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Challenges in Adaptation: Interplay of Tradition and Innovation

February 2026

Keynote Address:Dependence, Liberation, and Creativity: Reclaiming the Power of Adaptation

Iffat Maqbool

Article DOI:10.21659/mejo29.277.a8n3

Isaac Sequeira Memorial Lecture Adaptation and Translation: Reversing a Hierarchy

Harish Trivedi

Article DOI:10.21659/mejo29.278.a8n3

Across Rivers and Roots: Ethical and Ecological Worlds in theWritings of Nguyễn Ngọc Tư and Contemporary Indian Women Authors

Trần Thị Vân Dung and Nayan Deep S. Kanwal

Article DOI:10.21659/mejo29.279.a8n3

Hybridity, Carnivalism, and Commercialization: Trans- Cultural Adaptation of Traditional Myths in Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children

Yuhe Chen

Article DOI:10.21659/mejo29.280.a8n3

Haiku After Adaptation: On the Fate of An Oriental Genre in the Western World

Adela Kuik-Kalinowska

Article DOI:10.21659/mejo29.281.a8n3

From Pages of Literature to the Frames of Comics: Examples of Edgar Allan Poe and George Orwell

Daniel Kalinowski

Article DOI:10.21659/mejo29.282.a8n3

The Mutuality of Adaptation in/of Percival Everett’s Works

Sanjay Mukherjee

Article DOI:10.21659/mejo29.283.a8n3

Adaptation as Transformative Reimagining: Analysing Shiv Kumar Batalvi’s Luna

Harjinder Kaur

Article DOI:10.21659/mejo29.284.a8n3

From Folktale to Franchise: Rapunzel in the Age of Adaptation

Shefali Sharma

Article DOI:10.21659/mejo29.285.a8n3

Between the Ancient and the Animated: Visual and Narrative Adaptation of Select Epic Characters of The Mahabharata in Grant Morrison’s 18 Days

Pratishtha Thakur

Article DOI:10.21659/mejo29.286.a8n3

“To Win is to Lose Everything and the Game Always Wins”: The Politics of Fidelity in Vikram Chandra’s Sacred Games and its Screen Adaptation

Bashabi Gogoi

Article DOI:10.21659/mejo29.287.a8n3

Re-inventing of Sita’s Character through the Analyses of Devdutt Pattanaik’s Sita: An Illustrated Retelling of the Ramyana

Vinod K. Chopra

Article DOI:10.21659/mejo29.288.a8n3

Understanding Satyajit Ray’s Filmic Approach to Ibsen: A Comparative Study of Ganashatru and An Enemy of the People

Sharif Atiquzzaman

Article DOI:10.21659/mejo29.289.a8n3

Politics of Adaptation and Consumerist Subversion in the Filmic Representation of Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go

Richa

Article DOI:10.21659/mejo29.290.a8n3

Requiem for a Nightmare: A Comparison of Daron Aronofsky’s Film with Hubert Selby Jr.’s Novel

Manthan Dhiman

Article DOI:10.21659/mejo29.291.a8n3

Against Forgetting: Haider, Hamlet and the Politics of Remembrance

Towfeeq Farooq and Khursheed Ahmad Qazi

Article DOI:10.21659/mejo29.292.a8n3

Divine Spectacle: The Cinematic Rebirth of Indian Epics

Monika Supahiya

Article DOI:10.21659/mejo29.293.a8n3

Exploring the Nuances of Neo-Noir: A Study of Graham Moore’s The Outfit

Poorva Gulati and Shivani Larojya

Article DOI:10.21659/mejo29.294.a8n3

Epic Voices, Feminist Fires: Reimagining Sita and Draupadi Across Genres

Ayushi Khera

Article DOI:10.21659/mejo29.295.a8n3

Tracing the Transition of Vikram Seth’s, A Suitable Boy from Text to OTT

Mandeep Kaur

Article DOI:10.21659/mejo29.296.a8n3

Adaptation as an Act of Political Cloning and Alteration of Narratives: An Analysis of The Hate U Give

Shreya Bhatia

Article DOI:10.21659/mejo29.297.a8n3

Palimpsests of Green Gables: Intertextuality, Identity, and Ideology in Anne with an E

Sunaina Jain

Article DOI:10.21659/mejo29.298.a8n3

Othello to Omkara: Caste, Social and Political Hierarchy in Vishal Bhardwaj's Adaptation of Shakespeare

Puja Majhi

Article DOI:10.21659/mejo29.299.a8n3

The Sacred and Its Adaptation: Negotiating Folklore and Scriptural Authority

Asmita Sharma

Article DOI:10.21659/mejo29.300.a8n3

Mannequins on the Stage: Contemporary Theatrical Adaptations as a Socio-Cultural Discourse on Gender Fluidity

Angadbir Singh Kakkar

Article DOI:10.21659/mejo29.301.a8n3

Feminist and Political Erasure: The House of the Spirits Novel vs. Film

Aastha Choudhary

Article DOI:10.21659/mejo29.302.a8n3

Plurilingualism and the Problem of Translation/Adaptation: A Study of Select Sufi/Bhakti Poems in Bangla/Hindi Translation

Azhar Uddin Sahaji

Article DOI:10.21659/mejo29.303.a8n3