The National Education Policy 2020 (NEP 2020) is a significant public policy instrument for India, which was launched by the Indian government on 29 July 2020. It is the first education policy to be drafted in the new millennium and replaces the previous National Policy on Education, 1986. The NEP 2020 aims to reform the Indian education system by…
A David Lewis, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Healthcare Business, MHS Program Coordinator , School of Healthcare Business MCPHS University. Email: ADavid.Lewis@mcphs.edu Abstract Graphic Medicine, the intersection between comic books and medicine/healthcare, is growing worldwide, especially in India. Among its pioneers there is Sathyaraj Venkatesan, whose approach and utilization of Graphic Medicine may come with a…
Banhisikha Maity B.A Student, , PG Department of English. Bhatter College, Dantan E-mail: banhi653@gmail.com Special Issue on Diseases, Death and Disorder, 2020 Abstract Studying or analyzing disasters has recently given birth to a relatively new interdisciplinary field called ‘Disaster Studies’ that aims at studying the impacts or aftereffects of disaster/s on the different levels…
Rajesh Shyamal B.A Student, , PG Department of English. Bhatter College, Dantan E-mail: rajesh721426@gmail.com Special Issue on Diseases, Death and Disorder, 2020 Abstract There has hardly been a civilization/society that has not faced infectious disease, or so to say epidemics. Both its causation and its corollary aftermath have been a matter of much concern…
Sandip Majhi B.A Student, , PG Department of English. Bhatter College, Dantan E-mail: sandipmajhi602@gmail.com Special Issue on Diseases, Death and Disorder, 2020 Abstract: Evolution, as it is commonly understood, is a change in the characteristics of a species over several generations and depends on the process of natural selection. This evolution not only…
Mir Ahammad Ali Chief Editor, The Golden Line & Assistant Professor, Department of English, Bhatter College, Dantan Special Issue on Diseases, Death and Disorder, 2020 It has been five years since we are publishing The Golden Line: A Magazine of English Literature on diverse areas of Literature. We have started this online platform back in 2015 and…
Soumen Chatterjee Assistant Teacher, Barabeli Junior High School (Govt-aided), West Bengal E-mail: soumenchatterjee94@gmail.com Special Issue on Diseases, Death and Disorder, 2020 Abstract From time immemorial human societies have been regularly hit by epidemics that have taken a heavy toll on human lives. During these moments of crisis each and every individual has to compromise with…
Isha Biswas Ph.D. Scholar, English Department, Vidyasagar University Abstract In the current global scenario, we find ourselves approaching rapidly-escalating paranoia about survival, enmeshed in heated, increasingly frantic discussions about long-term consequences once the madness recedes. Trapped in the inescapable periodicity of historic recurrence of pandemics, there is a hike in readership of postmodern SF and…
Debaditya Chakraborty1 & Rajarshi Bagchi2 1Ph.D. Research Scholar, Department of English, Bankura University 2Assistant Professor, North Bengal St. Xavier’s College Special Issue on Diseases, Death and Disorder, 2020 Abstract Man is the product of his environment, the latter connoting both his natural and cultural environs. The cultural environment, in turn, is determined by his socio-political…
Loraine Haywood Conjoint Fellow, The University of Newcastle, Australia E-mail: loraine.haywood@uon.edu.au Special Issue on Diseases, Death and Disorder, 2020 Abstract Hesiod used the dragon Queen Tiamat as a foundation for his mythic Pandora. Tiamat belongs to a theogony in the supremacy of Patriarchal gods in a political contest for the throne. Hesiod transforms Pandora from…