by Admin | Mar 13, 2013 | Chief Editor, Editorial, Vol 1 No 2
The second issue of Rupkatha journal is ready for access. The gratitude due to contributors should be acknowledged not just as a matter of courtesy but because they have introduced interdisciplinary methods of study, making parts of this issue a good reflector of the...
by Admin | Mar 13, 2013 | Vol 1 No 2
Sajalkumar Bhattacharya, Ramakrishna Mission Residential College, West Bengal, India Abstract Parallel reading of history from the subaltern point of view is not only possible, but it also often proves to be revealing. It often unearths a new discourse, which...
by Admin | Mar 13, 2013 | Vol 1 No 2
Jonathan Highfield, Rhode Island School of Design, Rhode Island, USA Abstract Mulk Raj Anand’s Punjab trilogy–The Village (1939), Across the Black Waters (1940), and The Sword and the Sickle (1942)–speaks directly to the destruction of traditional agricultural...
by Admin | Mar 13, 2013 | Vol 1 No 2
Fakrul Alam, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh Abstract This paper explores the enduring qualities of Rabindranath Tagore’s English prose and puts forward the thesis that not only the Gitanjali poems but also many other of his English writings attained “some qualities...
by Admin | Mar 13, 2013 | Vol 1 No 2
Indranil Acharya, Vidyasagar University, West Bengal, India Abstract This paper tries to review and reassess the tribal situation with special reference to the tribal women in India and Australia. It is an attempt to locate the ‘Aboriginal woman’ question in the...
by Admin | Mar 13, 2013 | Vol 1 No 2
Amit Shankar Saha, Calcutta University, West Bengal, India Abstract The essay takes a holistic view of the word “exile” to encompass a range of displaced existence. It illustrates through John Simpson’s The Oxford Book of Exile the various forms of exiles. The essay...