IN THIS ISSUE:
Editorial Note: The Journal of South Asia Women Studies: Our First Twenty-one Years – The 2015 Constitution of Nepal
Papers: Enrica Garzilli, “Nepal 2013-14: Breaking the Political Impasse” (in PDF – freely accessible)
Giorgio Milanetti, “Two wives for a perfect life: Nag’mati and Padmavati in Jayasi’s Padmāvat as symbols of the integration of bhoga and yoga“;
Narasingha P. Sil, “The “Fallen” Females of Rabindranath Tagore’s “Broken Nest” and Sharatchandra Chattopadhyay’s “Blazing Home” Revisited”
Poem by Bhumika Sharma, “Am I a problem?” (freely accessible)
TOC:
“Nepal 2013-14: Breaking the Political Impasse” by Enrica Garzilli is a survey of the political, social, judicial, and economic situation of the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal in 2013-2014, before the epochal events of 2015.
“Two wives for a perfect life: Nag’mati and Padmavati in Jayasi’s Padmāvat as symbols of the integration of bhoga and yoga“ by Giorgio Milanetti analyzes Malik Muhammad Jayasi’s poem Padmāvat within the larger frame of the interplay between Islamic mysticism and Indian ascetic traditions, arguing that the integration of spiritual refinement and participation to daily life represent the central theme of the poem.
The paper “The ‘Fallen’ Females of Rabindranath’s Broken Nest and Sharatchandra Chattopadhyay’s Blazing Home Revisited” by Narasingha P. Sil analyzes two poems, which describe the odyssey of two married women’s quest for realizing their unrequited love and unfulfilled desires of expressing their subjectivity and identity. The contrasting experiences of these two fictional female characters testify to the two authors’ ideas of and attitudes to educated urban women.
