Vol 2 – Special Issue (May 2026)

Rohinton Mistry is an Indian born Canadian writer. He is known for the portrayal of Parsi people in his fiction. He portrays the miserable condition of the common people of India in his work Such a Long Journey. A country’s growth and its freedom depend on the people who govern it. The...

This abstract examines the application of Jeremy Bentham’s ‘Panopticon’ principle as a framework for psychological control in Veronica Roth’s Divergent. In the dystopian ruins of Chicago, the faction system functions as a macroscopic Panopticon, where the constant threat of being observed forces citizens to internalize societal norms and regulate their own...

This research focuses on “Satsujin Shussan,” a dystopian short story by Sayaka Murata. She is a contemporary Japanese author, known for her unsettling exploration of gender roles, social conformity and the human body. The story depicts a future of Japanese society, designed to fight population decline, in which if any person gives birth to ten...

The novel centres on Jean-Baptiste Clamence, a former lawyer from Paris who narrates his story to an unnamed listener. His self-image begins to collapse after a crucial incident when he hears a woman jump from a bridge into the river. He moves to Amsterdam, where he adopts the role of...

Bhabani Bhattacharya is a prominent Indian novelist who is notable for her depiction of social crises. His fifth novel Shadow from Ladakh was published in the year 1966. This novel brought him the Sahitya Akademi Award in1967. The novel is set against the threatening background of the Chinese aggression in 1962.

This paper examines domestic violence not merely as an isolated act of physical abuse but as a cyclical structure of suffering transmitted across generations. Through the parallel experiences of the child protagonist and her teacher, the story reveals how trauma is internalised, suppressed, and normalised within the domestic sphere.

This paper critically examines the representation of Dalit women in Vanmam by Bama. The study explores how caste and gender intersect in the novel and shape the lives of Dalit women.

This paper explores the tension between emotional desire and familial responsibility in Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri through the framework of Family Systems Theory. The stories in Unaccustomed Earthdepict family life as emotionally interconnected, where individual longing and suppressed desires gradually disturb domestic harmony.