L Kavitha Nair

@srmist.edu.in

Head, Science & Humanities
Professor, Science & Humanities
SRM University of Science and Technology

L Kavitha Nair


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RESEARCH, TEACHING, or OTHER INTERESTS

Arts and Humanities, Cultural Studies, Language and Linguistics, Literature and Literary Theory
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Scopus Publications

Scopus Publications

  • From Hubris to Humility: Reimagining Duryodhana in Bhāsa’s Ūrubhaṅga through Aesthetic Revisionism
    S. Puja, L. Kavitha Nair
    Journal of Dharma Studies, 2026
  • Reimagining Myths: A Study of Contemporary Fictional Retellings of Surpanakha
    S Puja, L Kavitha Nair
    Feminist Theology, 2026
    Myths are more than literary plots and themes; they provide insights into social structures and the human psyche, particularly regarding women’s roles across various cultures and historical periods. This study explores how myths, specifically those embedded in the epic Ramayana, can be retold to challenge patriarchal norms. In Stealing the Language, Alicia Ostriker describes revisionist myth-making as repurposing ancient figures to drive cultural change. This study scrutinizes contemporary interpretations of Surpanakha in The Liberation of Sita by Volga and Lanka’s Princess by Kavita Kane. It investigates how these authors reconfigure Surpanakha from a simplistic antagonist into a complex character endowed with aspirations and agency. Employing Uma Chakravarti’s notion of ‘Revisionism’, the analysis explores the narrative’s attempts to humanize Surpanakha and liberate her from patriarchal constraints. The paper underscores the authors’ efforts to elevate Surpanakha from marginalization to prominence. It also examines how these authors portray Surpanakha’s emotional depth and reimagine her fate, thereby challenging traditional Ramayana narratives and patriarchal representations, while offering new perspectives on empowering marginalized voices.
  • Grief, Anger, and the In-between A Rasaic Analysis of Poile Sengupta’s Thus Spake Shoorpanakha, So Said Shakuni
    S. Puja, L. Kavitha Nair
    Cracow Indological Studies, 2025
    Śurpaṇakhā from the Rāmāyaṇa, though she plays a pivotal role in the epic, is often neglected in the main discourse. The character’s exclusion from the central narrative typically positions her as the “other” and reduces her to a flat, villainous archetype. To bring her from the margins to the center, it is crucial to reimagine and reinterpret her narrative in order to reclaim her subjectivity. Thus, this paper proposes revising Śurpaṇakhā in Poile Sengupta’s play, Thus Spake Shoorpanakha, So Said Shakuni, through the lens of the rasa-bhāva theory. It moves beyond the aesthetics to view rasa as a transformative medium, shaping the character’s experiences. It investigates the factors that marginalize Śurpaṇakhā in the traditional narrative and how they instigate dominant sthāyibhāvas like śoka (grief) and krodha (anger), which, respectively, evoke karuṇa rasa and raudra rasa, shaping the character’s internal conflicts and agency. By redefining her emotional complexity, this study challenges traditional Rāmāyaṇa narratives and offers new perspectives on the emotional experience of marginalized voices.
  • Toponymy and the dialectics of space and place in Chus Pato’s m-Talá
    Ramalingam Pooja, L Kavitha Nair
    Castilla Estudios De Literatura, 2025
    Los topónimos son denominaciones de lugares. Los topónimos van más allá de los simples nombres de lugares, sino que sirven como portadores simbólicos de la historia y la memoria asociada a un lugar. Este artículo pretende examinar los topónimos y microtopónimos de poesía selecta de la antología M-Tala de Chus Pato a través de un análisis textual detallado. Este artículo utiliza el concepto de topónimos de Michel de Certeau, tal como lo presenta en su obra fundamental La práctica de la vida cotidiana (1984), para analizar cómo los nombres de lugares se extienden más allá de sus roles geográficos para funcionar como sitios de memoria, identidad y resistencia. Este artículo pretende resaltar el valor de la cultura regional como contranarrativas a la homogeneización cultural provocada por las presiones globalizadoras internas y modernas.
  • Navigating Identity: Reading Select Poetry of Rosalía De Castro Through the Lens of Counter-Narratives
    R. Pooja, L. Kavitha Nair
    Human Arenas, 2025
  • Place and Memory: Revisiting the Past Self Through Autobiographical Memory
    Nirmal Kumar M, L. Kavitha Nair
    Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Science, 2024
  • IoT-powered training for employee potential through smart embedded tools and technologies
    Bishnu Paramguru Mahapatra, L. Kavitha Nair, M. Alagesan, P.S. Prasanth, Rasabihari Mishra, Pritish Bhanja
    Embedded Devices and Internet of Things Technologies and Applications, 2024
    One definition of employee empowerment is creating a smart workplace where workers are encouraged to provide input on matters such as policy formation, issue resolution, and goal setting using smart technologies. It's a method of empowering staff to make choices on their own via the distribution of authority. This research aims to summarize existing literature and perspectives on empowering workers using effective training strategies. Increasing employee accountability and enhancing output quality are at the heart of the empowerment concept that would be possible by learning new tools and technologies. Employee empowerment generates a good attitude among the workers toward the organization. The viewpoints, components, kinds, strategies, advantages, and problems of employee empowerment are presented in this research. Secondary information was used for this analysis. This research provides a methodical introduction to the topic of empowerment for managers. Reflection of this research might serve as a learning tool for organizations to practice employee empowerment. The Internet of Things (IoT) has the potential to greatly enhance employee training by utilizing intelligent tools and technology, hence empowering employees to reach their full potential. There are multiple ways in which IoT might enhance the training process.