ISSN 2321-8274 Indian Journal of Comparative Literature and Translation Studies Volume 1, Number 1 September, 2013 Editors Mrinmoy Pramanick Md. Intaj Ali Published By IJCLTS is an online open access journal published by Mrinmoy Pramanick Md. Intaj Ali And this journal is available at https://sites.google.com/site/indjournalofclts/home Copy Right: Editors reserve all the rights for further publication. These papers cannot be published further in any form without editors’ written permission. Advisory Committee Prof. Avadhesh Kumar Singh, Director, School of Translation Studies and Training, Indira Gandhi National Open University, New Delhi Prof Tutun Mukherjee, Professor, Centre for Comparative Literature, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh Editor Mrinmoy Pramanick Md. Intaj Ali Co-Editor Rindon Kundu Saswati Saha Nisha Kutty Board of Editors (Board of Editors includes Editors and Co-Editors) -Dr. Ami U Upadhyay, Professor of English, Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Open University, Ahamedabad, India - Dr. Rabindranath Sarma, Associate Professor, Centre for Tribal Folk Lore, Language and Literature, Central University of Jharkhand, India - Dr. Ujjwal Jana, Assistant Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Pondicherry University, India - Dr. Sarbojit Biswas, Assitant Professor of English, Borjora College, Bankura, India and Visiting Research Fellow, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia - Dr. Hashik N K, Assistant Professor, Department of Cultural Studies, Tezpur University, India - Dr. K. V. Ragupathi, Assistant Professor, English, Central University of Tamilnadu, India - Dr. Neha Arora, Assistant Professor of English, Central University of Rajasthan, India - Mr. Amit Soni, Assistant Professor, Department of Tribal Arts, Indira Gandhi National Tribal University, Amarkantak, M.P., India AND Vice-President, Museums Association of India (MAI) - Mr. Jagdeep Oraon, Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology and Tribal Studies, Sidho-Kanho-Birsa University, Purulia, India - Mr. Kalyan Das, Assistant Professor of English, Presidency University, Kolkata, India - Mr. Rakesh Ramamoorthy, Assistant Professor, English, Mar Ivanios College, Kerala, India - Mr. Arnab Dutta, Comparative Literature, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India - Mr. Satyabrata Acharya, Project Fellow, CR and SS Research Program, UGC-UPE II, School of Media, Communication and Culture, Jadavpur University, Kolkata - Mr. Ram .B. Bhise, Assistant Professor of English, Saraswati College of Engineering, Mumbai, India Indian Journal of Comparative literature and translation studies Editorial With hearts full of anticipation and trepidation, we, the editorial team, present to the researchers all across the world the first ever volume of Indian Journal for Comparative literature and Translation Studies. This journal, independently planned and executed by a group of researchers, without the support of any institution, is a non-profit making step towards serious research in the fields of comparative literature and translation studies. We want to establish this journal as a statement against the rampant profit-making and fraudulent practices of publishers that has brought down the overall standard of the published research works, making not the arguments made but the money to be paid the deciding factor. Publishing a journal that can cater to the researchers all over the world is undoubtedly an exciting job, but it demands immense skill of organizing the events, speaking to the experts in the field and set the balls rolling. But the pace at which the events have taken place and the overwhelming response it has got from the enthusiastic researchers all over the nation has amazed us. That the articles have been received from every nook and corner of the country is evident from the diverse topics of comparativism and translation that each of them had taken up. The first volume of Indian Journal for Comparative literature and Translation Studies does not have a particular theme but an array of articles on various aspects of comparative literature, un-treaded terrains of translation studies, along with some works of practical translation. We hope that our journal will serve as medium through which new voices in the world of research in comparative literature and translation studies will be able to ventilate their arguments, opinions and theories. The response that we received and the number of articles dropped in our mail box will hopefully increase with time and that will serve as the fodder of our sustenance. We heartily thank all those contributors, reviewers and enthusiasts who have made the publication possible and expect them to be with us as the caravan of Indian Journal for Comparative literature and Translation Studies proceeds further in its journey and picks more co-travellers. -Board of Editors Volume 1, Number 1, September 2013 Indian Journal of Comparative Literature and Translation Studies CONTENT Section I 1. A. Mariappan - Social Change in "A Saga of South Kamrup" Page 1-8 2. Simon Gautam - Female Persona at Issue with Malecentric Structures Across Cultures Page 9-22 3. Ramona L. Ceciu - Margins, Cultural Self and Literary Relations: A Case of Romanian and Indian Cultures Page 23-40 4. Abdullah Abdul Hameed - Linguistic Interfaces and Inter-Literary Relationships: Rethinking Arabimalayalam Page 41-52 5. Lopamudra Maitra - Indian Folk Lore and the Three Worlds of Experiences: A New Theory to Understand 'Learning' from Folk Lore in Modern Audio Visual Media for Children Page 53 - 75 6. Srijeeta Mitra- The Politics of Power: A Study of Gender and Sexuality in the Short Stories by Ismat Chughtai Page 76 - 88 7. Shuva Ranjan Sinhababu- Nationalism and Family Across Two Centuries: Debi Chowdhurani and The Shadow Lines Page 89 - 99 8. Shaweta Nanda- Voicing the Margins: Uncovering Women's Hidden Experience of the Partition through Literatures in Translation Page 100 - 111 9. R. Vennela- Parameters and Politics of Anthologizing 20th Century Women Writers in Telugu Page 112 - 121 10. Proggya Ghatak- Continuity and Development in the Folk Tradition of Savaras of West Bengal: A Case Study of Sitala Worship Page 122 - 130 11. Bhagyalakshmi Mohan- The Politics of Representation: ReadingDeshadanakkili Karayarilla and Sancharam as "Conventional Movies" Page 131 - 143 12. Viswas Viswam- Wanna Be My Chammak Challo? A Commentary on the 'New Age' Bollywood Heroine Page 144 - 158 Section II 13. Amitendu Bhattacharya- Five Poems of Shambhunath Chattopadhyay, Translated from Original Bengali Page 159 - 162 14. Ravi Kumbar- Translation from Ramesh Aroli's Collection Name the New Born Sin as You Please in Kannada Page 163 - 168 15. Nisha Kutty- Shakti Chattopadhyay's Abani Bari Achho, translation from Original Bengal Page 169 16. Bhanumati Mishra- The Stranger a translation of Mohan Rakesh's Hindi Story Aparichit from original Hindi Page 170 - 178 17. Nida Sajid-The Guilty a translation of Jeelani Bano's short story Mujrim, from Original Urdu Page 179 - 185 Section III 1. Rindon Kundu- International Autumn Translation School: A Report Page 186 - 192 Our Contributors Page 193-194 1 Indian Journal of Comparative Literature and Translation Studies Social Change in “A Saga of South Kamrup” - A. Mariappan A Saga of South Kamrup is an English rendering of the novel Une Khowa Howda (Meaning: Worm-Eaten Howdah of a Tusker) written in Assamese by Indra Goswami and published in the year 1987. Thus the (English translation of the) novel bear two titles: A Saga of South Kamrup (published by Sahitya Akademi) and Worm-eatern Howdah of a Dusker.(published by Rupa). As the title of the novel signifies, it has a vast panorama; a long social history of South Kamrup. Though the novel is centered round the Sattra of Amaranga and the family of its Gossain in particular, it is the story of all Sattras and the family of all Gossains of South Kamrup. The tusker and ‘howdah’ are the signifiers of power and wealth respectively; the death of the tusker and the termite-ridden howdah further signify the fall of the Sattra institutions and its Gossains. Thus the title is the symbolical expression of the theme of the novel. This transformation takes place in front of the eye of the author-narrator who belongs to the Gossain family. This is the story of her forefathers. The decadence and fall of the Gossain family in a new socio, economic and political situation deeply affects her creative sensibility. She has empathy for the family in its simultaneous struggle for life and futile effort to assert its power and spent-up force; and yet as one who also sees the limitations of the family to survive in the new age with its new ethos, she sees the inevitability of the fall of such a family. Thus, as mentioned by Dr Gobinda Prasad Sharma “the novel is an elegy on the fall of an age-old, well- established family bearing the old tradition. At the same time, the novel shows the on-going irresistible socio, economic forces that are going to wipe out the old feudal and religious social order” (1994:59). Besides, though the novel expresses all the pathos and pains of the old family of pomp and power quite appealingly, yet at the same time, it also comes out to be a strong Volume 1, Number 1 ,September, 2013 (IJCLTS) ISSN:2321-8274 https://sites.google.com/site/indjournalofclts/ 2 critique of the old religious tradition- the tragedy of which it sings of. This ambivalence in the theme of the novel suggests the depth of the outlook of the novelist in life and society. As mentioned, the novel portrays the long history of the social reality spanning a century and half from the early 19th century to the year of India’s independence (1948). It is a novel of social realism. The realism of the novel is further enriched with a strong regional flavor. Moreover, she has also brought into the narration certain real aspects of the socio-economic and political incidents of the time and region. One such reality is the opium addiction of the people during late forties and early fifties of last century.