The Criterion: An International Journal in English
ISSN: 0976-8165 | Impact Factor: 8.67
Vol. 17 • Issue 1 • February 2026
Bi-Monthly Peer-Reviewed eJournal • 17 Years of Open Access
Table of Contents
Indian Literature 32 Articles
01
Gender, Education, and Resistance: Transformational Journeys of Women in Manju Kapur’s Novels
02
Navigating the Digital Diaspora: Hybrid Identities and Evolving Homelands in Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni's Before We Visit the Goddess
03
Expressing Existential Crisis through Fragmented Voices: A Critical Perspective on Arundhati Roy’s The Ministry of Utmost Happiness
04
Transcultural Inertia and Gendered Displacement: Reading Dimple in Bharati Mukherjee’s Wife
05
From Communal Rite to Individual Quest: Alienation and Self-Realization in Anantha Murthy’s Samskara
06
Politicisation of Religion: Through the Lens of Partition Literature
07
Famine as a Plot Device in Anandamath
08
“No one ever asks children what they want”: Power in the School Stories of Varsha Seshan
09
From Survival to Reclamation: Exploration of Trauma in All the Lives We Never Lived
10
Caste and Conscience: Social Stratification in Gopinath Mohanty's Harijan
11
Negotiating Gender and Nature: An Ecofeminist Reading of Geetanjali Shree’s Mai: Silently Mother
12
Miss New India: East-West Dichotomy
13
Listening to the Voices of the Displaced: A Study of Paro Anand’s Nomad’s Land
14
Interpreting Dream in Zorami: A Freudian Reading
15
Echoes of Exile: Remembrance, Loss and Resistance in the Select Poems of Agha Shahid Ali
16
Dialectical Interplay of Anthropocentric and Eco-centric Worldviews in Allan Sealy’s The Everest Hotel: A Calendar
17
The Poetics of Intermediality: Exploring Artistic Convergence in Sudeep Sen’s Select Poems
18
Beyond the Human: Animal Agency and Forest Ethics in Jungle Nama
19
Mapping Narrative Space and Memory in Rohinton Mistry's "Swimming Lessons"
20
Love in a Cage: A Critical View of Patriarchal Victimisation by Mahesh Dattani in Bravely Fought the Queen
21
Gender, Identity and Resistance in Selected Indian English Novels
22
Identity Through Illustration: How Art in Jaya Influences Indian Mythological Consciousness
23
The Depiction of Contemporary Social and Political Issues in Arvind Adiga’s Novel The White Tiger: A Thematic Study
24
“…for my Head”: (Re)reading Temsula Ao’s Laburnum for My Head
25
Modernisation and Marginalisation: The Unseen Violence of Displacement in Rising Heat
26
Paradise to Pollution: An Eco-Critical Study of Kerala’s Environment in Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things
27
Narrative Techniques and Colloquial Style in the Short Stories of Bama
28
The Aesthetics of Consciousness in Akhila Naik’s Bheda
29
Dystopian Visions of Neo-Feudal India: Capital, Caste, and Authoritarianism in Post-Millennial Fiction
30
A Utilitarian Reading of Shashi Deshpande’s “If I Die Today”
31
Godan: A Mosaic of Cultural Studies
32
Quiet Flames: Unseen Trauma and Resistance in Banu Mushtaq’s Heart Lamp
Comparative Literature 12 Articles
33
Revisiting Kala Pani and Reinventing Identities: Reading Peggy Mohan’s Jahajin (2007) and Ramabai Espinet’s The Swinging Bridge (2003)
34
“Caught in a Bad Romance”: Dissecting the Portrayal of Self-Destructive Heroines in Shakespeare and Lady Gaga
35
Portrayals of Dissociated Subjectivity in Sartre’s Nausea and Dostoyevsky’s Notes from Underground
36
Women’s Predicament in the Selected Works of Khaled Hosseini and Kunzang Choden
37
Voices From the Margins: Feminism, Caste and Resistance in Meena Kandasamy and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Selected Works
38
Unveiling Institutionalised Heteronormativity the Social Context of Kerala: A Comparative Study of the Novel Jezebel by K. R. Meera and the Malayalam Cinema Kaadhal-The Core by Jeo Baby
39
Ramrajya and Rawls’s Justice as Fairness: A Comparative Study of Ideal Governance, Moral Community, and Utopian Aspirations
40
Dynamics of Love: Weaving the Vision of Love of Rumi and Tagore
41
The Hysteric's Cage: A Psychological Analysis of Domestic Space in Three Texts- Mrs Dalloway, The Yellow Wallpaper and Sons and Lovers
42
The Cinematic Gaze and the Disabled Body: A Comparative Study with Select Autobiographical Narratives
43
Survival and Power in Climate Fiction: A Comparative Study of The Snowpiercer and Parable of the Sower
44
Humanising the Divine: A Comparative Study of Andal’s Tiruppāvai and Akka Mahadevi’s Vachanas
British Literature 7 Articles
45
The Ministry of Culture: A Cultural Critique of Ideological Reproduction in George Orwell’s 1984
46
Between Flesh and Metal: Posthuman Eroticism in Ballard’s Crash
47
Multiculturalism, Identity and Quest for Belonging in Zadie Smith’s White Teeth and On Beauty
48
Paradox of Perfection: Reframing Humanity Vis-à-vis Artificial Intelligence in Ian McEwan’s Machines Like Me
49
Haunting Ambiguity: Gothic and Psychological Reading of Sarah Waters’s The Little Stranger
50
Pre-Industrial Climate Anxiety: Environmental Uncertainty in British Romantic Poetry
51
Embodying Machiavellianism: Marlowe’s Portrayal of Young Mortimer in Edward II
Film & Literature 6 Articles
52
Female Agency and Hybrid Identity of Beepathu in the Film Thallumala
53
Primitive Certainty and Tragic Action: Post-Jungian Mechanisms in Omkara
54
Designed Futurity and Ethical Closure in Gattaca
55
Urban Denial and Ecological Reality: Gaganachari as a Warning from the Future
56
From Silver Screen to Home Front: Challenging Civilian Misconceptions of Military Life with Narratives of Army Wives
57
Enchanting Appetites: Culinary Affect in Simply Irresistible
Cultural Studies 5 Articles
58
Tharu Folktales: Preserving Beliefs and Cultural Values Across Generations
59
Building Resilience through the Study of Cultural and Religious Syncretism: Folk-Narratives, Shrines and Gurudwaras in Punjab
60
Between Gods and Genders: Rethinking Deodhani as a Precolonial Site of Gender Plurality in Assam
61
Margins within Margins: Intersectionality and the Literary Erasure of Transgender Sex Workers in LGBTQ+ Narratives
62
Cultural Studies: Bridging Academia and The Public Sphere
World Literature 4 Articles
63
Reclaiming Self through Nature: Ecofeminist Consciousness in Margaret Atwood’s Surfacing
64
The Torment of Contradiction: Morality Vs. Desire in Leo Tolstoy's Anna Karenina
65
László Krasznahorkai, Apocalypse, and the Ethics of Witnessing: Toward a Unified Reading of His Oeuvre
66
The Conflict between Individual Desires and Social Expectations: A Psycho-realistic Reading of Ibsen’s Female Characters
Language & Linguistics 3 Articles
67
Unravelling the Dynamics of Technical Terminology and Translation
68
Language, Meaning, and Arbitrariness: A Philosophical-Linguistic Inquiry from Plato to Saussure
69
Transforming Linguistic Mastery: Leveraging Rosetta Stone’s Artificial Intelligence to Augment ESL Learners’ Oratory Proficiency and Self-Directed Learning
American Literature 2 Articles
70
Pandemic Narratives and Social Rift: A Study of Gender, Technology, and Media Law in Lawrence Wright’s Works
71
The Voice of the Wilderness: Exploring Eco-Consciousness in Jack London’s Novel
African Literature 1 Article
72
Representation and Identity in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Half of a Yellow Sun
Critical Theory 1 Article
73
The Orient and the Avant-Garde: Rethinking Surrealism Through Cultural Intersections
Humanities 1 Article
74
Metropolis and Identity: An Analysis of Contemporary Market- Society
Poetry 6 Poems
01
Confusion and Hope
02
In the Dawn, Before the Sunrise
03
Spread Hope Where Shadows Fall
04
Orpheus’ Lament
05
We Worship Difference (Just Not Me)
06
O Dreams! Be Mine
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