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28/10/2025

29/09/2025

Just published
Stories from the Womb
Translated by Dr Pratixa Parekh from Garbhgatha by Himanshi Shelat, first published by Arunoday Prakashan, Ahmedabad, 2023.
Bibliographic Details
• Publisher: ‎Rupkatha Books (Imprint), Aesthetix Media Services (OPC) Private Limited; First edition (27 September 2025), under Rupkatha Translation Project 2025
• Language: ‎ English
• E-book: ‎ 69 pages
• ISBN-13: ‎ 978-81-975130-5-3
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.21659/rtp04
• PDF Link:https://rupkatha.com/rtp/Stories-from-the-Womb.pdf
• License: CCNC
• Dimensions: ‎ 17.6 cm x 25 cm
• Country of Origin: ‎ India
Dr Himanshi Shelat (b. 1947, Surat) is a renowned Gujarati author and Sahitya Akademi Award recipient, celebrated for her psychologically nuanced and socially conscious fiction. Holding an M.A. and a PhD in English, she taught at M.T.B. Arts College, Surat, until 1994. Her literary journey began in 1978, and she gained nationwide recognition with Andhari Galima Safed Tapakan (1992). Influenced by Mahasweta Devi and Jane Austen, Shelat’s writing delves into everyday realities, marginalised lives, and women’s struggles, often inspired by her social welfare work. Her oeuvre includes acclaimed story collections (Antaral, Ae Loko) and novels (Aathamo Rang, Saptadhara), as well as essays, memoirs, and literary criticism. She has also edited numerous volumes and served on the Sahitya Akademi advisory board (2013–2017). In 2024, she was honoured with the Kuvempu Rashtriya Puraskar. Married to Vinod Meghani, son of poet Jhaverchand Meghani, Shelat remains a vital voice in post-modern Gujarati literature.
Dr Pratixa Parekh is a translator and academician currently serving as Assistant Professor of English at Dolat-Usha Institute of Applied Sciences and Dhiru-Sarla Institute of Management & Commerce, Valsad, Gujarat, since 2006. She has presented and published research in numerous national and international forums, with interests spanning Comparative Studies, Translation Studies, and Gender Studies. Her translations of Gujarati fiction and poetry into English have appeared in esteemed journals such as Indian Literature, Sahityasetu, Translation Today, and Sahitya. Notably, her translated short story features in the anthology Redolent Rush: Contemporary Indian Short Fiction in Translation (Hawakal Publishers, Kolkata).

20/09/2025

📢Just published!
A translation of Dr Parwati Tirkey’s Sahitya Akademi Award-winning book फिर उगना / Bloom Again.
Translated by Dr Pragya Shukla
Edited & Cover design by Dr Tarun Tapas Mukherjee
Access for free athttps://rupkatha.com/rtp/Bloom-Again.pdf
Dr Parwati Tirkey’s (b. 1994, Gumla, Jharkhand) creative and scholarly pursuits centre around Indigenous voices and lived realities of the Chota Nagpur Plateau region. A postgraduate of Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, she holds a PhD in Hindi from the Department of Hindi for her research, "Kuduk Adivasi Songs: Life Rhythm and Life Struggles." Her debut poetry collection, Phir Ugna (2023), explores the resonances of folk tradition and the inner resilience of the tribal people. The book has won the Sahitya Akademi Yuva Puraskar in 2025. Her writings—ranging from poems to short stories—have appeared in prominent journals like Alochna, Tadbhav, Kathadesh, Vanmali Katha and on several digital platforms. Currently, she serves as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Hindi at Ram Lakhan Singh Yadav College, Ranchi University. Email: [email protected]

Dr Pragya Shukla is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English Studies at the Central University of Jharkhand. Her areas of interest include Gender Studies and Tribal Literature. Her doctoral thesis focused on "A Comparative Study of the Fictional Works of Githa Hariharan and Shashi Deshpande." In addition to research papers, she is also involved in translation and writing poetry and short stories. Email: [email protected]

18/09/2025

New Article Published | Employ(ability), ESP, and Psychological Well-being at the Crossroads
By Swati Basu & Dr Bhavya, Dept of Applied Sciences and Humanities (English), IGDTUW, Delhi.
Read at https://rupkatha.com/v17n302g/.

18/09/2025

New Article Published | timepass : Protima Bedi’s Memoir as a Rebuttal to Media
By Ramya M. H. & Dr. Shashikantha Koudur, NIT Karnataka.
Read at https://rupkatha.com/v17n301g/

13/09/2025

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01/06/2025

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31/05/2025

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22/05/2025

📢 Exciting Conversation on Arts Management! 🎭

Join Dr. Ritesh Ranjan, Head of School at Jagran School of Design, Jagran Lakecity University, Bhopal, India, and Chief Editor of Chitrolekha Journal, in a thought-provoking discussion with Prof. François Colbert on the evolving landscape of Arts Management.

This insightful exchange, featured in Chitrolekha Journal (Vol. 9, Issue 2, 2025), offers valuable perspectives for artists, managers, and cultural enthusiasts.

📖 Read the conversation here: https://chitrolekha.com/v9n202/ 🔗 DOI: https://doi.org/10.21659/cjad.92.v9n202

22/05/2025

🎙️ Explore the Future of Art & Technology with Prof. James Hutson
🎭Read the fascinating conversation on art, design, artificial intelligence, neuroaesthetics, and immersive technologies with Prof. James Hutson, PhD, Lead XR Disruptor and Department Head of Art History, AI, and Visual Culture at Lindenwood University, USA.

Dr. Ritesh Ranjan, Head of School at Jagran School of Design, Jagran Lakecity University, Bhopal, India, and Chief Editor of Chitrolekha Journal, leads this insightful dialogue that uncovers groundbreaking ideas shaping the creative world.
📖 Read the conversation here: https://chitrolekha.com/v9n201/ 🔗 DOI: https://doi.org/10.21659/cjad.92.v9n201

21/05/2025

Just published || Representing Desire in Minor Literature: Characterisation in The White Tiger
By Farooq Ahmad Sheikh
The Lacanian subject has two distinct aspects: one corresponds to the structural subject shaped by the symbolic order. At the same time, the other transcends symbolisation or coding, referred to by Lacan as the subject of desire or the Real. Minor literature, defined as the literature of minorities expressed in a major language, also seeks to disrupt dominant codifications and convey the flow of pure desire. Viewed through a Lacanian lens, minor literature primarily engages with the Real. This paper examines The White Tiger as an example of minor literature, with a particular emphasis on its characterisation. The central argument is that the novel’s characters do not conform to traditional types, identities, or subject positions. Instead, they embody pure desire and are better understood as Lacanian subjects of desire/Real, rather than as ideological constructs within a discourse. The primary focus of the novel is to represent the reverse side of the subject or the desire rather than the discursive formation.
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21/05/2025

Just published || Posthuman Aesthetics: A Postscript on Decadent Naturalism
By Armando Perez Crespo
Posthumanism does not exist as a human reality at any tangible level whatsoever, except insofar as there are some very elementary robotic and self-regulatory applications of that technology in the real world, such as in interactive robotic scenarios of offices and restaurants or Robotic Cafes of Tokyo city. Thus, posthumanism remains an imagined terminology, based on cybernetic theorizing with no directly available experiences, nor repercussions, of that imagination in the technosphere. The originary meaning of a cultural posthumanism must be traced to Ihab Hassan’s script for the University of Wisconsin skit, which was designed essentially as an explicatory, parodic drama on the figure of Prometheus as a symbol of ‘humanism.’ Unfortunately, the current literature on posthuman aesthetics has not denounced neoliberal variations of the concept of body and the Self. What are the prototypes on which posthumanism might evolve in the global South? If an erroneous version of posthumanism is discarded, other values of primitive human naturalism may be sought in the new art.
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