Rashmi Gaur
Biographic Data
| ID | 3815737 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rashmi Gaur |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rashmi |
| FAMILY NAME | Gaur |
| SIGNATURE | GAUR R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2688-8696 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1974 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Interactivity as Cultural Memory: Indigenous knowledge systems and oral traditions in Raji: An Ancient Epic
Interactive digital narratives (IDNs) increasingly function as infrastructures of cultural memory, yet scholarship remains largely centred on Euro-American projects and under-theorises Global South titles that translate Indigenous oral traditions into interactive form. This article examines Raji: An Ancient Epic (Nodding Heads Games 2020) as a paradigmatic Indian IDN that mobilises Indigenous Knowledge Systems (IKS) through commercial game design…
Recalibrating Malignancy through Materialities: (Re)defining Care through Space, Objects and Machines in Lisa Ray’s Close to the Bone
This article examines Lisa Ray’s memoir Close to the Bone (2019) to investigate how everyday objects and spaces within hospitals mediate patients’ experiences of illness and enable the formation of empathetic relationships. The study draws on new materialism, actor-network theory, and theories of care such as Annemarie Mol’s logic of care. This framework enables an analysis of materiality not as a passive backdrop but as an active, relational for…
It’s witchy to want out! Posthuman feminist becoming and speculative liminality in Anvitaa Dutt’s Bulbbul
The article aims to outline the posthuman feminist becoming of the eponymous heroine, Bulbbul in Anvitaa Dutt’s directorial debut film, Bulbbul streaming on Netflix. A gothic re-imagination of the witch figuration in popular discourse, Dutt’s screenplay presents Bulbbul as an assemblage of embodied uncanniness and speculative liminality. In addressing the appalling realities of gender-based violence and patriarchal oppression, the film presents t…
Communicative Skin: Marginalization, Transformative Identity and Forced Tattoo Narratives in Joyce Carol Oates’ The Tattooed Girl
Postfeminism and artificial intimacy: Exploring human–AI interaction through performance artist Arvida Byström’s encounter with Harmony, the AI sex doll
Masculinity beyond the warrior ‘savage’: (Re)thinking warriors as elite indigenous masculinity in select Angami folktales
A postcolonial feminist representation of motherhood in recent Bollywood sports movies
Forlano, L., & Glabau, D. (2024). Cyborg. The MIT Press Essential Knowledge Series.
Laura Forlano and Danya Glabau’s Cyborg (2024), part of the MIT Press Essential Knowledge Series, situates complex debates surrounding contemporary cyborg studies for nonspecialist readers. By providing a detailed analysis of the challenges faced by the term ‘cyborg’ since its inception, Cyborg presents ‘cyborg-thinking’ as a way forward in confronting our collective technologized present(s). In the Introduction, the cyborg figure emerges as a so…
A Spiritual Journey through Cancer and Beyond: Prayer, Pilgrimage, and Faith in Lisa Ray’s Close to the Bone
This paper examines the efficacy of incorporating spiritual practices, such as prayer and pilgrimages, into patient-centered care to enhance the healing journey of individuals experiencing illness. Using Lisa Ray’s cancer memoir, Close to the Bone (2019), we seek to investigate the impact of spirituality, sacred spaces, and faith on maintaining an individual’s religiosity during times of ailment. Our analysis of the potential salubrious effects o…
Maternal Ambivalence in Avni Doshi’s Burnt Sugar and Zehra Naqvi’s The Reluctant Mother
This article examines the concept of maternal ambivalence in the Indian cultural milieu through a critical analysis of Avni Doshi's Burnt Sugar and Zehra Naqvi's The Reluctant Mother. These novels illustrate how societal glorification of maternal archetypes imposes significant emotional burdens on mothers who defy established norms, leading to inner conflicts laden with guilt, uncertainty, and the struggle to balance personal aspirations with soc…
Reimaging of the Angami collective cultural identity: Kenyü and customary law in the select Angami folktales
Although various studies have focused on the formation of ethnicity in Nagaland, little is known about specific aspects of collective cultural identity derived from the folktales of the Angami tribe. There is a lack of research in understanding the cultural analysis of the forms of kenyü (an Angami expression representing a 'proscription of behaviour'Footnote1) and its role in the wider social process, owing to the folktales as narratives in the …
Towards a Post-Colonial Eco-Cosmopolitanism: Reviving the Sense of Place in Uzma Aslam Khan’s Thinner Than Skin
In an era of unprecedented global connectivity and ecological crises, the concept of “place” has been profoundly transformed within post-colonised communities. This study examines how literature, specifically Uzma Aslam Khan’s Thinner Than Skin (2012), as a medium can revive the sense of place, particularly the place sense redefined by the experiences of post-colonial eco-social catastrophes, as a dialogical co-habitation of human-non-human envir…
Precarity and Relational Autonomy in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Americanah
Post-Colonial Disasters and Narratives of Erasure: Reimagining Testimonies of Toxic Encounter
Mainstream media narratives and the official historiography of the 1984 Bhopal Gas Tragedy have overlooked the testimonies of disaster survivors, culturally discounting the authority of witnessing in both scholarly discourse and public arenas. This has left a space for novelists, as writer-activists, to trace the socio-political, economic and ecological injustices of post-colonial disasters like the Bhopal gas leak. Indra Sinha’s Animal’s People …
Memory Novels as Lieux De Mémoire: Reading Cultural Memory In Easterine Kire’s Mari And A Respectable Woman
As the deferral nature of history denies one monolithic objective truth, it is through “cultural memory” that one weaves together various fragments of a singular moment called “past”, which is again reinterpreted and represented through various mediums. Contemporary Naga literature in English traces the trajectory of Naga history, both of the colonial and the postcolonial period, in association with the Naga knowledge system and lived-through exp…
Precarity and Performativity in Post-Fordist Japanese Workplace: A Reading of Sayaka Murata’s Convenience Store Woman
The socio-economic phenomenon of post-Fordism strengthened the growing Japanese economy since the 1970s. However, the economic recession in the 1990s led to the birth of the precariat in Japan. A country known for permanent employment and long-term stability was replaced by policies that enabled a new class of temporary workers. These vulnerable part-time employees, also called freeters, are victims of anxiety and social pressure. They led a life…
Enforced) Migration, (Up)rootedeness, (In)separability and (Post)memory in The Garden of Solitude and The Infidel Next Door
This article argues that expressions of postmemory—a form of relationship that a generation has with its antecedants, as proposed by Marianne Hirsch—are writ large in the descendants of the Kashmiri Pandits who fled from the Kashmir Valley in the 1990s and before then. Through a close reading of two novels by Kashmiri writers, Siddhartha Gigoo’s The Garden of Solitude and Rajat Mitra’s The Infidel Next Door, this article analyses the prevalence o…
Hermeneutic flashbacks: Building the narrative space in Joe Sacco’s Safe Area Goražde
The present paper attempts to read the hermeneutic play into the structural matrix of Joe Sacco’s Safe Area Goražde through the idea of ‘spatial excess’ that the paper proposes by theoretically conflating Gadamer’s concept of ‘Fusion of Horizon’ with Groensteen’s idea of ‘hyperframe’ and ‘margin’. The paper reads the flashback episodes which it identifies as hermeneutic by disposition and which drives home the idea of historical consciousness by …
Postcolonial Aesthetics and Sensuous Geographies in Aruni Kashyap’s The House with a Thousand Stories
The place is fundamental to our existence; it conforms to the phenomenology of being in the world as we always occupy a place “if not with our minds, then always with our bodies”, to quote Moslund. The role of the senses in knowing the geographies of our existence, form a kind of structuring of space and defining of place. To understand the construction of sensorial-socio-cultural space of Assam at the time of extrajudicial killings that produces…
Live (Life) Streaming: Virtual Interaction, Virtual Proximity, and Streaming Everyday Life during the Covid- 19 Pandemic
This paper proposes to examine the digital event of live streaming as an entanglement of digital engagement, virtual proximity, and virtual embodiment as a possible posthuman concern, foregrounded by the ongoing COVID- 19 pandemic. The transition witnessed in the medium of communication between humans has significantly deconstructed our understanding of the ‘normal’, consequently introducing a new phase of lost corporeality, digitally. Unforeseen…
Vulnerabilities, Exploitation, Exclusion, and Social Trauma of Half-Widows in Shafi Ahmad’s the Half Widow (2012)
Amidst the hierarchy of masculinities in society, the hegemonic masculinity is a pattern of practice that infers the variegated other masculinities (complicit, subordinated, and marginalized) infer
Reading Nationality and other Layers of Identity in Amitav Ghosh’s, The Shadow Lines
Amitav Ghosh’s The Shadow Lines is a novel built upon the relationships between people coming from varied national-cultural backgrounds. This paper examines how or whether the national-political border influences relationships between two or more human beings, and the extent to which national-political and religious affiliations have on one’s identity. This paper discusses, and problematizes, the issue of nationalism as, well as other factors, in…
Towards a Taxonomy of Masculinities: Mapping Hegemonic and Alternative Masculine Practices in Shashi Deshpande’s The Dark Holds No Terror and That Long Silence
This paper reads two early novels of Shashi Deshpande and maps the ways in which traditional and new alternative masculinities find juxtaposition in the chosen texts. Although Shashi Deshpande is regularly posited as an author of progressive feminist politics, whose fictions present a subjugated femininity under the oppression of a unitary and oppressive masculinity; this reading, however, complicates this position by exploring diverse and contra…
The Legend of Purūravas and Urvaśī: An Interpretation
The Ṛg-Vedic hymn X. 95, describing the story of Purūravas and Urvaśī is of considerable interest and obscurity. It has attracted the attention of priests and scholars alike from the days of the Brāhmaṇas, with the result that different versions of the story have come down to us with unrestricted freedom. Geldner has recorded eight sources of the story: ( i ) the Śatapatha Brāhmaṇa; ( ii ) the Kaṭhakam ; ( iii ) Ṣaḍguru-śiṣya's commentary on the …
Maternal Ambivalence in Avni Doshi’s Burnt Sugar and Zehra Naqvi’s The Reluctant Mother
This article examines the concept of maternal ambivalence in the Indian cultural milieu through a critical analysis of Avni Doshi's Burnt Sugar and Zehra Naqvi's The Reluctant Mother. These novels illustrate how societal glorification of maternal archetypes imposes significant emotional burdens on mothers who defy established norms, leading to inner conflicts laden with guilt, uncertainty, and the struggle to balance personal aspirations with soc…
A postcolonial feminist representation of motherhood in recent Bollywood sports movies
Vulnerabilities, Exploitation, Exclusion, and Social Trauma of Half-Widows in Shafi Ahmad’s the Half Widow (2012)
Amidst the hierarchy of masculinities in society, the hegemonic masculinity is a pattern of practice that infers the variegated other masculinities (complicit, subordinated, and marginalized) infer
The Legend of Purūravas and Urvaśī: An Interpretation
The Ṛg-Vedic hymn X. 95, describing the story of Purūravas and Urvaśī is of considerable interest and obscurity. It has attracted the attention of priests and scholars alike from the days of the Brāhmaṇas, with the result that different versions of the story have come down to us with unrestricted freedom. Geldner has recorded eight sources of the story: ( i ) the Śatapatha Brāhmaṇa; ( ii ) the Kaṭhakam ; ( iii ) Ṣaḍguru-śiṣya's commentary on the …
The Legend of Purūravas and Urvaśī: An Interpretation
The Ṛg-Vedic hymn X. 95, describing the story of Purūravas and Urvaśī is of considerable interest and obscurity. It has attracted the attention of priests and scholars alike from the days of the Brāhmaṇas, with the result that different versions of the story have come down to us with unrestricted freedom. Geldner has recorded eight sources of the story: ( i ) the Śatapatha Brāhmaṇa; ( ii ) the Kaṭhakam ; ( iii ) Ṣaḍguru-śiṣya's commentary on the …
Towards a Taxonomy of Masculinities: Mapping Hegemonic and Alternative Masculine Practices in Shashi Deshpande’s The Dark Holds No Terror and That Long Silence
This paper reads two early novels of Shashi Deshpande and maps the ways in which traditional and new alternative masculinities find juxtaposition in the chosen texts. Although Shashi Deshpande is regularly posited as an author of progressive feminist politics, whose fictions present a subjugated femininity under the oppression of a unitary and oppressive masculinity; this reading, however, complicates this position by exploring diverse and contra…
Reading Nationality and other Layers of Identity in Amitav Ghosh’s, The Shadow Lines
Amitav Ghosh’s The Shadow Lines is a novel built upon the relationships between people coming from varied national-cultural backgrounds. This paper examines how or whether the national-political border influences relationships between two or more human beings, and the extent to which national-political and religious affiliations have on one’s identity. This paper discusses, and problematizes, the issue of nationalism as, well as other factors, in…
Live (Life) Streaming: Virtual Interaction, Virtual Proximity, and Streaming Everyday Life during the Covid- 19 Pandemic
This paper proposes to examine the digital event of live streaming as an entanglement of digital engagement, virtual proximity, and virtual embodiment as a possible posthuman concern, foregrounded by the ongoing COVID- 19 pandemic. The transition witnessed in the medium of communication between humans has significantly deconstructed our understanding of the ‘normal’, consequently introducing a new phase of lost corporeality, digitally. Unforeseen…
Vulnerabilities, Exploitation, Exclusion, and Social Trauma of Half-Widows in Shafi Ahmad’s the Half Widow (2012)
Amidst the hierarchy of masculinities in society, the hegemonic masculinity is a pattern of practice that infers the variegated other masculinities (complicit, subordinated, and marginalized) infer
Hermeneutic flashbacks: Building the narrative space in Joe Sacco’s Safe Area Goražde
The present paper attempts to read the hermeneutic play into the structural matrix of Joe Sacco’s Safe Area Goražde through the idea of ‘spatial excess’ that the paper proposes by theoretically conflating Gadamer’s concept of ‘Fusion of Horizon’ with Groensteen’s idea of ‘hyperframe’ and ‘margin’. The paper reads the flashback episodes which it identifies as hermeneutic by disposition and which drives home the idea of historical consciousness by …
Postcolonial Aesthetics and Sensuous Geographies in Aruni Kashyap’s The House with a Thousand Stories
The place is fundamental to our existence; it conforms to the phenomenology of being in the world as we always occupy a place “if not with our minds, then always with our bodies”, to quote Moslund. The role of the senses in knowing the geographies of our existence, form a kind of structuring of space and defining of place. To understand the construction of sensorial-socio-cultural space of Assam at the time of extrajudicial killings that produces…
Memory Novels as Lieux De Mémoire: Reading Cultural Memory In Easterine Kire’s Mari And A Respectable Woman
As the deferral nature of history denies one monolithic objective truth, it is through “cultural memory” that one weaves together various fragments of a singular moment called “past”, which is again reinterpreted and represented through various mediums. Contemporary Naga literature in English traces the trajectory of Naga history, both of the colonial and the postcolonial period, in association with the Naga knowledge system and lived-through exp…
Precarity and Performativity in Post-Fordist Japanese Workplace: A Reading of Sayaka Murata’s Convenience Store Woman
The socio-economic phenomenon of post-Fordism strengthened the growing Japanese economy since the 1970s. However, the economic recession in the 1990s led to the birth of the precariat in Japan. A country known for permanent employment and long-term stability was replaced by policies that enabled a new class of temporary workers. These vulnerable part-time employees, also called freeters, are victims of anxiety and social pressure. They led a life…
Enforced) Migration, (Up)rootedeness, (In)separability and (Post)memory in The Garden of Solitude and The Infidel Next Door
This article argues that expressions of postmemory—a form of relationship that a generation has with its antecedants, as proposed by Marianne Hirsch—are writ large in the descendants of the Kashmiri Pandits who fled from the Kashmir Valley in the 1990s and before then. Through a close reading of two novels by Kashmiri writers, Siddhartha Gigoo’s The Garden of Solitude and Rajat Mitra’s The Infidel Next Door, this article analyses the prevalence o…
Towards a Post-Colonial Eco-Cosmopolitanism: Reviving the Sense of Place in Uzma Aslam Khan’s Thinner Than Skin
In an era of unprecedented global connectivity and ecological crises, the concept of “place” has been profoundly transformed within post-colonised communities. This study examines how literature, specifically Uzma Aslam Khan’s Thinner Than Skin (2012), as a medium can revive the sense of place, particularly the place sense redefined by the experiences of post-colonial eco-social catastrophes, as a dialogical co-habitation of human-non-human envir…
Precarity and Relational Autonomy in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Americanah
Post-Colonial Disasters and Narratives of Erasure: Reimagining Testimonies of Toxic Encounter
Mainstream media narratives and the official historiography of the 1984 Bhopal Gas Tragedy have overlooked the testimonies of disaster survivors, culturally discounting the authority of witnessing in both scholarly discourse and public arenas. This has left a space for novelists, as writer-activists, to trace the socio-political, economic and ecological injustices of post-colonial disasters like the Bhopal gas leak. Indra Sinha’s Animal’s People …
Forlano, L., & Glabau, D. (2024). Cyborg. The MIT Press Essential Knowledge Series.
Laura Forlano and Danya Glabau’s Cyborg (2024), part of the MIT Press Essential Knowledge Series, situates complex debates surrounding contemporary cyborg studies for nonspecialist readers. By providing a detailed analysis of the challenges faced by the term ‘cyborg’ since its inception, Cyborg presents ‘cyborg-thinking’ as a way forward in confronting our collective technologized present(s). In the Introduction, the cyborg figure emerges as a so…
A Spiritual Journey through Cancer and Beyond: Prayer, Pilgrimage, and Faith in Lisa Ray’s Close to the Bone
This paper examines the efficacy of incorporating spiritual practices, such as prayer and pilgrimages, into patient-centered care to enhance the healing journey of individuals experiencing illness. Using Lisa Ray’s cancer memoir, Close to the Bone (2019), we seek to investigate the impact of spirituality, sacred spaces, and faith on maintaining an individual’s religiosity during times of ailment. Our analysis of the potential salubrious effects o…
Maternal Ambivalence in Avni Doshi’s Burnt Sugar and Zehra Naqvi’s The Reluctant Mother
This article examines the concept of maternal ambivalence in the Indian cultural milieu through a critical analysis of Avni Doshi's Burnt Sugar and Zehra Naqvi's The Reluctant Mother. These novels illustrate how societal glorification of maternal archetypes imposes significant emotional burdens on mothers who defy established norms, leading to inner conflicts laden with guilt, uncertainty, and the struggle to balance personal aspirations with soc…
Reimaging of the Angami collective cultural identity: Kenyü and customary law in the select Angami folktales
Although various studies have focused on the formation of ethnicity in Nagaland, little is known about specific aspects of collective cultural identity derived from the folktales of the Angami tribe. There is a lack of research in understanding the cultural analysis of the forms of kenyü (an Angami expression representing a 'proscription of behaviour'Footnote1) and its role in the wider social process, owing to the folktales as narratives in the …
Communicative Skin: Marginalization, Transformative Identity and Forced Tattoo Narratives in Joyce Carol Oates’ The Tattooed Girl
Postfeminism and artificial intimacy: Exploring human–AI interaction through performance artist Arvida Byström’s encounter with Harmony, the AI sex doll
Masculinity beyond the warrior ‘savage’: (Re)thinking warriors as elite indigenous masculinity in select Angami folktales
A postcolonial feminist representation of motherhood in recent Bollywood sports movies
Interactivity as Cultural Memory: Indigenous knowledge systems and oral traditions in Raji: An Ancient Epic
Interactive digital narratives (IDNs) increasingly function as infrastructures of cultural memory, yet scholarship remains largely centred on Euro-American projects and under-theorises Global South titles that translate Indigenous oral traditions into interactive form. This article examines Raji: An Ancient Epic (Nodding Heads Games 2020) as a paradigmatic Indian IDN that mobilises Indigenous Knowledge Systems (IKS) through commercial game design…
Recalibrating Malignancy through Materialities: (Re)defining Care through Space, Objects and Machines in Lisa Ray’s Close to the Bone
This article examines Lisa Ray’s memoir Close to the Bone (2019) to investigate how everyday objects and spaces within hospitals mediate patients’ experiences of illness and enable the formation of empathetic relationships. The study draws on new materialism, actor-network theory, and theories of care such as Annemarie Mol’s logic of care. This framework enables an analysis of materiality not as a passive backdrop but as an active, relational for…
It’s witchy to want out! Posthuman feminist becoming and speculative liminality in Anvitaa Dutt’s Bulbbul
The article aims to outline the posthuman feminist becoming of the eponymous heroine, Bulbbul in Anvitaa Dutt’s directorial debut film, Bulbbul streaming on Netflix. A gothic re-imagination of the witch figuration in popular discourse, Dutt’s screenplay presents Bulbbul as an assemblage of embodied uncanniness and speculative liminality. In addressing the appalling realities of gender-based violence and patriarchal oppression, the film presents t…
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