6 articles in this issue
moshood zakariyah
In today's world, the impact of technology on language and communication is so fundamental that hardly can a day pass without one form of influence or another. This is particularly true of (online) media which is now available in nearly every household. T... see more
Kandiah Shrikarunaakaran
This paper explores Naguib Mahfouz's novella The Thief and the Dogs in an effort to draw the silhouettes of personhood of Said Mahran, the protagonist. A revolutionary at the outset, Mahran cuts a sorry figure ultimately owing to his inflexibility and thi... see more
Bhavna Sharma
Judith Wright and Oodgeroo Noonuccal, the two well-known Australian poets have dealt with war and its effect on humanity in their poetry. Both the poets were a witness to Second World War and the political and social ramifications of the times inspired th... see more
Kanu Priya
Sonia Faleiro introduces through her non-fictional quasi-anthropological-cum literary writing on Bar Dancers to world of this profession. It portrays intense involvement of love, sex, violence, of customers and gangsters, of police, prostitutes and pimps.... see more
Sr Amala Valarmathy
This paper attempts to analyze Memory as an active and selective process in Alice McDermotts Someone. McDermott does not pretend that human memory is infallible instead she makes it clear that it is reconstructed. It is an active process that assists in s... see more
AQUIL AHMAD
The problem of suffering has been one of the existentially relevant issues which have most intimately invited human thinking. Phenomenologically, suffering is too complex to be easily stated. Essentially it belongs to the ‘ontic’ category and not to the e... see more