Published: 2026-05-21
Editor's Note
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Articles
Post-Memory and Dispossession
The Expendables of Northeast India in Siddhartha Deb’s The Point of Return
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AbstractAnglophone literature from Northeast India delineates the experiences of marginalisation and violence that have marred the region for decades....
Byomkesh Bakshi’s Calcutta
Crime and Detection in Saradindu Bandyopadhyay's The Menagerie (1954)
21–31
AbstractLike the social novel in Bengal, Detective literature, a popular branch of fiction amongst the burgeoning middle classes, originated with the...
Critiquing Caste through Performance
A Reading of Datta Bhagat’s Dalit Play Routes and Escape Routes
32–50
AbstractThe paper through a reading of one of the most important Dalit playwrights Datta Bhagat’s seminal Dalit play Routes and Escape Routes...
A Transnational Feminist Evaluation of the Efficacy of Topless Protest in Tunisia
Femen’s International Jihad Versus Collectif 95 Maghreb-Egalité
51–73
AbstractFemen is a bare-breasted feminist group that originated in Ukraine and specializes in topless protests. This article evaluates Femen’s...
Decolonizing George William Joy’s General Gordon’s Last Stand in Aboulela’s River Spirit
74–97
AbstractIn Leeds City Art Gallery, visitors can see George William Joy’s painting General Gordon’s Last Stand (1893). The painting, which...
Suspended Temporality: A Necropolitical Reading of Susan Abulhawa’s Against the Loveless World
98–115
AbstractThis article examines Susan Abulhawa’s novel Against the Loveless World within the framework of necropolitics and temporal studies,...
Book Review Essay
The Man-Making Preceptor of Universal Humanity
Vivekananda in the Post-Colonial World
116–130
AbstractRuth Harris, Guru to the World: The Life and Legacy of Vivekananda. Harvard
UP, 2022. $39.95
Swami Medhananda, Swami...