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Research paper thumbnail of The Agora, the Dog, the Sage, and the Friend: Tracing Cosmopolitan Ancestries in Hellenistic Regimes

Research paper thumbnail of Knowledge and transformation in the chronotopes of Love and Death: a Bakhtinian approach to Pratibha Ray's Yajnaseni

Research paper thumbnail of Desire and the Déclassé: Body and Religion in Our Lady of Alice Bhatti

The intertwined parameters of gender and religion are decisive aspects of the cosmopolitan dialog... more The intertwined parameters of gender and religion are decisive aspects of the cosmopolitan dialogues. Cosmopolitanism in South-Asian literary narratives is a complex idea. In this paper, with a close reading Our Lady of Alice Bhatti a woman as a space of contestation. The text also explores the connections with religion which has an overwhelming influence on the cultural panorama of the city. experienced the deep grunts and savage ramifications of imposed boundaries. The body, in this light, ascends from becoming a vulnerable space where dominating voices arbitrate decisions, and becomes a site of resistance. The female body, in human exp and patriarchal hostility inhibiting her growth as an individual who has a cosmopolitan worldview. We argue that individuals like Alice provide the counterpoint in the discourse of body and religion in South-Asian cities like Karachi.

Research paper thumbnail of Reading the South Asian Woman: Review of Woman Who Flew by Nasreen Jahan

Research paper thumbnail of Review of Sitakant Mahapatra's 'Rotations of Unending Time' (Transl.) Sura P. Rath & Mark Halperin

Research paper thumbnail of Chronotopes in the Chromosome: a Chronotopic Analysis of the Calcutta Chromosome

Research paper thumbnail of Knots of the Narrative: Bakhtinian Chronotopes in the Fiction of Amitav Ghosh

Research paper thumbnail of Review of Claire Tham's "The Inlet"

Research paper thumbnail of Author Activism: Philosophy of Dissent in the Writings of Arundhati Roy

Research paper thumbnail of Chronotopes of Places and Non-Places: Ecopoetics of Amitav Ghosh's The Hungry Tide

is a unique combination of fiction and cultural-anthropological research. The tidal land or bhati... more is a unique combination of fiction and cultural-anthropological research. The tidal land or bhatir desh is the destination for two travellers in the novel, Piyali Roy and Kanai Dutt, with one aim: to research into the mysteries of the Sunderbans. While Piya intends to study Irrawaddy dolphins, Kanai through the journal of his uncle Nirmal researches into the shifting ghettos of a group of refugees. In this paper we attempt to explore the idea of "ecopoetics" through an analysis of The Hungry Tide with the concept of chronotopes and chronotopic motifs proposed by Mikhail Bakhtin in "Forms of Time and of the Chronotope in the Novel". We try to understand the novel in terms of the "folkloric" and "idyllic" chronotopes, and also examine "places" and "non-places" as related to each other, especially the chronotope of "non-places" as deeply related to the terrains of the mind.

Research paper thumbnail of Book Review of The Poet and His World: Critical Essays on Rabindranath Tagore, edited By Mohammad A. Quyayum

Research paper thumbnail of The Agora, the Dog, the Sage, and the Friend: Tracing Cosmopolitan Ancestries in Hellenistic Regimes

Research paper thumbnail of Knowledge and transformation in the chronotopes of Love and Death: a Bakhtinian approach to Pratibha Ray's Yajnaseni

Research paper thumbnail of Desire and the Déclassé: Body and Religion in Our Lady of Alice Bhatti

The intertwined parameters of gender and religion are decisive aspects of the cosmopolitan dialog... more The intertwined parameters of gender and religion are decisive aspects of the cosmopolitan dialogues. Cosmopolitanism in South-Asian literary narratives is a complex idea. In this paper, with a close reading Our Lady of Alice Bhatti a woman as a space of contestation. The text also explores the connections with religion which has an overwhelming influence on the cultural panorama of the city. experienced the deep grunts and savage ramifications of imposed boundaries. The body, in this light, ascends from becoming a vulnerable space where dominating voices arbitrate decisions, and becomes a site of resistance. The female body, in human exp and patriarchal hostility inhibiting her growth as an individual who has a cosmopolitan worldview. We argue that individuals like Alice provide the counterpoint in the discourse of body and religion in South-Asian cities like Karachi.

Research paper thumbnail of Reading the South Asian Woman: Review of Woman Who Flew by Nasreen Jahan

Research paper thumbnail of Review of Sitakant Mahapatra's 'Rotations of Unending Time' (Transl.) Sura P. Rath & Mark Halperin

Research paper thumbnail of Chronotopes in the Chromosome: a Chronotopic Analysis of the Calcutta Chromosome

Research paper thumbnail of Knots of the Narrative: Bakhtinian Chronotopes in the Fiction of Amitav Ghosh

Research paper thumbnail of Review of Claire Tham's "The Inlet"

Research paper thumbnail of Author Activism: Philosophy of Dissent in the Writings of Arundhati Roy

Research paper thumbnail of Chronotopes of Places and Non-Places: Ecopoetics of Amitav Ghosh's The Hungry Tide

is a unique combination of fiction and cultural-anthropological research. The tidal land or bhati... more is a unique combination of fiction and cultural-anthropological research. The tidal land or bhatir desh is the destination for two travellers in the novel, Piyali Roy and Kanai Dutt, with one aim: to research into the mysteries of the Sunderbans. While Piya intends to study Irrawaddy dolphins, Kanai through the journal of his uncle Nirmal researches into the shifting ghettos of a group of refugees. In this paper we attempt to explore the idea of "ecopoetics" through an analysis of The Hungry Tide with the concept of chronotopes and chronotopic motifs proposed by Mikhail Bakhtin in "Forms of Time and of the Chronotope in the Novel". We try to understand the novel in terms of the "folkloric" and "idyllic" chronotopes, and also examine "places" and "non-places" as related to each other, especially the chronotope of "non-places" as deeply related to the terrains of the mind.

Research paper thumbnail of Book Review of The Poet and His World: Critical Essays on Rabindranath Tagore, edited By Mohammad A. Quyayum

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