Maya Vinai
Biographic Data
| ID | 5156854 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Maya Vinai |
| GIVEN NAMES | Maya |
| FAMILY NAME | Vinai |
| SIGNATURE | VINAI M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Birla Institute of Technology and Science - Hyderabad Campus |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5217-9645 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Crafting the Divine Ship
The Malabar coastline in present-day southwestern India is renowned for its maritime heritage and its indigenous shipbuilding traditions. Much of what is currently known about shipbuilding in this region’s past is garnered from European documents, marine archaeology, and excavations of ancient ports. This article adds to this knowledge by consulting centuries-old performative traditions and folklore. Specifically, we examine the Thottam of Marakk…
A Migrant’s Perspective on the Middle East
A Comparative Study of Hunger and Satiation of Hunger in the Literary Works of M.T. Vasudevan Nair and Perumal Murugan
The ‘presence’ and ‘absence’ of food, has been an oft-deliberated topic right from the Palaeolithic Age in India. Starting from the Bhimbetka Rock paintings to the famous Raja Ravi Varma’s paintings to Nandlal’s artworks depicting the famine and drain of economy due to the imperial greed in Bengal - all of which depict the creative artist’s and writer’s colossal engagement with hunger and satiation of hunger. Likewise, several fiction writers hav…
A Postcolonial Reading of Donald Sinderby’s The Jewel of Malabar
Several historical accounts of colonialists’ entanglements in Malabar have been recorded. Colonialist historiography aimed to popularize the achievements of Europeans stationed in the empire. The representation of European characters in The Jewel of Malabar , a novel published in 1927 by the English soldier and writer Donald Ryder Stephens under the pen name Donald Sinderby, accepts the colonizers’ righteous intent of introducing Western culture …
Revisiting Sir Robert Bristow's ‘India’
Sir Robert Bristow, popularly called Bristow Sahib, is recognized as a path-breaker in the field of port construction in the historical consciousness and cultural imaginary of the people of Kerala, the southernmost state of India. His memoir, Cochin Saga, published in 1959, records both his professional experiences as a harbour engineer and his personal reminiscences as a British resident posted in Cochin. Maritime scholarship has paid scant atte…
Health and Healing
During the early 19th century, health and medical care was one of the avenues of contestations whereby the British Raj sought to establish their hegemony. With the introduction of western epistemic framework, allopathic medicine became the official medical system of British India. Licenses, charters, permits and acts, colonial hospitals and doctors came together to disparage the indigenous system of medicine and healthcare. Assailed as using “uns…
Negotiating Faith and Culture
Banaras has forever remained an enchanting place since millennia. If the colonial era pinned down, Banaras as an exotic site for theology and spirituality; the post-colonial era has witnessed the de-mystification process of legends and beliefs associated with Banaras. However, every time Banaras is bracketed, a new facet emerges. This paper presents two contesting visions of Banaras and also the argument that; there can be no absolute version of …
Re-Mapping the Anxieties of the Gulf Diaspora
Kerala, a southern state heavily influenced by communist ideologies until recently, had a lurking fascination for the Gulf and its diaspora. Eighty-eight per cent of the Malayalis who migrated to the Middle East from Kerala, went on to become cultural icons at home, the most sought after bridegrooms and the patriotic NRI's who contributed generously to the development of Kerala. This paper focuses on the narrative strategies that Benyamin employs…
Re-Mapping the Anxieties of the Gulf Diaspora
Kerala, a southern state heavily influenced by communist ideologies until recently, had a lurking fascination for the Gulf and its diaspora. Eighty-eight per cent of the Malayalis who migrated to the Middle East from Kerala, went on to become cultural icons at home, the most sought after bridegrooms and the patriotic NRI's who contributed generously to the development of Kerala. This paper focuses on the narrative strategies that Benyamin employs…
Re-Mapping the Anxieties of the Gulf Diaspora
Kerala, a southern state heavily influenced by communist ideologies until recently, had a lurking fascination for the Gulf and its diaspora. Eighty-eight per cent of the Malayalis who migrated to the Middle East from Kerala, went on to become cultural icons at home, the most sought after bridegrooms and the patriotic NRI's who contributed generously to the development of Kerala. This paper focuses on the narrative strategies that Benyamin employs…
Negotiating Faith and Culture
Banaras has forever remained an enchanting place since millennia. If the colonial era pinned down, Banaras as an exotic site for theology and spirituality; the post-colonial era has witnessed the de-mystification process of legends and beliefs associated with Banaras. However, every time Banaras is bracketed, a new facet emerges. This paper presents two contesting visions of Banaras and also the argument that; there can be no absolute version of …
Health and Healing
During the early 19th century, health and medical care was one of the avenues of contestations whereby the British Raj sought to establish their hegemony. With the introduction of western epistemic framework, allopathic medicine became the official medical system of British India. Licenses, charters, permits and acts, colonial hospitals and doctors came together to disparage the indigenous system of medicine and healthcare. Assailed as using “uns…
A Postcolonial Reading of Donald Sinderby’s The Jewel of Malabar
Several historical accounts of colonialists’ entanglements in Malabar have been recorded. Colonialist historiography aimed to popularize the achievements of Europeans stationed in the empire. The representation of European characters in The Jewel of Malabar , a novel published in 1927 by the English soldier and writer Donald Ryder Stephens under the pen name Donald Sinderby, accepts the colonizers’ righteous intent of introducing Western culture …
Revisiting Sir Robert Bristow's ‘India’
Sir Robert Bristow, popularly called Bristow Sahib, is recognized as a path-breaker in the field of port construction in the historical consciousness and cultural imaginary of the people of Kerala, the southernmost state of India. His memoir, Cochin Saga, published in 1959, records both his professional experiences as a harbour engineer and his personal reminiscences as a British resident posted in Cochin. Maritime scholarship has paid scant atte…
A Comparative Study of Hunger and Satiation of Hunger in the Literary Works of M.T. Vasudevan Nair and Perumal Murugan
The ‘presence’ and ‘absence’ of food, has been an oft-deliberated topic right from the Palaeolithic Age in India. Starting from the Bhimbetka Rock paintings to the famous Raja Ravi Varma’s paintings to Nandlal’s artworks depicting the famine and drain of economy due to the imperial greed in Bengal - all of which depict the creative artist’s and writer’s colossal engagement with hunger and satiation of hunger. Likewise, several fiction writers hav…
A Migrant’s Perspective on the Middle East
Crafting the Divine Ship
The Malabar coastline in present-day southwestern India is renowned for its maritime heritage and its indigenous shipbuilding traditions. Much of what is currently known about shipbuilding in this region’s past is garnered from European documents, marine archaeology, and excavations of ancient ports. This article adds to this knowledge by consulting centuries-old performative traditions and folklore. Specifically, we examine the Thottam of Marakk…
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