Dibyakusum Ray
Biographic Data
| ID | 5723898 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Dibyakusum Ray |
| GIVEN NAMES | Dibyakusum |
| FAMILY NAME | Ray |
| SIGNATURE | RAY D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Indian Institute of Technology Ropar |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9537-3277 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
“Calcutta weighs upon my chest, a cruel stone”
This article examines the representation of postcolonial Calcutta in 1960s–1980s Bengali poetry, emphasizing the evolving relationship between the individual and the urban public. It identifies a shared postcolonial poetics of urbanity among several Calcutta-based poets, primarily associated with the poetry magazine Krttibās, writing during three decades of refugee crisis, mass movements, and political disenchantment. The article shows how 1960s …
“The Goddess Is Singing on a Neem Branch”
At the overlap of Indigenous and religious tradition, ethnomusicology and ecocriticism, this article offers a detailed thematic analysis of Magahi folk songs, an Indigenous oral tradition of Hinduism practiced in the Magadh region of eastern India. Focusing on the theme of harmony between nature and human beings, this article argues that Magahi folk culture provides a unique perspective in modern ecocritical thoughts by answering the recurrent qu…
“…Grey and Cold and Full of Long Shadows”
This paper investigates American urban horror novels from the 1970s to 80s with a specific focus on the theme of alienation. While analysing the specific theme, the paper tracks the nuanced manifestations of neoliberalism-induced greed and exploitation and brings forward a portrait of the evolving urban landscape. Based on the treatment of urban themes in the selected texts, we have divided the paper into two sections: the redemptive arc of the 7…
BR 29/2023-Revised on 29 July 2024-wl-1621-Tracing the Postsecular from the Contemporary to the Past; Postsecular Theory
Postsecular Theory: Texts and Contexts by Shuhita Bhattacharjee, Orient BlackSwan, 2023; pp xiv + 247, ₹ 490
Miles of the rustling secret corn’
This paper investigates the autonomy of Nature in American cosmic horror literature. We have divided the American cosmic horror canon into two parts: the Lovecraftian and the post-millennial. The Lovecraftian phase, prefaced by the texts of Lovecraft himself, posits Nature as a corruptible and subservient entity, subdued by the alien cosmic and redeemed only by a rationalist agent/outsider, focusing on the late-twentieth century texts by Stephen …
From domestic guardian to the national militia
This essay analyzes the theme of domestic anxiety of the Indian middle class in the 1980s through two specific genres of the contemporary popular Hindi films – the family drama and the action adventure. Poised right before the 1990s neoliberal drive in the Indian economy, the 80s middle class – hitherto staid and hermetic – was rattled by an 'invasive' global culture, permissiveness, politics of representation, rights and reform. This paper shows…
Playing it the nation’s way
The generic popularity of Hindi sports films has been overwhelming in recent years. The article examines this genre of Hindi films through the thematic construction of the sports‘man’ and its evolutionary manifestation from a masculine figure symbolising India’s national unitarian ethos to a megalithic, tradition-backed, orthodox patriarchy post-2010s. It elaborates this seemingly linear transformation through decade based phases, starting from t…
Do-re-mi-fa-so-la, it’s not precise”
The Liminal in a Diptych
This paper compares two certain sections in the musical career of Bob Dylan and Kabir Suman to look at a possible ideological heredity--1963-65 | 1993-97--these two timelines had established Dylan and Suman in their iconic status. My argument is that there is a liminal tradition--in four separate lyrics by the two composers--that transcends their geo-temporal boundaries. Dylan's four songs-"Blowin' in the Wind", "Tambourine Man", "Farewell Angeli…
The Mute, the Stoic and the Rebel
This article attempts to trace the gradual 'otherification' of non-human entity, particularly animals, in Continental theory. This article would also explore how after presupposing the concept of subject as a human, with animals acting as "alive but no more" with no part in making judgments, Continental theory takes a turn. Levinas conceptualizes animals as "delightful" dociles facilitating human self-definition. Conversely, Derrida problematizes…
Playing it the nation’s way
The generic popularity of Hindi sports films has been overwhelming in recent years. The article examines this genre of Hindi films through the thematic construction of the sports‘man’ and its evolutionary manifestation from a masculine figure symbolising India’s national unitarian ethos to a megalithic, tradition-backed, orthodox patriarchy post-2010s. It elaborates this seemingly linear transformation through decade based phases, starting from t…
The Mute, the Stoic and the Rebel
This article attempts to trace the gradual 'otherification' of non-human entity, particularly animals, in Continental theory. This article would also explore how after presupposing the concept of subject as a human, with animals acting as "alive but no more" with no part in making judgments, Continental theory takes a turn. Levinas conceptualizes animals as "delightful" dociles facilitating human self-definition. Conversely, Derrida problematizes…
The Liminal in a Diptych
This paper compares two certain sections in the musical career of Bob Dylan and Kabir Suman to look at a possible ideological heredity--1963-65 | 1993-97--these two timelines had established Dylan and Suman in their iconic status. My argument is that there is a liminal tradition--in four separate lyrics by the two composers--that transcends their geo-temporal boundaries. Dylan's four songs-"Blowin' in the Wind", "Tambourine Man", "Farewell Angeli…
Do-re-mi-fa-so-la, it’s not precise”
Playing it the nation’s way
The generic popularity of Hindi sports films has been overwhelming in recent years. The article examines this genre of Hindi films through the thematic construction of the sports‘man’ and its evolutionary manifestation from a masculine figure symbolising India’s national unitarian ethos to a megalithic, tradition-backed, orthodox patriarchy post-2010s. It elaborates this seemingly linear transformation through decade based phases, starting from t…
Miles of the rustling secret corn’
This paper investigates the autonomy of Nature in American cosmic horror literature. We have divided the American cosmic horror canon into two parts: the Lovecraftian and the post-millennial. The Lovecraftian phase, prefaced by the texts of Lovecraft himself, posits Nature as a corruptible and subservient entity, subdued by the alien cosmic and redeemed only by a rationalist agent/outsider, focusing on the late-twentieth century texts by Stephen …
From domestic guardian to the national militia
This essay analyzes the theme of domestic anxiety of the Indian middle class in the 1980s through two specific genres of the contemporary popular Hindi films – the family drama and the action adventure. Poised right before the 1990s neoliberal drive in the Indian economy, the 80s middle class – hitherto staid and hermetic – was rattled by an 'invasive' global culture, permissiveness, politics of representation, rights and reform. This paper shows…
“…Grey and Cold and Full of Long Shadows”
This paper investigates American urban horror novels from the 1970s to 80s with a specific focus on the theme of alienation. While analysing the specific theme, the paper tracks the nuanced manifestations of neoliberalism-induced greed and exploitation and brings forward a portrait of the evolving urban landscape. Based on the treatment of urban themes in the selected texts, we have divided the paper into two sections: the redemptive arc of the 7…
BR 29/2023-Revised on 29 July 2024-wl-1621-Tracing the Postsecular from the Contemporary to the Past; Postsecular Theory
Postsecular Theory: Texts and Contexts by Shuhita Bhattacharjee, Orient BlackSwan, 2023; pp xiv + 247, ₹ 490
“Calcutta weighs upon my chest, a cruel stone”
This article examines the representation of postcolonial Calcutta in 1960s–1980s Bengali poetry, emphasizing the evolving relationship between the individual and the urban public. It identifies a shared postcolonial poetics of urbanity among several Calcutta-based poets, primarily associated with the poetry magazine Krttibās, writing during three decades of refugee crisis, mass movements, and political disenchantment. The article shows how 1960s …
“The Goddess Is Singing on a Neem Branch”
At the overlap of Indigenous and religious tradition, ethnomusicology and ecocriticism, this article offers a detailed thematic analysis of Magahi folk songs, an Indigenous oral tradition of Hinduism practiced in the Magadh region of eastern India. Focusing on the theme of harmony between nature and human beings, this article argues that Magahi folk culture provides a unique perspective in modern ecocritical thoughts by answering the recurrent qu…
Art (4 works) · Literature (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · History (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Art history (2 works) · Bengali (2 works)