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Description: A compilation of twenty essays on a variety of aesthetic themes and approaches may seem a daunting reading experience. However, Reflections: Essays on Art, Literature, Cinema and the Social Landscape is unified by each essay’s relevance to the contemporary world. These thoughts and analyses frame compelling conversations against the backdrop of a shifting world dynamic, offering a timeless critique of culture and how it remains relevant in spite of the tides of change. Reflections is an essential companion for anyone seeking to understand how art continues to mirror, challenge, and define our ever-evolving world.

Essays:

1. The Divine Grotesque: A Cross-cultural glimpse of the Muses by Dustin Pickering
2. A Review of Transnationalism and the Construction of ‘Truth’ in Postcolonial Novels by Bashabi Fraser
3. The Architecture of Coercion: Pregnancy as a Site of Surveillance and Disciplinary Control in Rosemary’s Baby by Pradipta Mukherjee
4. Return of the Taliban in Afghanistan? India’s engagement in securing its interest amidst the chaos by Diotima Chattoraj
5. Concentration Camps, Survival, Post-Memory, and Holocaust Literature in Graphic Storytelling by Asmi Mukherjee
6. The Gendered Self: From Idea to Representation by Maria-Ana Tupan
7. Representation of Dalit Identity in Indian Cinema by Shoma A. Chatterji
8. Arun Kolatkar: A Time to Turn Around by Debasish Lahiri
9. Understanding Subjectivity: Navigating Plural Perspectives of Approaching Liberty by Nirjhar Mukherjee
10. Vicious or Vulnerable? Satyajit Ray’s Indigenisation of the Undead in “The Vicious Vampire” by Madhuchhanda Ray Choudhury
11. Reframing Womanhood: A Feminist and Postcolonial Exegesis of Deepa Mehta’s Elements Trilogy by Raj Dutta
12. Subaltern Voices in the Ramayana: Anand Neelakantan’s Reimagining of Ravana and Soorpanakha by Rima Chakraborty
13. Cultural and Religious Superstitions and Their Influence on Medical Practices by Biswarup Mukhopadhyay
14. Stillness, Disclosure and the Clearing: Reading Anton Chekhov’s The Lady with the Little Dog through Heidegger’s Being and Time by Subhadip Das
15. Embracing the Void: Unveiling Nihilism in Vilém Flusser’s Profound Philosophical Discourse by Mote Sreenu and Madhu Jeripothula
16. Speaking the Aesthetic Images: Reflections on Wor(l)d, Vision, and Selfhood by Payel Dutta
17. From Literature to Total Art by Constantin Severin
18. Resistance via Social Media: The ‘Abhaya’ Rape Case by Abhinandita Maity
19. Relating to the Relationship of Relations: The Five Cornerstones of Jayanta Mahapatra’s Writing byUrna Bose
20. Bibek Debroy: A Personal Tribute by Boudhayan Mukherjee

Cover art and design: Sattwik Mondal (connectsattwik@gmail.com)

Editors:

Pradipta Mukherjee is a distinguished film critic and Associate Professor in the Department of English, Vidyasagar College for Women, University of Calcutta. With a dynamic academic and research career that bridges literature and films, she has contributed significantly to the study of cinema, adaptation, and cultural representation.

Dustin Pickering is the founder of Transcendent Zero Press. He has contributed writing to Huffington Post, Los Angeles Review, The Statesman (India), Journal of Liberty and International Affairs, The Colorado Review, World Literature Today, Asymptote Journal, and several other publications.