ISSN: 0970-2830 Vol. 33, No. 2 July - December 2020 “Abstracated and Indexed in EBSCO Host” USA Articles: 1-113 1. Derridean Deconstruction in the Short Stories of Manoj Das 1-9 by Santosh K. Padhy P 2. Quest for Divine Love: A Transcendental Expedition of 10-16 O Paramhansa Yogananda by Vibha Agrawal E T 3. Spiritual Nationalism of Sri Aurobindo and M. K. Gandhi 17-29 C by K. V. Raghupathi R I T 4. Magnanimity of an Indian Saint: The Portrait of an Apostle of God: 30-39 by R. K Mishra l 5. The Achievement of the Poet - Sukrita Paul Kumar 40-48 by VVB Rama Rao V O 6. Manas Bakshi's Poetic Concern for Human Relation: An Overview 49-56 L . 3 POETCRIT by K. Rajamouly 3 , 7. Exploration of Humanistic Insight in the Poetry of Jayanta ... 57-63 N Vol. 33 No. 2 July - December, 2020 by Mrinal K Das O . 8. Interview with Poet R.K. Singh 64-68 2 , by Basudhara Roy J 9. Suman Shekhar Talks to DC Chambial 69-73 U L by DC Chambial Y - 10. The 'Holy Constitution', Corruption and Liberation in ... 74-78 D by Queen Sarkar E C 11. SEGREGATION: Aesthetic Creation far away from ... 79-84 E by SC Pande M B 12. Stranger Than Fiction: An Explication 85-86 E R. C. Mukhopadhyaya R 2 13. Protest and Reaction – the Pathological Remedies in the ... 87-92 0 2 by Twishampati D 0 14. Brief critiques on Scents and Shadows and Two Indias and ... 93-98 by PCK Prem Review Articles 15. Tinh Lang (Silence) by Mai Van Phan by Manas Bakshi 99-102 16. The Fire of Hunger by Sulakshna Sharma 103-107 Prints Publications Pvt Ltd A Point of View New Delhi 17. On the Art of Poetry by PCK Prem 108-113 POEMS for July, 2020 114-193 Foreign: Cameron Hindrum, Kurt F. Svatek, Robert Best, Ruth Wildes Schular, Suparna Ghosh. Varsha Vijay. India :Aju Mukhopadhyay, Alexander Raju, BC Dwibedy, Binod Mishra, Bipin Patsani, Byomkesh Dwivedi, Dalip Khetarpal, H. Tulsi, H.S. Bhatia, Hemanta Pramanik, HK Mahanta, Jayanta Bhattacharya, Jaydeep Sarangi, K.V. Dominic, K. Rajamouly, Khirod Malik, Manas Bakshi, Naresh Mandal, O. P. Arora, PCK Prem, Ram Sharma, Rajiv Khandelwal, RK Singh, Ranjana S. Sinha, R. Venkataramana, Sagar Mal Gupta, SA Hamid, SK Kurodi, SL Peeran, Saroj Padhy, SP Chotray, Suresh C Dwivedy, Suresh C Pande, S Padmapriya, TV Reddy, U Atreya Sarma, Y. Kambar. [37 poets] Poems in Translation: Birbhadra Karkidholi, C. Narayana Reddy, Suman Shekhar. [3 poets] REVIEWED for July, 2020 195-245 Farewell Ring and Other Stories by TV Reddy; The River Flows Eternally by OP Arora ; To My Mother by Alexander Raju, The Mountain is Calling by K.V. Raghupathi, Tainted with Prayers by RK Singh, Songs of Sonority by DC Chambial, What Now Words by Jayshree Misra Tripathi, The Sun Still Shines by OP Arora, Smart Child, & Post Gandian Days by K. Rajamouly, Feminine Fragrance by Poonam Dwivedi, Heart Raining the Lights by Jaydeep Sarangi, Renaissance of Nativity ed. by Binod Mishra & NK Sharma, Glass House by SL Peeran, Man of Seventh Hour ed. by Dalip Khetarpal, Poetical Sensibility of KV Dominic ed. RC Muphopadhyaya, Moon in My Teacup by Basudhara Roy, Mist in Shades by Vishal Khullar. Reviewers for July, 2020 Manas Bakshi, Melkie Admassu, V V B Rama Rao, Varsha Vijay, Robert Best, H S Bhatia, S A Hamid, U Atreya Sarma, Patricia Prime, Sulakshna Sharma, Arti Chandel, DC Chambial. Santosh Kumar Padhy Derridean Deconstruction in the Short Stories of Manoj Das Jacques Derrida born of Jackie Élie Derrida on July 15, 1930 is an Algerian-born French philosopher best known for developing a form of semiotic analysis known as deconstruction, which he discussed in numerous texts, and developed in the context of phenomenology. His critique of Western philosophy and analyses of the nature of language, writing, and meaning were highly controversial yet immensely influential in much of the intellectual world in the late 20th century, whose theory of deconstruction gives us new insights into the meaning of language and aesthetic value and who is virtually connected to every area of humanistic scholarship and artistic activity in the latter part of the 20th century that provides a new feeling of the influence. He died at the age of 74 from pancreatic cancer on October 9, 2004. “Deconstruction”, the word, which he transforms from a rare French term to a common expression in many languages, becomes a part of the vocabulary not only of philosophers and literary theorists but also of architects, theologians, artists, political theorists, educationists, music critics, filmmakers, lawyers, and historians. Resistance to his thinking, too, is also widespread, which sometimes seems to be bitter as it is a challenged word in the academic norms and at other times used as a common sense for which the name appears more frequently in books, journals, lectures, and common-room conversations during the last thirty years than that of any other theorist and thinker. For the subject of films, cartoons, rock song, and journalism what he has contributed is some of the most formidably difficult philosophical works of his time. For literature, if he is remembered in future centuries, it is surely to be for his contributions to our understanding of language, meaning, identity, ethical decisions, and aesthetic values. This paper intends to compare and contrast the short stories of Manoj Das in terms of Derridean deconstruction in which deconstruction is neither a construction nor a destruction rather a reconstruction – a new kind of construction, which is a need and necessity of ultimatum time and literature. Two other aspects are examined in this paper that how the eastern phenomenon is found rare and unique for a decent living all over the globe that rejects the western philosophy all the time. On the other hand, to Derrida, to deconstruct is to read the unread, to think the unthought, to cover the uncovered, and to explore the unexplored which is in other words – close reading, deep thought and feeling for a better life what Manoj Das in his stories shows more relevant for the present society. Dr. Santosh K. Padhy (b. 1967). Completed his Ph.D. in 2005, an MRP Sanctioned by UGC, Kolkata in 2007 and a Major Research Project sanctioned by UGC, New Delhi. Has authored Home as Metaphor, The Home-Bound Vision, Ecofeminism as a Global Commitment and Blood Letters. Has translated Arrogant IAS and Other Stories. Writes articles and poems both in English and Odia. Email: <[email protected]> Poetcrit 33.2 (July - December 2020) : 1 Santosh Kumar Padhy Manoj Das, an Odia writer, also famous in English literature, an award winning and internationally recognized writer, a columnist, an editor, a philosopher, an educationist, a radical student leader and a devoted disciple of mysticism and yoga, is now living in Pondicherry and working as a Professor of English at the Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education. As a bilingual writer, he has nine novels, nineteen short story collections, six travelogues, two poetry collections, and several other writings on history and culture to his credit. He is such a short story writer whom once the world famous fiction writer, Graham Greene writes: “I have read the short stories of Manoj Das with great pleasure. He will certainly take a place on my shelves besides the stories of Narayan. I imagine Orissa is far from Malgudi, but there is same quality in his stories with perhaps an added mystery” (Wikipedia). Greatly influenced by Fakir Mohan Senapati, the grand pioneer of modern Odia fiction, Vyasa and Valmiki, Manoj Das’s short stories win the heart of his readers throughout the world. Among other literary productions, his Tales Told by Mystics (2001) makes Manoj Das an explorer of mysticism and a seeker of right path after long years of meditation at the Pondicherry Ashram. His collections of short stories are the eye openers and eye washers in this era of post modern and post independent India with rapid industrialization and material pursuits. The stories often lead the mechanized and dehumanized human mass of the world to walk on the enshrined and enlightened path of divine grace by creating green and fresh environment suited to human living. In other words, his stories also leave a message that esoteric aestheticism is transient and only the divine path is eternal. Above all, one can easily find Manoj Das a great patriot who all the time falls back on the rich culture and heritage of our country. His love for Odisha, the native landscapes, the biological atmosphere that ushers in his short stories rather categorizes his stance as a pilgrim of rare sense and sensibility. Thus, we can revere his personality as a visionary seer. In this connection, Derrida exemplifies: For example, in an early work on the German phenomenologist Edmund Husserl, La voix et le phénomène (Speech And Phenomena, 1967), Derrida argued that the philosophical emphasis on the “living present” concealed a dependence on the idea of death: I cannot use a sign - a word or a sentence, say - without implying that it pre-exists me and will outlive me. “I am” means “I am mortal.” Having this kind of notion in his mind, Manoj Das’s short stories are collected over the past four decades from different sources as much as available of tales told by Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa, Sri Ramana Maharshi, Swami Vivekananda, Swami Nigamananda, Sri Vijay Krishna Goswami, Swami Ramdas, Swami Ram Tirth, Yogiji Maharaj and so on. These stories are the treasures of our national heritage for which the Sahitya Akademi, New Delhi has published the stories as the significance lies there in each story and these are appreciated even by the foreign readers much as the message of each story is appended at the end.