FIRST LOOK
CONTENTS
American
Studies and European Perspectives: A Conversation
with Walter Hoelbling
Nibir K. Ghosh / 7
Gandhi: 150 Years After
His Birth
Jonah Raskin / 18
Artless
in His Art: The Case of Nida Fazli
Anisur Rahman / 22
Subhas Chandra Bose: Prison
Reflections on Art,
Life and Humanity
Sanjay Kumar Misra / 26
The
Sickness of Despair: A Study of Snowman’s Dilemma in Margaret Atwood’s Oryx and Crake
Tanu
Gupta & Pooja Singal / 35
Subaltern
Reading of Marathi New Wave Cinema
Melwyn S. Pinto / 42
Krupa Sophia Jeyachandran &
Urvashi Kaushal / 52
Narrating
History and Historicising Performance: Arthur Miller’s The Crucible
Tanya Mander / 59
Reflection
of Mythical and Cultural Milieu in Amish Tripathi’s Shiva Trilogy
Shalini Bhargava / 69
Walking
to (W)rest the Real: Rousseau’s First and Tenth Walk in Reveries of the Solitary Walker
Satvir Singh / 76
Modern
Theatre: A Dramatist’s Evolution Through Angst, Exhaustion and Hope
Rakhi Vyas / 84
Queer
Discourse in Indic Myths: ‘Other’ Stories from a Gender-Fluid World
Seema Sinha & Kumar Sankar Bhattacharya / 88
Multicultural
Outpourings in the Poetry of Sylvia Plath and Kamala Das
Rajan Lal / 97
Village
as the Centre: Space in Raja Rao’s Kanthapura
Sarita Pareek / 105
Mass Exodus of Kashmiri Pandits: Contentions and Contestations
Shaifta Ayoub / 111
Women, Gender Roles and Socio-Cultural Matrix
in Ismat
Chugtai’s Short Stories with Special Reference to
“Lingering Fragrance” and “The Wedding Suit”
Eram Shaheen Ansari / 121
Past Shaping the Future: A Study of Tamim Ansary’s Games Without Rules
Namita Chouhan / 131
Dance
as Structure of Fiction: Donovan Roebert’s The Odissi Girl
Swayamshree Mishra / 139
Soul’s
Musings: Confessionalism in the Poetry of Kamala Das and Anne Sexton
Roopali Khanna / 147
Films and Select Works of Ruskin Bond
Shri Kant
Kulshrestha / 153
Poetry
Shernavaz Buhariwala
Antartica / 157
Wahajuddin Ahmad
Prostitute / 159, World
of Hunger / 159
Manju
My Better Half / 160
COMMENTS RECEIVED
The 41st edition of RE-MARKINGS
(March 2020) was a bibliophile’s delight. A veritable smorgasbord of quality
writing, the work reflects the editor’s excellent choice in terms of diversity
in articles and contemporaneity of issues. Invoking Camus in the editorial sets
the tone right. Salvation indeed lies in the efforts of the subaltern, ‘whose
deeds and words negate frontiers’. In these liminal times when boundaries are
giving way to bridges it is heartening to see such volumes assisting the cause of
humanitarianism, as the Chief Editor has so succinctly pointed out. Hence there
is hope that the collective effort will narrow down, if not eliminate, the
yawning gulf between, as Dr. Ghosh says, ‘want and affluence, strife and peace,
fear and security’. The ‘slumber of inertia’ is deep. It would take many voices
to break the silence that has set in. Congratulations to
RE-MARKINGS for having successfully emerged as a platform for airing out issues
that matter. The interview with Professor Hoelbling was remarkable,
especially the reference to his poem ‘Happy News Year’. ‘The elevation of news
by foregrounding the positive’, as Dr. Ghosh has beautifully emphasized, is the
way out. Right from the aesthetics of the front-cover page, to the enriching
Orwellian quote on the back-cover page, to the excellence of the varied
writings, RE-MARKINGS was worth the
wait.
Dr. Nibir Ghosh, May your tribe
increase! --Seema Sinha, BITS Pilani
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