Volume V (2021) Table of Contents Note from the Board of Editors Research Articles 1Presence of the Past: Notions of the Indian Nation in Class VI NCERT History TextbooksMuskan Aggarwal2 Carnatic Fusion: Sites for Identity Reconciliation or Erasure?Adithi Hebbar3Resurrecting the Courtesan Identity: A Historical CritiqueQandeel Qazi4The Connotations of Conlangs: Understanding the Orientalist Leanings of Dothraki and High Valyrian in Game of ThronesA Rahel Rao5The Body Politics of a Polish Melodrama: Cold War (2018) Amarabati Bhattacharyya6Imagining the Nation: The Notion of Nationalism in Early 20th Century Kerala through works of Sahodaran Ayyappan and Vallathol Narayana MenonT Meera Keshav7Death of the Avenging Woman? Exploring the Distinct Filmic Sensibilities of Pink (2016) and Mom (2017) as Rape-Revenge Films Rutvik Upadhyaya 8 Mapping Solitude: An Exploratory Study of the Concept of Solitude in a Hyper-Connected Modern WorldAena Asif, Isha Mahajan9Anansi, Myth, and Resistance: Exploring Anansi Folklore as Trangressive Culture during SlaveryMrinal Rajeev10 A Study of Climate Change-Induced Migration in the Sundarbans Mangrove Region in the Last Ten YearsGeeta Gunjal Commentary 1 Empathy and Artificial Intelligence: Examining the Role of Artificial Empathy as a Protective Factor in Interpersonal RelationshipsShreya Upendra2Environmental Protection, Protests, and Infrastructural Development: Can Goa Strike a Balance?Sanam Bhobe3The Role of Political Rhetoric in Spreading Intergroup Prejudice in IndiaParnika Jhunjhunwala Book Review 1 Repression, Dacoity, and the Law: Durba Ghosh’s Gentlemanly Terrorists: Political Violence and the Colonial State in India, 1919–1947Disha Doshi