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Volume 17, Number 3, 2025
Research Articles on the General Areas
Adivasi Literatures in India: Disrupting the Norms through Memory, Intersectionality and Critique
Mohan Dharavath
DOI: https://doi.org/10.21659/rupkatha.v17n3.06g | First published: 31 December 2025
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Bipolar Disorder and Drug Abuse: A Psychoanalytic Study of Suicidal Ideation and Perception of Women as the ‘Other’ in Leonard Cohen’s “Dress Rehearsal Rag”
Pragati Das & Mita Bandyopadhyay
DOI: https://doi.org/10.21659/rupkatha.v17n3.05g | First published: 30 November 2025
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Human Evaluation of Some English-Hindi Machine Translation Systems
Riya Lonchenpa, Anju Krishnia, Mhasilenuo Vizo & Nisheeth Joshi
DOI: https://doi.org/10.21659/rupkatha.v17n3.04g | First published: 15 September 2025
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Caste and the Continuing Battle: A Critical Study of Aravind Malagatti’s “Karya” in Contemporary India
Sanjukta Naik & Swayam Prabha Satpathy
DOI: https://doi.org/10.21659/rupkatha.v17n3.03g | First published: 15 September 2025
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Employ(ability), ESP and Psychological Well-being at the Crossroads
Swati Basu & Bhavya
DOI: https://doi.org/10.21659/rupkatha.v17n3.02g | First published: 11 September 2025
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timepass: Protima Bedi’s Memoir as a Rebuttal to Media
Ramya M. H. & Shashikantha Koudur
DOI: https://doi.org/10.21659/rupkatha.v17n3.01g | First published: 10 September 2025
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Volume 17, Number 3, 2025
Research Articles on the General Areas
Adivasi Literatures in India: Disrupting the Norms through Memory, Intersectionality and Critique
Mohan Dharavath
DOI: https://doi.org/10.21659/rupkatha.v17n3.06g | First published: 31 December 2025
Abstract Full-Text PDF
Bipolar Disorder and Drug Abuse: A Psychoanalytic Study of Suicidal Ideation and Perception of Women as the ‘Other’ in Leonard Cohen’s “Dress Rehearsal Rag”
Pragati Das & Mita Bandyopadhyay
DOI: https://doi.org/10.21659/rupkatha.v17n3.05g | First published: 30 November 2025
Abstract Full-Text PDF
Human Evaluation of Some English-Hindi Machine Translation Systems
Riya Lonchenpa, Anju Krishnia, Mhasilenuo Vizo & Nisheeth Joshi
DOI: https://doi.org/10.21659/rupkatha.v17n3.04g | First published: 15 September 2025
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Caste and the Continuing Battle: A Critical Study of Aravind Malagatti’s “Karya” in Contemporary India
Sanjukta Naik & Swayam Prabha Satpathy
DOI: https://doi.org/10.21659/rupkatha.v17n3.03g | First published: 15 September 2025
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Employ(ability), ESP and Psychological Well-being at the Crossroads
Swati Basu & Bhavya
DOI: https://doi.org/10.21659/rupkatha.v17n3.02g | First published: 11 September 2025
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timepass: Protima Bedi’s Memoir as a Rebuttal to Media
Ramya M. H. & Shashikantha Koudur
DOI: https://doi.org/10.21659/rupkatha.v17n3.01g | First published: 10 September 2025
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Volume 17, Number 2, 2025
Research Articles on Future of Global Indigenous Literature and Arts
Common Spirit of Customary Law: Long-standing Practice of Ethnic Community in Bangladesh
Parimal Kumar Roy, Mashitah Hamidi, Haris Abd Wahab & Sanjay Krishno Biswas
DOI: https://doi.org/10.21659/rupkatha.v17n2.01 | First published: 21 May 2025
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Research Articles on the General Areas
Reimagining Fathering a Child with Special Needs in a Gendered Context
Senem GURKAN
DOI: https://doi.org/10.21659/rupkatha.v17n2.06g | First published: 08 June 2025
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Resisting Oppression: A Dravidian Ideological Perspective of Karnan (2021) in Tamil Cinema
Jeeva V, Padmanabhan T, Sunesh K S & Poovarasan G
DOI: https://doi.org/10.21659/rupkatha.v17n2.05g | First published: 03 June 2025
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Rise of Political Consciousness in Dravidian Cinema: Screening Social Justice in M. R. Radha Films
Naren Kumar N L & R. Subramani
DOI: https://doi.org/10.21659/rupkatha.v17n2.04g | First published: 29 May 2025
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The Language of Ancestral Wisdom: A Study on Interpretive Strategies in Thirukkural Commentaries
Vinayagam G
DOI: https://doi.org/10.21659/rupkatha.v17n2.03g | First published: 29 May 2025
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Representing Desire in Minor Literature: Characterisation in The White Tiger
Farooq Ahmad Sheikh
DOI: https://doi.org/10.21659/rupkatha.v17n2.02g | First published: 21 May 2025
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Posthuman Aesthetics: A Postscript on Decadent Naturalism
Armando Perez Crespo
DOI: https://doi.org/10.21659/rupkatha.v17n2.01g | First published: 21 May 2025
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Volume 16, 2024
- Number 1: Themed Issue on Indigenous Performance Ecologies and Ecological Power in the Global South
- Number 2: Language Engineering and general articles
- Number 3: Creative Technologies and general articles
- Number 4: General Issue
Volume 15, 2023
- Number 1: Themed Issue on Current and Future Directions in TESOL Studies
- Number 2: General Issue
- Number 3: General Issue
- Number 4: Themed Issue on the AI Revolution
- Number 5: Special Issue on Poetics of Self-construal in Postcolonial Literature
Volume 14, 2022
- Number 1: Themed Issue on Contemporary East and Southeast Asian Literary and Cultural Studies
- Number 2: Themed Issue on Literature of Northeast India & General Articles
- Number 3: Themed issue “Across Cultures: Ibero-America and India” & General Articles
- Number 4: Themed issue “Global Anxieties in Times of Current Crises”
Volume 13, 2021
- Number 1: General Issue under Continuous Mode
- Number 2: Special Articles on Health Humanities and General Articles
- Number 3: General Issue
- Number 4: General Issue
Volume 12, 2020
- Number 1: General Issue under Continuous Mode
- Number 2: General Issue under Continuous Mode
- Number 3: Special Collection on “India and Travel Narratives”, guest-edited by Ms. Somdatta Mandal, PhD
- Number 4: General Issue under Continuous Mode
- Number 5: 1st RIOC Conference Issue
- Number 6: Special Articles on Health Humanities and General Articles
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