Saikat Banerjee

St. Xavier's College Ranchi · Department of English

Short story as a literary genre developed during the 19th century and has become one of the major literary forms of the 21st century. Rabindranath Tagore in India is considered to be one of the pioneer short story writers whose writings reflect maturity. He is regarded as the progressivist of the modern Indian short story writings. Tagore has been...

Human societies, since the time immemorial, have always tended to assign different roles, codes of behavior and morality, and even different feelings and thoughts to men and women based on the biological distinction of sex (between male and female) thereby leading to the construction of the social distinction of gender (between masculine and femini...

In literature, the representation of nature has played a significant role. With the advent of ecocriticism, the interaction of the physical environment with human beings became a focal point in literature. Amitav Ghosh is one among the few Indian writers who explore the effects of human being's inordinate use of nature for his/her selfish motives b...

Kartar Singh Duggal, with his acute sensitivity to gender issues meticulously explored various aspects of familial relationships. In the short stories of Duggal, patriarchy presents itself as a significant socio-cultural force that orders and demands its own discriminatory and biased social structure. His short stories focus on the way that power,...

Influenced by the traditional Edo culture where homosexuality was prevalent, Japanese manga artists do not shy away from portraying different gender relationships explicitly through art. Among the contemporary homosexual genres of Yaoi, Yuri, Shounen-ai, and Shoujo-ai found in Japanese manga, the concept of Omegaverse, a subgenre of erotic slash fi...

This research paper examines and compares the cinematic presentations of the Mahabharata by B.R. Chopra (1988) and Siddharth Kumar Tewary (2013) to explore their narrative structures, character portrayals, visual presentations, cultural interpretations, and overall impact. The adaptations of the Mahabharata by these renowned directors have left a s...

Translation studies in India

The Hieroglyphs of Flesh: Writing the Body in South-Asian Literature Deadline for Submissions: October 15, 2018 Editors: Dr. Saikat Banerjee, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, St. Theresa International College, Nakhon Nayok, Bangkok, Thailand. & Dr. Basudhara Roy Chatterjee, Department of English, Karim City College, Jamshedpur, India....

GNOSIS: An International Refereed Journal of English Language and Literature (ISSN: 2394-0131), which is likely to be published in October, 2018. A UGC Approved [Arts and Humanities, Journal number – 48815] The last date of submission is August 31, 2018. (For October, 2018 Issue) For more details please visit: www.thegnosisjournal.com

The holocaust of partition depicted through the short stories of Kartar Singh Duggal

Hilary Mantel’s writing mainly explores the Tudor history. Her novel Wolf Hall won the Man Booker Prize in 2009 followed by it’s sequel Bring up the Bodies too winning the Man Booker Prize in 2012 thus documenting her name in the history book as not only the first female novelist to win the prize twice, but also the first writer to win with a seque...

On 23 April, 1616, a man died, but with his death a legacy was born; one which proved so essential not only to the development of drama and literature, but to language, to thoughts and ideas. To how we profess our love to each other, and to how we express our grief; his influence pervades so much in our lives, because his work has become so timeles...

Towards New Horizons in Indian English Literature is a modest attempt to evaluate some of the major authors of Indian writing in English. It comprises twenty well researched papers of researchers from all over the world. The authors discussed in this anthology are Nissim Ezekiel, Kamala Das, Jayanta Mahapatra, Jaydeep Sarangi, Vijay Tendulkar, Manj...

Short story as a literary genre developed during the 19 th century and has become one of the major art forms in the 21 st century. Rabindranath Tagore in India is considered to be the first short story writer whose writings reflect maturity. He is regarded as the innovator of the modern Bengali short story. The vivid and realistic depiction of c...

Abstract: Short story as a genre in Punjabi Literature evolved in the twentieth century. Nanak Singh, Gurbux Singh and some others can be credited to make this genre start in Punjabi Literature which reached its zenith through the works of Kartar Singh Duggal, Sant Singh Sekhon and Sujan Singh. Kartar Singh Duggal has to his credit about 500 short...

Daath Voyage: An International Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies in English derives its name from the Hebrew word ‘Daath’ (Knowledge) and ‘Voyage’ (Journey), which, when combined, mean Journey of Knowledge.Daath Voyage: An International Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies in English is a refereed e-journal designed to publish theoretical and re...

GNOSIS is a refereed and double blind peer review Print journal which publishes theoretical and research articles on English Literature and Language. GNOSIS encourages fresh insights into new and established authors and texts and seeks to generate a serious debate on different multidisciplinary academic issues. We also encourage literary contributi...

Charting New Approaches in Indian English Fiction is a modest attempt to evaluate some of the major authors of Indian Fiction writing in English. This book comprises of twenty four well researched papers of researchers from all over the world. The authors discussed in this anthology are R. K. Narayan, Mulk Raj Anand, Anita Desai, Khuswant Singh, Ne...

Recent Trends in English literature has been written by Saikat Banerjee. The book is an honest attempt by the author to understand the growth and relevance of the English literature in the contemporary world. During the post-independence period Indian English Literature has undergone many transformations be it in the field of poetry, drama and fic...

The partition is perhaps the saddest event of modern India. It has attracted the attention of a host of creative writers and poets. These creative writers and poets have tried to present the themes of Partition in the light of their own perspective. With Train to Pakistan Khuswant Singh has established himself as a distinguished Indian writer “with...