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Critical and Analytical Essays Open Access Mar 07, 2026

Domestic Porosity and the Transcultural Uncanny in Select Japanese and Indian Folk Narratives

Debasmita Sarkar

This essay examines how Japanese folk narratives produce the uncanny not through spectacular supernatural intrusion but through subtle disturbances within domestic life. Drawing...

10.63752/pijcace.0102W05
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Book and Exhibition Reviews Open Access Jun 01, 2025

Truth, Beauty, and the Aesthetic Quest: Arjun Bharadwaj’s Exploration of Homer through Indian Thought

Amritanath Bhattacharya

This review examines Arjun Bharadwaj's Indian Perspective of Truth and Beauty in Homer's Epics, a comparative literary study that applies Indian aesthetic philosophy to Homer's ...

10.63752/pijcace.vol.1.issue.01S.007
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Critical and Analytical Essays Open Access Jun 01, 2025

Cinema Between the Surgeon and the Observer: Benjamin, Bazin, and Hitchcock’s Psycho

Sayantan Dutta

This paper examines the theoretical divide between Walter Benjamin and André Bazin regarding cinema's relationship to reality, using Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho (1960) as a case s...

10.63752/pijcace.vol.1.issue.01S.003
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Critical and Analytical Essays Open Access Jun 01, 2025

Moral Dilemmas and Values of the Middle Class in Mrinal Sen's Films: A Study of Ek Din Pratidin and Kharij

Md. Saddam Hossain

This study examines the moral contradictions and values of the Bengali middle class as portrayed in Mrinal Sen's acclaimed films Ek Din Pratidin (1979) and Kharij (1982). Throug...

10.63752/pijcace.vol.1.issue.01S.002
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Critical and Analytical Essays Open Access Jun 01, 2025

Bharata Muni as a Microcosm of Cosmic Emanation: Sustaining, Offering and Expanding Nāṭya through Icchā, Jñāna, and Kriyā

Shri Piyal Bhattacharya

This paper examines Bharata Muni through a traditional śāstrika lens, moving beyond historical debates to interpret him as a cosmic principle of performative knowledge (nāṭya-jñ...

10.63752/pijcace.vol.1.issue.01S.001
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Critical and Analytical Essays Open Access Jun 01, 2025

A Comprehensive Analysis of Sarasvatī Kṛtis by Prof. R. Visweswaran

Dr. Uma Kumar

In the Nadīstuti Sūktās of Vedic scriptures, Goddess Sarasvatī emerged as the divine river of consciousness and enlightenment, nourishing the genesis of Vedic Sanskrit civilisat...

10.63752/pijcace.vol.1.issue.01S.004
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Portrait of Professor Jay L. Garfield
Jay L. Garfield · Smith College

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Emptiness, Mind, and the Global Turn in Philosophy

Poorvam International Journal invites scholars from across the philosophical world to contribute to a commemorative volume honouring one of the most influential philosophers of our time — the scholar who inaugurated our own Authors in Conversation series.

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