Studies in Indian Place Names (UGC Care Journal) Vol-40-Issue-70- (UGC CARE Listed) , 2020
Present paper deals with the impacts of colonialism on colonized and colonizer as depicted in E.M... more Present paper deals with the impacts of colonialism on colonized and colonizer as depicted in E.M.Forster's A Passage to India and Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness
LangLit An International Peer-Reviewed Open Access Journal, 2022
Shadow Diaspora deals with the experiences of illegal migrants or undocumented migrants. It highl... more Shadow Diaspora deals with the experiences of illegal migrants or undocumented migrants. It highlights the predicament of all those migrants who are refugees in host country as result of human trafficking, political upheavals in home country, or war like situations. Discourse on Shadow diaspora brings out the pathos of human suffering at the hands of administrative system as well as manipulation of such people at various juncture by people knowing their identity as illegal migrants. These people are being treated as shadows and are bereaved of existence as ahuman entity amid migrant and host country's official status. Apart from this, it also covers problems in different diasporic aspects such as assimilation, hybridization, refugee, dominant-recessive relationship, power politics, alienation and discrimination. Shadow in diasporic culture is a person or migrant's homeland, culture, a dressing style, food, religion, language, race. A migrant expresses his shadow through his language and culture in a foreign land. The present paper is an attempt to understand the Shadow diaspora from its legal as well as official documentation perspectives. In this context, it traces the problems of illegal migrants and their predicament. On the other hand, it also traces the shadow as a metaphor of past that hovers over the immigrants and inherent issues of diasporic situations.
International Journal of All Research Education and Scientific Methods (IJARESM), 2022
India has great tradition of leaders who emerged to fulfil the national cause. Yashwantrao Chavan... more India has great tradition of leaders who emerged to fulfil the national cause. Yashwantrao Chavan was a universal leader whose contribution in all walks of life has left indelible impact on the national security as well as socio-cultural, economic, political, educational, agricultural life of Indian people. His commitment for the betterment of citizens of India through his ideology and belief can be seen in the development and implementation of policies of government and positive change in people"s life. Present paper attempts to understand his thoughts and belief for the betterment of public life of Indian citizens. It traces the speeches of Shri Yashwantrao Chavan as published collectively in his book Bhumika (1979) with special reference to relevance of his thoughts regarding remembrance of Indian Citizenship, strength of nation, Politics of commitment, future of Indian Democracy, society oriented education, class conflict and caste conflict, and invincible faith in party.
Diaspora is much talked and celebrated discourse across the disciplines. Confrontation of diaspor... more Diaspora is much talked and celebrated discourse across the disciplines. Confrontation of diasporic community with native community gives rise to multi-dimensional problems. Diasporic community thus undergoes different levels of realities that change their perception as person who migrated from his/her homeland in search of new opportunities. Their perception as a segment in foreign land is marked with the sense of alienation, hybridity, identity crisis and many other mental and physical, cultural-religious, and spatial-geographical turmoil. In a sense they come across the diasporic reality. Diasporic reality is a combined study of Diaspora and problems of migrants. This paper explores the meaning of diaspora through the definitions of different writers and the problems of migrants. It specifically attempts to trace the problems of identity crisis and hybridity as confrontation with different often contradictory socio-cultural, religious, and different historical backdrop in which ...
Hybridity is an outcome of consistent movement and interaction of two different aspects of human ... more Hybridity is an outcome of consistent movement and interaction of two different aspects of human existence. The forces of nature when confluence each other cause hybrid existence bringing the traces of both into it. It may by and large cohabit the space and time, race and culture, philosophy and religion etc. It encompasses the divergent modes of existence, thinking patterns, behavioral norms, socio-cultural ethos, political and administrative ambience. Diasporic Hybridity is pertinent discourse. It is cause of anxiety in the early stage of migrant experience whereas settling base of later stage of existence of diasporic community. Present paper is an attempt to trace the threads of looming diasporic in-betweenness as reflected in the poetry of Agha Shahid Ali.
Akshara Multidisciplinary Research Journal Peer-Reviewed & Refereed International Research Journal, 2022
Nation is a concept that draws lot of attention for its complicated discourse. It impacts the
li... more Nation is a concept that draws lot of attention for its complicated discourse. It impacts the lives of its citizens in multiple ways. The inception of national consciousness in the minds of its people creates chaos in their personal as well as public life. The dichotomy of nation as a discourse is its inherent problematics of memory, forgetting, brutality, glory, necessity of common past, topography, remembrances, amnesia, suffering, marginalization and politics of control, violence and plethora of issues that complicates the human life. It also restricts the life, ideology, emotions within the confines of national borders. These blurred lines on the spatial geography, encroachment, wars, bloodshed brings out the hollowness and absurdity of popular concept of nationalism and patriotism when thought on the universal levels. K. Satchidanandan, a Malayalam poet, raises questions on the changing cartography and futility of war and borders in his poetry collection, Questions from the Dead(2021). The communion with nature and human beings across the world preaches the values of universal brotherhood, peace, love, compassion. He gives hopes of possibility of utopian world where living and non-living beings would dwell with harmony and co-existence. While portraying the futility and absurdity of nation, war and borders, he also keenly observes the nation within the nations caused due to unequal distribution of resources, discrimination, prejudices, and marginalization. The present paper attempts to trace the critique of nation, nationalism and necessity of peace, love, compassion for universal brotherhood and harmonious co-existence as reflected in K. Satchidanandan‟s selected poems from his recently published poetry collection entitled as Questions From the Dead (2021).
Akshara Multidisciplinary Research Journal Peer-Reviewed & Refereed International Research Journal E- ISSN 2582-5429 February 2022 Special Issue 04 Volume VI (A) SJIF Impact- 5.54, 2022
Nation is a concept that draws lot of attention for its complicated discourse. It impacts the
li... more Nation is a concept that draws lot of attention for its complicated discourse. It impacts the lives of its citizens in multiple ways. The inception of national consciousness in the minds of its people creates chaos in their personal as well as public life. The dichotomy of nation as a discourse is its inherent problematics of memory, forgetting, brutality, glory, necessity of common past, topography, remembrances, amnesia, suffering, marginalization and politics of control, violence and plethora of issues that complicates the human life. It also restricts the life, ideology, emotions within the confines of national borders. These blurred lines on the spatial geography, encroachment, wars, bloodshed brings out the hollowness and absurdity of popular concept of nationalism and patriotism when thought on the universal levels. K. Satchidanandan, a Malayalam poet, raises questions on the changing cartography and futility of war and borders in his poetry collection, Questions from the Dead(2021). The communion with nature and human beings across the world preaches the values of universal brotherhood, peace, love, compassion. He gives hopes of possibility of utopian world where living and non-living beings would dwell with harmony and co-existence. While portraying the futility and absurdity of nation, war and borders, he also keenly observes the nation within the nations caused due to unequal distribution of resources, discrimination, prejudices, and marginalization. The present paper attempts to trace the critique of nation, nationalism and necessity of peace, love, compassion for universal brotherhood and harmonious co-existence as reflected in K. Satchidanandan‟s selected poems from his recently published poetry collection entitled as Questions From the Dead (2021). Keywords: Nation, Nationalism, Boundaries, Borders, War, Peace, Compassion, Universal brotherhood, Harmony, Co-existence, Civilization, Culture, Language, History, Race, Memory, Amnesia, National Consciousness
Contours and Nuances of Research & Research Methodology , 2015
This paper deals with emotional intelligence and leadership in higher education as viable researc... more This paper deals with emotional intelligence and leadership in higher education as viable research area in management science.
Contours & Nuances of Research & Research Methodology , 2015
Present paper is a writeup that deals with the easy methods, tips and techniques of preparing on... more Present paper is a writeup that deals with the easy methods, tips and techniques of preparing oneself for writing a dissertation. it is in a conversational style that imparts information regarding journey of writing a dissertation.
Present paper is an attempt to understand the journey of Murhari Kele's father from a layman to a... more Present paper is an attempt to understand the journey of Murhari Kele's father from a layman to a spiritual leader (saint). The memoir portrays the various dimensions of father's journey.
Thematic Journal of Indian Literature - A Peer Reviewed Interdisciplinary International Research Journal, 2011
Present paper deals with portrayal of women and the utilitarian approach towards their feminine... more Present paper deals with portrayal of women and the utilitarian approach towards their feminine existence in Shauna Singh Baldwin's What the Body Remembers. It traces the eco-feminist concerns in the novel.
Literature of Diaspora - Cultural Dislocation, 2009
Present paper is an attempt to understand the Parsi Diaspora and Parsi Ethnic Literature. It expl... more Present paper is an attempt to understand the Parsi Diaspora and Parsi Ethnic Literature. It explores the various dimensions and condition pertaining Parsi-Zoroastrian diaspora and the anxieties of their community as reflected in their ethnic literature.
Nation with Discrimination - Literary Voices from the Subalterns, 2012
Present paper is an attempt to trace the portrayal of caste-based society in Indian social milieu... more Present paper is an attempt to trace the portrayal of caste-based society in Indian social milieu as reflected in Rohinton Mistry's novel A Fine Balance. It also underscores the economic conditions of characters portrayed in the novel. All the characters woven in the grand-narrative are actively engaged in dismantling the hierarchy in which they are located.
Quality Sustenance and Enhancement in Higher Education, 2010
Present Paper explores the various changes assumed to be taken during the second decade of this c... more Present Paper explores the various changes assumed to be taken during the second decade of this century in imparting the education across the world. The idea of online education that was just an imagination then (2010) has really been implemented later on and during the COVID-19 Pandemic situations, it has been materialized.
On the Fringes - Marginalized Voices in English Literature, 2012
Present paper highlights the politics of language through which cultural hegemony is established.... more Present paper highlights the politics of language through which cultural hegemony is established. It explores the cultural hegemony via language in Sahitya Akademi Award winner Marathi Auto-Narrative Upra (Outsider) by Laxman Mane. Paper explores the way language is used by established upper caste as well as marginal downtrodden classes in Maharashtra social milieu.
Present paper explores the politics of hatred and alienation in Indian Subcontinent from the pre-... more Present paper explores the politics of hatred and alienation in Indian Subcontinent from the pre-partition and partition times to present era. It critically analyzes the conflicting identities as reflected in Mahesh Dattani's Sahitya Akademi Award winner play Final Solutions.
Multiculturalism: Issues of Ethnicity and Identity in World Literature Today, 2013
Present paper deals with the anxiety Parsi community and decline in their socio-economic status i... more Present paper deals with the anxiety Parsi community and decline in their socio-economic status in post-independence India. This had led community to migrate into West. Rohinton Mistry's Family Matter talks about the Canadian dreams of the Parsi character who is anxious amid changing socio-political and economic conditions.
Present research paper deals with the primary inquiry into the film adaptation of short stories i... more Present research paper deals with the primary inquiry into the film adaptation of short stories into films. It focuses briefly on how short stories are transformed into films and changes it undergoes during the process.
Contemporary Indian Literature: Status and Prospects, 2017
Present paper traces the portrayal of Kashmir from the person in exile through his diasporic imag... more Present paper traces the portrayal of Kashmir from the person in exile through his diasporic imagination. Agha Shahid Ali's poetry is subtle expression of Kashmir and diasporic expression.
Studies in Indian Place Names (UGC Care Journal) Vol-40-Issue-70- (UGC CARE Listed) , 2020
Present paper deals with the impacts of colonialism on colonized and colonizer as depicted in E.M... more Present paper deals with the impacts of colonialism on colonized and colonizer as depicted in E.M.Forster's A Passage to India and Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness
LangLit An International Peer-Reviewed Open Access Journal, 2022
Shadow Diaspora deals with the experiences of illegal migrants or undocumented migrants. It highl... more Shadow Diaspora deals with the experiences of illegal migrants or undocumented migrants. It highlights the predicament of all those migrants who are refugees in host country as result of human trafficking, political upheavals in home country, or war like situations. Discourse on Shadow diaspora brings out the pathos of human suffering at the hands of administrative system as well as manipulation of such people at various juncture by people knowing their identity as illegal migrants. These people are being treated as shadows and are bereaved of existence as ahuman entity amid migrant and host country's official status. Apart from this, it also covers problems in different diasporic aspects such as assimilation, hybridization, refugee, dominant-recessive relationship, power politics, alienation and discrimination. Shadow in diasporic culture is a person or migrant's homeland, culture, a dressing style, food, religion, language, race. A migrant expresses his shadow through his language and culture in a foreign land. The present paper is an attempt to understand the Shadow diaspora from its legal as well as official documentation perspectives. In this context, it traces the problems of illegal migrants and their predicament. On the other hand, it also traces the shadow as a metaphor of past that hovers over the immigrants and inherent issues of diasporic situations.
International Journal of All Research Education and Scientific Methods (IJARESM), 2022
India has great tradition of leaders who emerged to fulfil the national cause. Yashwantrao Chavan... more India has great tradition of leaders who emerged to fulfil the national cause. Yashwantrao Chavan was a universal leader whose contribution in all walks of life has left indelible impact on the national security as well as socio-cultural, economic, political, educational, agricultural life of Indian people. His commitment for the betterment of citizens of India through his ideology and belief can be seen in the development and implementation of policies of government and positive change in people"s life. Present paper attempts to understand his thoughts and belief for the betterment of public life of Indian citizens. It traces the speeches of Shri Yashwantrao Chavan as published collectively in his book Bhumika (1979) with special reference to relevance of his thoughts regarding remembrance of Indian Citizenship, strength of nation, Politics of commitment, future of Indian Democracy, society oriented education, class conflict and caste conflict, and invincible faith in party.
Diaspora is much talked and celebrated discourse across the disciplines. Confrontation of diaspor... more Diaspora is much talked and celebrated discourse across the disciplines. Confrontation of diasporic community with native community gives rise to multi-dimensional problems. Diasporic community thus undergoes different levels of realities that change their perception as person who migrated from his/her homeland in search of new opportunities. Their perception as a segment in foreign land is marked with the sense of alienation, hybridity, identity crisis and many other mental and physical, cultural-religious, and spatial-geographical turmoil. In a sense they come across the diasporic reality. Diasporic reality is a combined study of Diaspora and problems of migrants. This paper explores the meaning of diaspora through the definitions of different writers and the problems of migrants. It specifically attempts to trace the problems of identity crisis and hybridity as confrontation with different often contradictory socio-cultural, religious, and different historical backdrop in which ...
Hybridity is an outcome of consistent movement and interaction of two different aspects of human ... more Hybridity is an outcome of consistent movement and interaction of two different aspects of human existence. The forces of nature when confluence each other cause hybrid existence bringing the traces of both into it. It may by and large cohabit the space and time, race and culture, philosophy and religion etc. It encompasses the divergent modes of existence, thinking patterns, behavioral norms, socio-cultural ethos, political and administrative ambience. Diasporic Hybridity is pertinent discourse. It is cause of anxiety in the early stage of migrant experience whereas settling base of later stage of existence of diasporic community. Present paper is an attempt to trace the threads of looming diasporic in-betweenness as reflected in the poetry of Agha Shahid Ali.
Akshara Multidisciplinary Research Journal Peer-Reviewed & Refereed International Research Journal, 2022
Nation is a concept that draws lot of attention for its complicated discourse. It impacts the
li... more Nation is a concept that draws lot of attention for its complicated discourse. It impacts the lives of its citizens in multiple ways. The inception of national consciousness in the minds of its people creates chaos in their personal as well as public life. The dichotomy of nation as a discourse is its inherent problematics of memory, forgetting, brutality, glory, necessity of common past, topography, remembrances, amnesia, suffering, marginalization and politics of control, violence and plethora of issues that complicates the human life. It also restricts the life, ideology, emotions within the confines of national borders. These blurred lines on the spatial geography, encroachment, wars, bloodshed brings out the hollowness and absurdity of popular concept of nationalism and patriotism when thought on the universal levels. K. Satchidanandan, a Malayalam poet, raises questions on the changing cartography and futility of war and borders in his poetry collection, Questions from the Dead(2021). The communion with nature and human beings across the world preaches the values of universal brotherhood, peace, love, compassion. He gives hopes of possibility of utopian world where living and non-living beings would dwell with harmony and co-existence. While portraying the futility and absurdity of nation, war and borders, he also keenly observes the nation within the nations caused due to unequal distribution of resources, discrimination, prejudices, and marginalization. The present paper attempts to trace the critique of nation, nationalism and necessity of peace, love, compassion for universal brotherhood and harmonious co-existence as reflected in K. Satchidanandan‟s selected poems from his recently published poetry collection entitled as Questions From the Dead (2021).
Akshara Multidisciplinary Research Journal Peer-Reviewed & Refereed International Research Journal E- ISSN 2582-5429 February 2022 Special Issue 04 Volume VI (A) SJIF Impact- 5.54, 2022
Nation is a concept that draws lot of attention for its complicated discourse. It impacts the
li... more Nation is a concept that draws lot of attention for its complicated discourse. It impacts the lives of its citizens in multiple ways. The inception of national consciousness in the minds of its people creates chaos in their personal as well as public life. The dichotomy of nation as a discourse is its inherent problematics of memory, forgetting, brutality, glory, necessity of common past, topography, remembrances, amnesia, suffering, marginalization and politics of control, violence and plethora of issues that complicates the human life. It also restricts the life, ideology, emotions within the confines of national borders. These blurred lines on the spatial geography, encroachment, wars, bloodshed brings out the hollowness and absurdity of popular concept of nationalism and patriotism when thought on the universal levels. K. Satchidanandan, a Malayalam poet, raises questions on the changing cartography and futility of war and borders in his poetry collection, Questions from the Dead(2021). The communion with nature and human beings across the world preaches the values of universal brotherhood, peace, love, compassion. He gives hopes of possibility of utopian world where living and non-living beings would dwell with harmony and co-existence. While portraying the futility and absurdity of nation, war and borders, he also keenly observes the nation within the nations caused due to unequal distribution of resources, discrimination, prejudices, and marginalization. The present paper attempts to trace the critique of nation, nationalism and necessity of peace, love, compassion for universal brotherhood and harmonious co-existence as reflected in K. Satchidanandan‟s selected poems from his recently published poetry collection entitled as Questions From the Dead (2021). Keywords: Nation, Nationalism, Boundaries, Borders, War, Peace, Compassion, Universal brotherhood, Harmony, Co-existence, Civilization, Culture, Language, History, Race, Memory, Amnesia, National Consciousness
Contours and Nuances of Research & Research Methodology , 2015
This paper deals with emotional intelligence and leadership in higher education as viable researc... more This paper deals with emotional intelligence and leadership in higher education as viable research area in management science.
Contours & Nuances of Research & Research Methodology , 2015
Present paper is a writeup that deals with the easy methods, tips and techniques of preparing on... more Present paper is a writeup that deals with the easy methods, tips and techniques of preparing oneself for writing a dissertation. it is in a conversational style that imparts information regarding journey of writing a dissertation.
Present paper is an attempt to understand the journey of Murhari Kele's father from a layman to a... more Present paper is an attempt to understand the journey of Murhari Kele's father from a layman to a spiritual leader (saint). The memoir portrays the various dimensions of father's journey.
Thematic Journal of Indian Literature - A Peer Reviewed Interdisciplinary International Research Journal, 2011
Present paper deals with portrayal of women and the utilitarian approach towards their feminine... more Present paper deals with portrayal of women and the utilitarian approach towards their feminine existence in Shauna Singh Baldwin's What the Body Remembers. It traces the eco-feminist concerns in the novel.
Literature of Diaspora - Cultural Dislocation, 2009
Present paper is an attempt to understand the Parsi Diaspora and Parsi Ethnic Literature. It expl... more Present paper is an attempt to understand the Parsi Diaspora and Parsi Ethnic Literature. It explores the various dimensions and condition pertaining Parsi-Zoroastrian diaspora and the anxieties of their community as reflected in their ethnic literature.
Nation with Discrimination - Literary Voices from the Subalterns, 2012
Present paper is an attempt to trace the portrayal of caste-based society in Indian social milieu... more Present paper is an attempt to trace the portrayal of caste-based society in Indian social milieu as reflected in Rohinton Mistry's novel A Fine Balance. It also underscores the economic conditions of characters portrayed in the novel. All the characters woven in the grand-narrative are actively engaged in dismantling the hierarchy in which they are located.
Quality Sustenance and Enhancement in Higher Education, 2010
Present Paper explores the various changes assumed to be taken during the second decade of this c... more Present Paper explores the various changes assumed to be taken during the second decade of this century in imparting the education across the world. The idea of online education that was just an imagination then (2010) has really been implemented later on and during the COVID-19 Pandemic situations, it has been materialized.
On the Fringes - Marginalized Voices in English Literature, 2012
Present paper highlights the politics of language through which cultural hegemony is established.... more Present paper highlights the politics of language through which cultural hegemony is established. It explores the cultural hegemony via language in Sahitya Akademi Award winner Marathi Auto-Narrative Upra (Outsider) by Laxman Mane. Paper explores the way language is used by established upper caste as well as marginal downtrodden classes in Maharashtra social milieu.
Present paper explores the politics of hatred and alienation in Indian Subcontinent from the pre-... more Present paper explores the politics of hatred and alienation in Indian Subcontinent from the pre-partition and partition times to present era. It critically analyzes the conflicting identities as reflected in Mahesh Dattani's Sahitya Akademi Award winner play Final Solutions.
Multiculturalism: Issues of Ethnicity and Identity in World Literature Today, 2013
Present paper deals with the anxiety Parsi community and decline in their socio-economic status i... more Present paper deals with the anxiety Parsi community and decline in their socio-economic status in post-independence India. This had led community to migrate into West. Rohinton Mistry's Family Matter talks about the Canadian dreams of the Parsi character who is anxious amid changing socio-political and economic conditions.
Present research paper deals with the primary inquiry into the film adaptation of short stories i... more Present research paper deals with the primary inquiry into the film adaptation of short stories into films. It focuses briefly on how short stories are transformed into films and changes it undergoes during the process.
Contemporary Indian Literature: Status and Prospects, 2017
Present paper traces the portrayal of Kashmir from the person in exile through his diasporic imag... more Present paper traces the portrayal of Kashmir from the person in exile through his diasporic imagination. Agha Shahid Ali's poetry is subtle expression of Kashmir and diasporic expression.
This is a power point presentation as a part of lectures delivered in an Online Refresher Course... more This is a power point presentation as a part of lectures delivered in an Online Refresher Course on Gender Sensitization organized by UGC-HRDC, DR. Babasaheb Ambedkar Marathwada University, Aurangabad. This presentation analyzes the Women's Cinema, Male Gaze, representation of women in Indian Cinema. It highlights on mainstream, parallel, queer cinema, as well as portrayal of women in horror cinema.
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lives of its citizens in multiple ways. The inception of national consciousness in the minds of its
people creates chaos in their personal as well as public life. The dichotomy of nation as a discourse
is its inherent problematics of memory, forgetting, brutality, glory, necessity of common past,
topography, remembrances, amnesia, suffering, marginalization and politics of control, violence and
plethora of issues that complicates the human life. It also restricts the life, ideology, emotions
within the confines of national borders. These blurred lines on the spatial geography, encroachment,
wars, bloodshed brings out the hollowness and absurdity of popular concept of nationalism and
patriotism when thought on the universal levels.
K. Satchidanandan, a Malayalam poet, raises questions on the changing cartography and
futility of war and borders in his poetry collection, Questions from the Dead(2021). The
communion with nature and human beings across the world preaches the values of universal
brotherhood, peace, love, compassion. He gives hopes of possibility of utopian world where living
and non-living beings would dwell with harmony and co-existence. While portraying the futility
and absurdity of nation, war and borders, he also keenly observes the nation within the nations
caused due to unequal distribution of resources, discrimination, prejudices, and marginalization.
The present paper attempts to trace the critique of nation, nationalism and necessity of
peace, love, compassion for universal brotherhood and harmonious co-existence as reflected in K.
Satchidanandan‟s selected poems from his recently published poetry collection entitled as
Questions From the Dead (2021).
lives of its citizens in multiple ways. The inception of national consciousness in the minds of its
people creates chaos in their personal as well as public life. The dichotomy of nation as a discourse
is its inherent problematics of memory, forgetting, brutality, glory, necessity of common past,
topography, remembrances, amnesia, suffering, marginalization and politics of control, violence and
plethora of issues that complicates the human life. It also restricts the life, ideology, emotions
within the confines of national borders. These blurred lines on the spatial geography, encroachment,
wars, bloodshed brings out the hollowness and absurdity of popular concept of nationalism and
patriotism when thought on the universal levels.
K. Satchidanandan, a Malayalam poet, raises questions on the changing cartography and
futility of war and borders in his poetry collection, Questions from the Dead(2021). The
communion with nature and human beings across the world preaches the values of universal
brotherhood, peace, love, compassion. He gives hopes of possibility of utopian world where living
and non-living beings would dwell with harmony and co-existence. While portraying the futility
and absurdity of nation, war and borders, he also keenly observes the nation within the nations
caused due to unequal distribution of resources, discrimination, prejudices, and marginalization.
The present paper attempts to trace the critique of nation, nationalism and necessity of
peace, love, compassion for universal brotherhood and harmonious co-existence as reflected in K.
Satchidanandan‟s selected poems from his recently published poetry collection entitled as
Questions From the Dead (2021).
Keywords:
Nation, Nationalism, Boundaries, Borders, War, Peace, Compassion, Universal brotherhood,
Harmony, Co-existence, Civilization, Culture, Language, History, Race, Memory, Amnesia,
National Consciousness
lives of its citizens in multiple ways. The inception of national consciousness in the minds of its
people creates chaos in their personal as well as public life. The dichotomy of nation as a discourse
is its inherent problematics of memory, forgetting, brutality, glory, necessity of common past,
topography, remembrances, amnesia, suffering, marginalization and politics of control, violence and
plethora of issues that complicates the human life. It also restricts the life, ideology, emotions
within the confines of national borders. These blurred lines on the spatial geography, encroachment,
wars, bloodshed brings out the hollowness and absurdity of popular concept of nationalism and
patriotism when thought on the universal levels.
K. Satchidanandan, a Malayalam poet, raises questions on the changing cartography and
futility of war and borders in his poetry collection, Questions from the Dead(2021). The
communion with nature and human beings across the world preaches the values of universal
brotherhood, peace, love, compassion. He gives hopes of possibility of utopian world where living
and non-living beings would dwell with harmony and co-existence. While portraying the futility
and absurdity of nation, war and borders, he also keenly observes the nation within the nations
caused due to unequal distribution of resources, discrimination, prejudices, and marginalization.
The present paper attempts to trace the critique of nation, nationalism and necessity of
peace, love, compassion for universal brotherhood and harmonious co-existence as reflected in K.
Satchidanandan‟s selected poems from his recently published poetry collection entitled as
Questions From the Dead (2021).
lives of its citizens in multiple ways. The inception of national consciousness in the minds of its
people creates chaos in their personal as well as public life. The dichotomy of nation as a discourse
is its inherent problematics of memory, forgetting, brutality, glory, necessity of common past,
topography, remembrances, amnesia, suffering, marginalization and politics of control, violence and
plethora of issues that complicates the human life. It also restricts the life, ideology, emotions
within the confines of national borders. These blurred lines on the spatial geography, encroachment,
wars, bloodshed brings out the hollowness and absurdity of popular concept of nationalism and
patriotism when thought on the universal levels.
K. Satchidanandan, a Malayalam poet, raises questions on the changing cartography and
futility of war and borders in his poetry collection, Questions from the Dead(2021). The
communion with nature and human beings across the world preaches the values of universal
brotherhood, peace, love, compassion. He gives hopes of possibility of utopian world where living
and non-living beings would dwell with harmony and co-existence. While portraying the futility
and absurdity of nation, war and borders, he also keenly observes the nation within the nations
caused due to unequal distribution of resources, discrimination, prejudices, and marginalization.
The present paper attempts to trace the critique of nation, nationalism and necessity of
peace, love, compassion for universal brotherhood and harmonious co-existence as reflected in K.
Satchidanandan‟s selected poems from his recently published poetry collection entitled as
Questions From the Dead (2021).
Keywords:
Nation, Nationalism, Boundaries, Borders, War, Peace, Compassion, Universal brotherhood,
Harmony, Co-existence, Civilization, Culture, Language, History, Race, Memory, Amnesia,
National Consciousness