Conifers Call : Shimla Journal of Poetry and Criticism – Spring 2023 (Vol. 15 No.1)

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…