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The present paper is an attempt to discuss the marginalised voice of "the mother" figures in mainstream women writers of India like Shashi Deshpande, Kiran Desai, and Manju Kapoor belonging to different decades and has significantly projected the dimensions of the mother-daughter relationship. Though in their writings, the mothers are voiceless and marginalised by none other than their daughters. Their projection of voiceless mothers and sole-dominated daughters has become a never-ending custom in Indian literature where mothers are being muted with no perspectives. The discussion is focused on the idealisation of motherhood and voiceless mothers projected as the "bad mother" without listening to them.

The crucial nexus between ecology, forest, forest dwellers, and their position in the ancient genres of literature and art is a significant area of aesthetic contemplation. Ancient Indian literary traditions have remarkable eco-sensitivity and display their own style of ecopoetics (signified by genres such as the Aranyakas). This study presents a critical analysis of the graphic novel Aranyaka: Book of the Forest (2019) — an artistic retelling based on Puranic tales, the Upanishads, and a special literary genre called the Aranyakas (because these texts were composed in the forests). This graphic novel is the culmination of an artistic collaboration between the graphic artist Amruta Patil and the Indian mythologist Devdutt Pattanaik. The novel has complex visual metaphors that are based on the intimate stories of the well-known Indian sage Y?jñavalkya, his wives Katyayani and Maitreyi, and a dialogue with his disciple Gargi. The graphic novel presents fragments of stories based on the concealed wisdom of the Brihadaranyaka Upanishad. The novel is a “play” on the perceived dualisms of Nature and Culture, Savage and Civilised. The text is dialogic in its structure. There is an interplay of visual art with verbal metaphors from ancient Indian tales.

Regenerative endodontic procedures have brought novelty in the arena of dentistry. Stem cell research has paved its way into conserving and utilizing the multipotent stem cells for tissue growth. One such procedure is revascularization which utilizes the apical stem cells for root lengthening and reinforcement in traumatized tooth with an open apex. The present clinical case report has shown that revascularization results in successful root lengthening and apical closure in lesser appointments than conventional specification procedure without weakening the dentinal walls.