Volume 15, Number 3, 2023 


Research Articles


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Baby Boom amidst Covid-19 Pandemic: of Unwilling Fathers, Painful Motherhood and Poverty in Ozuitem Rural Community, Southeast Nigeria
Victor Okoro Ukaogo & Ogechi Cecilia Ukaogo
DOI: https://doi.org/10.21659/rupkatha.v15n3.32 | First published: September 28, 2023
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Investigating ‘Moral Legitimacy’ and ‘Belonging’ within Subaltern Counterpublics vis-à-vis the Raj: A Study of Select Short Stories by Janice Pariat
Lemon Sam & Ridhima Tewari
DOI: https://doi.org/10.21659/rupkatha.v15n3.31 | First published: September 28, 2023
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Memory, Insidious trauma, and Refugee crisis in Viet Thanh Nguyen’s The Sympathizer (2015)
Rashi Shrivastava, Avishek Parui, Merin Simi Raj
DOI: https://doi.org/10.21659/rupkatha.v15n3.30 | First published: September 28, 2023
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Predictors of audience engagement among Nigerian journalists
Ogemdi Uchenna Eze, Kenechukwu Josemaria Ugwu & Alphonsus Chukwuma Ugwu
DOI: https://doi.org/10.21659/rupkatha.v15n3.29 | First published: September 20, 2023
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Ecotopia: Ecological Concerns and Alternate Womanspace in Select Novels of Ursula K. Le Guin
Asish Kr. Charan & Tanu Gupta
DOI: https://doi.org/10.21659/rupkatha.v15n3.28 | First published: September 20, 2023
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Keeping Myth Memory Alive: The Usual and the Unusual in Sudha Murty’s Unusual Tales Series
Susan Lobo
DOI: https://doi.org/10.21659/rupkatha.v15n3.27 | First published: September 12, 2023
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The Historical Revolution of Vatican II and the Vision of a Post-Western Christianity in India
Enrico Beltramini
DOI: https://doi.org/10.21659/rupkatha.v15n3.26 | First published: September 12, 2023
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Mondrian’s rendition of Schopenhauer’s metaphysics of will and disinterested aesthetic experience
Ali Fallahzadeh & Zahra Rahbarnia
DOI: https://doi.org/10.21659/rupkatha.v15n3.25 | First published: September 12, 2023
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A Critical Analysis of Honorification in Human Relations
Tanima Bagchi & Rajesh Kumar
DOI: https://doi.org/10.21659/rupkatha.v15n3.24 | First published: September 04, 2023
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A Saga of Cosmopolitan Friendship in Time of the Breaking of Nations: A Study of Ali Smith’s Autumn
Mousumi Chowdhury
DOI: https://doi.org/10.21659/rupkatha.v15n3.23 | First published: September 04, 2023
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Socio-cultural practices and stress among working mothers of underage children in the Public Universities of Nigeria
Ngozi Christina Nwadike, John Thompson Okpa, Nnana Okoi Ofem, Benjamin Okorie Ajah, Uzochukwu Chukwuka Chinweze, Isife, Chima Theresa
DOI: https://doi.org/10.21659/rupkatha.v15n3.22 | First published: September 04, 2023
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Toleration and Tolerance as Human Challenges: The Voice of an Eighteenth-Century Dramatist, Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, for the Twenty-First Century
Albrecht Classen
DOI: https://doi.org/10.21659/rupkatha.v15n3.21 | First published: September 04, 2023
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Towards a Problematic Canon: Indian Poetry Anthologies and the Construction of Modernism
Benjamin Karam
DOI: https://doi.org/10.21659/rupkatha.v15n3.20 | First published: August 28, 2023
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Born twice: A redemptive revisioning uncovering the metaphors of representation
Anu Mathai & Rolla Das
DOI: https://doi.org/10.21659/rupkatha.v15n3.19 | First published: August 28, 2023
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Representing Gender Equality through Advertisements from the Electronic Media: A Study in Discourse Analysis
Shubham Pathak, Swasti Mishra & Ipsita Mondal
DOI: https://doi.org/10.21659/rupkatha.v15n3.18 | First published: August 28, 2023
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The journeys of acculturation of Western culture in Vietnamese travel writing in the first half of the 20th century
Nguyen Huu Son & Nguyen Huu Le
DOI: https://doi.org/10.21659/rupkatha.v15n3.17 | First published: August 28, 2023
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Redefining the Identity of People of Indian Origin in Mauritius
Rashmi Kapoor
DOI: https://doi.org/10.21659/rupkatha.v15n3.16 | First published: August 28, 2023
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The Text of Minangkabau Collective Riddles: Format, Figurative Language, and Social Function for the Collective Owners
Hasanuddin WS, Emidar, Zulfadhli
DOI: https://doi.org/10.21659/rupkatha.v15n3.15 | First published: August 26, 2023
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A Comparative and Contrastive Study of Arabic and English Metonymic Expressions
Omar Abdullah Al-Haj Eid, Mohammed Nour Abu-Gub & Halla Shureteh
DOI: https://doi.org/10.21659/rupkatha.v15n3.14 | First published: August 26, 2023
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Essencelessness, Lack of Self and the Abject Human Condition: Rethinking Jibanananda Das’s “Bodh”
Biswarup Das
DOI: https://doi.org/10.21659/rupkatha.v15n3.13 | First published: August 26, 2023
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Childbirth and Pollution: Exploring the politics of Prasava Raksha through food practices in Kerala
Alicia Jacob
DOI: https://doi.org/10.21659/rupkatha.v15n3.12 | First published: August 26, 2023
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The Interrelation of Art, Science, and Technology from a Cognitive Dimension: Art as a Way of Knowledge and the STEAM Methodology as the Answer
Beatriz Escribano-Belmar, Raquel Caerols-Mateo, Reynaldo Thompson
DOI: https://doi.org/10.21659/rupkatha.v15n3.11 | First published: August 26, 2023
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Urban Space for Indonesian Women: Ambiguity in Nanti Kita Cerita Tentang Hari Ini (2019) Web Series
Aidatul Chusna, Budi Irawanto & Dian Arymami
DOI: https://doi.org/10.21659/rupkatha.v15n3.10 | First published: August 26, 2023
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Colour as Symbols in the Select Works of Yann Martel
M. Arul Darwin & Arul Anand
DOI: https://doi.org/10.21659/rupkatha.v15n3.09 | First published: August 20, 2023
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Types of Code-switching among Young Adults with Bilingualism
Ruba S, Prabhu S & Kala Samayan
DOI: https://doi.org/10.21659/rupkatha.v15n3.08 | First published: August 20, 2023
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Representing Gandhi: A Study of Mahatma Gandhi as a Character in Selected Novels from Colonial and Post-Colonial Times
Mainak Gupta
DOI: https://doi.org/10.21659/rupkatha.v15n3.07 | First published: August 20, 2023
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Effects of Dynamic Assessment of Grammatical Structures on Learners’ Speaking Accuracy: The Case of Hawassa University, Ethiopia
Abayneh Feleke Managdew & Taye Regassa Seda
DOI: https://doi.org/10.21659/rupkatha.v15n3.06 | First published: August 20, 2023
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Phonological idiosyncrasies of the Southern Sorsogon dialect in Bulan, Philippines
Dominic Bryan S. San Jose & John Gerald A. Pilar
DOI: https://doi.org/10.21659/rupkatha.v15n3.05 | First published: August 20, 2023
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On the Perceptibility of Motion: An Inquiry from the Indian Philosophical Traditions
Manoj Bhandari & Shruti Krishna Bhat & Vishwanath Dhital
DOI: https://doi.org/10.21659/rupkatha.v15n3.04 | First published: August 15, 2023
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Neoclassicism in Bangla Word Formation Processes
Tanushree Sarkar
DOI: https://doi.org/10.21659/rupkatha.v15n3.03 | First published: August 14, 2023
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Contrasting Approaches to Language, Meaning, and Knowledge in Advaita Vedanta and the Western Literary Traditions
Aayushee Garg
DOI: https://doi.org/10.21659/rupkatha.v15n3.02 | First published: August 14, 2023
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‘I’ll tell that human tale’: Documenting the Wartime Sexual Violence in Jing-Jing Lee’s How We Disappeared (2019)
Ashmita Biswas
DOI: https://doi.org/10.21659/rupkatha.v15n3.01 | First published: August 11, 2023
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Book Reviews


BOOK REVIEW OPEN ACCESS
Book Review: The Third Eye and Other Works: Mahatma Phule’s Writings on Education by Rohini Mokashi-Punekar
Kumuda Chandra Panigrahi
DOI: https://doi.org/10.21659/rupkatha.v15n3.r02 | First published: September 23, 2023
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Somdev Chatterjee’s Why Stories Work: The Evolutionary and Cognitive Roots of the Power of Narrative: A Review
T. Mangaiyarkarasi
DOI: https://doi.org/10.21659/rupkatha.v15n3.r01 | First published: September 23, 2023
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