Vol 2 – Special Issue (May 2026)

Battle stories were once used as cultural centres for building bravery, sacrifice, and collective identity. Yet, contemporary warfare literature is slowly changing its focus from battlefield glory toward psychic destruction. This study examines war narratives as evolving literary environments that stress pain, memory fragmentation, and identity instability. The study, which...

Transgenerational trauma refers to the transmission of effects from traumatic experiences that arise due to war or systemic oppression. In the contemporary era, British-Pakistani writer Kamila Shamsie's novel Broken Verses explores themes like rootlessness, family dynamics, political history, memory, and truth.

This paper presents a psychoanalytic reading of “Daddy” by Sylvia Plath, focusing on the psychological conflicts that shape the poem’s emotional intensity. Drawing on the theories of Sigmund Freud, the study explores how repression, unresolved childhood attachment, repetition compulsion, and death drive operate within the speaker’s relationship with her father.

This paper examines the personal and historical importance of Anne Frank's diary, later published as The Diary of a Young Girl. Written while hiding during World War II, her diary is not only a record of daily life in the Secret Annex but also a powerful autobiographical narrative.

This paper discusses how digital tools and platforms support core CLIL principles by providing learners with multimodal input, student engagement and facilitating interaction and scaffolding.

The novel Gone Girl is a famous psychological thriller novel written in the year 2012. It was published by Crown publishing group. It is one of the best seller copies in New York Times. Later this novel was adapted into a film named Gone Girl which was directed by David Fincher. The novel follows Nick and Amy Dunne,...

This paper attempts a psychoanalytic enquiry of the prevalent absurdist reading of The Stranger by Albert Camus.

Devi (2020) is a short film directed by Priyanka Banerjee. It acts as a critique of the system that fails to protect women in a society, where women are objectified and violated. The strong symbolism in the film shows gender-based inequality and patriarchal hypocrisy in contemporary Indian culture. The paper highlights how the...

This paper talks about the ethical crisis that emerges from the tension between Lara’s hatred towards the nation and emotional attachment.

This paper explores the interlinked concerns of diaspora and identity in three short stories by Sadhu Binning—“The Burden,” “Safe-Keeping,” and “Eyes in the Dark”—arguing that migration does not dismantle patriarchal power but reconfigures and intensifies it across national and cultural borders.