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Summer 2025

Volume 1
Issue 1

Published: June 2025

Contents

7 articles

Editorial Preface

Read the editor's introduction to this issue, highlighting the key themes, featured contributions, and the scholarly vision that shapes this edition. Read more

Editorial Introduction Featured

Bharata Muni as a Microcosm of Cosmic Emanation: Sustaining, Offering and Expanding Nāṭya through Icchā, Jñāna, and Kriyā

This paper examines Bharata Muni through a traditional śāstrika lens, moving beyond historical debates to interpret him as a cosmic principle of performative knowledge (nāṭya-jñāna). Using Sans... Read more

Bharata Muni Nāṭyaśāstra Rasa

Moral Dilemmas and Values of the Middle Class in Mrinal Sen's Films: A Study of Ek Din Pratidin and Kharij

This study examines the moral contradictions and values of the Bengali middle class as portrayed in Mrinal Sen's acclaimed films Ek Din Pratidin (1979) and Kharij (1982). Through critical analysis of ... Read more

Mrinal Sen Bengali middle class moral ambiguity

Cinema Between the Surgeon and the Observer: Benjamin, Bazin, and Hitchcock’s Psycho

This paper examines the theoretical divide between Walter Benjamin and André Bazin regarding cinema's relationship to reality, using Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho (1960) as a case study to bridge their s... Read more

Film theory Cinematic realism Voyeurism

A Comprehensive Analysis of Sarasvatī Kṛtis by Prof. R. Visweswaran

In the Nadīstuti Sūktās of Vedic scriptures, Goddess Sarasvatī emerged as the divine river of consciousness and enlightenment, nourishing the genesis of Vedic Sanskrit civilisation. This study con... Read more

Sarasvatī kṛtis Carnatic music composition rāga mudrās

The Psychological Background of Colour Symbolism in Sri Lankan Traditional Masks

The Low Country dance tradition of Sri Lanka, centred in the Southern and parts of the Western Province, features three stylistic schools: Matara, Benthara, and Raigama. Central to these traditions ar... Read more

Sri Lanka semiotics masks

The Ferocious Consciousness: Spirit Subjugation and the Dissolution of Otherness in the Bhūtaḍāmara Tantra

This essay investigates the text Bhūtaḍāmara Tantra, examining a philosophical tension: “How does a tantra so deeply embedded in ritual coercion reconcile itself with the language of liberation?... Read more

Pratyābhijñā spirit-conjuring tantra

Truth, Beauty, and the Aesthetic Quest: Arjun Bharadwaj’s Exploration of Homer through Indian Thought

This review examines Arjun Bharadwaj's Indian Perspective of Truth and Beauty in Homer's Epics, a comparative literary study that applies Indian aesthetic philosophy to Homer's Iliad and Odyssey. Bhar... Read more

Comparative aesthetics Indian poetics Cross-cultural literary analysis

Issue Details

Publication Date:
June 2025
Total Articles:
7
Total Pages:
82
ISSN:
1234-5678
Publisher:
Dhvani Publication

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