BODHI International Journal of Research in Humanities, Arts and Science
type: channel
publisher: CRRPS
language: en
publication name: BODHI International Journal of Research in Humanities, Arts and Science
issn: 2456-5571
items: From Cinema to Screen Space: Interactive Possibilities in Malayalam OTT Storytelling
items: Storytelling and Inner Life: Memory, Narrative, and Everyday Life in Ram ℅ Ananthi
items: Motherhood as Resistance: Systemic Injustice and Black Maternal Subjectivity in Tayari Jones's an American Marriage
items: Literary Genres in the Post-Digital World: Multimedia, Interactivity and New Literary Practices
items: Literature as Liberation: Caste, Gender, and the Ethics of Resistance in Meena Kandasamy’s When I Hit You and Sujatha Gidla’s Ants Among Elephants
items: Emotional Intelligence in the Adolescent Characters of John Green’s Looking for Alaska
items: Judicial Ethics and Moral Responsibility in The Children Act by Ian McEwan
items: Journeys of Belonging and Ethical Survival in Rohinton Mistry’s Such a Long Journey
items: Aphoristic Storytelling and Magical Realism as Postcolonial Strategy in Ben OKRI’S Selected Novels
items: Reimagining Myth, Modernity, and Moral Consciousness in Amish Tripathi’s Shiva Trilogy
items: Hope Beyond Pain: When Finite Days Create Infinite Meaning in John Green’s The Fault in Our Stars
items: Myth, Folklore, and Cultural Memory in Amitav Ghosh’s The Hungry Tide with Reference to Gun Island
items: Women, Spirits, and the Island: Magical Realism and Gynocentric Memory in Cristina García’s Dreaming in Cuban
items: Disability as Narrative Power: Lenny’s Polio -Stricken Body in Bapsi Sidhwa’s Ice Candy Man
items: Epic Narratives and Cultural Memory Dharma in Transition: Eastern Indian Retellings of the Rāmāyaṇa as Cultural and Ethical Narratives
items: A Study of Atmospheric Poetics and Dramatic Flow in Shakespeare’s Dramas
items: Art of Neighbourliness in Tim Winton's Neighbours
items: Illness, Narrative, and the Ethics of Care: Medical Humanities in Indian Writing in English
items: Resistance and Revival: Representation of Women and Nature in Kire’s Son of the Thundercloud
items: Justice, Law and Moral Responsibility in Modern Indian Writing in English
items: Integrating Digital Tools in Second Language Acquisition: An Experimental Study among Tamil Native Learners of English
items: Refugee Identity and the Limits of Belonging in Abdulrazak Gurnah’s Admiring Silence
items: Eupsychian Mythopoesis: Cultural Narratives of Flourishing in Kantara and Harry Potter
items: From Indenture to Precarity: Coolitude and Marxist Readings of Indian Diasporic Fiction
items: The Fractured Self: A Postcolonial and Psychoanalytical Study of Intergenerational Trauma in Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni’s Novels Independence and Before we Visit the Goddess
items: Creating a Modern Myth: Mythopoeia in J. R. R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings
items: Digital Magic: Reimagining Fate through Artificial Intelligence and Fantasy in Korean Webtoon
items: Environmental Perspectives in the Overstory by Richard Powers
items: Fragmentation of the Self, Digital Identity, and Alienation in Patricia Lockwood’s No One Is Talking About This
items: A Hydro-Medical Humanities Reading of A. K. Ramanujan’s A River

From Cinema to Screen Space: Interactive Possibilities in Malayalam OTT Storytelling
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description: Malayalam OTT stories are attaining bigger audience views as they emerge with different interactivities over the time. It is now a digitally mediated screen environment that allows for new kinds of audience interaction rather than the traditional way of theatre screening. Malayalam OTT stories are attaining bigger audience views as they emerge with different interactivities over the time. While the film world debates on the clear choices and trending new narratives, Malayalam film and narrative styles always brings wonders with interpretation, ethics, and shared cultural ideas and conversations. This paper studies on how Malayalam OTT storytelling uses narrative forms to create interaction. Looking at C U Soon (2020), Minnal Murali (2021), and Pharma (2025) through the lens of transmedia storytelling and participatory culture, it claims that these stories build a space where viewers engage themselves both mentally and emotionally. It also shows how local theatres are adapting general digital patterns to the local narrative traditions.
subject: Articles
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subject: malayalam cinema
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subject: OTT platforms
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subject: interactive storytelling
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subject: transmedia
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subject: screen space
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subject: mollywood
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creator: Jose Babu
creator: Ashkar Shaji
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 Jose Babu, Ashkar Shaji https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
date: 2026-03-18
publication date: 2026-03-18
starting page: 125
ending page: 128
doi: 10.64938/

Storytelling and Inner Life: Memory, Narrative, and Everyday Life in Ram ℅ Ananthi
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description: The paper aims to analyse Ram ℅ Ananthi using narratological ideas of Gerand Genette. The ideologies of Genette, such as narrative, voice and focalisation. It also examines how storytelling techniques shape the reader's understanding of the character's emotional lives. It also argues that the importance of the novel lies not in the plot but in how the story is narrated. The novel uses memories, time changes, a narrative voice that reflects and a point of view from a personal front that shows or talks about the hesitations of daily life.
subject: Articles
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subject: narratology
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subject: subjectivity
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subject: narrative voice
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subject: focalization
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subject: contemporary indian fiction
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creator: Jose Babu
creator: Vijayashree B
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 Jose Babu, Vijayashree B https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
date: 2026-03-18
publication date: 2026-03-18
starting page: 122
ending page: 124
doi: 10.64938/

Motherhood as Resistance: Systemic Injustice and Black Maternal Subjectivity in Tayari Jones's an American Marriage
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description: This paper examines Black maternal subjectivity as a site of resistance to systemic injustice in Tayari Jones's An American Marriage (2018), through the lens of Kimberle Crenshaw's theory of intersectionality. Crenshaw argues that Black women's experiences of oppression cannot be understood through race or gender alone, but only through their simultaneous intersection. Applying this framework to the character of Celestial Davenport Hamilton, the study traces how she navigates the overlapping structures of racial injustice, gendered expectation, and class vulnerability that Roy's wrongful conviction sets into motion. Through close reading of key episodes, including Celestial's testimony at trial, her letters to Roy during his imprisonment, her decision to terminate her pregnancy, and her artistic practice as an act of self-constitution, the paper argues that Celestial's motherhood, both actual and deferred, becomes a form of political resistance to the interlocking systems of racial capitalism and carceral state violence. The findings demonstrate that Jones's novel offers a sustained literary interrogation of how Black women bear the compounded costs of intersectional injustice, and how maternal agency, even in its most constrained and ambivalent forms, constitutes a meaningful counter-hegemonic practice.
subject: Articles
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subject: intersectionality
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subject: black motherhood
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subject: an american marriage
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subject: tayari jones
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subject: celestial davenport
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subject: systemic injustice
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subject: carceral state
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subject: african american fiction
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creator: Sandhya Rani B
creator: Ancy Liyana A
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 Sandhya Rani B, Ancy Liyana A https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
date: 2026-03-18
publication date: 2026-03-18
starting page: 115
ending page: 121
doi: 10.64938/

Literary Genres in the Post-Digital World: Multimedia, Interactivity and New Literary Practices
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description: The Digital age has completely transformed this world. Technology is growing rapidly in all areas and is bringing a lot of change. The traditional ways of creative writing, especially in reading and writing, have completely changed and assumed a new shape in the Digital arena. The way of reading and writing stories has changed their style due to the emergence of new Digital platforms. Digital tools like E-books, audio content, and publications are a completely new and revolutionary innovation in the field of literature. If we analyze this from a technological point of view, then it is a completely new kind of experience for the reader. The reader is now expanding the wings of creativity, where a large number of audiences are getting a chance to explore readers’ potential in various genres without any physical requirement of books and pens. After all these technical innovations, there are new genres of literature which can be transformed into digital literature. There are several forms of innovative literature which must be present, such as hypertext narratives, collaborative fiction, online poetry platforms, and hybrid literature. These literary forms which have been created digitally are felicitating a wide range of opportunities to create immersive and communicative storytelling experiences for the target writers. These digital literary forms are a significant recapitulation of the ancient literary forms for the digital world. These digital literary forms are utilizing the potential of technology to create creative and immersive storytelling experiences which surpass the potential of print media. The technology is constantly acquiring its importance in the literary world, and the future literary genres are bringing more interesting innovations.
subject: Articles
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subject: digital literacy
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subject: innovative platforms
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subject: tech-based literary genres
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subject: hybrid technologies
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creator: D. Bhagavathi
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 D. Bhagavathi https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
date: 2026-03-18
publication date: 2026-03-18
starting page: 108
ending page: 114
doi: 10.64938/

Literature as Liberation: Caste, Gender, and the Ethics of Resistance in Meena Kandasamy’s When I Hit You and Sujatha Gidla’s Ants Among Elephants
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description: Contemporary Indian literature has evolved enough to facilitate the intellectual dialogue of social justice, it is thereby confronts the conventional force that institutionlize caste, patriarchy, and structural violence. Meena Kandasamy’s When I Hit You: Or, A Portrait of the Writer as a Young Wife (2017) and Sujatha Gidla’s Ants Among Elephants: An Untouchable Family and the Making of Modern India (2017) exemplify the ideational shift through their account of personal trauma exposing its impact on society, thereby converting it into political critique. Thanthai Periyar E. V. Ramasamy’s assertion that “Caste is the greatest enemy of humanity” (Periyar) is resonated in the personal accounts of the authors Meena and Sujatha. While Meena testifies the intimate violence of marriage and ideological patriarchy, Sujatha exposes generations of Dalit struggle and inherent caste oppression, labor exploitation, and political disillusionment. This article, as a resistance literature, intend to call for actions against institutional violence, hegemonic forces, and envisions social justice rooted in dignity, equality, and self-respect.
subject: Articles
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subject: social justice
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subject: caste oppression
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subject: gender violence
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subject: dalit autobiography
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subject: periyar
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subject: meena kandasamy
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subject: sujatha gidla
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creator: S. Karthik Saravanan
creator: A. Rajesh Kannan
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 S. Karthik Saravanan, A. Rajesh Kannan https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
date: 2026-03-18
publication date: 2026-03-18
starting page: 105
ending page: 107
doi: 10.64938/

Emotional Intelligence in the Adolescent Characters of John Green’s Looking for Alaska
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description: Emotional Intelligence refers to an individual’s capacity to recognize emotions, regulate responses and respond sensitively to the feelings of others. Instead of measuring cognitive ability or technical skill, it is concerned with emotional awareness, empathy and the ability to manage interpersonal relationships. Scholars such as Daniel Goleman have emphasized the importance of emotional intelligence in handling stress, making balanced decisions and sustaining meaningful social connections. In John Green’s Looking for Alaska, emotional intelligence plays a central role shaping the inner lives and relationships of adolescent characters. The novel portrays Miles’s struggle to process grief, affection and loss following a sudden tragedy and revealing his gradual emotional maturation through reflection and interaction. Despite Alaska’s impulsive and unpredictable nature, she exhibits intense emotional sensitivity that deeply influences those around her. Through these characters, the novel presents how emotional understanding enables individuals to cope with loss and navigate personal challenges. The novel presents emotional intelligence not as an abstract psychological idea, but as a lived experience shaped by adolescent behavior and personal growth.
subject: Articles
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subject: emotional intelligence
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subject: self-awareness
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subject: empathy
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subject: grief
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subject: personal growth
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creator: Adithya C.L
creator: R. David Raja Bose
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 Adithya C.L, R. David Raja Bose https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
date: 2026-03-18
publication date: 2026-03-18
starting page: 101
ending page: 104
doi: 10.64938/

Judicial Ethics and Moral Responsibility in The Children Act by Ian McEwan
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description: Ian McEwan’s The Children Act explores the idea of judicial ethics and moral responsibility through the character of Fiona Maye, a High Court judge in the family division. The novel illustrates how judges must make difficult decisions that profoundly affect human lives. Fiona handles a case involving Adam Henry, a seventeen-year-old boy Jehovah’s Witness and who refuses a life saving blood transfusion because of his religious beliefs.This case creates a conflict between law, religion, and personal freedom.The novel conveys that following the law is not always enough to ensure justice. Fiona’s decision is legally correct, but it has emotional and moral consequences. McEwan shows that judges carry moral responsibility even after giving a judgment. The story also highlights the importance of empathy and human understanding in legal decisions. Fiona’s personal loneliness reflects her emotional distance in her profession. Through this, McEwan advice that justice requires both legal knowledge and moral awareness.This study argues that The Children Act presents a complex vision of justice in which judicial ethics and moral responsibility are deeply interconnected. McEwan indicates that true justice cannot emerge through legal authority alone. but requires ethical sensitivity, emotional awareness, and an acceptance of the enduring moral consequences of judicial decisions.
subject: Articles
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subject: judicial ethics
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subject: moral responsibility
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subject: law and morality
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subject: legal decision making
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subject: empathy
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creator: Dephni David J.W
creator: R. David Raja Bose
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 Dephni David J.W, R. David Raja Bose https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
date: 2026-03-18
publication date: 2026-03-18
starting page: 98
ending page: 100
doi: 10.64938/

Journeys of Belonging and Ethical Survival in Rohinton Mistry’s Such a Long Journey
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description: This paper examines Rohinton Mistry’s Such a Long Journey as a narrative that redefines the idea of journey beyond physical movement into psychological, ethical and cultural dimensions. Set in post-independence India the novel foregrounds the experiences of the Parsi minority through the life of Gustad Noble whose personal struggles mirror larger social and political anxieties. This study argues Gustad’s journey; it represents a diaspora without migration where displacement is experienced within the homeland. He gradually changes and reshaping his understanding through experiences of betrayal, political corruption and moral disappointment. Mistry characterise personal histories into the national events and official narratives becomes under the pressure of power. Religion, belief, superstition and storytelling do not provide certainty. Instead, they support people in suffering loss and uncertainty. Such a Long Journey emphasises forgiveness, persistence and moral responsibility over heroic victory. It addresses a universal human experience characterised by alienation, resilience, and moral struggle through its constant use of journey motif. This analysis contributes contemporary literary discussion on diaspora, minority identity and post-independence Indian fiction.
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: journey motif
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subject: diaspora
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subject: identity
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subject: post-independence india
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subject: surivival
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creator: Sivasankari
creator: Syed Shaw
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 Sivasankari, Syed Shaw https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
date: 2026-03-18
publication date: 2026-03-18
starting page: 93
ending page: 97
doi: 10.64938/

Aphoristic Storytelling and Magical Realism as Postcolonial Strategy in Ben OKRI’S Selected Novels
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description: This paper examines how aphoristic creativity and magical realism work as Postcolonial strategies in Ben Okri’s select novels. Ben Okri is an African writer and political critic of Africa. In his selected works, rich aphorisms of life, famine, agony, destiny, politics and spirituality are articulated through a postcolonial lens. These works also undertake an exploration of aphoristic storytelling and magical realism, decolonize African society, and redefine postcolonial subjectivity. Fusion of Aphoristic storytelling and magical realism is a new find in postcolonial strategy. African literature often examines the tension between observable socio-political realities and unseen metaphysical forces. Ultimately, the study argues that aphoristic storytelling and magical realism operate as complementary postcolonial strategies that reimagine history, reclaim cultural voice, and articulate alternative futures for societies emerging from colonial domination. Traditional beliefs clash with modern political systems and urban life, highlighting cultural tension in a changing society.
subject: Articles
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subject: Ben Okri
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subject: Aphoristic creativity
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subject: Famine
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subject: metaphysical
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subject: Postcolonial strategy
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creator: Ruby
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 Ruby, Uma Samundeeswari https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
date: 2026-03-18
publication date: 2026-03-18
starting page: 89
ending page: 92
doi: 10.64938/

Reimagining Myth, Modernity, and Moral Consciousness in Amish Tripathi’s Shiva Trilogy
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description: Amish Tripathi’s Shiva Trilogy retells Indian mythology in a modern context. The trilogy includes The Immortals of Meluha, The Secret of the Nagas, and The Oath of the Vayuputras. Tripathi does not portray Shiva as a distant God. He presents him as a human figure shaped by choice, doubt and responsibility. Shiva’s journey raises ethical questions. These questions relate to dharma, leadership, law, gender and social justice. This paper studies how myth is used as a moral framework. It focuses on governance, war, ecological damage, and scientific misuse. The novel explains supernatural events through social and rational causes. The concept of Somras is central to this discussion. It represents progress as well as destruction. Through close textual reading, this study shows how moral certainty leads to violence. It also shows how rigid systems create suffering. The paper argues that the trilogy rejects absolute ideas of good and evil. It supports ethical thinking based on context and compassion. By combining myth with social concerns, Tripathi makes mythology relevant to the present. The Shiva Trilogy therefore stands as an important text in contemporary Indian English fiction.
subject: Articles
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subject: amish tripathi
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subject: shiva trilogy
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subject: indian mythology
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subject: dharma
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subject: ethics
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subject: modern reinterpretation
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creator: Arivika
creator: Latha
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 Arivika, Latha https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
date: 2026-03-18
publication date: 2026-03-18
starting page: 85
ending page: 88
doi: 10.64938/

Hope Beyond Pain: When Finite Days Create Infinite Meaning in John Green’s The Fault in Our Stars
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description: Life’s ephemerality often magnifies its meaning—a truth poignantly captured in John Green’s The Fault in Our Stars. This paper demonstrates how existential and psychological perspectives illuminate the novel’s portrayal of: love, mortality and theconstruction of meaning among terminally ill adolescents. Through an existentialist lens,drawing on Sartre’s freedom of choice, Camus’s absurdismand Frankl’s logotherapy, the novel’s characters redefine purpose amid constraints. From a psychological perspective, the study examines coping mechanisms, anticipatory grief and emotional resilience demonstrated by Hazel Grace Lancaster and Augustus Waters. This analysisdemonstrates that the characters’ limited lifespan does not diminish meaning but intensifies it through authentic decisions and emotionally sustained relationships. By combining existential and psychological approaches, the analysis argues that the narrative locates meaning in human connection, conscious acceptance of suffering and in the willing to accept the constant presence of death.
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: existentialism
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subject: psychology
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subject: mortality
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subject: meaning
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subject: love
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subject: authenticity
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subject: cope
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subject: hope
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creator: Ramya
creator: Kandasamy
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 Ramya, Kandasamy https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
date: 2026-03-18
publication date: 2026-03-18
starting page: 81
ending page: 84
doi: 10.64938/

Myth, Folklore, and Cultural Memory in Amitav Ghosh’s The Hungry Tide with Reference to Gun Island
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description: Throughout history, myth and folklore have played a significant role in shaping the way in which people view the natural world, morality, and group identity. Contrary to being a relic of the past, they are still a dynamic part of cultural memory, especially in socio-politically marginalized and ecologically vulnerable groups. In an attempt to examine the way in which myth is a living moral and cognitive system, Ghosh critiques anthropocentric modernity and offers an alternative environmental ethics of interdependence through the re-interpretation of indigenous myths such as the Gun Merchant myth and the Bon Bibi story. In the analysis, it will be suggested that Ghosh offers myth as an epistemological resource that enables transnational memory, environmentalism, and resilience in the face of climate change, rather than superstition. This paper presents a new and extended interpretation of Amitav Ghosh’s “The Hungry Tide” (2004), comparatively with“Gun Island” (2019), in order to explore the importance of myth, folklore, and cultural memory in survival narratives. Based on a broad use of secondary literature and theoretical approaches, such as the study of bioethical imperatives in speculative fiction by Dr. J. Albert Vincent Paulraj, the analysis of narrative strategies and social conditioning by S. Kandasamy, and the work on posthuman subjectivity by B. Pradeepa, this paper will demonstrate that Ghosh redefines myth as an ethical and ecological discourse. The Bon Bibi myth, folklore, and migratory stories are not only cultural leftovers but also complex systems that mediate human/nature relations, subvert anthropocentric modernity, and sustain indigenous knowledge.
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: Myth
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subject: Folklore
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subject: Cultural Memory
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subject: Ecocriticism
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subject: Bon Bibi
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subject: Indigenous Knowledge
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subject: Amitav Ghosh
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creator: B. Sivapriya
creator: J. Albert Vincent Paulraj
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 B. Sivapriya, J. Albert Vincent Paulraj https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
date: 2026-03-17
publication date: 2026-03-17
starting page: 114
ending page: 116
doi: 10.64938/

Women, Spirits, and the Island: Magical Realism and Gynocentric Memory in Cristina García’s Dreaming in Cuban
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description: This article delves into the ways in which Dreaming in Cuban (1992) by Cristina García utilises magical realism as a gynocentric storytelling technique to express cultural memory among three female Cuban generations: Celia del Pino, Lourdes, and Pilar. In her work, García weaves together a feminine epistemology that emphasises the active living, transmission, and transformation of memory via the use of supernatural aspects, including telepathic contact, ancestral spirits, prophetic dreams, and embodied hauntings. Pilar uses art and intuition as a mediator between realms. At the same time, Celia stays spiritually tied to the island, Lourdes violently erases her history in Brooklyn, and both women navigate emotional tragedy, political turmoil, and diasporic relocation in different ways. The magical realism structure of the book allows for a rethinking of Cuban identity that places an emphasis on the agency of women, the strength of the human spirit, and the bonds between different generations. In this case, magical realism serves as a feminist approach, refusing to be used as an ornamental literary device. It challenges patriarchal history and seeks agency via emotional, spiritual, and corporeal forms of memory. By showing how magical realism, particularly based on women's experiences, may be a potent tool for cultural resistance and preservation in the midst of exile and fragmentation, this work adds to the body of postcolonial and diaspora studies.
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: magical realism
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subject: gynocentrism
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subject: cultural memory
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subject: diaspora
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subject: female agency
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subject: intergenerational trauma
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subject: spiritual haunting
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subject: postcolonial feminism
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subject: narrative resistance
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creator: Charles
creator: Akila
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 Charles, Akila https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
date: 2026-03-18
publication date: 2026-03-18
starting page: 76
ending page: 80
doi: 10.64938/

Disability as Narrative Power: Lenny’s Polio -Stricken Body in Bapsi Sidhwa’s Ice Candy Man
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description: Ice-Candy Man, a novel by Bapsi Sidhwa, published in 1988, presents a unique reinterpretation of the history of Partition through the consciousness of Lenny, a polio-afflicted Parsi child narrator. The purpose of this paper is to analyze how Lenny has disabled body functions not as a symbol of weakness but as a source of narrative authority and ethical perception. The theoretical frameworks provided by both Disability Studies and postcolonial studies. Based on Disability Studies and postcolonial thought, the work contends that Lenny’s disability gives her a marginal yet privileged observational position, allowing for a critique of violence, nationalism, and the power of the patriarchy in the Partition of India. Contrary to the dominant paradigm in the representation of the Partition of India in existing scholarship that highlights the powerful masculine ideals of heroism, Sidhwa's novel focuses on vulnerability, immobility, and innocence in exploring the human aspect of partition. The relevance of the article will illustrate on how the experience of disability is actually a strategy in the telling of the tale that interrupts the linearly ordered history and the assumptions inherent in the colonial and nationalist construct of able. Finally, Ice-Candy Man retrieves disability as the strength of narrative, replacing the notion of physical difference with the perspective of morality.
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: disability studies
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subject: partition literature
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subject: narrative voice
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subject: embodiment
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subject: postcolonial fiction
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creator: P. Ilayaraja
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 P. Ilayaraja https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
date: 2026-03-17
publication date: 2026-03-17
starting page: 110
ending page: 113
doi: 10.64938/

Epic Narratives and Cultural Memory Dharma in Transition: Eastern Indian Retellings of the Rāmāyaṇa as Cultural and Ethical Narratives
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description: The Rāmāyaṇa, far from being a fixed or monolithic text, survives as a dynamic cultural continuum shaped through translation, transcreation, oral performance, and regional adaptation. This paper examines the Eastern and North-Eastern Indian Rāmāyaṇa traditions—particularly Madhav Kandali’s Saptakanda Rāmāyaṇa (Assamese) and Krittivas Ojha’s Rām Panchali (Bengali) to demonstrate how dharma functions as a unifying ethical principle across diverse linguistic and cultural contexts. Drawing upon literary history, oral tradition studies, and comparative textual analysis, the study foregrounds the role of semi-oral poetic forms, performative modes, and colloquial diction in making the epic accessible to non-elite audiences. The paper argues that these regional retellings privilege moral action and social consciousness over doctrinal rigidity, thereby reflecting localized cultural values while retaining the epic’s core philosophical intent. Through close readings of selected narrative episodes and phrases, the analysis highlights how deviations from Valmiki’s Sanskrit Rāmāyaṇa—such as the incorporation of goddess worship in Krittivas’s text or the pastoral and ethical focus in Kandali’s rendering—reinforce righteous conduct within specific socio-historical milieus. Ultimately, the study contends that the paradoxical play of words, images, and narrative choices across Eastern Rāmāyaṇa traditions does not dilute the epic’s meaning but reaffirms dharma as a stable moral condition that offers ethical coherence and cultural continuity across time, language, and region.
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: Eastern Ramayana
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subject: Krittivas Ramayana
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subject: Madhav Kandali Ramayana
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subject: Dharma
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subject: Bhakti
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creator: Ishwaria Prabhakaran
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 Ishwaria Prabhakaran https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
date: 2026-03-18
publication date: 2026-03-18
starting page: 71
ending page: 75
doi: 10.64938/

A Study of Atmospheric Poetics and Dramatic Flow in Shakespeare’s Dramas
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description: This paper studies the application of atmospheric poetics in Shakespeare’s comedies and tragedies. Two comedies and tragedies have been studied for detailed comparison. It explores how the atmosphere, ambience created, weather and sounds help to develop the plot and affect the characters' psychology. It studies how the atmosphere affects the readers and audiences' minds in comedy; Twelfth Night and The Comedy of Errors are chosen for study. In tragedy, Macbeth and King Lear are chosen for study. Shakespeare's backgrounds are not backdrops but reflect the mental states. Tragedy occurs at night and comedy occurs at daylight with decorative spaces. The soundscapes are also studied, where they produce dread in tragedy and laughter in comedy. The rhythmic flow of drama is studied in detail.
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: atmospheric poetics
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subject: tragedy
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subject: comedy
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subject: Shakespeare
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subject: dramatic flow
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subject: soundscapes
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creator: Divya Priya
creator: Srividhya
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 Divya Priya, Srividhya https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
date: 2026-03-18
publication date: 2026-03-18
starting page: 66
ending page: 70
doi: 10.64938/

Art of Neighbourliness in Tim Winton's Neighbours
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description: This research paper explores how the idea of friendship and the relationship with the neighbours is presented in ‘Neighbours’ by Tim Winton. The purpose of this study is to understand how human connections are influenced by barriers, attitudes, and Community interactions. The analysis was carried out through close reading of the text alongside observations of real-life interactions with our neighbours in our living and working places and college environments. The findings reveal that relationship is weakening the people when they focus on faults and create emotional or physical walls in between them while mutual understanding and acceptance help to build positive bonds. This study concludes that living harmoniously with our surroundings requires openness, respect and a willingness to connect with others.
subject: Articles
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subject: neighbourhood
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subject: friendship
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subject: barriers
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subject: community
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subject: relationships
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creator: P. Kavitha
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 P. Kavitha https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
date: 2026-03-17
publication date: 2026-03-17
starting page: 105
ending page: 109
doi: 10.64938/

Illness, Narrative, and the Ethics of Care: Medical Humanities in Indian Writing in English
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description: Medical humanities examine the intersection of medicine, literature, philosophy, and culture in order to understand the human experience of illness. Indian Writing in English provides rich literary narratives that portray disease, healing, and the ethical responsibilities of care within complex social contexts. This paper explores how modern Indian writers represent illness not merely as a biological condition but as a cultural and philosophical experience. Through an analysis of works by Amitav Ghosh, Kavery Nambisan, and Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar, the study argues that Indian literary narratives expand the scope of medical humanities by foregrounding empathy, social inequality, and ethical responsibility. These narratives reveal how literature humanizes medicine and invites readers to reflect on suffering, dignity, and the moral dimensions of healing.
subject: Articles
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subject: medical humanities
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subject: indian writing in english
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subject: illness narratives
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subject: ethics of care
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subject: narrative medicine
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subject: social inequality
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subject: healing and compassion
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creator: B. Pradeepa
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 B. Pradeepa https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
date: 2026-03-17
publication date: 2026-03-17
starting page: 102
ending page: 104
doi: 10.64938/

Resistance and Revival: Representation of Women and Nature in Kire’s Son of the Thundercloud
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description: This paper investigates the relationships between women and nature in Easterine Kire’s work Son of the Thundercloud, focusing on the bond between the women characters and nature. Easterine Kire’s work Son of the Thundercloud (2015) provides rich narratives that reflect the female characters, such as Kethonuo, Siedze, Mesanuo and Vinuo, in connection with the spiritual journey of the protagonist, Pelevotso. Her novels are not meant to be read as historical works; rather, they bring out the strong character of the protagonist and the representation of the female characters by breaking the patriarchal and spiritual constraints. This work, Son of the Thundercloud, talks of protagonist Pele’s journey, where he met female characters like Kethonuo and Siedze, a supernatural, unreal sister, and Mesanuo. Pele travelled from his place due to famine. Though it continued as a personal journey, he faced many characters from whom he got support from the villagers.
subject: Articles
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subject: nagaland
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subject: ecocriticism
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subject: northeast india
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subject: self-identity
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subject: customs
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subject: female characters
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subject: environment
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creator: Kaviya
creator: Dhanalakshmi
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 Kaviya, Dhanalakshmi https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
date: 2026-03-18
publication date: 2026-03-18
starting page: 61
ending page: 65
doi: 10.64938/

Justice, Law and Moral Responsibility in Modern Indian Writing in English
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description: The interdisciplinary dialogue between law and literature offers significant insights into the ethical and philosophical dimensions of justice. In modern Indian Writing in English, literary narratives frequently explore the tension between institutional law and moral responsibility. Contemporary writers portray the lived realities of marginalized communities who remain unheard within legal frameworks. This paper examines how modern Indian writers interrogate the limitations of legal systems while foregrounding ethical consciousness rooted in Indian philosophical traditions. Through selected works of Arundhati Roy, Rohinton Mistry, and Kiran Desai, the study argues that literature functions as a moral critique of law and reveals the deeper philosophical foundations of justice in contemporary Indian society.a
subject: Articles
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subject: law and literature
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subject: modern indian fiction
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subject: justice
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subject: social inequality
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subject: moral philosophy
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subject: postcolonial justice
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subject: indian writing in english
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subject: legal ethics
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creator: S. Kandasamy
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 S. Kandasamy https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
date: 2026-03-17
publication date: 2026-03-17
starting page: 99
ending page: 101
doi: 10.64938/

Integrating Digital Tools in Second Language Acquisition: An Experimental Study among Tamil Native Learners of English
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description: English language proficiency remains a vital component of academic success and professional mobility in Tamil Nadu, where learners often face difficulties transitioning from Tamil linguistic structures to English communication demands. In response to the growing digitalisation of education, this study investigates the effectiveness of digital tools in enhancing second language acquisition (SLA) among Tamil undergraduate learners. A quasi-experimental design was employed with 60 participants divided equally into an experimental group receiving digital tool–based instruction and a control group receiving traditional textbook-based instruction over an eight-week period. The experimental group engaged with applications such as Duolingo, Grammarly, ELSA Speak, British Council learning modules, and interactive platforms like Kahoot and Quizizz. Pre- and post-test results revealed statistically significant improvements (p < 0.001) across listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills for the experimental group, with notable gains in pronunciation and speaking accuracy. Learner attitudes indicated increased motivation, confidence, and preference for technology-enhanced learning environments. The findings demonstrate the pedagogical value of integrating digital tools into routine English instruction, promoting learner autonomy, and adopting blended learning models supported by teacher training. While limitations include a small sample size, short intervention duration, and reliance on smartphone access, the study provides strong empirical evidence for the potential of digital technologies to enhance SLA among Tamil native learners. Future research should explore long-term, multi-level implementations to broaden applicability across diverse educational contexts.
subject: Articles
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subject: digital tools
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subject: second language acquisition
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subject: tamil learners
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subject: technology-enhanced learning
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subject: english proficiency
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creator: Shanmugasundaram
creator: Noble Jebakumar
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 Shanmugasundaram, Noble Jebakumar https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
date: 2026-03-18
publication date: 2026-03-18
starting page: 49
ending page: 60
doi: 10.64938/

Refugee Identity and the Limits of Belonging in Abdulrazak Gurnah’s Admiring Silence
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description: Abdulrazak Gurnah’s Admiring Silence offers a sensitive portrayal of refugee consciousness through the life of its unnamed Zanzibari narrator. His migration to England does not promise renewal. It exposes emotional, cultural and psychological fracture. Using theories by Homi Bhabha, Stuart Hall and Cathy Caruth this paper examines the Admiring Silence by focusing on the related concepts of unhomeliness, hybridity and trauma. The unnamed narrator experiences an ambiguity that never resolves as a migration. Partial belonging is still maintained. Unbelonging develops into a habit. His concept of self is profoundly shaped by racial marginalisation and colonial memory. This fracture becomes worse by emotional neglect. Relationships reveal hidden anguish, especially with Emma. Instead of being absent, silence becomes a means of survival. The loss increases when the narrator return back to Zanzibar. Repetition and self-control cause trauma connecting individual pain with societal history. Gurnah portrays refugees as more than a matter of physical movement. It is also a psychological condition shaped by displacement. The unnamed narrator remains suspended between homeland and hostland, unable to find stability in either space. In Admiring Silence, home does not appear as a fixed place. Instead, it emerges as something fragile and continually reshaped by the experience of migration. Identity becomes a negotiated space formed by memory, silence and violence. It also reflecting the fragmented realities of refugee life.
subject: Articles
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subject: refugee identity
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subject: unhomeliness
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subject: hybridity
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subject: trauma
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subject: displacement
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subject: abdulrazak gurnah
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creator: Mohamed Jaffar M
creator: S. Syed Shaw
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 Mohamed Jaffar M, S. Syed Shaw https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
date: 2026-03-17
publication date: 2026-03-17
starting page: 94
ending page: 98
doi: 10.64938/

Eupsychian Mythopoesis: Cultural Narratives of Flourishing in Kantara and Harry Potter
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description: The​‍​‌‍​‍‌​‍​‌‍​‍‌ paper develops a multi-stage interpretive inquiry into the question how Eupsychia, that is Abraham Maslow’s ideal of a self-actualizing and mentally healthy society, is shown through mythopoesis in the Kannada films Kantara (2022) and Kantara: Chapter 1 (2025), and the seven Harry Potter novels (1997–2007). Eupsychia is a society that encourages self-actualization through psychological development, and mythopoesis is the process of intentionally creating new myths from archetypes to give expression to human experiences. By means of a detailed comparative reading, the article traces similar motifs of loyalty, power, rivalry, conflict, ecological reverence, and shadow integration, and it sees these art pieces as “eupsychian myth-engines” that work through a marked difference in culture, language, time, and audience. The piece sets forth a valid academic argument on the power of such stories to shape psychology, education, cultural studies, and media practice, especially at a time when society is facing fragmentation and mental health ​‍​‌‍​‍‌​‍​‌‍​‍‌problems.
subject: Articles
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subject: eupsychia
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subject: mythopoesis
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subject: self-actualization
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subject: bhuta kola
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subject: cross-cultural comparison
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subject: ethical wildness
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subject: horcruxes
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subject: patronus
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subject: hogwarts
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subject: individuation
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subject: communal harmony
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creator: Kuladevy
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 Kuladevy https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
date: 2026-03-18
publication date: 2026-03-18
starting page: 42
ending page: 48
doi: 10.64938/

From Indenture to Precarity: Coolitude and Marxist Readings of Indian Diasporic Fiction
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description: Indian diasporic literature frequently focuses on migration caused by economic hardship and labor exploitation. The paper examines the Indian diasporic novels Amitav Ghosh’s Sea of Poppies (2008) and Sunjeev Sahota’s The Year of the Runaways (2015) through the combined perspectives of Coolitude and Marxist theory. Although these novels are set in different historical periods, both depict how Indian migrant workers are controlled and exploited by capitalist systems. Coolitude, a concept developed by Khal Torabully, helps recover the shared identity, memory, and cultural strength of migrant laborers, while Marxist theory explains how capitalism turns labor into a commodity. The paper argues that Indian diasporic literature shows a strong continuity from colonial indenture to contemporary migrant precarity, revealing that systems of exploitation continue even though their forms have changed.
subject: Articles
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subject: indian diaspora
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subject: coolitude
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subject: marxism
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subject: indenture
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subject: migrants
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creator: P. Subasri
creator: R. Shobia
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 P. Subasri, R. Shobia https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
date: 2026-03-17
publication date: 2026-03-17
starting page: 90
ending page: 93
doi: 10.64938/

The Fractured Self: A Postcolonial and Psychoanalytical Study of Intergenerational Trauma in Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni’s Novels Independence and Before we Visit the Goddess
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description: This paper explores the multifaceted nature of postcolonial displacement and psychoanalytic theories focusing on the intergenerational trauma in Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni’s novels Independence(2023) and Before We Visit The Goddess(2016).By examining the characters across multiple generations – from rural Bengal of the 1940s to the America – the study analyses how the historical upheavals such as the partition of India and the personal displacement brings psychic ruptures. Using Frantz Fanon’s postcolonial insights and Freudian/Jungian psychoanalytic frameworks, the presentation discusses how trauma is unconsciously transmitted from mothers to daughters, manifesting as a struggle for identity and independence.
subject: Articles
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subject: postcolonialism
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subject: psychoanalysis
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subject: intergenerational trauma
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subject: chitra banerjee divakaruni
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subject: diaspora
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subject: female agency
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creator: V. Chelvi
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 V. Chelvi https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
date: 2026-03-17
publication date: 2026-03-17
starting page: 85
ending page: 89
doi: 10.64938/

Creating a Modern Myth: Mythopoeia in J. R. R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings
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description: J. R. R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings is often described as fantasy, it is far more than an imaginative escape from reality. At its core lies mythopoeia—the conscious act of creating myth. Tolkien believed that myth is one of the deepest ways human beings express truth, memory, and moral understanding. This article explores how The Lord of the Rings functions as a modern myth through Tolkien’s “idea of sub-creation, his richly imagined history of Middle-earth, the presence of supernatural beings, and powerful symbols such as the One Ring. By reworking ancient mythic patterns for a modern audience, Tolkien creates a story that speaks to timeless human concern power, sacrifice, loss, hope, and responsibility making The Lord of the Rings a living myth rather than a mere fantasy narrative. In an age shaped by war, disillusionment, and rapid social change, J. R. R. Tolkien turned not to realism but to myth. The Lord of the Rings emerged from his belief that modern literature had lost something essential the ability to convey deep moral and emotional truths through mythic storytelling. Tolkien did not write simply to entertain he wrote to recover a way of seeing the world in which courage, humility, loyalty, and hope still mattered.
subject: Articles
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subject: myth
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subject: one ring
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subject: middle earth
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subject: tolkien
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subject: mythopoeia
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creator: G.Divyasrri
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 G.Divyasrri https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
date: 2026-03-17
publication date: 2026-03-17
starting page: 81
ending page: 84
doi: 10.64938/

Digital Magic: Reimagining Fate through Artificial Intelligence and Fantasy in Korean Webtoon
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description: This paper, “Digital Magic: Reimagining Fate through AI and Fantasy in Korean Webtoon,” discusses ways in which “The Abandoned Empress” upsets human emotion, fate, and talking to fate self-consciously through means of magical realism and artificial intelligence. This paper examines ways this webtoon is part of the “fairy tale aspects of recreation and insight into algorithmic logic as a means of portraying fate as something that could be changed,” using “N. Katherine Hayles' conception of posthumanism theory that functions at the center of this webtoon's narrative matrix.” In a sense, this work rethinks the human capability of resiliency and choice-making within a world built through technology. Furthermore, this paper posits the importance of a posthuman reality in regard to sharing identity and human emotion with the ‘robot’ that the webtoon portrays in the context of ‘digital fantasy.’ This paper concludes by demonstrating the ways in which the notion of fate has been evolving through the process of the Korean digital tales.
subject: Articles
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subject: posthumanism
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subject: artificial intelligence
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subject: magical realism
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subject: korean webtoon
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subject: digital fate
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subject: human emotion
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creator: Brundavanam
creator: Priyadarshini M C
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 Brundavanam P, Priyadarshini M C https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
date: 2026-03-17
publication date: 2026-03-17
starting page: 72
ending page: 80
doi: 10.64938/

Environmental Perspectives in the Overstory by Richard Powers
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description: Out of nowhere, trees begin speaking through human lives in Richard Powers’s The Overstory. Not merely a tale, it unsettles your usual view of where we fit among living things. Following this thread, attention turns to core green philosophies hidden beneath the surface - deep ecology takes root here, alongside ecofeminism's quiet strength. Moral questions about land and life rise without warning. Connections between beings, often ignored, start humming under every chapter. Each idea grows slowly, like roots splitting stone. It's the mix of voices that gives The Overstory its shape - each character tied quietly to the slow turn of tree time. Not decoration, these trees breathe, signal, hold weight. Instead of placing humans on top, Powers shifts the ground, making them part of a web, not the center. Nature here does not serve anyone; it simply is, has been long before, stays after. Another angle I’ll explore is how the book handles industrial harm, forest loss, maybe even indifference toward such wreckage. Science mixes with protest here, along with tough choices between what feels fair and what seems necessary. Moral gray zones pop up where real effort shows - especially for those waking up slowly to consequences. Shifts happen in people, awkward ones, after truth sinks deep enough to shake them awake.
subject: Articles
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subject: epic narrative
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subject: cultural memory
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subject: madeline miller
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subject: classical reception
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subject: feminist revisionism
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subject: circe
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subject: contemporary mythology
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subject: homer
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subject: odyssey
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creator: Karthik
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 Karthik https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
date: 2026-03-18
publication date: 2026-03-18
starting page: 39
ending page: 41
doi: 10.64938/

Fragmentation of the Self, Digital Identity, and Alienation in Patricia Lockwood’s No One Is Talking About This
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description: This article focuses on the idea of the loss of self-identity in Patricia Lockwood’s No One Is Talking About This (2021) and the role of digital culture in the life of modern individuals. In the novel, there is a character whose life is greatly influenced by the online community, where there is an overwhelming presence of scrolling, memes, and viral posts. Through the character being deeply immersed in the ‘portal,’ Lockwood conveys the idea of the destruction of self, the creation of an empty self, and the dependence of the characteron the online community for identity. There is an instability in the mind of the character, reduced emotional capacity, and numbness in the body of the character because of too much scrolling. All these convey the negative impact of an individual being deeply immersed in the ‘portal.’ This article asserts that Lockwood critiques the superficial identity of the ‘portal,’ the dull life, and the impossibility of genuine emotional human connection in the ‘portal.a
subject: Articles
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subject: digital identity
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subject: loss of self
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subject: digital alienation
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subject: online persona
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creator: Saduriya.M
creator: A.Vadivukarasi
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 Saduriya.M, A.Vadivukarasi https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
date: 2026-03-17
publication date: 2026-03-17
starting page: 69
ending page: 71
doi: 10.64938/

A Hydro-Medical Humanities Reading of A. K. Ramanujan’s A River
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description: Hydro humanities is a subfield of environmental humanities that focuses on water, rivers, floods, etc, as a cultural, political, ethical, and material force shaping human and nonhuman life. Medical humanities is an interdisciplinary field that studies health, illness, death, care, and vulnerability. Through the lenses of literature, ethics, and cultural studies and it is not limited to the cure or hospitals. When brought together, hydro-medical humanities studies how water produces bodily vulnerability, trauma, and mortality and how these are represented ethically in culture and literature. This paper studies A.K. Ramanujan’s poem “A River” through the lens of hydro-medical humanities; the text operates as a literary case report of hydro-induced medical trauma rather than a conventional ecological or lyrical meditation on nature. The poet exposes how seasonal flooding in Madurai produces predictable trauma that is normalized through poetic tradition and civic neglect. The river acts as a determinant of health, injury, and mortality. Flooding emerges as a public health event shaped by infrastructural absence and governance failure rather than as a natural disaster. By framing ‘A River’ as a text of hydro-induced medical trauma, this study reveals that the medical humanities are not restricted to narratives of disease or healing. Instead, it advocates for a broader perspective of medicine that incorporates preventive, public accountability, and the environmental factors that influence life and death. The poem ultimately challenges both literary aesthetics and medical ethics to confront the normalization of avoidable mortality.
subject: Articles
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subject: hydro-medical humanities
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subject: ethical witnessing
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subject: medical trauma
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subject: bio-politics
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creator: Percial. L
creator: Jagan Babu K
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 Percial. L, Jagan Babu K https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
date: 2026-03-17
publication date: 2026-03-17
starting page: 65
ending page: 68
doi: 10.64938/