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Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research , 2024
This article explores the sociological and cultural notions of the partition of India and the rep... more This article explores the sociological and cultural notions of the partition of India and the representations of it through literature. It analyses a set of interrelated definitions and relationships that organizes our concept of the partition and the dispersion of a huge mass of people across borders. The sentiments of the Bengali diaspora after the partition would be the crux of the study in this paper. During the partition of India, an estimate of about twelve million people in South Asia switched their homelands by starting a massive migration. The issue of trauma and triumph of the partition, search for a lost identity, the quest of rebuilding the new home and the nostalgic feeling will form an indispensible part of the paper. This paper aims at analyzing the migration and other diasporic dimensions through the writings of well-known South Asian novelists with partition of India as the backdrop. It highlights the different changes that have occurred after partition and the emotional turbulences that were faced by the migrants after partition.
South Asian Diaspora, May 20, 2020
Eating Culture: Reading food in Indian American Literature, 2021
This article focuses on how food can be a driving factor for identity construction in the Diaspor... more This article focuses on how food can be a driving factor for identity construction in the Diaspora and how it has been studied and analysed in the literature of the Indian American Diaspora. It examines the issues of nostalgia and cultural identity constructed by food in the Diaspora. It is a well known fact, that the migrants are often noticed to be reminiscing about their homeland and their food. This paper explores the role of the women authors and their roles in making food as one of the important cultural parameters to construct a cultural identity. In this paper, I have tried to analyse the autobiographical novel, 'Monsoon Diaries' by Shobha Narayan in terms of cultural identity and nostalgia, which are often experienced by the Diaspora. The essential rationale of this paper highlights the literature of the Diaspora focusing on the culinary idioms that play a crucial role in the Diaspora.
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Frame " Beyond signifies spatial distance, marks progress, promises the future; but our intimatio... more Frame " Beyond signifies spatial distance, marks progress, promises the future; but our intimations of exceeding the barrier or boundary-the very act of going beyond – are unknowable, unpresentable, without a return to the 'present' which, in the process of repetition, becomes disjunct and displaced….These terms that insistently gesture to the beyond, and only embody its restless and revisionary energy if they transform the present into an expanded and ex-centric site of experience and empowerment. " 1 These words signify the utmost relevance of the moving away from the past and its existence that keeps lurking in the present. Returning to the past is perceived as quite an impossible matter in the relative sense; but memory of the past seems to pervade all through. The varied notions of going beyond the past seem to be inevitable. The larger process of obliviating the past and constructing the present seeks to emancipate the individual from the shackles of the past. On the contrary, the individual seems to get entwined within the boundaries of the past and, therefore, expresses a strong sense of reluctance to come out of it. In this paper I would like to explore the different dimensions of the diasporic sentiments of the refugees who had to flee from their own homelands through the remarkable contribution of Ritwik Ghatak through his trilogy. In 1947, India had gained its long awaited independence, and had brought along with itself 'a tryst of an essentially controversial movement and the ensuing of the fragmentation of the land into three parts'2. This event had led to the whirling of lives of the people who had to migrate and suffer the loss-of their homeland, identities and experiences.
Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research , 2024
This article explores the sociological and cultural notions of the partition of India and the rep... more This article explores the sociological and cultural notions of the partition of India and the representations of it through literature. It analyses a set of interrelated definitions and relationships that organizes our concept of the partition and the dispersion of a huge mass of people across borders. The sentiments of the Bengali diaspora after the partition would be the crux of the study in this paper. During the partition of India, an estimate of about twelve million people in South Asia switched their homelands by starting a massive migration. The issue of trauma and triumph of the partition, search for a lost identity, the quest of rebuilding the new home and the nostalgic feeling will form an indispensible part of the paper. This paper aims at analyzing the migration and other diasporic dimensions through the writings of well-known South Asian novelists with partition of India as the backdrop. It highlights the different changes that have occurred after partition and the emotional turbulences that were faced by the migrants after partition.
South Asian Diaspora, May 20, 2020
Eating Culture: Reading food in Indian American Literature, 2021
This article focuses on how food can be a driving factor for identity construction in the Diaspor... more This article focuses on how food can be a driving factor for identity construction in the Diaspora and how it has been studied and analysed in the literature of the Indian American Diaspora. It examines the issues of nostalgia and cultural identity constructed by food in the Diaspora. It is a well known fact, that the migrants are often noticed to be reminiscing about their homeland and their food. This paper explores the role of the women authors and their roles in making food as one of the important cultural parameters to construct a cultural identity. In this paper, I have tried to analyse the autobiographical novel, 'Monsoon Diaries' by Shobha Narayan in terms of cultural identity and nostalgia, which are often experienced by the Diaspora. The essential rationale of this paper highlights the literature of the Diaspora focusing on the culinary idioms that play a crucial role in the Diaspora.
Please fInd all the abstracts in the attachment.
Frame " Beyond signifies spatial distance, marks progress, promises the future; but our intimatio... more Frame " Beyond signifies spatial distance, marks progress, promises the future; but our intimations of exceeding the barrier or boundary-the very act of going beyond – are unknowable, unpresentable, without a return to the 'present' which, in the process of repetition, becomes disjunct and displaced….These terms that insistently gesture to the beyond, and only embody its restless and revisionary energy if they transform the present into an expanded and ex-centric site of experience and empowerment. " 1 These words signify the utmost relevance of the moving away from the past and its existence that keeps lurking in the present. Returning to the past is perceived as quite an impossible matter in the relative sense; but memory of the past seems to pervade all through. The varied notions of going beyond the past seem to be inevitable. The larger process of obliviating the past and constructing the present seeks to emancipate the individual from the shackles of the past. On the contrary, the individual seems to get entwined within the boundaries of the past and, therefore, expresses a strong sense of reluctance to come out of it. In this paper I would like to explore the different dimensions of the diasporic sentiments of the refugees who had to flee from their own homelands through the remarkable contribution of Ritwik Ghatak through his trilogy. In 1947, India had gained its long awaited independence, and had brought along with itself 'a tryst of an essentially controversial movement and the ensuing of the fragmentation of the land into three parts'2. This event had led to the whirling of lives of the people who had to migrate and suffer the loss-of their homeland, identities and experiences.