The Literary Criterion
Current Volume: 59 (2024 )
ISSN: 0042-452X
Periodicity: Quarterly
Month(s) of Publication: Mar, Jun, Sep & Dec
Subject: Literature and Fiction
The Literary Criterion is now 66 years old and the longest Indian journal in continuous circulation in the country. It is internationally known and has successfully crated a critical climate for the past 60 years also influencing the academia about new areas of literature like The American, The African, the Australian, Caribbean, the New Zealand etc literature's. It has brought out various special issues and all these areas including Shakespeare, T.S. Eliot, F R Leavis and Indian writers of English. All the special issues have appeared in hardback as independent volumes. Its reputation is such in exchange for it more than 15 international journals are being received at Dhvanyaloka, Mysore.
Editor N/A
C N Srinath
Associate Editor
Ragini Ramachandra
Guest Editor
TEJ N DHAR
Volume 59 Issue 1-2 , (Jan-2024 to Jun-2024)
Rock (Wreck)-ing the Ship: Had Jocelin been a Prospero in William Golding's The Spire
By: Bishnupada Ray
Page No : 31-44
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Thoreau's Walden – Transcendence of the self in pursuit of the Other
By: C.N. Srinath
Page No : 45-50
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Trajectories of Stigmatisation and Criminalisation in Mahasweta Devi's “Makar Savar”
By: Vandana Gupta
Page No : 51-67
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Book Reviews
Tether That Light by Debasish Lahiri, Red River, 2022, pp. 175, Price Rs. 349/- $ 9.99
By: Rajesh Sharma , Ragini Ramachandra , C.N. Srinath , Uma Ram & K.S. Ram , M.S. Raghunath , V. Kadambari , Sonali Das , Jnan Ranjan Padhi
Page No : 72-122
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By: Ragini Ramachandra
Page No : 123-127
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By: C R Visweswara Rao
Page No : 128-130
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Jan- to Jun-2023
Rethinking Sitayana : A Transplant from The Ramayana
By: Bijay Kumar Das
Page No : 1-14
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Professor C.D. Narasimhaiah - Advocate of “New Poetics for India”
By: B. Parvathi
Page No : 15-25
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Poile Sengupta – A Study of her Plays: Mangalam and Inner Laws
By: V. Satya Sudha
Page No : 26-47
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The Growth of a Novelist: A Study of Namita Gokhale
By: Shyamala A. Narayan
Page No : 48-64
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By: Rajesh Sharma
Page No : 65-70
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Page No : 71-100
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Page No : 101-111
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Page No : 112
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Jul- to Dec-2023
Difficulties and Challenges of Translating Classical Kannada Texts
By: R.V.S. Sundaram
Page No : 1-9
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On Translating the Epigrams of Sarvajna
By: Uma Ram , K.S. Ram
Page No : 10-24
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A Dimwit's Musings on Creator, Creation and Life
By: C.N. Srinath
Page No : 25-28
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A Note on the Kannada version of Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea
By: C. Naganna
Page No : 29-35
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By: C.N. Srinath
Page No : 36-51
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By: Mohan Ramanan , S.N. Vikram Raj Urs , Shyamala A. Narayan
Page No : 52-72
Vijay Balan: The Swaraj Spy. Gurugram: Harper Collins, 2023. Pp 493. Rs. 599/
In An Ant…ique Land and Other Essays by Ragini Ramachandra and S. Ramachandra. Mysore: Dhvanyaloka Publication, 2022. Pp 84. Rs. 400/-
Basavaraj Naikar, The Warrior Queen of Keladi (A Historical Epic Novel), Emerald Publishers, Chennai. 2022. Pp. 504. Rs. 375.
A Glorious Emperor of Vijayanagara by Basavaraj Naikar, pp. 235 New Delhi: Authorspress, 2022. (PB) Rs. 595.
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By: C. R. Visweswara Rao , TRS Sharma
Page No : 73-78
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Jan-2022 to Jun-2022
CDN’s Autobiography N for Nobody : A Critical Assessment
By: C R Visweswara Rao
Page No : 1-15
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Theoretical Readings of 'Home' in Imaginary Homelands, Home In The World and Exiled at Home
By: Bijay Kumar Das
Page No : 16-26
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The Primal Land: An Ethnic Novel of Bonda Community of Odisha
By: Basavaraj Naikar
Page No : 27-45
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Louise Gluck, the Nobel Laureate: Some First Impressions of The Wild Iris
By: C N Srinath
Page No : 46-51
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From the Unknown to Well-known : Literary Journey of Abdul Razak Gurnah
By: Niveditha B
Page No : 52-56
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“Us” and “Them”: A Study of Anna Burns’ Milkman
By: P. Suneetha
Page No : 57-80
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Tamilacci Tankapantiyan : 'New Poetry' with a Difference
By: P. Marudanayagam
Page No : 81-93
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Page No : 94-102
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Page No : 103-110
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Page No : 111-118
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Jul-2022 to Dec-2022
By: C N Srinath
Page No : 1-2
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By: Tej N Dhar
Page No : 3-10
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By: Shafi Shauq
Page No : 11-29
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Rehman Rahi : the poet of myth, metaphor and imagination
By: Abid Ahmad
Page No : 30-40
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Dina Nath Nadim: The Poet Extraordinary
By: Arvind Shah
Page No : 41-59
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The Development of Kashmiri Drama
By: Rattan Talashi
Page No : 60-71
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Kashmiri Short Story through the Past Decades
By: Neerja Mattoo
Page No : 72-82
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By: Shafi Shauq
Page No : 83-101
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Non-Narrative Prose in Kashmiri
By: Shabir Hussain Mirza , Master Showket Ali
Page No : 102-114
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Literary Criticism in Kashmiri
By: Majrooh Rashid
Page No : 115-120
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Poems- Short Stories
Contemporary Kashmiri Creative Writing
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Page No : 121-156
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A Visitor's Impressions of Kashmir
By: Ragini Ramachandra
Page No : 158-168
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Page No : 169-178
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Jan-2021 to Jun-2021
In Memoriam : V S Naipaul, Two Visions : Exile and the Kingdom
By: Satendra Nandan
Page No : 1-20
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Shades of Postcolonial Trauma in Nervous Conditions
By: Tej N. Dhar
Page No : 21-35
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Rabindranath Tagore’s “The Religion of the Forest” as a Study in Ecocriticism
By: Panchali Mukherjee
Page No : 36-49
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By: C. Naganna
Page No : 50-58
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By: Vijay Sheshadri
Page No : 59-74
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By: Vijay Sheshadri
Page No : 75-105
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Page No : 106-112
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Page No : 113-119
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Jan-2021 to Jan-2021
Trends and Transitions in Bengali Literature Between 1970 and 2020
By: Sanjukta Dasgupta
Page No : 1-18
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Theorizing Nationalism : A Reading of Tagore’s Gora
By: Sonali Das
Page No : 19-33
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Tradition and Modernity: An Analysis of Satyajit Ray’s The Post Master
By: Sutanuka Ghosh Roy
Page No : 34-44
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Some thoughts on Bengali Poetry of the past 50 Years
By: Pinakesh Chandra Sarkar
Page No : 45-53
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Mahasweta Devi’s Operation? – Basahai Tudu: Rhetoric of Dalit Aesthetics in Bangla Sahitya
By: Utpal Rakshit
Page No : 54-71
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Bengali Autobiographies (1970 – 2020)
By: Tirthankar Chattopadhyay
Page No : 72-88
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By: Tirthankar Chattopadhyay
Page No : 89-103
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By: Tirthankar Chattopadhyay
Page No : 104-150
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Jan-2020 to Jun-2020
By: A. P. Dani
Page No : 1-5
Introductory
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The Quest forPeacocks : Manoj Das's Chasing the Rainbow
By: R. Ramachandra
Page No : 6-14
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Nature and Society in Manoj Das' novel Cyclones
By: Anilkumara S. R.
Page No : 15-22
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Lone Fox Dancing, My Autobiography by Ruskin Bond: Some first impressions
By: Ragini Ramachandra
Page No : 23-35
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A First Response to Pico Iyer's two Novels :The Man Within My Head (2012) Cuba and the Night (1996)
By: C. Naganna
Page No : 36-51
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Of Space, Place and Travel : Pico Iyer's Journeys into Travel Writing
By: Sindhu J
Page No : 52-59
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Neelum Saran Gour : An Introduction
By: Shyamala A. Narayan
Page No : 60-77
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Page No : 78-100
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Page No : 101-112
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Jul-2025 to Dec-2025
By: C N Srinath
Page No : 1-2
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Can Human Behaviour be Changed? - For a Better 3 World! - Alfred Korzybski's General Semantics
By: TRS Sharma
Page No : 3-15
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The Complex Web: In Search of New Definitions
By: Jasbir Jain
Page No : 16-24
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Contextualizing Tone and Tenor in Shashi Deshpande's Creative-Critical Autobiography, Listen to Me
By: Bijay Kumar Das
Page No : 25-37
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Feminist Consciousness : A Study through the Selected Novels of Anita Desai
By: Sidharth Sankar Mohapatra
Page No : 38-46
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The Bohemian Academician: 'Travelling' with Pico Iyer
By: Imran Mulla
Page No : 47-58
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Vairamuthu : Poet as the Voice of the Voiceless
By: P. Marudanayagam
Page No : 59-66
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By: P. Marudanayagam
Page No : 67-114
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Jan-2019 to Jun-2019
M. G. Vassanji’s The Gunny Sack and The Art of Interplaying History
By: Manjula K. T. , Babu Gaonkar
Page No : 1-7
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Lorrain Hansberry and Ntozake Shange: The Racial Class, Culture and Conflict
By: Sudarsan Sahoo
Page No : 8-18
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Literary Critical Tradition today: Plural and Multicultural
By: C N Srinath
Page No : 19-24
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An Appraisal of Habib Tanvir’s Theatre: Intersection of the Folk and the Political
By: Shyam Babu
Page No : 25-38
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Home, Exile and the ‘Other ‘ in Agha Shahid Ali
By: Asima Sarker
Page No : 39-46
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Autobiographical Mnemonic: The Politics of Remembering in Ruskin Bond’s Scenes from a Writer’s Life
By: Patil Sangita Sharnappa
Page No : 47-57
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Khaled Hosseini’s A Thousand Splendid Suns – A Saga of Gender Parity
By: Salia Rex
Page No : 58-70
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Badal Sircar’s Mad Horse: a study of existential crisis and psychological despair
By: Aditi Banerjee
Page No : 71-79
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Theorizing Cosmopolitanism and Comparative Literature
By: Bijay Kumar Das
Page No : 80-90
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Amitav Ghosh’s Dancing in Cambodia, At Large in Burma : A late review
By: C N Srinath
Page No : 91-93
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Page No : 94-100
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Jul-2019 to Dec-2019
Colonialism, Postcolonialism, English Teaching and Research in India
By: Rajnath
Page No : 1-17
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By: TRS Sharma
Page No : 18-27
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The Enigma of Comrade Kirillov: Some Random Thoughts
By: Ragini Ramachandra
Page No : 28-37
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Trauma and Turbulence in African American Drama: Amiri Baraka's The Slave
By: Sudarsan Sahoo
Page No : 38-47
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By: Rajnath
Page No : 48-53
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By: Archana Srinath
Page No : 54-60
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Body is the soul – The New Mantra of the Millennium Market
By: C N Srinath
Page No : 61-67
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The underpinnings of the Biblical Motif of Satan's Fall in Salman Rushdie's Fiction.
By: Suchitra Awasthi
Page No : 68-84
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Shakespeare's Hamlet and Bharata's Natyasastra on Drama
By: A. P. Dani
Page No : 85-90
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Page No : 91-112
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Jan-2018 to Jan-2018
Art-speech and The Man Who Died
By: N.R. Hayward
Page No : 1-19
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Lawrence, Leavis And Art-speech: The Evolution and Application of a Reflexive, Critical Concept
By: Paul Filmer
Page No : 20-35
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Notes on Lawrence’s The Man Who Died
By: Philip Bufithis
Page No : 36-37
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Max Plowman, Jessie Chambers and D.H. Lawrence
By: Malcolm Pittock
Page No : 38-52
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A note on Kazuo Ishiguro : The Nobel Laureate for Literature 2017
By: S. Ramaswamy
Page No : 53-57
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“These grand and fatal movements toward death”: Apocalyptic Visions in Robinson Jeffers’s Poetry
By: Pradip Mondal
Page No : 58-69
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Masculinisation: The Gender Identity of a Professional Woman in Churchill’s Top Girls
By: V.Vijayalakshmi , Geetha Senthilkumar
Page No : 70-74
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Plato Versus Derrida : Philosophy versus Literature
By: Rajmath
Page No : 75-81
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Page No : 82-108
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Page No : 109-119
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Jul-2018 to Dec-2018
Reinventing the Grand Narrative: An Overview of Contemporary Malayalam Novel
By: E.V.Ramakrishnan
Page No : 1-13
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Translation as Literary History: Reflections on Modernity and Malayalam Literature
By: P P Raveendran
Page No : 14-29
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The Evolution of Malayalam Drama: A Subaltern Perspective
By: P. N. Prakash
Page No : 30-42
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Millennial Short Fiction in Malayalam : A Qualitative Reflection
By: Arunlal K
Page No : 43-55
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Protagonists in Malayalam Dalit Fictional Narratives
By: M. Dasan
Page No : 56-74
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Literary Criticism in Malyalam
By: P.P. Ajayakumar
Page No : 75-86
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A Backward Reading of the Multiple Manifestations of Malyalam Poetry
By: A.C. Sreehari
Page No : 87-98
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By: Reji A.L.
Page No : 99-117
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Revisiting Traditional ‘Mappilappattukal’
By: Abida Farooqui
Page No : 118-120
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Page No : 121-151
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