<p class="Default">This paper endeavours to demonstrate, how application of contemporary ideas about disability to recent literary writings that portray children, give new dimensions to the idea of disability. It provides the experiences faced by the children with disabilities within the contexts of family and society with special reference to the contemporary fiction Out Of My Mind by Sharon M Draper.</p>

This paper looks at the intersection of cultural memory, war and literary narrative in the specific context of the civil wars that raged Sri Lanka. It would consider the dynamics of cultural memory of an ethnic minority group during a civil war. To achieve this, the paper would attempt a close study of Shobasakthi , the Tamil Eelam writer’s titular short story “The MGR Murder Trial” from his short story anthology. The use of a popular cultural icon is deliberate in the story. The paper would consider the symbolism of this usage and thereby arrive at the author’s response to the civil war.

<div><p><em>Literary studies and historiographies have restored and recovered a number of Partition narratives. This paper interrogates the revisiting of partition memory in Reema Moudgil Perfect Eight which returns to partition memory, through two generations. It compares the trajectories of this memory for a first generation survivor with the intergenerational memory of the daughter who vicariously relives this past</em>. </p></div>

The culinary is a field that offers a wide scope of study because of its essential but complex nature in relation with human beings. This paper will utilize the framework of memory studies to examine the nature of the relationship between the culinary and memory in Madhur Jaffrey’s climbing the Mango Trees: A Memoir of a Childhood in India and Asma Khan’s Asma’s Indian Kitchen. Communicative memory and Cultural memory are the key terms that will be employed in understanding the spaces of memory that the culinary occupies.  This study will explore the intersectional space occupied by the culinary and memory in analyzing how the two distinct memory sites merge or collapse within the culinary.