Shortly before Ewa’s 43rd birthday, which is on 17 July, issue 17 of the Indian scientific journal Akshara was published online. It features a review of Ewa’s doctoral thesis.
Akshara was launched in 2009 by Vijay Kumar Roy and Subodh Kumar Sinha in fond memory of Professor Shankaranand Palit, the most revered teacher of English at Lalit Narayan Mithila University. Its first issue was published by Academic Studies and Research Association, Darbhanga in print version in May 2009. In 2018, it became part of the World Association of Authors and Researchers and started publishing by Paragon International Publishers, New Delhi. From 2022 it is also published online. It aims at providing an international forum for teachers and researchers for dissemination of high-quality research. It accepts scholarly articles on a wide range of authors and literary texts in English besides literary criticism and applied linguistics. It also accepts original short stories, poems, interviews, and reviews of the recently published books.
It is exciting and immensely moving to think that Ewa’s work was, and perhaps even now is being read somewhere on the other side of the world. The book Literary Appropriations of Myth and Legend… reached India, into the hands of Prof. Vijay Kumar Roy, last spring. This year’s review by Prof. Amar Nath Kumar, so flattering, insightful and touching on the memory of Ewa with tenderness, was a delightful surprise and a symbolic icing on the birthday cake, which was once again there in Warsaw. And your smile, my dearest Ewa, was reflected in the eyes of your Parents who are so proud of you. As are all of us.
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