Kashyapa Rishi of the Mahabharata becomes Dhanvantari Ojha of the Manasamangal Kavya: Transmission and Diffusion of an Ancient Snakebite-Curer’s Story

Date: January 3, 2018 By: Editor Rahul Bhaumik Department of History, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India. Email: rahul_joy1981@yahoo.com  Volume VII, Number 2, 2017 I Full Text PDF DOI: 10.25274/bcjms.v7n2.v7n2eng03 Abstract This paper focuses on the particular Mahabharata story of great snakebite-curer Kashyapa Rishi, whose resemblance we find in the character of Dhanvantari Ojha of the mediaeval Bengali narrative poetry Manasamangal Kavya or Padma Purana. Similarities between these two…

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Life as a ‘Brief Candle’ blown out by Death: A Critical Analysis of Mahesh Dattani’s Brief Candle

Date: October 24, 2017 By: Editor Tapashree Ghosh Assistant Professor, Dhruba Chand Halder College. ORCID: 0000-0002-4107-8045. Email id: tapashree.ghosh.deb@gmail.com  Volume VII, Number 2, 2017 I Full Text PDF DOI: 10.25274/bcjms.v7n2.v7n2eng02 Abstract: Mahesh Dattani’s Brief Candle deals with the life of cancer patients and is set in a hospital where cancer patients are about to stage a comic play to raise fund for their…

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Self, Performance and Queer militancy in Isherwood’s A Single Man

Date: October 24, 2017 By: Editor Rajorshi Das Indraprastha College for Women, Delhi  Volume VII, Number 2, 2017 I Full Text PDF DOI: 10.25274/bcjms.v7n2.v7n2eng01 Abstract Set in 1962 United States, Christopher Isherwood’s A Single Man (1964), initially conceptualised as An English Woman, is considered to be the author’s magnum opus. It focuses on a day in the life of the protagonist, George – a Los…

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Editorial, Volume 7, 2017

Date: January 7, 2018 By: Editor Dr. Pabitra Kumar Mishra Editor-in-Chief  Volume VII, Number 2, 2017 I Full Text PDF DOI: 10.25274/bcjms.v7n2.v7n200 For the last few years the academic world, especially in India, is reeling under the circumstances created by the phenomenon of “publish or perish”. It is strange indeed that the educational policy makers suddenly felt the need for pushing…

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