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Paper Title:: HUMAN RELATIONSHIP DYNAMICS IN THE PLAYS OF MAHESH DATTANI
Author Name:: Deepak Sharma
Country:: India
Page No.:: 1-4

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HUMAN RELATIONSHIP DYNAMICS IN THE PLAYS OF MAHESH DATTANI

Author: Deepak Sharma

ABSTRACT
Why Dattani has been regarded as a radical, unconventional and contemporary voice in
Indian theatre summarise all past research efforts, and because of this, are increasingly being
used as a way of addressing the rapid accumulation of information the research has been done
so far. Because reviews, rather than primary research, are now being used as the basis for
many decisions and research proposals as a rich source, it is important that they are
conducted with the same rigour of the primary research. To ensure this rigour, the past two
decades have seen a progressive evolution in review methodology, to the point where reviews
are now considered research in their own right. Despite this development, the standard of
many published reviews remains poor. The paper keen awareness and penetrating insight into
the socio-psychological spectrum of human behaviour that affects human relationships at
personal and interpersonal levels and adds new dimensions to the area of his theatrical
canons. The main area of his focus is, of course, the human relationships. Within the
periphery of theatre, Dattani dramatizes human pursuits and desires that determine the
dynamics of relationships inside and outside the family. Besides depicting the „visible‟ social
reality, Dattani‟s preoccupation with the „invisible‟ issues inspires him to provide space to the
marginalized sections of society like the gays and the eunuchs., usually either as an academic
assignment or part of the research process
Key Words: Radical, Unconventional, Behaviour, Relationship, Gays, Eunuchs

Paper Title:: EXPLORING THE STREAM OF CONSCIOUSNESS TECHNIQUE IN MULK RAJ ANAND’S UNTOUCHABLE
Author Name:: Vaishali Dube & Satyam Patel
Country:: India
Page No.:: 5-7

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EXPLORING THE STREAM OF CONSCIOUSNESS TECHNIQUE IN MULK RAJ ANAND’S UNTOUCHABLE

Author: Vaishali Dube & Satyam Patel

ABSTRACT
This article discusses the stream of consciousness approach used by Anand in 'Untouchable' to highlight social
issues and racial oppression. Virginia Woolf, a 20th-century writer and founder in the use of the stream of
consciousness as a narrative device on a wide scale, used the stream of consciousness technique. Some of the
major strengths of this technique include its concern with time, subjectivity, interiority, lack of action against
exploitation, plot, and tragedy, and characterization of the subconscious. Mulk Raj Anand uses this method to
portray the tribal picture of Indian society in Untouchable people. Anand has focused on the plight of lower
caste peoples.
Keywords: Stream of Conscious Technique, Bakha, Lakha, Social Problems, Orthodox, Plight, Humiliation

Paper Title:: THE REPRESENTATION OF DIASPORA IN V. S. NAIPAUL’S A BEND IN THE RIVER
Author Name:: Bansilal Manohar Meghasham & Sital Kumari
Country:: India
Page No.:: 8-11

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THE REPRESENTATION OF DIASPORA IN V. S. NAIPAUL’S A BEND IN THE RIVER

Author: Bansilal Manohar Meghasham & Sital Kumari

ABSTRACT
The main objective of this paper is to discuss the important theme of the diaspora in V.S.
Naipaul’s fiction and to explore the real status of diasporic people. It also analyses migration
as a part of the broader change and transnational networks and linkages between Indian
diaspora and diasporic communities. It is narrated very apt in the novels of V.S. Naipaul. The
first Nobel Prize winner of the 21st century has become the spokesman of immigrants. His
work is full of the agony of an exile, the pangs of a man in search of meaning and identity
and diasporic literature. In addition to this paper will examine the feelings of alienation and
rootlessness undergone by expatriates with V.S. Naipaul’s A Bend in the River.
Keywords: diaspora, rootlessness, alienation, expatriates, unemployment.

Paper Title:: FRACTURED SELVES IN WILLIAM GOLDING’S FICTION: EXPLORING IDENTITY CRISIS AS MORAL AND SOCIAL UNRAVELLING
Author Name:: Rajeev Chandra Prasad Visala
Country:: India
Page No.:: 12-17

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FRACTURED SELVES IN WILLIAM GOLDING’S FICTION: EXPLORING IDENTITY CRISIS AS MORAL AND SOCIAL UNRAVELLING

Author: Rajeev Chandra Prasad Visala

ABSTRACT
William Golding's fiction deeply examines the fragility of human identity, depicting it as a
tenuous construct vulnerable to disintegration amid isolation, primal instincts, and existential
challenges. This paper analyses the motif of fractured identities in three seminal texts, Lord of
the Flies (1954), The Inheritors (1955), and Pincher Martin (1956), to illustrate how identity
crises lead to moral decay and societal disintegration. In Lord of the Flies, the boys' descent
into savagery exemplifies the dichotomy between civilised and primitive identities,
undermining ethical boundaries and promoting anarchic tribalism. The Inheritors juxtaposes
Neanderthal communal harmony with Homo sapiens' aggressive individualism, elucidating
identity as an evolutionary weakness that erodes moral empathy and social cohesion. Pincher
Martin explores psychological trauma, illustrating how the protagonist's hallucinatory selfreconstruction reveals the ego's deceptive essence, ultimately resulting in symbolic
annihilation. Utilising psychoanalytic, existential, and thematic critiques, this analysis
illustrates Golding's bleak yet penetrating perspective on identity as the cornerstone of moral
and social order. Ultimately, Golding asserts that without vigilant self-awareness, fragmented
identities inevitably dismantle the essence of humanity, presenting a cautionary allegory for
post-war existential anxiety.
Keywords: William Golding, fractured self, identity crisis, moral disintegration, social
unravelling, Lord of the Flies, The Inheritors, Pincher Martin

Paper Title:: THE CONCEPT OF UNITY OF BEING IN DORIS LESSING’S CANOPUS IN ARGOS: ARCHIVES SERIES
Author Name:: Tajinder Singh
Country:: India
Page No.:: 18-21

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THE CONCEPT OF UNITY OF BEING IN DORIS LESSING’S CANOPUS IN ARGOS: ARCHIVES SERIES

Author: Tajinder Singh

ABSTRACT
This paper provides an exhaustive examination of the metaphysical and cosmological
framework of Doris Lessing’s five-novel sequence, Canopus in Argos: Archives. Departing
from her earlier realist works, such as The Children of Violence, Lessing utilizes the "space
fiction" genre to explore the soul's evolution toward a holistic integration of consciousness, termed the "unity of being." Drawing heavily on Sufi mysticism—specifically the concept of wahdat al-wujūd as interpreted by Idries Shah—this study argues that Lessing presents spiritual maturity as a process of overcoming the "disease of fragmentation." Through a close reading of Shikasta, The Marriages Between Zones Three, Four and Five, and subsequent volumes, the paper demonstrates how Lessing dramatizes the struggle for cosmic alignment as both a spiritual imperative and a sociopolitical necessity for humanity’s survival in an entropic universe.

Keywords: Doris Lessing, Canopus in Argos, Unity of Being, Sufism, Wahdat al-Wujūd,
Speculative Fiction, Idries Shah, Evolutionary Myth, Interconnectedness.

Paper Title:: THE LOCAL AS LITERARY UNIVERSE: SPACE, MEMORY, AND SOCIAL LIFE IN THE FICTION OF R. K. NARAYAN AND AMIT CHAUDHURI
Author Name:: Malakar Shephali
Country:: India
Page No.:: 22-26

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THE LOCAL AS LITERARY UNIVERSE: SPACE, MEMORY, AND SOCIAL LIFE IN THE FICTION OF R. K. NARAYAN AND AMIT CHAUDHURI

Author: Malakar Shephali

ABSTRACT
This study examines how R. K. Narayan and Amit Chaudhuri transform local spaces into
complete literary universes. Narayan’s Malgudi and Chaudhuri’s Calcutta are not merely
geographical settings; they are narrative worlds where memory, everyday life, social rhythm, class relations, family structures, and cultural consciousness acquire literary form. While Narayan constructs the small South Indian town as a semi-mythic yet ordinary space, Chaudhuri presents Calcutta through fragments of domestic interiors, streets, music, afternoon stillness, middle-class habit, and inherited cultural memory. The study argues that both writers resist spectacular narratives of nation, crisis, and heroic transformation. Instead, they locate meaning in the small, the habitual, and the locally remembered. Their fiction demonstrates that the local can function as a complete literary cosmos, capable of representing modern Indian life with subtlety and depth.

Keywords: R. K. Narayan, Amit Chaudhuri, Malgudi, Calcutta, locality, memory, everyday
life, Indian English fiction, space, social life

Paper Title:: MARGINS THAT SPEAK: SUBALTERN VOICES AND COUNTER-NARRATIVES IN MAHASWETA DEVI AND BAMA
Author Name:: Saroj Kumar Ray
Country:: India
Page No.:: 27-31

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MARGINS THAT SPEAK: SUBALTERN VOICES AND COUNTER-NARRATIVES IN MAHASWETA DEVI AND BAMA

Author: Saroj Kumar Ray

ABSTRACT
This study examines the representation of subaltern voices and counter-narratives in thewritings of Mahasweta Devi and Bama. Although the study belongs primarily to literary and cultural analysis, it reads their works through the political economy of caste, gender, land, labour, and social exclusion. Mahasweta Devi‟s fiction foregrounds Adivasi, tribal, bondedlabour, and dispossessed communities whose exploitation is linked to state power, feudal control, police violence, and capitalist extraction. Bama‟s writings articulate Dalit Christian women‟s experience of caste humiliation, religious contradiction, gendered labour, and collective resistance in Tamil society. The study argues that both writers transform literature into a counter-archive of the oppressed. Their texts do not merely represent marginality; they produce alternative knowledge from below. Through characters such as Dopdi Mejhen, Douloti, Sanichari, and Bama‟s Dalit women narrators, the margins become active sites of speech, critique, and social imagination. The study concludes that Mahasweta Devi and Bama redefine Indian literature by placing subaltern life at the centre of historical, ethical, and
economic inquiry.

Keywords: Subaltern, counter-narrative, Mahasweta Devi, Bama, caste, gender, Adivasi,
Dalit literature, political economy.

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