Shruti Das
Dr Shruti Das is Professor and Head, Post Graduate Department of English and Director Centre for Canadian Studies Berhampur University in Odisha, India. She is a critic, translator and poet, writing bilingually in English and her native tongue Odia. She has participated, presented papers as Plenary and Keynote speaker and chaired sessions in many National and International Seminars and Webinars on English language, literature and Ecocriticism in India, USA and Europe. She has been a visiting Lecturer in 2 Universities in Poland. She has the distinction of being placed in the ALA Directory of Scholars, Princeton University, USA. She has the honour of being the guest editor of the Special issue "Tropical Imaginaries and Climate Crisis" of the e-Tropic journal September 2021. She has published many research articles and creative work in National and International Journals and books, and has published eleven books (including two volumes of poetry): From Margin to the Centre- A Toni Morrison Reader (2009), Contemporary Communicative English (1st Edition 2010, 2ndEdition 2015), Language Learning Skills: Teacher’s Perception (2016), The Widening Gyre (OUP 2016), Re-Thinking Environment: Literature, Ethics and Praxis (2017),Form and Finesse: Business Communication and Soft Skills (2017), A Daughter Speaks: a Collection of poems (2013) and Lidless Eyes (2015), Performing the Nation: Memory and Desire in Contemporary Literature(2019), Earth Song(2020)and Environment and Culture in the Anthropocene(2020). Six Scholars have been awarded Ph.D. under her supervision. She is widely traveled and is member Board of Editors and member Advisory Body of many National and International Literary Journals and the Editor of Literary Oracle: An International Journal of Literature and Culture. Her poetry has been published in many anthologies and journals in India and abroad. A translator and public speaker of repute, she has received international acclaim and has been placed in the Bibliography of Commonwealth Writers for her first volume of Poems and has received the ASLE Travel Award-2019 at the Univ of California at Davis.Her special interests are Postcolonialism, South Asian Feminism, Indian Aesthetics, Eco-criticism and English Language teaching.
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that it is crucial to address the crisis of representation and harbour their faith in aesthetics of
emotion which is otherwise known as “affect”. Affect has been defined as the cognitive
aspect of emotions and feelings whereby the interiority of the exterior is represented. Western
aesthetics adheres to the prescriptions laid down in Aristotle’s Poetics in order to address the
complex phenomena of emotion. But this seems to be rather limited since it does not take into
consideration the multidimensionality of emotion and its expressions. In this context Indian
poetics or rasa theory of Bharata Muni and his successors appears to be more adequate in
handling these complex cognitive phenomena. In this paper I propose to discuss the sringara
rasa in Gitagovindam, a classical literary text written by Jayadeva in the 12 th Century CE
which depicts in verse the love frolic of Lord Krishna and his consort Radha. I shall analyse
the text translated by N.S.R. Ayengar, namely, Gitagovindam- Sacred Profanities: A Study of
Jayadeva’s Gitagovinda (2000). My argument would be that this literary text has used
various human and non human agents embodied in the verse-narration to capture complex
human emotions. Since Western poetics will not be adequate to address the complex
psychological condition of temporary bereavement in love and the subsequent reunion of the
lovers in Gitagovinda, I have resorted to using the framework of Indian poetics, that is, rasa
theory.
Keywords : emotion, Western Aesthetics, Rasa theory, Sringara Rasa, Gitagovindam
Nation” has been open ended and raised many
important and debatable questions. This collection of
essays are representative of deliberations at the
conference which had a range of sub themes like, Nation
and colonization; Narrating the nation in the postcolonial
perspective; Transnationalism; Nation and gender;
Indigenous people in the national dynamics; Nation and
individual rights; Homeland in diasporic imaginary;
Memory of war and peace; Partition and
psychodynamics of nation; Borders and Refugees; Nation in travel writing, myth, culture and religion; Postnation;
Politics of Language and Language teaching and
Sustainable development. The conceptual
indeterminacy of the very idea of a nation wavers
between expression and silence which the essays
collected in this volume try to variedly address.
insights offered by environmental ethics, suggesting that artificially intelligent entities should be considered not extraneous entities to the human social environment but as forming an integral part of that environment. This study will critically examine the concept of
anthropocentric representation of care in Kazuo Ishiguro’s novel “Klara and the Sun”. The novel’s narrative revolves around Klara, an Artificial Friend designed to provide companionship and care to humans. This paper will investigate how the portrayal of care in the novel reflects and reinforces human exceptionalism - the belief in humans’ unique moral
status and superiority over other beings. Drawing on the theory of posthumanism, this paper will explore how the novel constructs and perpetuates a hierarchical relationship between humans and Artificial Intelligence (AI) entities, emphasizing the inherent value of human life
and emotions. It delves into the implications of this anthropocentric perspective on the ethics of AI development, exploring how it may impact the treatment and rights of AI beings in real-world scenarios. This study aims to provoke a critical discussion on the consequences of anthropocentric representations of care in literature and its broader implications for society’s perception of non-human entities.
Keywords: Human exceptionalism, posthumanism, Anthropocentrism, AI.
Keywords: Green, Green criminology, Eco-disaster, colonization, Himalayas, Kedarnath