The Ramayan, a seminal South Asian mythological text, is rarely examined in scholarship concerning ancient literary texts, in part due to the overwhelming focus on the Greco-Roman canon. Ovid’s Metamorphoses has long served as a window into Greco-Roman culture and mythology. However, the ways in which the Metamorphoses may be shaped by, and in t…[Read more]

This article critically analyses the modern function of the British Council, which operates as a primarily educational organisation in many formerly-colonised nations such as India and Pakistan. Here, I argue that the ways in which the British Council aims to spread British culture around the globe is a direct continuation of British imperial…[Read more]