’s Graphic Narratives
150
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From Childhood Fantasy to Adult Insights: Exploring Geronimo and Thea Stilton Books Through Shifting Perspectives
160
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From Objecthood to Subjecthood: A Subaltern Analysis of Mahasweta Devi's “Draupadi”
174
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Decrypting the Desires of Dorian Gray: From Imaginaries of the Ego Ideal towards a Deleuzian Emancipation of Desires
188
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Partition, Migration, and Trauma through Memory Lane: a Postcolonial Study of Intizar Husain’s Basti
204
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Thinking with the Tide: A Posthuman Reading of the River in Amitav Ghosh’s The Hungry Tide
220
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Voice, Memory, and the Politics of Recognition in Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar’s The Adivasi Will Not Dance
231
Vol. 7, Issue 4: October, 2026
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(Novel & Short Story- Part-II)
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“A Languageless Love”: Untranslatability in Syed Mujtaba Ali’s Shabnam and the Limits of AI-Mediated Literary Pedagogy
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Rewriting Womanhood: A Feminist Study of Gender, Identity and Agency in Select Writings of Kamala Markandaya
23
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Reading Suicide as a Compliance in Rimi B. Chatterjee’s Black Light
47
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Role of Gender Equality in the Sustainable Development of a Society: A Study of South Africa during Apartheid
70
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Reading Women in The Better Man
89
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Beyond Immortality: Mnemonic Archives and Psychological Disintegration in Akshat Gupta's The Hidden Hindu Trilogy
101
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Dams and Distress: Environmental (In)Justice, Precarious Migrancy and Bioregionalism in Na. D’Souza’s Dweepa: Island
116
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Articulating the strangled Voice: A Critical study of Shashi Deshpande’s That Long Silence
128
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Tracing the Fault lines of 'Woman' in Feminist Scholarship
135
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Peace as Godot: The Study of Absurdity in Partition through the Lens of Manto and the Genre Concerning Absurdism
148
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Impending Misfortune of the Dalits: Physical and Psychological Distress of Mahar Tribes in Selected Texts
159
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Avarice vs. Atonement: Re-reading Alexander S. Pushkin’s “The Queen of Spades” and Leo Tolstoy’s “How much Land does a Man need?”
170
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Witnessing from Below: Subaltern Consciousness, Collective Memory, and the Betrayal of Anti-Colonial Nationalism in Dhorai Charit Manas
190
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When Motherhood Becomes Harm: Maternal Selfhood, Moral Responsibility, and the Construction of the “Good Mother” in Contemporary Fiction
211
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Phenomenology of Life: The Logic of Lives in Partition Narratives
224
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Who Are You When You’re Not You? Identity, Memory and the Posthuman Crisis of Self in Altered Carbon
234
Vol. 7, Issue 4: October, 2026
Academic Section
(Mixed Genres & Others)
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Men/Male Models in Underwear: Oscillations between Eroticism and Art
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Memory, Migration and Trauma – A Study of Women Migrants through the Lens of Literature and Cinema
24
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Domesticity, Desire, and Defiance: A Proto-Feminist Reading of Rassundari Devi’s Amar Jiban
43
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Tradition of Rasas in Indian Literature: A Critical Insight
55
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Performing the Self: Cinema, Culture, and the Making of Identity in Imtiaz Ali's Tamasha
64
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Narrating Oppression, Asserting Identity: Dalit Autobiographical Narratives as Counter-Narratives
76
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Authenticity and Anxiety: The Psychological Bifurcation of Folk Artists in 21st-Century North Bengal
92
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Zoological Survey of India 1916–1947: A Historical Study in Colonial India
102
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Haunted Intimacies: Gen Z Relationship Anxiety and the Horror of Digital Romance in Curry Barker's Obsession (2026)
115
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Remembering Beyond Survival: Postmemory, Migration, and Post-Armenian Genocide Literature in America
130
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Rabindranath Tagore’s Travels: Wanderings of a Hopeless Romantic or the Groundwork of Internationalism?
141
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Hydrological Re-readings: Oceanic Agency and the Sentient Sea at Ram Setu
155
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Stories in Stone and Sky: Subaltern Agency, Heritage Memory, and Desert Ecocriticism in Bikaner
168
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Memory, Trauma and Redemption: An Analysis of the Movie Mango Dreams
191
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Reimagining Womanhood: Cultural Representations of Women in Contemporary Bollywood Cinema
198
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Unpacking Gendered Trauma in Jean Sasson’s For the Love of a Son
207
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Indian Tradition as Living Knowledge in Diasporic Literature
215
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Storytelling and Literary Transmission in the Digital Age: An Indian Perspective
225
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Death, Grief, and Cultural Meaning in Haryanvi Folk Songs
237
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Clothing as a Medium of Social Negotiation in Selected Haryanvi Folk Songs
256
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Reconstructing Romantic Imagination in Contemporary Pop: Coleridge’s Secondary Imagination in Taylor Swift’s The Tortured Poets Department
266
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NEP 2020 and Language Education in India: English and Multilingual Inclusion
282
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Memory, Intra-activity, and Spacetimemattering: Reading the Tram-Museums of Kolkata
291
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Colonial Salt Production, Coastal Ecosystems and Environmental Transformations in India: Historical Legacies, Socio-Economic Disruptions and Lessons for Contemporary Sustainability
306
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Not All Violence Bleeds: Analysing Mental Abuse and the Politics of the Denial of Household Technology in the movie Mrs.
330
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Konkani in Kerala: Language, Food, Festivals and Cultural Memory
344