In Interpreter of Maladies (1999) Jhumpa Lahiri gives voice to Boori Ma, a durwan (doorkeeper) who chronicles about the easier times she enjoyed before deportation Kolkata (previously known as Calcutta, India) after Partition 1947. plays with word real implying that Ma’s stories could be deciphered or not. fictitious life resembles one Royal Family Oudh, which seems inspired by. Foreign corresp...

Abstract The paper focuses on two problems with Alexander Wendt's unification of physical and social ontology the basis quantum theory. Firstly, by endowing phenomena an ontological foundation in reality defined terms Wendt risks reducing a plurality worlds as ‘fields sense’, ordered their immanent rules, to world laws Secondly, defining his science excluding from consideration all that which v...