Vol. V
Issue: 1&2
Journal of Migration Affairs
Sept 2022 & March 2023
The third book of V.S. Naipaul’s Indian travels, India: A Million Mutinies Now, is written with his earlier books on India in mind and is another revisal, another re- seeing of what had been wrongly judged in the past.
READ MOREThe paper uses the biopolitical framework conceptualised by Foucault and Agamben to critically examine the figure of the refugee and its representation in Deep Halder’s Blood Island: An Oral History of the Marichjhapi Massacre.
READ MOREThe paper explores how Violet Cannon, a Romany Gypsy writer, poignantly presents the saga of Gypsy life in her memoir Gypsy Princess: The True Story of a Romany Childhood. In her own inimitable way
READ MOREThe paper argues that Elif Shafak’s novel, 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World, constructs a counter-narrative to Istanbul’s existing narratives as a cosmopolitan city by recounting the lived bodily experiences of a migrant flâneuse.
READ MOREAttia Hosain (1913-1998), a novelist and a short story writer, was born and educated in Lucknow. In 1947, she moved to England and worked at BBC, where she presented her own women’s programmes. Attia Hosain’s essay Deep Roots
READ MOREAravind Adiga’s debut novel, The White Tiger (2008), has over the years been widely studied from different perspectives, but its engagement with the theme of internal migration has remained unexplored. This paper seeks to address
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Vol. V
Issue: 1&2
Journal of Migration Affairs
Sept 2022 & March 2023
Vol. IV
Issue: 2
Journal of Migration Affairs
March 2022