Creative Saplings
type: channel
description: Creative Saplings (CS) (ISSN: 0974-536X) CODEN: CSABCJ is an international peer-reviewed (refereed), open access, monthly online journal of English language and literature from India. Creative Saplings has an expert editorial board and reviewers to analyze and select literary works from the English language, literature, and criticism. Creative Saplings publishes the unpublished, most original, and scholarly articles of students, scholars, and academicians from all over the world.
publisher: SAFE: (Society For Academic Facilitation and Extension, Regd.), Sai Neeharika, Patiyali Sarai, Badaun
language: en
publication name: Creative Saplings
issn: 0974-536X
items: Tehmina Durrani’s My Feudal Lord: An Advocate of Feminist Defiance
items: Rewriting Gender Roles: Feminist Reinterpretation of Mythological Narratives
items: Guardians of Nature: An Ecocritical Exploration of Tribal Spirituality and Wisdom through Documentaries
items: From Search for The Mother to Search for Two Indias- A Study of the Representation of New India in Three Indian English Novels
items: Navigating Guilt: An Examination of the Phenomenon of Guilt in Jerry Pinto’s Em and the Big Hoom
items: Mapping English Poetry from Bihar: A Snapshot of Twenty-Two Swans in the Lake of Life
items: A Critique of The Hungry Tide By Amitav Ghosh through the Lens of Anthropocene
items: Intersecting Feminism, Power, History, and Myth: Unveiling Empires in Salman Rushdie’s Victory City
items: Narrative Strategies and Authorial Intent in Good Omens: A Satirical Response to the Changing World
items: Indigenous Identity and Cultural Hybridity in Somerset Maugham’s The Painted Veil
items: Forging a Family: Subverting the Heteronormative Family Structure and Navigating Identities in the Anime Spy X Family
items: Exploring Mindscape and Landscape in Margaret Atwood’s Surfacing
items: The Portrayal of Subjective Anguish, Forfeiture, Veracity, Affection and Conviction in Namita Gokhale’s The Book of Shadows
items: Fragmentation and Black Consciousness in Amiri Baraka’s The System of Dante’s Hell
items: Spiritual & Literary Perspectives in the Poetry of Kabir Das and Swami Vivekanand: A Critical Exploration
items: Child Marriage As A Major Concern in Pashto Poetry
items: Smoker, AQI, Stars, Decibles
items: Song for All Teachers
items: My Forecast by R Revathi Ramamurthy
items: Book Review Gods, Graves, and Grandmother by Namita Gokhale, Penguin, 248 Pages. 1 November 2001. ISBN: 978-0141006994
items: The Silent Companion
items: Bleak For Love
items: I Feel Covid
items: Dipak Giri’s Indian Diaspora Literature: A Critical Evaluation (Book review)
items: Teri Baato Mein Aisa Ulajha Jiya (Movie review)
items: Death- The Deliverer
items: Divine Nature, The Death & Ideal Beauty
items: Mentor / Mentee Relationship and the Development of Technical Theatre in Nigeria: Dexter Lyndersay and Molinta Enendu in Focus
items: Popular Culture and the Nigerian Filmic Space: The Efficacy-Entertainment Braid
items: A Helpless Individual

Tehmina Durrani’s My Feudal Lord: An Advocate of Feminist Defiance
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description: The novel My Feudal Lord explores the story of Tehmina Durrani, raised in one of the most influential families of Lahore. But her marriage to one of Pakistan’s most eminent political figures, soon turned into a nightmarish experience for her. Her violent and over-possessive husband forced her to endure in silence for fourteen long years till she broke silence through her autobiographical work ‘My feudal Lord’. Her story provides extraordinary insight into the deplorable position of Muslim women caught in the vicious circle of Muslim society.
subject: Articles
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subject: Special Number
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subject: Eminent, fearlessness, nightmarish experience, over –possessive, Feminist Defiance
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creator: Nishi Singh
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Nishi Singh https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
date: 2025-10-25
publication date: 2025-10-25
starting page: 44
ending page: 50
doi: 10.56062/gtrs.2025.4.10.1026

Rewriting Gender Roles: Feminist Reinterpretation of Mythological Narratives
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description: Mythological stories form the basis of many cultures as they are passed down through generations, serving as a means of conveying values, beliefs and traditions. Mythological tales generally idiolize and glorify male prowess. Gender inequality in mythology is a complex issue which is deeply ingrained in the socio-cultural fabric of the Indian society. This representation often mirrors the gender disparity in our lives as well. These narratives frequently portray women in subordinate roles which directly reflects the patriarchal norms prevalent in the society. Revisionist mythology takes these ancient tales and caters them to the modern readers by reinterpreting them. One of the prevalent themes of the revisionist mythology is the point of view of a female character which helps the reader in understanding the situation of females in the ancient times. Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni and Kavita Kane, through their revisionist mythological novels, provide a new outlook on traditional narratives that challenges the existing gender bias and creates a platform for female empowerment in mythological retellings. The paper discusses and argues that the modern retellings have created an alternative feminine discourse by breaking the ideological male canon and also aims to explore the gynocentric myth created by these women writers.
subject: Articles
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subject: Revisionist mythology
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subject: Culture
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subject: Gender inequality
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subject: Gynocentric
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subject: mythology
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creator: Ragini Raghav
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Ragini Raghav https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
date: 2025-10-25
publication date: 2025-10-25
starting page: 36
ending page: 43
doi: 10.56062/gtrs.2025.4.10.1055

Guardians of Nature: An Ecocritical Exploration of Tribal Spirituality and Wisdom through Documentaries
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description: Due to increasing modernization on Earth, the basic needs of humans have increased. Considering themselves as centers, humans are excessively exploiting the valuable gifts received from nature without thinking. Due to which there has been an increase in comparison between modern materialistic development and sustainable development. Ways of sustainable development are being explored. Tribal people are a living example of this sustainable development. The spirituality and ecological wisdom of tribal people develops eco-consciousness within them due to which they consider it their duty to protect nature from those who harm it. The research paper explores ecological wisdom and spirituality in the lives of two tribes, Dongria Kondh Tribe and Yanomami Tribe, through the lens of two documentaries Niyamgiri: The Mountain of Law and The Last Forest. The research paper shows how these tribes respect nature not just as a resource but as a living spiritual entity. Through the documentaries, mythology, traditional ecological knowledge and beliefs of the tribal people that have been passed on from one generation to the next have been highlighted. After studying both these selected documentaries and through the research paper, an attempt has been made to know that the role of tribal spirituality is very important in maintaining the ecological balance. This study emphasizes on rethinking the relationship of man with nature.
subject: Articles
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subject: Tribal
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subject: Documentary
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subject: Tribal Spirituality
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subject: Ecological Wisdom
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creator: Sanjoly Paliwal
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Sanjoly Paliwal https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
date: 2025-10-25
publication date: 2025-10-25
starting page: 27
ending page: 35
doi: 10.56062/gtrs.2025.4.10.1033

From Search for The Mother to Search for Two Indias- A Study of the Representation of New India in Three Indian English Novels
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description: A major theme of recent Indian novels in English is the portrayal of the New India with all its glory and darkness in varied scale. This portrayal has often been criticized as part of the postcolonial exotic or celebrated as the progress of the postcolonial nation. There are many novels which have represented both these aspects of New India—the progress and the darkness— without overt castigation or celebration. This paper is concerned with such three Indian English novels-- Kunal Basu’s Sarojini’s Mother (2020), Shilpi Somaya Gowda’s Secret Daughter (2010) and Jaishree Misra’s A Scandalous Secret (2011)—all of which deal with the search for biological roots as major characters come to India in search of their parentage. The argument of this paper is that besides this thematic similarity all these novels expose the two faces of New India—both its light and darkness without any conscious attempt to moralize or castigate. This paper discusses how the search for real mothers turns into search for real India with all its success and failures but the conclusions of these novels put the emphasis on emotional enrichment and maturity rather than on mere fact-finding or exoticizing.
subject: Articles
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subject: New India, postcolonial exotic, castigation, celebration
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creator: Rakes Sarkar
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Rakes Sarkar https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
date: 2025-10-25
publication date: 2025-10-25
starting page: 1
ending page: 8
doi: 10.56062/gtrs.2025.4.10.980

Navigating Guilt: An Examination of the Phenomenon of Guilt in Jerry Pinto’s Em and the Big Hoom
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description: Guilt is a recurring undercurrent in Jerry Pinto's Em and the Big Hoom. This moving story explores the daily realities of a family which is dealing with mental illness and struggling with the complex and frequently debilitating sensation of guilt. A psychological crisis in a family and the concomitant emotional and mental conundrums eventuate in an insulated existence with parochial concerns as an inevitable outcome of it. The precarious existence that a family is forced to live, engulfed in the quagmire along with the victim and encumbered by the impairing depressive episodes, is the subject of this paper. Drawing on ideas like survivor's guilt, maladaptive guilt, and the inherited emotional burdens within dysfunctional family systems, the intricacies of emotional inheritance and self-blame are examined through Pinto's candid depiction of a family dominated by the mother's bipolar illness and the father's silent fortitude.
subject: Articles
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subject: Guilt, Mental Illness, Family Systems Theory, Schizophrenia, Bipolar Disorder
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creator: Ambika Madhur
creator: Prof. Shailendra P. Singh
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Ambika Madhur, Prof. Shailendra P. Singh https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
date: 2025-10-25
publication date: 2025-10-25
starting page: 19
ending page: 26
doi: 10.56062/gtrs.2025.4.10.1061

Mapping English Poetry from Bihar: A Snapshot of Twenty-Two Swans in the Lake of Life
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description: <span style="font-size: 9.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-style-textoutline-type: none; mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-dpiwidth: .75pt; mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-linecap: round; mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-join: bevel; mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-pctmiterlimit: 0%; mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-dash: solid; mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-align: center; mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-compound: simple; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">This paper maps English poetry from Bihar highlighting twenty-two poets who have made Bihar speak its rich tradition of quest and cultural ethos. Though this poetry has its roots in local soil, it transcends the local boundaries and becomes universal by virtue of its fusion of cultural rootedness, philosophical questionings and modern poetic expressions. Thematically and technically, this poetry is rich enough to quench the thirst of readers across the globe by its universal concerns of life, death, love, society and spirituality. Babu Avadh Biahri Lall, R. K. Singh, Prabhat Kumar Singh, Pashupati Jha, Punita Jha, C. L. Khatri, Kalpna Singh-Chitnis, Binod Mishra, Tabish Khair, Sumirasko, Bhaskarananda Jha and Abhay Kumar are some of the significant English poets who have touched almost every aspect of life—be it social, political or religious or cultural.
subject: Articles
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subject: Soil, traditions, cultural ethos, philosophical reflections, spirituality
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creator: Sudhir K. Arora
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
date: 2025-10-25
publication date: 2025-10-25
starting page: 51
ending page: 66
doi: 10.56062/gtrs.2025.4.10.1092

A Critique of The Hungry Tide By Amitav Ghosh through the Lens of Anthropocene
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description: <span style="font-size: 9.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-style-textoutline-type: none; mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-dpiwidth: .75pt; mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-linecap: round; mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-join: bevel; mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-pctmiterlimit: 0%; mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-dash: solid; mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-align: center; mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-compound: simple;">The Hungry Tide By Amitav Ghosh is set against the background of a large mangrove forest, the Sundarbans in the Bay of Bengal. Ghosh addresses the ecological, economic, and political challenges faced by the marginalised people of the archipelago called the Sundarbans. The novel explores the implications of living and dying in the contemporary moment. Piya’s warm interaction with Orcaella, and Fokir’s knowledge of the struggles with the tides showcase how humans interact with nature on different planes, making sustainable coexistence possible and impossible at the same time. The objective of this paper is to explore the conflicting relation of man and nature as projected in the novel. An attempt would be made to locate how culture and nature are entangled in the lives of the inhabitants of the tide country. It will also examine the ecological issues in the Anthropocene raised in the novel through the presentation of the conflicting coexistence of humanity and nature. Ghosh hints at how human-induced climate change has impacted the region as well as the lives of its inhabitants.
subject: Articles
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subject: Anthropocene, culture , nature
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creator: Lily Mondal
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Lily Mondal https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
date: 2025-09-25
publication date: 2025-09-25
starting page: 37
ending page: 44
doi: 10.56062/gtrs.2025.4.09.1022

Intersecting Feminism, Power, History, and Myth: Unveiling Empires in Salman Rushdie’s Victory City
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description: <span style="font-size: 9.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-style-textoutline-type: none; mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-dpiwidth: .75pt; mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-linecap: round; mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-join: bevel; mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-pctmiterlimit: 0%; mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-dash: solid; mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-align: center; mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-compound: simple;">Empires are built and dismantled, and when you excavate a bit in history, you will find that these very forces upon which they are supposed to rest and upon which they should be, are strangely relied on to build and rule them. That is a plot device of the crashing and the coalescing of civilizations. The concept of a lasting empire has been a long time interest among the strong powers of the world. Another grand creation of Salman Rushdie is Bisnaga, fictional name and resemblance of Vijayanagara Empire, in his novel, Victory City. It is attributed to Pampa Kampana, a poet, prophetess, and perhaps architect of a whole world that no longer exists, as attributed with magical powers of varying divinity. The book creates a rich tapestry of ideas which influence commoners and kings with cultural and political influence. The multilayered narrative structure of Rushdie makes it possible to explore the magic realism in a dense way and the plot of the story is even more immersive. One of the main themes is the same due to the female navigations of patriarchal society, their survival among them and hard work to save their unique identities. That is a thread which continues to sound in the novel. I am trying to analyze the intersection of feminism, power, myth and history in the narrative of Rushdie, to reveal the intricate interconnection between the concepts in the context of his novel, Victory City.
subject: Articles
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subject: Feminism, magical realism, power, myth, empowerment, recalcitrance, identity crisis and renaissance.
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creator: Sooraj Kumar
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Sooraj Kumar https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
date: 2025-09-25
publication date: 2025-09-25
starting page: 12
ending page: 20
doi: 10.56062/gtrs.2025.4.09.1025

Narrative Strategies and Authorial Intent in Good Omens: A Satirical Response to the Changing World
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description: <span style="font-size: 9.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-style-textoutline-type: none; mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-dpiwidth: .75pt; mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-linecap: round; mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-join: bevel; mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-pctmiterlimit: 0%; mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-dash: solid; mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-align: center; mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-compound: simple;">The paper examines the narrative strategies and authorial intent in Good Omens, a collaborative novel by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett, with a focus on how a text operates as a satirical response to a rapidly changing world. Published in 1990, at the cusp of the new millennium and amid post-Cold War anxieties, the novel engages deeply with themes of apocalypse, prophecy and human folly. Through a rich interweaving of biblical allusions, socio-historical commentary and literary satire, the paper aims to critique Good Omens. The collaborative authorship of Gaiman and Pratchett informs a distinctive narrative voice that merges Pratchett’s satirical sharpness with Gaiman’s mythic and metaphysical imagination. The paper explores how the authors leverage satire not solely for humour but as a deliberate tool for cultural, socio-historical and political analysis, drawing attention to the late-20th-century Western society.
subject: Articles
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subject: Narrative strategy, collaborative writing, socio-historical context, satire, authorial intent.
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creator: Sonjukta Chatterjee
creator: Irona Bhaduri
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Sonjukta Chatterjee, Irona Bhaduri https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
date: 2025-09-25
publication date: 2025-09-25
starting page: 21
ending page: 28
doi: 10.56062/gtrs.2025.4.09.1019

Indigenous Identity and Cultural Hybridity in Somerset Maugham’s The Painted Veil
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description: <span style="font-size: 9.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-style-textoutline-type: none; mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-dpiwidth: .75pt; mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-linecap: round; mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-join: bevel; mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-pctmiterlimit: 0%; mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-dash: solid; mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-align: center; mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-compound: simple;">While the concepts of identity and culture carry political and ethical implications, they also play an essential role in representing the post-colonial experience as it is lived. The process of transplantation leads to the emergence of a culture of exile. The formation of an undifferentiated identity occurs within a context influenced by both the conscious and unconscious past, as well as the realities of migration. This context serves as a representation of the experience. Though still connected to specific localities and cultures, the disruptions of space and time can reveal the complexities of self and culture within their original contexts. This dynamic allows for multiple forms of belonging, potentially fostering a sense of holistic identity while rejecting rigid and simplistic notions of existence. This condition does not merely promote a singular subjectivity or make itself inaccessible to social structures or personal experiences. The argument presented in this article aligns with the exploration of how human agency, expressed through narrative, positions itself within broad, imperfect theories or meta-narratives that shape larger forces in the development of alternative spatial and political discourses. Personal and collective cultures, along with contextual references, are fundamentally contingent and unstable, remaining open to interpretation.
subject: Articles
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subject: Somerset Maugham, Indigenous, Identity, Hybridity, The Painted Veil.
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creator: M Dhakchayani
creator: N. Sathiyarajan
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 M Dhakchayani, N. Sathiyarajan https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
date: 2025-09-25
publication date: 2025-09-25
starting page: 1
ending page: 11
doi: 10.56062/gtrs.2025.4.09.1013

Forging a Family: Subverting the Heteronormative Family Structure and Navigating Identities in the Anime Spy X Family
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description: <span style="font-size: 9.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-style-textoutline-type: none; mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-dpiwidth: .75pt; mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-linecap: round; mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-join: bevel; mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-pctmiterlimit: 0%; mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-dash: solid; mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-align: center; mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-compound: simple;">Anime, with its global popularity and mass engagement, is a cultural form that is positioned at a strategically significant juncture where the demarcation between high culture and popular culture gets blurred. The medium and form of anime that include stunning visual storytelling styles not only attract the audience towards it but also allow the medium to explore serious and mature themes like death, grief, etc., in a nuanced manner. The anime series Spy X Family, which was released in April 2022 and is based on an eponymous manga by Tatsuya Endo, leverages the intricacies of the anime form to portray serious issues like war, poverty and corruption in a way that is simultaneously sensitive and light-hearted. The premise of the anime series centres on an international spy code-named Twilight who is assigned a mission to gather intelligence about a hostile country that might initiate a nuclear war in the future. The secret mission requires Twilight to forge a faux family so that he can easily blend into society. He manages to assemble an eccentric faux family that involves an assassin and an orphaned telepath as his wife and daughter, respectively. The family that Twilight forges for the mission is ironically called the Forger family, however, the family name is not merely a silly word play, it is more than just a pun. It subverts the heteronormative family structure that is based on blood kinship and creates space for alternative family dynamics. This paper analyses Spy X Family by focussing on the series’ portrayal…
subject: Articles
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subject: Anime
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subject: family dynamics
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subject: Spy X Family
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subject: heteronormativity
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subject: identity
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creator: Sreya Mukherjee
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Sreya Mukherjee https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
date: 2025-09-25
publication date: 2025-09-25
starting page: 29
ending page: 36
doi: 10.56062/gtrs.2025.4.09.1020

Exploring Mindscape and Landscape in Margaret Atwood’s Surfacing
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description: Margaret Atwood being the most significant Canadian novelist, poet and critic is chiefly popular for her writing about several social problems. Her novel Surfacing, published in 1972, portrays the domination of western civilization as a patriarchal ideology over nature and woman in parallel. The novel is about the degeneration of the core ideas of rationalism and progress into brute domination, colonization and the rift between nature and culture. Atwood scathingly criticizes the rampant consumerism and capitalism of the modern age embodied in the threat posed by American culture, or American mentality, to Canada and its landscape which runs parallel to the masculine rationality that wills to ‘submerge’ as the central metaphor of ‘surfacing’ as its feminine mindset. This paper discusses the conflict between the landscape and mindscape in several related dualisms represented in the novel and thus glorifies the theme of ecofeminism throughout its notion.
subject: Articles
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subject: Margaret Atwood, Surfacing, Women and Nature, Landscape, Mindscape
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creator: Riku Panigrahi
creator: Hitkaran Singh Ranawat
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Riku Panigrahi, Hitkaran Singh Ranawat https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
date: 2025-08-25
publication date: 2025-08-25
starting page: 36
ending page: 47
doi: 10.56062/gtrs.2025.4.08.947

The Portrayal of Subjective Anguish, Forfeiture, Veracity, Affection and Conviction in Namita Gokhale’s The Book of Shadows
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description: Namita Gokhale is a distinguished short story writer and suffragette novelists in Indian Writing in English. She was born at Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh in the year 1956. She completed her education in English Literature from Jesus College and Mary College, Delhi. Gokhale surpasses her characters to bridge a gap between Indian writing in English and provincial languages. She has written nineteen books which consists of short stories, fictions and non-fictions. Being a feminist writer, she delineates women’s pain of seclusion, corporal disorder, conceptual heaviness, discomforts, sentiments, moods and perceptions. She reflects the excruciating life for a woman, her painful experiences and her quest for survival. The foremost purpose of this research paper is to showcase the personal grief and loss, veracity, affection and conviction in Namita Gokhale’s well-known novel The Book of Shadows. She portrays herself as a protagonist, an acid attack survivor, looser of her love and an alienated entity. Rachita, the protagonist of the novel, serves as a replica of Namita Gokhale. Rachita suffers all the oddities and being an emancipated woman, she finds solitude in the Himalayan hills as she spends her childhood there. She searches to fill the void in order to find true comfort.
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: Special Number
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subject: Veracity, affection, conviction, personal grief, loss, mental pain, loneliness, self-identity
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creator: Kamalakar Baburao Gaikwad
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Dr. Kamalakar Baburao Gaikwad Dr. Kamalakar Baburao Gaikwad https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
date: 2025-08-25
publication date: 2025-08-25
starting page: 12
ending page: 24
doi: 10.56062/gtrs.2025.4.08.958

Fragmentation and Black Consciousness in Amiri Baraka’s The System of Dante’s Hell
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description: Amiri Baraka’s The System of Dante’s Hell is a 1965 avant-garde novel that has become one of the most discussed and challenging works of African American literature. The novel depicts the protagonist’s multi-faceted descent into a racialized place of existential hell, which may be seen as similar to the fragmentation of his own self and the harrowing journey towards a new Black consciousness. Through the theoretical lens of the Black Arts Movement and existentialism, the article examines how Baraka is radicalizing Dante Alighieri’s familiar form in order to produce an American hell influenced by systemic racism, cultural alienation, and a deeply rooted and internalized sense of oppression. The novel's non-linear structure, its tangled and random narration, and graphic realism mirror the psychological dilemma of its protagonist, his sexuality, and identity in a hostile white-dominated society. After examining the complex themes, concerning disillusionment over assimilation, the tensions surrounding Black masculinity, and the pain that arises from confronting deeply internalized self-hatred, the paper argues that The System of Dante’s Hell is not merely a representation of suffering, but a necessary excavation of the soul through a brutal encounter with the “system,” which ultimately liberates the protagonist and re-establish their sense of self within the larger societal fabric.
subject: Articles
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subject: Amiri Baraka, The System of Dante’s Hell, Black Arts Movement, Existentialism, African American Literature, Identity, Racism, Fragmentation, Black Consciousness.
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creator: Rakhpreet Kaur Walia
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Rakhpreet Kaur Walia https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
date: 2025-08-25
publication date: 2025-08-25
starting page: 1
ending page: 11
doi: 10.56062/gtrs.2025.4.08.1057

Spiritual & Literary Perspectives in the Poetry of Kabir Das and Swami Vivekanand: A Critical Exploration
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description: Kabir Das and Swami Vivekananda were two mammoth Indian mystic saints and poets. Their fundamental works cannot be quantified. The paper involves critical and comparative analysis of spiritual and literary aspects of poems by Kabir Das and Swami Vivekananda-two champions whose poems cut across tradition and time, across orthodoxy. The 15th-century mystic poet Kabir expressed a radical spiritual intuition nourished by Nirguna Bhakti, denouncing ritualism and caste stratification in vernacular poetry full of metaphor, paradox and experience-based observation. The philosopher-poet of the 19th century and Vedantic leader of the resurgence, Swami Vivekananda, saturated his poetry with self-realization, with national rebirth, with universalism, and with the blending of ancient Sanskritic rhythm with modern realization. The paper will include a comparison of how these two poets employ the literary elements of symbolism, meter, aphorism and rhetorical passion in their presentation of ultimate religious realities. The form, also, in the paper, in the invocation of the interior repose, of the experience of the transcendent, of renunciation of dogma, of how they are presented in the situation, in the language of a lyric, is opposed. The surface meaning of the lines of both the model, as the poets, Kabir and Vivekananda, see poetry not as the revelation of the lyric, not as the statement of the spiritual revolution, but as the commentary on the society. Finally, this parallel serves also to make their poetic traditions applicable in the more current thinking on belief, self-consciousness and freedom of the latter-day-modernism-connecting mysticism of the Middle Ages to the humanism of the modern era.
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subject:
  topic: keywords
  value: Kabir Das, Swami Vivekananda, Spiritual Poetry, Nirguna Bhakti, Vedanta Mysticism, Literary Devices, Social Critique, Indian Philosophy, Comparative Literature, Poetic Expression Bhakti Movement, National Awakening Metaphor and Symbolism, Inner Transformation.
creator: Ankita Mishra
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
date: 2025-08-25
publication date: 2025-08-25
starting page: 71
ending page: 82
doi: 10.56062/gtrs.2025.4.08.1068

Child Marriage As A Major Concern in Pashto Poetry
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description: Child marriage is a major concern we read in Pashto poetry. They believe fewer financial resources left people in desperate need to survive, and it has caused both girls and boys to pay the price. Poor parents give away their girls to wealthy men regardless their background check and that child marriage is one of the tragedies that got the attention of Pashto language poets. Before to read poems about child marriage, explanation is needed to the age which is considered as child. According to Afghanistan Civil Law a legal age for a female is 16 and 18 for male. It means a girl can marry at the age of sixteen and a boy at eighteen. It also means a child in Afghanistan is no longer a child as soon he/she reaches 16 and 18. UNFPA reported that child marriages are illegal because both partners did not cross the age they were prescribed by the law. Afghanistan’s minimum age of marriage 16 or 18 is well below the internationally recommended standard of 18. Child marriages are usually aimed at strengthening ties with rival families and tribes, as part of deals or to settle blood feuds and disputes. At the meantime, a financially poor families often end up selling daughters for large dowries that is offered by wealthy mean who by age or much older.
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: Child marriage, poverty, major concern, discourse analysis, Pashto poetry.
  topic: keywords
creator: Ahmad Gul Momand
creator: Zabihullah Fikry
creator: Mohammad Qaseem Kashaf
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Ahmad Gul Momand, Zabihullah Fikry, Mohammad Qaseem Kashaf https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
date: 2025-08-25
publication date: 2025-08-25
starting page: 25
ending page: 35
doi: 10.56062/gtrs.2025.4.08.1015

Smoker, AQI, Stars, Decibles
type: item
description: Smoker, AQI, Stars, Decibles
subject: Poetry
  topic: section
subject: Smoker, AQI, Stars, Decibles
  topic: keywords
creator: Nazm Us Saqib
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
date: 2025-09-25
publication date: 2025-09-25
starting page: 5
ending page: 8
doi: 10.56062/

Song for All Teachers
type: item
description: Song for All Teachers by Dr Ravindra D. Hajare
subject: Poetry
  topic: section
subject: Song for All Teachers
  topic: keywords
creator: Dr Ravindra D. Hajare
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
date: 2025-09-25
publication date: 2025-09-25
starting page: 3
ending page: 4
doi: 10.56062/

My Forecast by R Revathi Ramamurthy
type: item
description: My Forecast R Revathi Ramamurthy, Former Dean & Principal of Shri Krishnaswamy College for Women, Annanagar , Chennai -40
subject: Poetry
  topic: section
subject: My Forecast
  topic: keywords
creator: R Revathi Ramamurthy
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
date: 2025-09-25
publication date: 2025-09-25
starting page: 1
ending page: 2
doi: 10.56062/

Book Review Gods, Graves, and Grandmother by Namita Gokhale, Penguin, 248 Pages. 1 November 2001. ISBN: 978-0141006994
type: item
description: Book Review Gods, Graves, and Grandmother by Namita Gokhale, Penguin, 248 Pages. 1 November 2001. ISBN: 978-0141006994
subject: Reviews
  topic: section
subject: Book review
  topic: keywords
subject: Gods, Graves, and Grandmother
  topic: keywords
subject: Namita Gokhale
  topic: keywords
creator: Dr. Vijay Songire
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
date: 2025-09-25
publication date: 2025-09-25
starting page: 1
ending page: 2
doi: 10.56062/

The Silent Companion
type: item
description: The story follows Ananya, a bright and hardworking girl whose dreams of higher education are delayed by financial hardship. While her friends move on to prestigious colleges, she remains behind, struggling with self-doubt and constant comparisons to others. Despite her challenges, Ananya begins teaching neighborhood children and eventually becomes an assistant teacher, finding purpose and strength in small victories. Over time, she learns to silence her inner critic, accept her worth, and define success on her own terms. Years later, as a teacher herself, she passes this wisdom to a student, reminding her that being oneself is enough.
subject: Short Story
  topic: section
subject: Ananya, Priya, Comparison
  topic: keywords
creator: Vaishali Suyal
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Vaishali Suyal Suyal https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
date: 2025-10-25
publication date: 2025-10-25
starting page: 1
ending page: 2
doi: 10.56062/

Bleak For Love
type: item
description: The poem expresses deep emotional pain and longing after the loss of a loved one. It begins with a sense of joy and completeness brought by their presence, which soon turns into sorrow and emptiness after their departure. The speaker questions the beloved’s broken promises and the transformation of love into grief. Despite the hurt, the speaker admits to loving them fully—even for their lies—and finds solace only in cherished memories that bring both laughter and tears. Ultimately, the poem concludes that the beloved came into their life solely to leave behind unforgettable memories.
subject: Poetry
  topic: section
subject: Happiness, Loved, You
  topic: keywords
creator: Vaishali Suyal
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Vaishali Suyal https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
date: 2025-10-25
publication date: 2025-10-25
starting page: 1
ending page: 1
doi: 10.56062/

I Feel Covid
type: item
description: The poem was written during the second wave of the pandemic which was characterized by isolation and morbidity of the infection.
subject: Poetry
  topic: section
creator: Amartya Sen
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Amartya Sen https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
date: 2025-10-25
publication date: 2025-10-25
starting page: 2
ending page: 3
doi: 10.56062/

Dipak Giri’s Indian Diaspora Literature: A Critical Evaluation (Book review)
type: item
description: Book review
subject: Reviews
  topic: section
creator: Juveria Fatima
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
date: 2025-08-25
publication date: 2025-08-25
starting page: 3
ending page: 5
doi: 10.56062/

Teri Baato Mein Aisa Ulajha Jiya (Movie review)
type: item
description: Movie review
subject: Reviews
  topic: section
creator: Vijay Songire
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
date: 2025-08-25
publication date: 2025-08-25
starting page: 1
ending page: 2
doi: 10.56062/

Death- The Deliverer
type: item
description: This poem expresses the oft-sought deliverer of humans in their utmost times of pain. what it offers to deliver and how it persuades one is the implications of the poem.
subject: Poetry
  topic: section
subject: Death
  topic: keywords
subject: Deliverer
  topic: keywords
subject: Vexation
  topic: keywords
subject: Time
  topic: keywords
creator: R Evangeline Subha
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 R Evangeline Subha https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
date: 2025-08-25
publication date: 2025-08-25
starting page: 3
ending page: 3
doi: 10.56062/

Divine Nature, The Death & Ideal Beauty
type: item
subject: Poetry
  topic: section
creator: Agnij Upmanyu
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Agnij Upmanyu https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
date: 2025-08-25
publication date: 2025-08-25
starting page: 4
ending page: 6
doi: 10.56062/

Mentor / Mentee Relationship and the Development of Technical Theatre in Nigeria: Dexter Lyndersay and Molinta Enendu in Focus
type: item
description: Continuity and efficiency are both products of mentorship; being the relationship between a more experienced person generally referred to as mentor and the less experienced individual referred to as the mentee. The sole responsibility of a mentor is to provide support / guidance as well as valuable professional insight towards the development and success of the mentee. Therefore, this research aims at investigating how this relationship has so far contributed to the success or otherwise in the development of Technical Theatre practice in Nigeria and what should be done to strengthen the relationship for enhanced theatre practice in Nigeria. Adopting a qualitative approach, this study leans on the notions of Transformative Learning and Social Learning Theories. The paper argues that, for the sake of development, proficient and intentional mentor/mentee relationships are inevitable in the Nigeria theatre industry in particular and the creative industry in general. It emphasizes that positive and cordial mentorship remains a panacea for sustainable development in technical theatre practice. It suggests that introducing mentorship programmes into theatre curriculum could contribute to professional progression and individual development.
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: Development
  topic: keywords
subject: Mentee
  topic: keywords
subject: Mentor
  topic: keywords
subject: Relationship
  topic: keywords
subject: Technical Theatre
  topic: keywords
creator: Okon Udofot Jacob
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Okon Udofot Jacob https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
date: 2025-10-25
publication date: 2025-10-25
starting page: 9
ending page: 18
doi: 10.56062/gtrs.2025.4.10.1047

Popular Culture and the Nigerian Filmic Space: The Efficacy-Entertainment Braid
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description: Popular culture is ever evolving; it creates eddies and currents and is a complex of interdependent viewpoints with effects on society. The Nigerian film industry has developed into a powerful cultural force that shapes values and social standards while also entertaining. This study interrogates how Nigerian films use popular culture to craft gripping stories. It demonstrates how filmmakers key into trends to boost the industry. Arguing from popular culture theoretical perspective, this study adopts ethnography to map the currency that popular culture has gained. It argues that popular culture has become essential in today's globalized society due to its constant rise which could also be attributed to the rise of new technologies. The study submits that Nigerian films are a product of their culture and, as such, represent the attitudes, beliefs, and concerns that are prevalent in society, even though they also have an impact on the mass culture that watches them.
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: Film
  topic: keywords
subject: Nigerian
  topic: keywords
subject: Popular Culture
  topic: keywords
subject: Social Media
  topic: keywords
subject: Trends
  topic: keywords
creator: Bassey Ekpenyong Bassey
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Bassey Ekpenyong Bassey https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
date: 2025-08-30
publication date: 2025-08-30
starting page: 48
ending page: 70
doi: 10.56062/

A Helpless Individual
type: item
description: This poem discovers the inner turmoil of a conflicted self trapped between opposing ideologies, existential doubts, and psychological struggles. Using metaphors of war, childhood, and cosmic journeys, it mirrors the helplessness of the individual in a pluralistic, overwhelming world. The speaker wishes for clarity, innocence, and spiritual refuge amidst chaos. The poem suggests that surrendering to a higher power may offer solace and direction.
subject: Poetry
  topic: section
creator: Tamali Neogi
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
date: 2025-07-25
publication date: 2025-07-25
starting page: 14
ending page: 15
doi: 10.56062/