http://202.88.229.59:8080/xmlui/handle/123456789/2327 2026-04-14T20:03:40Z http://202.88.229.59:8080/xmlui/handle/123456789/2539 Title: Otherness and Selfhood in Imtiaz Ali’s Highway Authors: Asst.Prof.Athira S Kumar Abstract: Highway is a 2014 Indian road film written and directed by Imtiaz Ali. It tells the story of a girl (Alia Bhatt) who develops Stockholm syndrome after being kidnapped.Veera, a young bride-to-be, is abducted by a common goon, Mahabir, and his men a day prior to her wedding. Far from being terrified of her abductor, Veera discovers an adventurous and liberating life.Road movies trace the internal transformation of their characters. The conflicts that consume are basically internal ones. Road movies are not about what can be seen or verbalized but about what can be felt about the invisible that complements the visible. Identity crisis of the protagonist mirrors the identity crisis of the culture itself. This paper is an attempt to study how a travel with a goon brings in new identity to the protagonist and how herself is transformed from a fragile girl to a strong lady. The condition transforms from the fear of unknown to identifying the real enemy. 2019-01-01T00:00:00Z http://202.88.229.59:8080/xmlui/handle/123456789/2538 Title: Women,Truma and Reconfiguration of Self: An Analysis of Anuradha Vijayakrishnan's Seeing the Girl and Sudha Murthy's Mahashwetha Authors: Asst.Prof.Athira S Kumar Abstract: The advancement of trauma hypothesis in abstract feedback is comprehended regarding the changing mental meanings of injury and additionally the semiotic, logical, and social worries that are a piece of the investigation of trauma in writing and society. Trauma causes an interruption and reorientation of awareness, yet the qualities joined to this experience are affected by an assortment of individual and social factors that change after some time. Trauma as a definitive unrepresentable in the great model keeps up a tropological authority in artistic feedback to some extent because of the hypothetically engaging nature of this model to bring up bigger issues about the connection between savagery experienced by people and social gatherings, or the connections between unfortunate casualty, culprit, and witness. The generalizations that a lady is frequently exposed to, the choices that she is compelled to make is all a result of these interactions. Janaki, in Seeing the Girl, with every one of her shortcomings and fears is a perfect example for these generalizations. Creator furiously reprimands imprudence of repairing the lives of two individuals around some tea and eatables. Seeing the girl is the tale of three ladies who live inside each other's lives - hazardously. The three women Janaki, Leela and Amma in the story are the byproducts of social trauma. Anupama in Mahashweta is also a victim of the expectation and comfort to the casualties of the biases that administer society even today. This paper is an attempt to analyze the women in two stories and how their self is developed as a result of the trauma around them. 2018-12-01T00:00:00Z