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No.</span></h2></td><td width="53"><h2 style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #800080;">PDF</span></h2></td></tr><tr><td colspan="5" width="601"><h2 style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #333333;">Indian Literature</span></h2></td></tr><tr><td width="38"><p>01</p></td><td width="130"><p>Dr. Shivani Jha</p></td><td width="287"><p>Environmental Ethics in <em>The Anthropocene</em> <em>Vis-A -Vis</em> <em>Swarga- A Posthuman Tale</em></p><p><a href="https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14973561">https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14973561</a></p></td><td width="93"><p style="text-align: center;">01-11</p></td><td width="53"><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.the-criterion.com/V16/n1/IN01.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><strong>PDF</strong></a></p></td></tr><tr><td width="38"><p>02</p></td><td width="130"><p>Dr Durgesh Vitthal Borse & Shreya Ketakar</p></td><td width="287"><p>Reconstructing Narratives: Intersectional Feminism in Kocharethi’s Exploration of Gender, Power and Tradition</p><p><a href="https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14973609">https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14973609</a></p></td><td width="93"><p style="text-align: center;">12-21</p></td><td width="53"><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.the-criterion.com/V16/n1/IN02.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><strong>PDF</strong></a></p></td></tr><tr><td width="38"><p>03</p></td><td width="130"><p>Vikas Sharma</p></td><td width="287"><p>Echoes of Indian Tradition: Exploring Indian Sensibility and Knowledge System in Indian English Fiction</p><p><a href="https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14973632">https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14973632</a></p></td><td width="93"><p style="text-align: center;">22-40</p></td><td width="53"><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.the-criterion.com/V16/n1/IN03.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><strong>PDF</strong></a></p></td></tr><tr><td width="38"><p>04</p></td><td width="130"><p>Nirmal & Dr. Renu Sharma</p></td><td width="287"><p>Silent Agonies: Understanding the Depth of Puro’s Pain in <em>Pinjar</em></p><p><a href="https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14973650">https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14973650</a></p></td><td width="93"><p style="text-align: center;">41-51</p></td><td width="53"><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.the-criterion.com/V16/n1/IN04.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><strong>PDF</strong></a></p></td></tr><tr><td width="38"><p>05</p></td><td width="130"><p>Rohini Singh</p></td><td width="287"><p>Dynamics of Caste in Marriage: A Study of Select Indian Nepali Dalit Short Stories</p><p><a href="https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14973684">https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14973684</a></p></td><td width="93"><p style="text-align: center;">52-64</p></td><td width="53"><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.the-criterion.com/V16/n1/IN05.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><strong>PDF</strong></a></p></td></tr><tr><td width="38"><p>06</p></td><td width="130"><p>Poorvi Garg</p></td><td width="287"><p>The Complexities of Love and Desire in Vikas Sharma’s Love’s Not Time’s Fool</p><p><a href="https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14973704">https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14973704</a></p></td><td width="93"><p style="text-align: center;">65-74</p></td><td width="53"><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.the-criterion.com/V16/n1/IN06.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><strong>PDF</strong></a></p></td></tr><tr><td width="38"><p>07</p></td><td width="130"><p>Eram Siddiqui & Shubham Kumar Pati</p></td><td width="287"><p>Threading the Intricacies of Home in Basudhara Roy’s <em>‘Stitching a Home</em>‘</p><p><a href="https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14973721">https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14973721</a></p></td><td width="93"><p style="text-align: center;">75-91</p></td><td width="53"><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.the-criterion.com/V16/n1/IN07.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><strong>PDF</strong></a></p></td></tr><tr><td width="38"><p>08</p></td><td width="130"><p>Dr. Chittaranjan Nath</p></td><td width="287"><p>An Ecocritical Study of Robin S Ngangom’s Poetry</p><p><a href="https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14973734">https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14973734</a></p></td><td width="93"><p style="text-align: center;">92-111</p></td><td width="53"><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.the-criterion.com/V16/n1/IN08.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><strong>PDF</strong></a></p></td></tr><tr><td width="38"><p>09</p></td><td width="130"><p>Anamika Thapa</p><p>& Dr Ambuj Kumar Sharma</p></td><td width="287"><p>Characters Return to Nature to Reintegrate the Human Self into the Ecological System in Anita Desai’s Work</p><p><a href="https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14973760">https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14973760</a></p></td><td width="93"><p style="text-align: center;">112-123</p></td><td width="53"><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.the-criterion.com/V16/n1/IN09.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><strong>PDF</strong></a></p></td></tr><tr><td width="38"><p>10</p></td><td width="130"><p>Deepika Rai</p></td><td width="287"><p>Narratives of Transformation: The Role of Transgender Stories in Shaping Identity and Social Change</p><p><a href="https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14973790">https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14973790</a></p></td><td width="93"><p style="text-align: center;">124-135</p></td><td width="53"><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.the-criterion.com/V16/n1/IN10.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><strong>PDF</strong></a></p></td></tr><tr><td width="38"><p>11</p></td><td width="130"><p>Rati Mohan Tripura & Prof. Somdev Banik</p></td><td width="287"><p>Folk Beliefs as Reflected in the Rituals of Hill Tribes of Tripura: With Special References to Boroks</p><p><a href="https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14973813">https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14973813</a></p></td><td width="93"><p style="text-align: center;">136-149</p></td><td width="53"><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.the-criterion.com/V16/n1/IN11.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><strong>PDF</strong></a></p></td></tr><tr><td width="38"><p>12</p></td><td width="130"><p>Hetvi Manojbhai Thanki</p></td><td width="287"><p>Narratives of Forgotten Women from the <em>Mahabharata </em>in the Postmodern Indian Literature: A Critical Study of Priyanka Bhuyan’s <em>Chronicles of Kuru Woman</em>, a Trilogy</p><p><a href="https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14973842">https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14973842</a></p></td><td width="93"><p style="text-align: center;">150-160</p></td><td width="53"><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.the-criterion.com/V16/n1/IN12.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><strong>PDF</strong></a></p></td></tr><tr><td width="38"><p>13</p></td><td width="130"><p>Tejen Mandal</p></td><td width="287"><p>An Estimate of the Role of Women in Matua Religion and Society in North 24 Parganas and Nadia District</p><p><a href="https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14973862">https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14973862</a></p></td><td width="93"><p style="text-align: center;">161-177</p></td><td width="53"><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.the-criterion.com/V16/n1/IN13.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><strong>PDF</strong></a></p></td></tr><tr><td width="38"><p>14</p></td><td width="130"><p>M. Sarika & Dr. R.V. Jayanth Kasyap</p></td><td width="287"><p>Liberal Feminism as Reflected in the Select Short Stories of Anjana Appachana: A Perspective</p><p><a href="https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14973883">https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14973883</a></p></td><td width="93"><p style="text-align: center;">178-188</p></td><td width="53"><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.the-criterion.com/V16/n1/IN14.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><strong>PDF</strong></a></p></td></tr><tr><td width="38"><p>15</p></td><td width="130"><p>Aditi Mishra</p></td><td width="287"><p>Timeless Verses: A Modern-Day Reading of Vidyapati</p><p><a href="https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14973915">https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14973915</a></p></td><td width="93"><p style="text-align: center;">189-202</p></td><td width="53"><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.the-criterion.com/V16/n1/IN15.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><strong>PDF</strong></a></p></td></tr><tr><td width="38"><p>16</p></td><td width="130"><p>Asiya Ansari & Dr Ram Naresh Patel</p></td><td width="287"><p>Analysing Hyder’s Transcreation from <em>Aag ka Darya</em> to <em>River of Fire</em></p><p><a href="https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14973946">https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14973946</a></p></td><td width="93"><p style="text-align: center;">203-213</p></td><td width="53"><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.the-criterion.com/V16/n1/IN16.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><strong>PDF</strong></a></p></td></tr><tr><td width="38"><p>17</p></td><td width="130"><p>Sibi Chakaravarty. J</p></td><td width="287"><p>Marriage as a Site of Struggle: Nirmala’s Negotiations with Patriarchy</p><p><a href="https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14973976">https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14973976</a></p></td><td width="93"><p style="text-align: center;">214-225</p></td><td width="53"><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.the-criterion.com/V16/n1/IN17.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><strong>PDF</strong></a></p></td></tr><tr><td width="38"><p>18</p></td><td width="130"><p>Anindita Saha & Probal Roy Chowdhury</p></td><td width="287"><p>The Rabha Community of North Bengal</p><p><a href="https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14974004">https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14974004</a></p></td><td width="93"><p style="text-align: center;">226-241</p></td><td width="53"><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.the-criterion.com/V16/n1/IN18.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><strong>PDF</strong></a></p></td></tr><tr><td width="38"><p>19</p></td><td width="130"><p>Aakriti Singh</p></td><td width="287"><p>The Spatial Problematic of the <em>Agrahara</em> and the Body-Forest-Townscape in <em>Samskara: A Rite for a Dead Man</em></p><p><a href="https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14974018">https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14974018</a></p></td><td width="93"><p style="text-align: center;">242-256</p></td><td width="53"><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.the-criterion.com/V16/n1/IN19.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><strong>PDF</strong></a></p></td></tr><tr><td width="38"><p>20</p></td><td width="130"><p>Sonam Yadav</p></td><td width="287"><p>Influence of Technology, Reconfiguring Identity and Power in Manjula Padmanabhan’s <em>Harvest</em></p><p><a href="https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14974050">https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14974050</a></p></td><td width="93"><p style="text-align: center;">257-267</p></td><td width="53"><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.the-criterion.com/V16/n1/IN20.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><strong>PDF</strong></a></p></td></tr><tr><td width="38"><p>21</p></td><td width="130"><p>Preeti Kaur & Dr. O.P. Tiwari</p></td><td width="287"><p>Unveiling Hidden Narratives: Exploring Gender Fluidity and Forgotten Myths in Devdutt Pattanaik<em>‘s Shikhandi & Other Tales They Don’t Tell You</em></p><p><a href="https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14974065">https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14974065</a></p></td><td width="93"><p style="text-align: center;">268-278</p></td><td width="53"><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.the-criterion.com/V16/n1/IN21.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><strong>PDF</strong></a></p></td></tr><tr><td width="38"><p>22</p></td><td width="130"><p>Priyanka Meena & Dr. O.P. Tiwari</p></td><td width="287"><p>Echoes of Injustice: Analyzing Caste-based Oppression in Omprakash Valmiki’s <em>Joothan</em></p><p><a href="https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14974080">https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14974080</a></p></td><td width="93"><p style="text-align: center;">279-289</p></td><td width="53"><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.the-criterion.com/V16/n1/IN22.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><strong>PDF</strong></a></p></td></tr><tr><td width="38"><p>23</p></td><td width="130"><p>Suresh Kumar</p></td><td width="287"><p>Universalizing Swami’s Learning through Empirical Experiences: A Critical Analysis of <em>Swami and Friends</em></p><p><a href="https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14974093">https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14974093</a></p></td><td width="93"><p style="text-align: center;">290-300</p></td><td width="53"><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.the-criterion.com/V16/n1/IN23.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><strong>PDF</strong></a></p></td></tr><tr><td width="38"><p>24</p></td><td width="130"><p>Renu Sarmah & Devendra Kumar Sharma</p></td><td width="287"><p>Exploring Female Identity in Nayantara Sahgal’s <em>Rich Like Us</em></p><p><a href="https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14974109">https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14974109</a></p></td><td width="93"><p style="text-align: center;">301-312</p></td><td width="53"><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.the-criterion.com/V16/n1/IN24.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><strong>PDF</strong></a></p></td></tr><tr><td width="38"><p>25</p></td><td width="130"><p>Dr. Begum Farida Alam</p></td><td width="287"><p>Lakshminandan Bora’s Short Stories: A Reflection of the Destitute</p><p><a href="https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14974120">https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14974120</a></p></td><td width="93"><p style="text-align: center;">313-322</p></td><td width="53"><p style="text-align: center;"><strong><a href="https://www.the-criterion.com/V16/n1/IN25.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">PDF</a></strong></p></td></tr><tr><td width="38"><p>26</p></td><td width="130"><p>Md Samsujjaman & Mamud Hassan</p></td><td width="287"><p>Reframing the Identity of Indian Bohra Community: A Close Reading of Asghar Ali’s<em> A Living Faith</em></p><p><a href="https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14974137">https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14974137</a></p></td><td width="93"><p style="text-align: center;">323-337</p></td><td width="53"><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.the-criterion.com/V16/n1/IN26.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><strong>PDF</strong></a></p></td></tr><tr><td width="38"><p>27</p></td><td width="130"><p>Abhisek Mekap</p></td><td width="287"><p>The Portrayal of Odisha: Historical Realism in Selected Poems of Jayant Mahapatra</p><p><a href="https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14974158">https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14974158</a></p></td><td width="93"><p style="text-align: center;">338-349</p></td><td width="53"><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.the-criterion.com/V16/n1/IN27.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><strong>PDF</strong></a></p></td></tr><tr><td width="38"><p>28</p></td><td width="130"><p>Ashwath. J & Dr. Brinda Padmanabhan</p></td><td width="287"><p>An Exploration of Post-Human and Queerness in Devdutt Pattanaik’s <em>Shikhandi and other tales they don’t tell you</em></p><p><a href="https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14974198">https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14974198</a></p></td><td width="93"><p style="text-align: center;">350-359</p></td><td width="53"><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.the-criterion.com/V16/n1/IN28.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><strong>PDF</strong></a></p></td></tr><tr><td width="38"><p>29</p></td><td width="130"><p>Swagata Chakraborty</p></td><td width="287"><p>Displacement and Subalternity: A Study of Ambivalent Identity of Indigenous through Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar’s Select Writings</p><p><a href="https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14974211">https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14974211</a></p></td><td width="93"><p style="text-align: center;">360-372</p></td><td width="53"><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.the-criterion.com/V16/n1/IN29.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><strong>PDF</strong></a></p></td></tr><tr><td width="38"><p>30</p></td><td width="130"><p>Dr. Archana A Gupta</p></td><td width="287"><p>A Study of <em>The Billionaire and the Monk </em>by Vibhor Kumar Singh: As a Story About Finding Extraordinary Happiness</p><p><a href="https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14974232">https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14974232</a></p></td><td width="93"><p style="text-align: center;">373-384</p></td><td width="53"><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.the-criterion.com/V16/n1/IN30.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><strong>PDF</strong></a></p></td></tr><tr><td width="38"><p>31</p></td><td width="130"><p>Gopika Ashokan</p></td><td width="287"><p>Ideas of Contemporariness and Friendship: Re-imagining Democracy in Abdul Bismillah’s “Atithi Devo Bhava/Guest is God”</p><p><a href="https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14974239">https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14974239</a></p></td><td width="93"><p style="text-align: center;">385-399</p></td><td width="53"><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.the-criterion.com/V16/n1/IN31.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><strong>PDF</strong></a></p></td></tr><tr><td width="38"><p>32</p></td><td width="130"><p>Dr. Geeta</p></td><td width="287"><p>Culture, Traditions and Transformations: A Study on Kannada Novel <em>Havan</em></p><p><a href="https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14974241">https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14974241</a></p></td><td width="93"><p style="text-align: center;">400-411</p></td><td width="53"><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.the-criterion.com/V16/n1/IN32.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><strong>PDF</strong></a></p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="5" width="601"><h2 style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #333333;">British Literature</span></h2></td></tr><tr><td width="38"><p>01</p></td><td width="130"><p>Priyanka Singh</p></td><td width="287"><p>Unfolding the Unfold: A Close Reading of the Word “Unfold” in the Plays of William Shakespeare</p><p><a href="https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14977332">https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14977332</a></p></td><td width="93"><p style="text-align: center;">412-421</p></td><td width="53"><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.the-criterion.com/V16/n1/BT01.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><strong>PDF</strong></a></p></td></tr><tr><td width="38"><p>02</p></td><td width="130"><p>Dr Naila Anjum</p></td><td width="287"><p>For the Sake of Survival: Leggatt and Falk’s Moral Transgression Under Extenuating Circumstances</p><p><a href="https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14977353">https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14977353</a></p></td><td width="93"><p style="text-align: center;">422-436</p></td><td width="53"><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.the-criterion.com/V16/n1/BT02.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><strong>PDF</strong></a></p></td></tr><tr><td width="38"><p>03</p></td><td width="130"><p>Bablu Murmu & Dr. Sisir Kumar Chatterjee</p></td><td width="287"><p>Debate Over Dreams in Chaucer’s “The Nun’s Priest’s Tale”</p><p><a href="https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14977355">https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14977355</a></p></td><td width="93"><p style="text-align: center;">437-445</p></td><td width="53"><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.the-criterion.com/V16/n1/BT03.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><strong>PDF</strong></a></p></td></tr><tr><td width="38"><p>04</p></td><td width="130"><p>Sanju Yadav</p></td><td width="287"><p>George Eliot’s <em>Middlemarch</em>: An Approach to Feminism</p><p><a href="https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14977359">https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14977359</a></p></td><td width="93"><p style="text-align: center;">446-463</p></td><td width="53"><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.the-criterion.com/V16/n1/BT04.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><strong>PDF</strong></a></p></td></tr><tr><td width="38"><p>05</p></td><td width="130"><p>Manshi & Dr. Mandvi Singh</p></td><td width="287"><p>“It is one about all of us”: Memory and Identity in Gurnah’s <em>Desertion</em></p><p><a href="https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14977366">https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14977366</a></p></td><td width="93"><p style="text-align: center;">464-477</p></td><td width="53"><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.the-criterion.com/V16/n1/BT05.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><strong>PDF</strong></a></p></td></tr><tr><td width="38"><p>06</p></td><td width="130"><p>Sanju Yadav</p></td><td width="287"><p>George Eliot’s <em>Daniel Deronda</em>: An Approach to Feminism</p><p><a href="https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14977372">https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14977372</a></p></td><td width="93"><p style="text-align: center;">478-493</p></td><td width="53"><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.the-criterion.com/V16/n1/BT06.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><strong>PDF</strong></a></p></td></tr><tr><td width="38"><p>07</p></td><td width="130"><p>Suman Rani</p></td><td width="287"><p>Construction of Thuggee: The Fabrication of Criminal Identity in <em>Confessions of a Thug</em></p><p><a href="https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14977396">https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14977396</a></p></td><td width="93"><p style="text-align: center;">494-504</p></td><td width="53"><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.the-criterion.com/V16/n1/BT07.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><strong>PDF</strong></a></p></td></tr><tr><td width="38"><p>08</p></td><td width="130"><p>Dr. Varsha Singh & Ghanishtha Verma</p></td><td width="287"><p>Retelling by the Stolen Head – Allegory of Reconstruction Stone Blind by Natalie Haynes</p><p><a href="https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14977402">https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14977402</a></p></td><td width="93"><p style="text-align: center;">505-517</p></td><td width="53"><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.the-criterion.com/V16/n1/BT08.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><strong>PDF</strong></a></p></td></tr><tr><td width="38"><p>09</p></td><td width="130"><p>Dr. Arvind Chaudhury</p></td><td width="287"><p>Essence of the Romantic and the Victorian ages in ‘My Last Duchess’</p><p><a href="https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14977404">https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14977404</a></p></td><td width="93"><p style="text-align: center;">518-530</p></td><td width="53"><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.the-criterion.com/V16/n1/BT09.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><strong>PDF</strong></a></p></td></tr><tr><td width="38"><p>10</p></td><td width="130"><p>P. Jakin Prince & Dr. R. Kumara Sethupathi</p></td><td width="287"><p>The Interplay of Reality and Fantasy in David Almond’s <em>Skellig</em></p><p><a href="https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14977408">https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14977408</a></p></td><td width="93"><p style="text-align: center;">531-541</p></td><td width="53"><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.the-criterion.com/V16/n1/BT10.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><strong>PDF</strong></a></p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="5" width="601"><h2 style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #333333;">American Literature</span></h2></td></tr><tr><td width="38"><p>01</p></td><td width="130"><p>Pragya Dhiman</p></td><td width="287"><p>From Possession to Possession: Custody and Invisibility in Joanne Greenberg’s <em>I Never Promised You a Rose Garden</em></p><p><a href="https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14977412">https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14977412</a></p></td><td width="93"><p style="text-align: center;">542-554</p></td><td width="53"><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.the-criterion.com/V16/n1/AM01.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><strong>PDF</strong></a></p></td></tr><tr><td width="38"><p>02</p></td><td width="130"><p>Dr. Phani Kiran</p></td><td width="287"><p>Miller’s<em> The Death of a Salesman</em> in the Light of Sanatana Dharma</p><p><a href="https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14977420">https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14977420</a></p></td><td width="93"><p style="text-align: center;">555-564</p></td><td width="53"><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.the-criterion.com/V16/n1/AM02.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><strong>PDF</strong></a></p></td></tr><tr><td width="38"><p>03</p></td><td width="130"><p>Rajalakshmi. A & Prof A. Selvam</p></td><td width="287"><p>Female Body Malleability and Anorexic Behaviours through Maternal Modeling and Weight Dyads in Shavin’s “The Body Tourist”</p><p><a href="https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14977423">https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14977423</a></p></td><td width="93"><p style="text-align: center;">565-581</p></td><td width="53"><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.the-criterion.com/V16/n1/AM03.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><strong>PDF</strong></a></p></td></tr><tr><td width="38"><p>04</p></td><td width="130"><p>Afroz Jahan</p></td><td width="287"><p>Isolation of Individuals in the Poems of Robert Frost</p><p><a href="https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14977426">https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14977426</a></p></td><td width="93"><p style="text-align: center;">582-597</p></td><td width="53"><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.the-criterion.com/V16/n1/AM04.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><strong>PDF</strong></a></p></td></tr><tr><td width="38"><p>05</p></td><td width="130"><p>Dr. Porishmita Buragohain</p></td><td width="287"><p>Race and Justice in American Fiction: A Study Through<em> To Kill A Mockingbird</em></p><p><a href="https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14977430">https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14977430</a></p></td><td width="93"><p style="text-align: center;">598-608</p></td><td width="53"><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.the-criterion.com/V16/n1/AM05.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><strong>PDF</strong></a></p></td></tr><tr><td width="38"><p>06</p></td><td width="130"><p>Dr. Ansul Rao</p></td><td width="287"><p>The Motif of Learning from Nature in Barbara Kingsolver’s Novels</p><p><a href="https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14977434">https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14977434</a></p></td><td width="93"><p style="text-align: center;">609-621</p></td><td width="53"><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.the-criterion.com/V16/n1/AM06.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><strong>PDF</strong></a></p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="5" width="601"><h2 style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #333333;">Comparative Literature</span></h2></td></tr><tr><td width="38"><p>01</p></td><td width="130"><p>Monish Tukaram Chavan</p></td><td width="287"><p>Religious Skepticism in Philip Larkin’s <em>Church Going</em>, <em>Faith Healer,</em> and Arun Kolatkar’s <em>Jejuri</em></p><p><a href="https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14978750">https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14978750</a></p></td><td width="93"><p style="text-align: center;">622-634</p></td><td width="53"><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.the-criterion.com/V16/n1/CM01.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><strong>PDF</strong></a></p></td></tr><tr><td width="38"><p>02</p></td><td width="130"><p>Vasundhra Rathee Kadian & Mandvi Singh</p></td><td width="287"><p>Portrayal of Lord Shiva in<em> Shiva Trilogy</em> and <em>7 Secrets of Shiva</em>: A Comparative Study</p><p><a href="https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14978780">https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14978780</a></p></td><td width="93"><p style="text-align: center;">635-650</p></td><td width="53"><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.the-criterion.com/V16/n1/CM02.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><strong>PDF</strong></a></p></td></tr><tr><td width="38"><p>03</p></td><td width="130"><p>A H Parvin & Dr. T. Naresh Naidu</p></td><td width="287"><p>1947 Partition and 1948 Integration: Comparative Study of Khushwant Singh’s <em>Train to Pakistan</em> and Ashokamitran’s <em>The Eighteenth Parallel</em></p><p><a href="https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14978802">https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14978802</a></p></td><td width="93"><p style="text-align: center;">651-671</p></td><td width="53"><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.the-criterion.com/V16/n1/CM03.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><strong>PDF</strong></a></p></td></tr><tr><td width="38"><p>04</p></td><td width="130"><p>Dr. Kailas Maruti Pote</p></td><td width="287"><p>“Othering the ‘Exotic’: Colonial Racism in Postcolonial Rewritings”<br />A Comparative Study of Joseph Conrad’s <em>Heart of Darkness</em>, Chinua Achebe’s <em>Things Fall Apart</em>, Jean Rhys’ <em>Wide Sargasso Sea</em>, and Toni Morrison’s <em>The Bluest Eye</em></p><p><a href="https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14978827">https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14978827</a></p></td><td width="93"><p style="text-align: center;">672-684</p></td><td width="53"><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.the-criterion.com/V16/n1/CM04.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><strong>PDF</strong></a></p></td></tr><tr><td width="38"><p>05</p></td><td width="130"><p>Dr. (Ms) Ramandeep Mahal</p></td><td width="287"><p>The Marxist Approach in Sam Shepard’s <em>Buried Child </em>and Raja Rao’s <em>Kanthapura</em></p><p><a href="https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14978841">https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14978841</a></p></td><td width="93"><p style="text-align: center;">685-696</p></td><td width="53"><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.the-criterion.com/V16/n1/CM05.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><strong>PDF</strong></a></p></td></tr><tr><td width="38"><p>06</p></td><td width="130"><p>Purnojit Haldar</p></td><td width="287"><p>Regional Utopian Impulses in Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay’s <em>Aranyak </em>and Tarashankar Bandyopadhyay’s <em>The Tale of Hansuli Turn </em>and <em>Kalindi</em></p><p><a href="https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14978906">https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14978906</a></p></td><td width="93"><p style="text-align: center;">697-716</p></td><td width="53"><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.the-criterion.com/V16/n1/CM06.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><strong>PDF</strong></a></p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="5" width="601"><h2 style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #333333;">World Literature</span></h2></td></tr><tr><td width="38"><p>01</p></td><td width="130"><p>Kavya Dixit</p></td><td width="287"><p>Theatre for the Scientific Age: A Study of Bertolt Brecht’s Epic Theatre</p><p><a href="https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14979023">https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14979023</a></p></td><td width="93"><p style="text-align: center;">717-737</p></td><td width="53"><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.the-criterion.com/V16/n1/WL01.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><strong>PDF</strong></a></p></td></tr><tr><td width="38"><p>02</p></td><td width="130"><p>Dr. Alka Sharma</p></td><td width="287"><p>Increasing Futility of the New World</p><p><a href="https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14979122">https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14979122</a></p></td><td width="93"><p style="text-align: center;">738-746</p></td><td width="53"><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.the-criterion.com/V16/n1/WL02.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><strong>PDF</strong></a></p></td></tr><tr><td width="38"><p>03</p></td><td width="130"><p>Thinagaran B & Dr. Dharani P</p></td><td width="287"><p>Sectarian Violence and Fictional Reality: A Dual Theoretical Reading of Taslima Nasrin’s <em>Lajja</em></p><p><a href="https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14979170">https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14979170</a></p></td><td width="93"><p style="text-align: center;">747-755</p></td><td width="53"><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.the-criterion.com/V16/n1/WL03.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><strong>PDF</strong></a></p></td></tr><tr><td width="38"><p>04</p></td><td width="130"><p>Anirudh Pradeep & Dr. Brinda P.</p></td><td width="287"><p>Exploring the Universality of Patriarchy in Selected Characters of Miguel de Cervantes’ <em>Don Quixote</em></p><p><a href="https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14979193">https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14979193</a></p></td><td width="93"><p style="text-align: center;">756-765</p></td><td width="53"><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.the-criterion.com/V16/n1/WL04.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><strong>PDF</strong></a></p></td></tr><tr><td width="38"><p>05</p></td><td width="130"><p>Debabarnine Bhattacharya</p></td><td width="287"><p>The Paradoxical Tourist Gaze: Ambivalence and the Empire in Constance Gordon Cumming’s <em>Wanderings in China</em></p><p><a href="https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14979211">https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14979211</a></p></td><td width="93"><p style="text-align: center;">766-780</p></td><td width="53"><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.the-criterion.com/V16/n1/WL05.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><strong>PDF</strong></a></p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="5" width="601"><h2 style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #333333;">Language & Linguistics</span></h2></td></tr><tr><td width="38"><p>01</p></td><td width="130"><p>Dr. Shugufta Shaheen & Dr. Sajaudeen Chapparban</p></td><td width="287"><p>The Role of Language and Literature in Assertion of Regional Identity: A Study of Deccan/Dakhn</p><p><a href="https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14980041">https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14980041</a></p></td><td width="93"><p style="text-align: center;">781-802</p></td><td width="53"><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.the-criterion.com/V16/n1/LL01.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><strong>PDF</strong></a></p></td></tr><tr><td width="38"><p>02</p></td><td width="130"><p>Pravasini Biswal & Dr. Dipti Ranjan Maharana</p></td><td width="287"><p>Exploring the Cognitive Benefits of Sociolinguistic Diversity in India’s Urban Classrooms</p><p><a href="https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14980052">https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14980052</a></p></td><td width="93"><p style="text-align: center;">803-824</p></td><td width="53"><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.the-criterion.com/V16/n1/LL02.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><strong>PDF</strong></a></p></td></tr><tr><td width="38"><p>03</p></td><td width="130"><p>Khushbu Agrawal & Dr. Vinod H. Asudani</p></td><td width="287"><p>Theories of Acquisition of English as a Second Language</p><p><a href="https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14980078">https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14980078</a></p></td><td width="93"><p style="text-align: center;">825-839</p></td><td width="53"><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.the-criterion.com/V16/n1/LL03.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><strong>PDF</strong></a></p></td></tr><tr><td width="38"><p>04</p></td><td width="130"><p>Dr. Surajit Sen</p></td><td width="287"><p>Reading Culture among Students: The Activity Model of Reading</p><p><a href="https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14980099">https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14980099</a></p></td><td width="93"><p style="text-align: center;">840-861</p></td><td width="53"><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.the-criterion.com/V16/n1/LL04.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><strong>PDF</strong></a></p></td></tr><tr><td width="38"><p>05</p></td><td width="130"><p>Dr. Sanju P. Jadhav</p></td><td width="287"><p>Language Imperialism and its Impact in India</p><p><a href="https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14980122">https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14980122</a></p></td><td width="93"><p style="text-align: center;">862-871</p></td><td width="53"><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.the-criterion.com/V16/n1/LL05.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><strong>PDF</strong></a></p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="5" width="601"><h2 style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #333333;">Critical Theory</span></h2></td></tr><tr><td width="38"><p>01</p></td><td width="130"><p>Bratati Barik</p></td><td width="287"><p>Plant Humanities and Biodiversity: A Textual Exploration and Reclamation in a Posthumanist Perspective</p><p><a href="https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14980147">https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14980147</a></p></td><td width="93"><p style="text-align: center;">872-882</p></td><td width="53"><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.the-criterion.com/V16/n1/CT01.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><strong>PDF</strong></a></p></td></tr><tr><td width="38"><p>02</p></td><td width="130"><p>J. Jehoson Jiresh</p></td><td width="287"><p>Institutionalised (ab)use of Interpretation: A Call for Reforming the Academic Use of Reader Response Practices in the Indian Literary Academia</p><p><a href="https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14980171">https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14980171</a></p></td><td width="93"><p style="text-align: center;">883-898</p></td><td width="53"><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.the-criterion.com/V16/n1/CT02.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><strong>PDF</strong></a></p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="5" width="601"><h2 style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #333333;">African Literature</span></h2></td></tr><tr><td width="38"><p>01</p></td><td width="130"><p>Basundhara Raj Dasgupta</p></td><td width="287"><p>Literature as Resistance: Redefining Identity through Language and Mythopoeia</p><p><a href="https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14980195">https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14980195</a></p></td><td width="93"><p style="text-align: center;">899-910</p></td><td width="53"><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.the-criterion.com/V16/n1/AF01.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><strong>PDF</strong></a></p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="5" width="601"><h2 style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #333333;">Film & Literature</span></h2></td></tr><tr><td width="38"><p>01</p></td><td width="130"><p>Dr. Simrann R Vermaa</p></td><td width="287"><p>The Journey of Self-Discovery and Redemption: Masaan, A Saga of Liberated Souls</p><p><a href="https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14980214">https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14980214</a></p></td><td width="93"><p style="text-align: center;">911-937</p></td><td width="53"><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.the-criterion.com/V16/n1/FL01.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><strong>PDF</strong></a></p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="5" width="601"><h1 style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #800080;">Poetry</span></h1></td></tr><tr><td width="38"><p>01</p></td><td width="130"><p>Dr. Mohammad Anas</p></td><td width="287"><p>Do I Care?</p></td><td width="93"><p style="text-align: center;">938-941</p></td><td width="53"><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.the-criterion.com/V16/n1/Anas.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><strong>PDF</strong></a></p></td></tr><tr><td width="38"><p>02</p></td><td width="130"><p>Dr. Annie Vimala D</p></td><td width="287"><p>If Only Peace Could Be Borrowed</p></td><td width="93"><p style="text-align: center;">942-944</p></td><td width="53"><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.the-criterion.com/V16/n1/Annie.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><strong>PDF</strong></a></p></td></tr><tr><td width="38"><p>03</p></td><td width="130"><p>Dr A Raihana Barvin</p></td><td width="287"><p>The Fervent Fish</p></td><td width="93"><p style="text-align: center;">945-946</p></td><td width="53"><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.the-criterion.com/V16/n1/Barvin.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><strong>PDF</strong></a></p></td></tr><tr><td width="38"><p>04</p></td><td width="130"><p>Kabir Deb</p></td><td width="287"><p>A Red Foetus</p></td><td width="93"><p style="text-align: center;">947-950</p></td><td width="53"><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.the-criterion.com/V16/n1/Kabir.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><strong>PDF</strong></a></p></td></tr><tr><td width="38"><p>05</p></td><td width="130"><p>Dr. Abhishek Kosta</p></td><td width="287"><p>Father: A Family Backbone!</p></td><td width="93"><p style="text-align: center;">951-952</p></td><td width="53"><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.the-criterion.com/V16/n1/Kosta.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><strong>PDF</strong></a></p></td></tr><tr><td width="38"><p>06</p></td><td width="130"><p>Eptisum Laskar</p></td><td width="287"><p>Whispers from the Soil</p></td><td width="93"><p style="text-align: center;">953-954</p></td><td width="53"><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.the-criterion.com/V16/n1/Laskar.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><strong>PDF</strong></a></p></td></tr><tr><td width="38"><p>07</p></td><td width="130"><p>Dr.Jasiya Manzoor</p></td><td width="287"><p>Wandering Waves of Soul</p></td><td width="93"><p style="text-align: center;">955-957</p></td><td width="53"><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.the-criterion.com/V16/n1/Manzoor.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><strong>PDF</strong></a></p></td></tr><tr><td width="38"><p>08</p></td><td width="130"><p>Naganandhini N.R.</p></td><td width="287"><p>Mother and Her Sweet Child</p></td><td width="93"><p style="text-align: center;">958-959</p></td><td width="53"><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.the-criterion.com/V16/n1/Naganandhini.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><strong>PDF</strong></a></p></td></tr><tr><td width="38"><p>09</p></td><td width="130"><p>Riyaz Ahmad Dantoo</p></td><td width="287"><p>Sounds of Shadows</p></td><td width="93"><p style="text-align: center;">960</p></td><td width="53"><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.the-criterion.com/V16/n1/Riyaz.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><strong>PDF</strong></a></p></td></tr><tr><td width="38"><p>10</p></td><td width="130"><p>Sachin K. Raghuvanshi</p></td><td width="287"><p>Animals Weep</p></td><td width="93"><p style="text-align: center;">961-962</p></td><td width="53"><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.the-criterion.com/V16/n1/Sachin.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><strong>PDF</strong></a></p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="5" width="601"><h1 style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #800080;">Fiction</span></h1></td></tr><tr><td width="38"><p>01</p></td><td width="130"><p>Shaik Asad</p></td><td width="287"><p>Green, Yellow</p></td><td width="93"><p style="text-align: center;">963-971</p></td><td width="53"><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.the-criterion.com/V16/n1/Asad.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><strong>PDF</strong></a></p></td></tr><tr><td width="38"><p>02</p></td><td width="130"><p>Dr. Emily Bilman</p></td><td width="287"><p>The Fluvial Breach</p></td><td width="93"><p style="text-align: center;">972-977</p></td><td width="53"><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.the-criterion.com/V16/n1/Bilman.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><strong>PDF</strong></a></p></td></tr><tr><td width="38"><p>03</p></td><td width="130"><p>P R Gopalakrishnan</p></td><td width="287"><p>Exit</p></td><td width="93"><p style="text-align: center;">978-994</p></td><td width="53"><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.the-criterion.com/V16/n1/Gopalakrishnan.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><strong>PDF</strong></a></p></td></tr><tr><td width="38"><p>04</p></td><td width="130"><p>Dr. Neha Kumari</p></td><td width="287"><p>The Entrepreneur</p></td><td width="93"><p style="text-align: center;">995-998</p></td><td width="53"><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.the-criterion.com/V16/n1/Neha.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><strong>PDF</strong></a></p></td></tr><tr><td width="38"><p>05</p></td><td width="130"><p>Dr. Munish Kumar Thakur</p></td><td width="287"><p>The Silent Sea</p></td><td width="93"><p style="text-align: center;">999-1018</p></td><td width="53"><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.the-criterion.com/V16/n1/Thakur.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><strong>PDF</strong></a></p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="5" width="601"><h1 style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #800080;">Book Review</span></h1></td></tr><tr><td width="38"><p>01</p></td><td width="130"><p>Dr. G. Kiran Kumar Reddy</p></td><td width="287"><p><em>Chanakya in You </em>by Radha Krishna Pillai</p></td><td width="93"><p style="text-align: center;">1019-1021</p></td><td width="53"><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.the-criterion.com/V16/n1/Reddy.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><strong>PDF</strong></a></p></td></tr><tr><td width="38"><p>02</p></td><td width="130"><p>Dr. Amrapali Chawla Sapra</p></td><td width="287"><p>Lone Fox Dancing- My Autobiography by Ruskin Bond</p></td><td width="93"><p style="text-align: center;">1022-1026</p></td><td width="53"><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.the-criterion.com/V16/n1/Sapra.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><strong>PDF</strong></a></p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="5" width="601"><h1 style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #800080;">Interview</span></h1></td></tr><tr><td width="38"><p>01</p></td><td width="130"><p>Jyotsna</p></td><td width="287"><p>Interview With the Writer Ranjit Lal</p></td><td 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