Contents
From the Editor's Desk 
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1. Sounding the Blues and Reshaping the Tale: 
Hearing and Healing in Ann Petry's Stories
Navneet Sethi 
7
2. Corpses, Hidden Bodies and Ruptured Discourses
in the Novels of Nadine Gordimer, 
Andre Brink and J. M. Coetzee 
Arpa Ghosh 
17
3. Transcultural Narratives for Juveniles
Madhu Sahni 
23
4. Rituals of Retreat: The Liminality of the early migrant 
Indian experience in Colonial Malaya
Shanthini Pillai 
36
5. Siraiki Poems of Separation by Safeer Lashari 
Translated by Nukhbah Langah 
48
6. Remarkable Coincidence Or What? A Comparison of 
Kamala Markandaya's Two Virgins and 
Farida Karodia's Daughters of the Twilight 
Sharon Pillai 
56
7. Interview with Bibhu Padhi
Jaydeep Sarangi 
79 
8. Subalternity as Event in History and Literature
Sreemati Mukherjee 
95
9. Creating a New Constituency of Readers: 
Chintamani and Jaganmohini 
K.   Srilata
102
10. Tagore's Chokher Bali: Aesthetic and 
Ethical Considerations 
Aysha Viswamohan 
112
11. Alternative Traditions: Rajasthani 
Tales as Artefacts
Pradeep Trikha 
120
12. The Sudra in Some Texts of Dharma: 
A Deep History of Contempt
Ananya Vajpeyi 
128
13. Change of Shift
Dutta Durga Prasad 
Translated by Alladi Uma and M Sridhar
147
14. Book Review: A Journey from Commitment
to Consumerism
B. Mangalam 
158