Connect With Us:

Conifer Publications

Editor

Harish K Thakur
Dept. of Political Science,
HPU Shimla

Editorial Board

Conifers Call: Shimla Journal of Poetry and Criticism

An International Peer Reviewed Biannual Journal. It is primarily a poetry journal devoted to the most noble and thought provoking genre of creative writing. Poetry has been at the root of human mind from the times immemorial and has manifested its multiple dimensions via diverse forms of expression. It has been a vehicle to express human emotions and sentiments thereby bridging humanity at large.

Spring 2023 (Vol. 15 No.1)

Reinvigorating Memories, Cultural Attitudes and the Practice of Mothering : A Reading of Jerry Pinto’s Em and the Big Hoom through the Gender Lens.

Representations have the power to influence cultures and shape our imaginations accordingly. Over the years, representations pertaining to the domain of motherhood in India, have made us believe in the self – negating, sacrificing and giving nature of mothers. Experiential aspects of being a mother have been neglected for long and it has now become...
Read More

Hindi Film Songs: Transcend Visa, Language and Culture

In current digital scenario information can be translated and transferred throughout the world with the blink of the eyes. The paper does not talk merely on the translation of the text but also of transcending consciousness through the availability of content globally. People of any nation are not stick to their country but are globally...
Read More

Assimilation: A Big Challenge among Immigrants in Honor Based Societies as mirrored by Unni Wikan

The objective of this paper is to bring out the impact of lack of assimilation of immigrants in the European culture as brought out by Unni Wikan in her book, In Honor of Fadime: Murder and Shame. Wikan has brought to fore a number of honor-related issues that the immigrants from traditional Kurdish background face...
Read More

The Treatment of Homosexuality in Murgikhana(The Hen House) of Kewal Sood

With the advent of industrial revolution in Europe a new middle classemerged that experienced several novel experiences at family, workplace, institutional, social and cultural levels. Some fundamentalchanges also occurred in individual’s life splitting the traditional withthe new, the modern. The economic affluence that followed brought atrend of investing more time in lengthy writings representing the...
Read More

Empowerment of Women characters in ManjuKapur’s Difficult Daughters

The desire to house an identity is inherent in every human being. It is astate of mind that differentiates a person from others and it may bedefined as a person’s own sense of self. For a girl, this quest foridentity begins from the day she is born. She may be born in India or inany...
Read More

Spirituality and Law : A Study of Hindu Conceptof Marriage through ‘Ardhnarishwaram’

Homo sapiens is one among many species on earth. That they, unlike otherspecies, have attained the stature of being called as ‘humans’ is only becauseof the spiritual journey they have taken up since time immemorial. They haveescalated to higher degrees of civilization and levels of culture in the past, thattoo, with a great exuberance and...
Read More

Our Publications

Reinvigorating Memories, Cultural Attitudes and the Practice of Mothering : A Reading of Jerry Pinto’s Em and the Big Hoom through the Gender Lens.

Read More

Hindi Film Songs: Transcend Visa, Language and Culture

Read More

Assimilation: A Big Challenge among Immigrants in Honor Based Societies as mirrored by Unni Wikan

Read More

The Treatment of Homosexuality in Murgikhana(The Hen House) of Kewal Sood

Read More

Empowerment of Women characters in ManjuKapur’s Difficult Daughters

Read More

Spirituality and Law : A Study of Hindu Conceptof Marriage through ‘Ardhnarishwaram’

Read More