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CLRI May 2022: Vol. 9, No. 2 brings to you a beautiful collection of RESEARCH PAPERS by Dr. A. Arun Daves, M. Sakkthi Shalini & Dr. Marie Josephine Aruna, Shivanshie Garg, Shubham Joshi, Soumita Mitra, Tanya Lohan; STORIES by G Venkatesh, Farzana Quader, Madan Sarma, Padmaja Sriram, Saligrama K. Aithal, Saranyan BV; POEMS by Debottam Saha, Chaitali Sengupta, Giti Tyagi, Rajamouly Katta, Dr. Romi Jain, Sandeep Kumar Mishra, Shuvam Dewanjee, Shruti Agarwal, Stephen Lefebure; BOOK REVIEWS on Mohamed Thaver’s “In Plain Sight” by Shridhar Naik, and Ravi Gowswami’s FOILED: THE ENEMY’S PLAN by Dr Anmol.

Determination of the Factual Anti-Hero in Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House: A Critical Study

This study targets testing Nils Krogstad's portrayal in Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House. Primarily, it attempts to demonstrate that Krogstad is the real anti-hero in Ibsen's work of art by examining the adversarial credits in his portrayal, his inspirational motivations towards villainy, just as his emotional impact on the hero and the plot. After the logical conversation, the study tracked down that the intentions of Krogstad allude to social, passionate, and monetary factors. On account of Krogstad's emotional impact, the study attests his sensational impact is solid on Nora by carrying her near the truth of her existence with Torvald as a doll. Besides, the aftereffects of the study demonstrate Krogstad's cheerful end is certainly not proof that he isn't opposed to the hero, Nora, yet in addition, it is to show an example, defrauded in an unforgiving society. At last, the study demonstrates that Krogstad is the top character to be the play's adversary for his opposing highlights incorporating the contentions with Nora, the solid sensational impact on her, and the emotional impact on the play's occasions.

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Female Embodiment: Narrating Gender/Narrating Body in Mieko Kawakami’s Breasts and Eggs

Body narratives by women writers hold an important place in contemporary cultural studies. This paper seeks to analyse Kawakami's Breasts and Eggs within the ambit of culture, gender and narration. Kawakami as a Japanese writer narrates the intimate organs of the female body in order to interpret woman's mind and soul. Writing serves as an act of ventilation for woman's thoughts. The novel explores contemporary womanhood in Japan by bringing into focus three different protagonists namely Natsuko Natsume, Makiko and Midoriko. Body shaming and stigmatization are the reasons for woman's trauma. Social and cultural constructs create an illusion that a woman should be fair with an appealing body without any blemishes in order to attract men. Thus the novel raises questions about woman being a mere reproductive machine. In Cultural Studies body is examined as a site of contestation. It is culture that constructs bodily identity and behavioral code. Culture and society oppress women and alienate them. This study unearths the condition of East Asian women who suffer due to poverty, misogyny, cultural and social constraints as portrayed in Kawakami's Breasts and Eggs and how a woman's body resists and conforms to this construction.

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Exploration of Femininity in Motherhood

In this study the author be analysing the plays, a tragedy, Desire Under the Elms (1924) by American playwright Eugene O'Neill and a drama, The House of Bernarda Alba (1936) by Spanish playwright Federico Garcia Lorca. The author will be analysing the characters of the mothers, Abbie (Desire Under the Elms) and Bernarda Alba (The House of Bernarda Alba) and how their dysfunctional characters and behaviours are because of the influence and impact of patriarchy. A typical feminine quality assigned to a mother is of a nurturer who protects her children. But what are the consequences when she does otherwise? These plays depict the actions taken by the women that the society doesn't associate to their role as a mother and doesn't approve of them. The author will be looking at several tragedies and analyse the characters of the mothers. The author will be looking at the act of maternal filicide. So, this comes to us as a shock because we are not ready to accept this aspect of her character. Abbie kills her own son to prove her love for Eben and Bernarda Alba, a matriarch who controls the lives of the women around her, doesn't shed a tear at the suicide of her daughter and exempts anyone from doing so. By the means of this study, The author wants to show that a mother is a human and she functions according to her desires and passions and they are allowed to diverge from their so-called perfect roles. They have been trying to break away from the stigma of being perfect and their stereotypical role of a selfless being. They want to place the individual above the society's image of a mother. The author will compare and contrast the motherly and the un-motherly characteristics.

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'The Subjection of Women' in 'A Doll's House'

This research paper endeavours to provide a combined and intertextual analysis of the lives and principal works of two of the most important writers of the Victorian era, John Stuart Mill and Henrik Ibsen. The two men have largely influenced the modern outlook towards feminism and the representation of women in literature as well as the real world. Mill's 'The Subjection of Women' is hailed as an exemplary text in the formulation of the tenets of liberal feminism. In the same way, Ibsen's play, 'A Doll's House', is often thought to be revolutionary for being the first in its representation of a feminist woman on stage. This paper attempts to study Ibsen's play using the feminist framework provided by Mill. In doing so, it seeks to highlight and inspire men aligned toward equality for women.

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Religious and Cultural Confluence of Eastern and Western India: Revisiting of the Folk Philosophy

Language has been conceived to be the most effective medium for communicating one’s ideas and emotions to others . The journey of any language in order to earn recognition undergoes rigorous changes and testing through ages . Language of any particular place or region which is popularly known as the “Dialect” takes the form of a complete expression only after it becomes customary to the lives of the people. The process of getting accustomed in the social order includes its travel through the folk literature, indigenous tales and the travelogues native to their places. This work would accentuate how the folklores in the provinces of Jharkhand and West Bengal, inspite of being geographically divided hold on to have some common features . Their similar historical backgrounds have laid the foundation for many local dialects to not only thrive and develop but to maintain its strong roots till today.

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Wordsworth’s The Prelude: Poetry Through the Means of Philosophy

William Wordsworth’s epic poem The Prelude was not intended by its author to be an epic, rather a precursor to an upcoming work only comparable to Paradise Lost. However, the small self-reflective piece intended for his then friend S.T. Coleridge was expanded over the course of about 40 years. In the poem, Wordsworth proposes to Coleridge and effectively to himself the matter of his intended epic. The Prelude is the germ that translated into The Recluse but in itself it supplanted all other works of his for being deeply philosophical. Wordsworth’s style is elliptical as he hovers around the center of his own psyche, in attempt to understand the subject of his epic i.e. man. This essay proposes that Wordsworth achieves a Copernican turn in likeness to Kant’s philosophy when he makes himself the object of study and through this transposition, the modern human subject is conceived.

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Long walk to somewhere

Hindu devotees apply sacred ash - also called vibhuti in Sanskrit traditionally as three horizontal lines across the forehead to honour Lord Shiva, the third of the Hindu Trinity.

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Transmigration

FARZANA QUADER

6 mins

Water Hyacinth

Madan Sarma

10+ mins

Almost Eldest

PADMAJA SRIRAM

10+ mins

May all beings everywhere be happy and free!

SALIGRAMA K. AITHAL

8 mins

May all beings everywhere be happy and free!

SALIGRAMA K. AITHAL

8 mins

Aandhai malai (In Western Ghats)

SARANYAN BV

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Aandhai malai (In Western Ghats)

SARANYAN BV

10+ mins

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