https://sanglap-journal.in/index.php/sanglap <p align="justify"><strong><em>Sanglap</em> (ISSN: 2349-8064) is open-access and published twice a year (May-June and November-December)</strong>. Each issue carries a specific theme. We look forward to articles that cater to these themes in an interdisciplinary manner.</p> <div>We <strong>only</strong> consider <strong>themed papers</strong> that <strong>respond to our CFPs</strong>. <strong>We do not accept general articles.</strong> <strong>So, please do not submit unsolicited articles via email. </strong></div> <p align="justify"><strong>We do not use the log in system on this website. So, please do not send us your submissions through the website by logging in. All such submissions will be ignored. Those who want to submit articles can simply mail it to us at the editorial mail, given below. </strong></p> <p align="justify"><em>Sanglap</em> is indexed in the <strong>UGC CARE List of Journals, Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), MLA International Bibliography and MLA Directory of Periodicals, ProQuest, Literature Online, Europub, Worldcat Directories, </strong>the <strong>ROAD Directory of Open Access Journals, European Reference Index for The Humanities and Social Sciences </strong>among other indexing bodies<strong>. </strong>It is currently archived in the <strong>United States Library of Congress, </strong>the<strong> British Library and </strong>the<strong> National Library of Scotland, </strong>and<strong> SHERPA/RoMEO Publishers Copyright Policies and Self-Archiving, </strong>among others The journal is further indexed in numerous university libraries and scholarly organization databases.</p> <p align="justify"><strong>The <em>Journal</em> does not charge any submission, processing, publishing, subscription, or such fees. Neither does it pay any remuneration to the contributors</strong>. It is a non-profit and voluntary initiative aimed solely for presentation and circulation of academic research.</p> <p align="justify"><strong>The articles go through a peer-reviewing process by experts in the field. We do our best to notify the decisions within two months.</strong> Should a writer intend to withdraw their article within the stipulated time, they must take permission from the editors signing a letter of declaration. We are strictly against plagiarism, and upon acceptance of articles, the authors have to sign a statement against plagiarism and such acts, and abide by the copyright policy of the <em>Journal</em>.</p> <p align="justify"><em>Sanglap: Journal of Literary and Cultural Inquiry</em> seeks original articles on themed issues strictly within 7000 words (including notes) written in MLA format (go to 'Submission Guidelines' under the 'Submissions' tab on home page to access the <em>Sanglap</em> style-guide ) and sent as MS Word document to the email address: <a href="mailto:editors@sanglap-journal.in">editors@sanglap-journal.in</a></p> <p align="justify">If you want to submit a <strong>Book Review</strong> for our consideration, please send your MS (not more than 2,500 words, including notes and bibliography) to the review section editor, Prof. Anuparna Mukherjee at mukherjeeanuparna@gmail.com</p> <p align="justify">If you want to submit <strong>English translations</strong> for our translation section, please direct your inquiries and/or send your translated MS to Prof. Samrat Sengupta at samrat19802003@yahoo.co.in</p> <p align="justify">If you want to submit an opinion piece (in 1500-2000 words) for our blog section <strong>'Out of the Blox'</strong>, please direct your inquiries and/or send your translated MS to Dr. Arunima Bhattacharya at arunima.1108@gmail.com</p> <p align="justify">For submission and formatting, please consult the guidelines.</p> en-US https://sanglap-journal.in/index.php/sanglap/announcement/view/7 <p><strong><em>Sanglap</em></strong><strong> <em>12:1</em> Guest-Edited Issue CFP (December 2025) </strong><strong>: </strong></p> <p><strong><em>Representing Truths: Digital Governmentality and the New World Order </em></strong></p> <p><strong>(Guest Editors: Dr. Samrat Sengupta and Dr. Samata Biswas)</strong></p> <p>Technology is always claimed to have been a major factor behind historical and political transformations of the world order. Technologies of representations and transmission of ideas/knowledge have been a key factor behind the construction of identities and regimes of power. Anxieties regarding the control and appropriation of technologies of mediation by different forms of power such as speech (rhetoric), writing or the audio-visual modes of representation have been a major concern of political and social theorists of both the Frankfurt school as well as the Birmingham School of Cultural Studies. Scholars such as Theodore Adorno, Max Horkheimer, and Walter Benjamin have been concerned about a totalitarian appropriation of technologies to shape and control the world order. With digital technologies the focus of control and governance is not only on the modes of representation, but also upon the technologies of transmission, which scholars like Jacques Derrida or Bernard Stiegler have termed as teletechnologies. Coterminous with the growth of corporate capitalism, such technologies are ontologically tied to the way the market or the nation-states wield power, and have proved to be fertile playing fields of fundamentalist and xenophobic ideologies to produce their own form of knowledge/power, manufacturing truth. Artificial Intelligence, quantifying, mapping and generating data based on people’s activities, creates a murky field of control, desire and reality, trained on real information, enhanced by ideological considerations. . Corporates use such data for marketing and shaping of the consumerist choices. The authoritarian governments and ideologues use such data to spread their propaganda through production of fake news and pseudo-histories suitable to their agenda. Big data becomes a threat to the realities of the marginalized and the minorities all over the world and we have witnessed such polarized views of politics in the rise of the far right in countries like the USA, India, Pakistan or Bangladesh. While social media has been a space for articulating the voices of the marginalized and for launching political movements against state power, in recent times there have been heavy censorship, manipulation and control of data in the social media by authoritarian regimes. More recently, the immediate aftermath of the “Operation Sindoor” launched by India, created a perfect ecosystem of post-truth, fuelled by digitally available or created images and an ideologically vulnerable population.</p> <p>The proposed issue of <em>Sanglap</em> hopes to take into account such consideration. We invite papers that critically engage with concrete instances of representation and creation of truths and fact, rewriting and augmenting histories, the digital and the haptic turn, including, but not limited to case studies.</p> <p>Papers (with a 350 word abstract, 100 word bio and 4-5 keywords, formatted in MLA 7^th edition, author-date system and in <strong>Ariel, font size 11</strong>) related to the broad theme and connected but not limited to the following sub-themes within 5000-7000 words can be mailed at <a href="mailto:representingtruths.sanglap@gmail.com"><strong>representingtruths.sanglap@gmail.com</strong></a> by <strong>15th August 2025: </strong></p> <p>Post-truth and the crisis of epistemology<br />Digital governmentality<br />AI and the regimes of power<br />Fake news and the politics of representation<br />Precarity in the digital age<br />Social media and activism<br />Information society and the manufacturing of history<br />Digitization of epistemes and the future of universities</p> <p><strong>For article formatting style, see </strong><a href="https://www.sanglap-journal.in/index.php/sanglap/style_guide"><strong>https://www.sanglap-journal.in/index.php/sanglap/style_guide</strong></a></p> <p><strong>Full Article Deadline</strong>: <strong>August 15, 2025</strong></p> <p><strong>Decisions</strong> to be communicated by <strong>October 1</strong>, <strong>2025 </strong></p> <p><strong>Issue Publication</strong>: <strong>December, 2025</strong></p> Sanglap: Journal of Literary and Cultural Inquiry (ISSN: 2349-8064) 2025-05-15