India’ has been the sole interest for the Indian diaspora and Gita Mehta is one of them. She begins with Karma Cola, lingers over A River Sutra and concludes in Snakes and Ladders. The present paper seeks to examine Gita Mehta’s endeavour to present her native place India in ‘glacial progress towards liberation; more than…
This paper has two parts. The first part seeks to briefly theorise the notion of selfhood in the light of theories propounded by Jung, Maslow, Kohut and others alongside working out its poststructuralist and postmodern implication. The second part of the paper will deal with analysis of Shashi Deshpande’s novel In the Country of Deceit…
Today we live in a world characterized by global inequality which drives men and women from the soil that gave them birth. Hence, the world is shaping into a global village and diasporic writings have gained momentum. All those writers who have migrated from their homeland, and have settled down in distant corners of the…
Theory today seems to have absolved colonialism of its manifold sins, its recorded atrocities on the colonized. For if one takes a broad view of history, one witnesses civilizations clashing, often with a motive of conquest, sometimes intent on maneuvering themselves into positions of hegemonic control over others. The clash of civilizations that Samuel Huntington…
