Indigenous Selfhood and Spiritual Identity: Rethinking Ātman in Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar's The Mysterious Ailment of Rupi Baskey
This paper investigates the conceptual and philosophical resonances between the Vedantic notion of Ātman the eternal, inviolable self and the construction of indigenous selfhood and spiritual identity in Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar's novel The Mysterious Ailment of Rupi Baskey (2014). Drawing on Advaita Vedanta, postcolon...