K Karthika
Biographic Data
| ID | 68376 |
|---|---|
| NAME | K Karthika |
| GIVEN NAMES | K |
| FAMILY NAME | Karthika |
| SIGNATURE | KARTHIKA K |
| AFFILIATIONS | National Institute of Technology Tiruchirappalli |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6335-1153 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 16 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Healing patterns
Kolam is a visual art form traditionally practised by Hindu women in the South Indian state of Tamil Nadu. It is drawn on the thresholds of homes and lasts only for a short time. Its designs are repeated daily, created through the hands and movements of the practitioners. This article examines how this culturally embedded visual practice shapes practitioners’ embodied experiences of artistic engagement. Drawing on the frameworks of flow theory, s…
Exploring the impact of AI feedback in academic writing self-assessment
This study investigates how artificial intelligence (AI) feedback enhances self-assessment and the development of academic writing skills. While many studies have focused on AI's role in assessments from the teacher's perspective, such as developing assignments, automated grading, and providing personalised feedback to learners, this study documents the researchers’ perspectives in reflecting and self-assessing their academic writing and research…
Ritual, modernity, and gendered identities in artistic expression
Art, a conduit for cultural expression, often dissolves the boundaries between ritualistic and secular conventions. The sacral art Kolam, traditionally practised by the South Indian Hindu women of Tamil Nadu, represents an intersection of ritual, modernity, and gendered expressions. Made with rice flour or kolam powderFootnote1 at thresholds to symbolise auspiciousness, kolam presently incorporates modern materials like stick-ons and paints, prom…
Climate action in a language classroom
Purpose This study aims to introduce how climate action is integrated into language classrooms using a posthuman-borderless pedagogy. It presents a case study demonstrating how sustainability issues can be integrated into higher education to enhance students’ awareness of climate change while addressing the linguistic and communication objectives given in the curriculum. This research examines how learners of an English for Specific Purposes cour…
Developing a Framework of Peace Integrated Constructive Communication for English Language Classrooms
This paper reports the first cycle of an action research in an English for Specific Purposes (ESP) classroom, which examined the causes of aggressive communication and explored how integrating Social Emotional Learning (SEL) and Peace Linguistics (PL) promotes communicative peace. Sixty voluntary participants engaged in a structured intervention involving discussions, observations, and self-reflection reports, followed by immediate and delayed po…
Childhood, Militancy, and Resistance
The Politics of Performance in Parsi Theatre; Pure Entertainment
Pure Entertainment: Parsi Theatre, Gender, and Performance by Kathryn Hansen, New Delhi: Primus Books, 2024; pp xxi + 449, ₹1495
Wl-1005-Interfaith Dialogue and Cultural Syncretism in Arnos Pathiri’s Puthen Pana
The Jesuit polymath John Ernest Hanxleden (1681–1732), a master of Sanskrit and Malayalam, created works that bridged Indian and Western tradThe Jesuit polymath John Ernest Hanxleden (1681–1732), a master of Sanskrit and Malayalam, created works that bridged Indian and Western traditions while addressing social inequalities and ushering in cultural integration. Understanding the potential harm in the growing alienation between Kerala Christians a…
Game-based tasks in a ‘speaking classroom
Games are used as effective pedagogical tools in language classrooms. Gamifying language tasks can motivate learners to actively participate in the learning process. Probing how games in English language classrooms enable rhizomatic learning, this research study explores how the use of collaborative drawing, elements of gamification, and improvisation function as agents for rhizomatic learning. The study also attempts to find the pedagogical impl…
Tracing patterns of power
Kolam, traditionally practised by Hindu women of the South Indian state of Tamil Nadu, represents a unique intersection of ritual, artistic practice, and gendered expression that involves the creation of intricate patterns using rice flour at the thresholds of homes, symbolizing auspiciousness and spirituality. The study explores the construction of femininity in kolam practice and how the artistic performance of kolam is linked to women’s gender…
Homes that house precarity
This visual essay, analysing a series of photographs curated by Indian photographer K.R. Sunil, explores how climate change leads to human precarity, triggering feelings of economic, psychological, and cultural displacement akin to a sense of homelessness. The series titled 'Home' strings the photographs, taken from the shorelines of the south Indian state Kerala, of houses on the seashore which are destroyed by the rage of the waters. These blac…
From Belief to Inquiry
Fostering a scientific mindset and enhancing critical thinking abilities stands as the fundamental aim of education. If educators overlook engrained stereotypes and superstitions within students, the cultivation of progressive and unbiased thinking becomes challenging. Put differently, the pursuit of knowledge risks futility without a foundation of objective thought and action, while socially and emotionally being connected to the world. This ess…
Challenges in Remote ESL Learning in Under-resourced Language Classrooms
This study investigated the challenges encountered by English language educators, during the COVID-19 pandemic, who taught the learners of state-government schools in Tamil Nadu, India. The language teachers encountered several difficulties as the learners had no exposure to the second language (L2) other than the traditional classroom environment. The potential government responses to the learning loss as a result of the pandemic were examined i…
Feminist Thoughts of Progressive Thinker Bharathi
Feminism is about the liberation of women. For ages, women have been trapped and enslaved in a patriarchal society without the right to even think for themselves. They are being oppressed. They are being crushed and staged all the time. From the family to the country, it is considered secondary. Bharathiyar was shocked to see these atrocities and plight. He was a free revolutionary. He, a mundasu kavi (a poet identified by wearing a turban), was …
Mapping Caste Violence in the Domestic Front
Conservative modes of representation of the Dalit lives and the caste questions in Malayalam cinema used to adhere to the stereotypical portrayal of caste-based violence as a tool to evoke pity, fear or laughter. However, recent movies emphasise the revolt of the subaltern both in personal and public domains of discourse. This paper attempts to analyse two recent Malayalam films, Puzhu (the Worm) and Malayankunju (The Malaya Child) released in 20…
Historian and Story-Teller
Challenges in Remote ESL Learning in Under-resourced Language Classrooms
This study investigated the challenges encountered by English language educators, during the COVID-19 pandemic, who taught the learners of state-government schools in Tamil Nadu, India. The language teachers encountered several difficulties as the learners had no exposure to the second language (L2) other than the traditional classroom environment. The potential government responses to the learning loss as a result of the pandemic were examined i…
Historian and Story-Teller
Feminist Thoughts of Progressive Thinker Bharathi
Feminism is about the liberation of women. For ages, women have been trapped and enslaved in a patriarchal society without the right to even think for themselves. They are being oppressed. They are being crushed and staged all the time. From the family to the country, it is considered secondary. Bharathiyar was shocked to see these atrocities and plight. He was a free revolutionary. He, a mundasu kavi (a poet identified by wearing a turban), was …
Mapping Caste Violence in the Domestic Front
Conservative modes of representation of the Dalit lives and the caste questions in Malayalam cinema used to adhere to the stereotypical portrayal of caste-based violence as a tool to evoke pity, fear or laughter. However, recent movies emphasise the revolt of the subaltern both in personal and public domains of discourse. This paper attempts to analyse two recent Malayalam films, Puzhu (the Worm) and Malayankunju (The Malaya Child) released in 20…
Challenges in Remote ESL Learning in Under-resourced Language Classrooms
This study investigated the challenges encountered by English language educators, during the COVID-19 pandemic, who taught the learners of state-government schools in Tamil Nadu, India. The language teachers encountered several difficulties as the learners had no exposure to the second language (L2) other than the traditional classroom environment. The potential government responses to the learning loss as a result of the pandemic were examined i…
From Belief to Inquiry
Fostering a scientific mindset and enhancing critical thinking abilities stands as the fundamental aim of education. If educators overlook engrained stereotypes and superstitions within students, the cultivation of progressive and unbiased thinking becomes challenging. Put differently, the pursuit of knowledge risks futility without a foundation of objective thought and action, while socially and emotionally being connected to the world. This ess…
Climate action in a language classroom
Purpose This study aims to introduce how climate action is integrated into language classrooms using a posthuman-borderless pedagogy. It presents a case study demonstrating how sustainability issues can be integrated into higher education to enhance students’ awareness of climate change while addressing the linguistic and communication objectives given in the curriculum. This research examines how learners of an English for Specific Purposes cour…
Developing a Framework of Peace Integrated Constructive Communication for English Language Classrooms
This paper reports the first cycle of an action research in an English for Specific Purposes (ESP) classroom, which examined the causes of aggressive communication and explored how integrating Social Emotional Learning (SEL) and Peace Linguistics (PL) promotes communicative peace. Sixty voluntary participants engaged in a structured intervention involving discussions, observations, and self-reflection reports, followed by immediate and delayed po…
Childhood, Militancy, and Resistance
The Politics of Performance in Parsi Theatre; Pure Entertainment
Pure Entertainment: Parsi Theatre, Gender, and Performance by Kathryn Hansen, New Delhi: Primus Books, 2024; pp xxi + 449, ₹1495
Wl-1005-Interfaith Dialogue and Cultural Syncretism in Arnos Pathiri’s Puthen Pana
The Jesuit polymath John Ernest Hanxleden (1681–1732), a master of Sanskrit and Malayalam, created works that bridged Indian and Western tradThe Jesuit polymath John Ernest Hanxleden (1681–1732), a master of Sanskrit and Malayalam, created works that bridged Indian and Western traditions while addressing social inequalities and ushering in cultural integration. Understanding the potential harm in the growing alienation between Kerala Christians a…
Game-based tasks in a ‘speaking classroom
Games are used as effective pedagogical tools in language classrooms. Gamifying language tasks can motivate learners to actively participate in the learning process. Probing how games in English language classrooms enable rhizomatic learning, this research study explores how the use of collaborative drawing, elements of gamification, and improvisation function as agents for rhizomatic learning. The study also attempts to find the pedagogical impl…
Tracing patterns of power
Kolam, traditionally practised by Hindu women of the South Indian state of Tamil Nadu, represents a unique intersection of ritual, artistic practice, and gendered expression that involves the creation of intricate patterns using rice flour at the thresholds of homes, symbolizing auspiciousness and spirituality. The study explores the construction of femininity in kolam practice and how the artistic performance of kolam is linked to women’s gender…
Homes that house precarity
This visual essay, analysing a series of photographs curated by Indian photographer K.R. Sunil, explores how climate change leads to human precarity, triggering feelings of economic, psychological, and cultural displacement akin to a sense of homelessness. The series titled 'Home' strings the photographs, taken from the shorelines of the south Indian state Kerala, of houses on the seashore which are destroyed by the rage of the waters. These blac…
Healing patterns
Kolam is a visual art form traditionally practised by Hindu women in the South Indian state of Tamil Nadu. It is drawn on the thresholds of homes and lasts only for a short time. Its designs are repeated daily, created through the hands and movements of the practitioners. This article examines how this culturally embedded visual practice shapes practitioners’ embodied experiences of artistic engagement. Drawing on the frameworks of flow theory, s…
Exploring the impact of AI feedback in academic writing self-assessment
This study investigates how artificial intelligence (AI) feedback enhances self-assessment and the development of academic writing skills. While many studies have focused on AI's role in assessments from the teacher's perspective, such as developing assignments, automated grading, and providing personalised feedback to learners, this study documents the researchers’ perspectives in reflecting and self-assessing their academic writing and research…
Ritual, modernity, and gendered identities in artistic expression
Art, a conduit for cultural expression, often dissolves the boundaries between ritualistic and secular conventions. The sacral art Kolam, traditionally practised by the South Indian Hindu women of Tamil Nadu, represents an intersection of ritual, modernity, and gendered expressions. Made with rice flour or kolam powderFootnote1 at thresholds to symbolise auspiciousness, kolam presently incorporates modern materials like stick-ons and paints, prom…
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