Dimensions of Media Studies
…. Media studies adopts at least two semantic dimensions. The first continues the traditional notion of critical scholarship focusing on the study of form and effects of media. This still…
BRAHMAPUTRAKA CHHEUCHHAU: A Saga of Nepali Migrants’ Identity Crisis
Lil Bahadur Chhetri’s novel Brahmaputraka Chheuchhau is the story of Nepalis in Assam. More than that, it is a history of Nepalis’ own failure to build identity. Contemporary scholars like…
Cosmic Awareness in Laxmi Prasad Devkota
Both Einstein and Devkota defy the adherence to individual gods and idol worship. A sense of atheism may surface in their assertion. However, in the heart of their ideas lies…
Prithvi Narayan Shah and Postcolonial Resistance
The emergence of P. N. Shah can be taken as a timely historical event. His encounter with the British colonizers was one of the early anti-colonial events in the history…
Devkota’s “Apology”: Individual Condition vs. State Policy
For Devkota, the most essential role as a writer is to “maintain a high degree of candour in the expression of personal observations and expressions of opinion” (“Pulling Down” 5),…
Media Discourse: Evolution into Academy
Media studies has now become an eclectic academic discipline with a closer orientation to the areas of humanities and social sciences, though at the same time it calls for adequate…
English Studies: Textual vs. Cultural Approaches
Study of English texts today takes place through two approaches: textual and cultural. The textual approach focuses on the study of a text’s formal features. The cultural approach includes the…