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    MULTITUDINOUS NUANCES IN FARKHANDALODHI’S “CRACKS IN THE HEART”
    (IJELR, 2018) Narasingaram, Jayashree
    Pakistani women writers have been impacted by the consequences of the Partition. This has its ramifications on their narrative strategies and feminist ideologies. One of the strongest and most credited voices of feminism in Pakistan was Farkhanda Lodhi, a prominent Urdu and Punjabi writer, whose works resonate with concerns for women and their rights as did her interest in liberating them in real life as well. Her short story has been translated from Punjabi by Bhushan Arora, an award winning translator, under the title, “Cracks in the Heart”. It is a delicate and touching story of a dove, who, despite being a female, has to contend not only with her natural enemies, but with the intervention of human violence too. Through this story, Lodhi corroborates the fact that, be it humans or children of nature, the women/ female bear the brunt which society imposes upon them. She voices the plight of women through the dove, her struggles in a predatory world, wherein the dove, a symbol of peace, becomes the victim of communal violence.
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    NUANCES OF FEMINISTIC OVERTONES IN KIM ADDONIZIO’S POEM, “WHAT DO WOMEN WANT”?
    (IJARIIE, 2017) Narasingaram, Jayashree
    Indian English Literature is remarkable in the contributions made by its women writers. Shobha De and Manju Kapur are among them who attempt to portray the conditions of the Indian women who encounter various trials and tribulations due to the conflicting influence of tradition and modernity. They present the tormented consciousness of the urban middle- class women who in search of their own identity changes from a silent sufferer to a complete rebel moving against the age- old traditions, ethics and restrictions of the male dominated society. This sort of self-assertion is reflected in Manju Kapur’s Home and Shobha De’s Sisters. Both works set in a business background, present the central protagonists Mikki and Nisha as women who bravely face and struggle against the bounds of being ‘a woman’ and finally achieve their ardent quest towards being themselves. They affirm the capacity of the new educated Indian women to determine their priorities for self-discovery in emerging as a ‘new woman’.