POEMS ---------------------------------------------------------------- Title: Contemplation - where is my home? Poet: Merry Baruah Poet intro: Merry Barua, Associate Professor of English at Cotton University, has a PhD from Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati and specializes in Indian Writings in English, Literature of the North East and Literary and Cultural Theory. A former Visiting Faculty at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences (Guwahati campus), she is interested in translation and pu…

“A gender-equal society would be one where the word ‘gender’ does not exist: where everyone can be themselves.” - Gloria Steinem. The contemporary relevance of the above quotation by the famous American feminist journalist and social political activist of the late 1960s and early 1970s, establishes beyond doubt that gender inequality exists world over, with varying degrees of differences. While an astonishing number of women still strive for a…

“Sometimes we feel we straddle two cultures; at other times, that we fall between two stools.” This quotation from Salman Rushdie reveals much about the ambiguous condition of the diasporic people. The term diaspora, which was once an object of suspicion, has now become one of fascination. Once it was historically and politically a loaded concept, today it is not only an impartial term but also an all embracing one for the erstwhile terms like immigrants, refugees, asylum seekers, guest worker…