Published: 2024-03-19

Kolkata as a Postcolonial “Global City”

A Critical Representation of Kolkata’s Transition in Select Fictions and Films

Sanjay Kumar Paira, Madhumita Roy
Abstract

This paper aims to critically explore Kolkata as a postcolonial “global city” through the interpretation of Satyajit Ray’s film...

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Saleem as an Official Empath in Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children

Farah Siddiqui
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Literary authors sometimes use empathy as a tool to encourage border crossing between readers of different cultures or even to provide access to...

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Cultural Misrepresentation

Jhumpa Lahiri’s Navigation of Indian Culture in the Role of a Cultural Translator in Interpreter of Maladies

Swati Anwesha
Abstract

In this essay, the short stories in Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri are critically examined through the lens of her position as a...

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