Mapping Literary Rajasthan in Bengal: Desert Ecologies and Wasteland Aesthetics in Satyajit Ray’s Adventure Fiction
VOLUME 22, 2025
The Role of Targeted Infra-popliteal Endovascular Angioplasty to Treat Diabetic Foot Ulcers Using the Angiosome Model: A Systematic Review
VOLUME 6, 2023
Debayan Das
Abstract
This essay examines Satyajit Ray’s Sonar Kella (The Golden Fortress) to argue that the Rajasthani desert is written as a vital, agentic landscape within Bengali literature, challenging its conventional portrayal as a mere exotic backdrop. Moving beyond the genre conventions of detective fiction, the novel employs the arid ecology of Jaisalmer not as a passive setting but as a central narrative force that shapes identity, memory, and plot. The analysis is framed through Aidan Tynan's concept of "wasteland aesthetics", which provides a theoretical lens to decode how Ray subverts Western literary traditions of the desert as a site of spiritual emptiness or imperial conquest. In Sonar Kella, the desert emerges as a hub of multispecies coexistence and vibrant materiality, where camels and peacocks act as crucial agents and a child’s past-life memories are inextricably woven into the terrain. This study posits that Ray’s work constitutes a significant act of literary cartography, mapping a distinctly Indian and ecological vision of the desert that foregrounds human-nonhuman relationships and offers a profound contribution to the environmental humanities.
Keywords :
Ecology, Rajasthan, Detective Fiction, Nonhuman, Wasteland Aesthetics..
Erin Saricilar
Lecture in accounting. University of Basrah, College of Administration and Economics, Department of Accounting.
Lecture in accounting. University of Basrah, College of Administration and Economics, Department of Accounting.
Abstract
Atherosclerotic disease significantly impacts patients with type 2 diabetes, who often present with recalcitrant peripheral ulcers. The angiosome model of the foot presents an opportunity to perform direct angiosome-targeted endovascular interventions to maximise both wound healing and limb salvage. A systematic review was performed, with 17 studies included in the final review. Below-the-knee endovascular interventions present significant technical challenges, with technical success depending on the length of lesion being treated and the number of angiosomes that require treatment. Wound healing was significantly improved with direct angiosome-targeted angioplasty, as was limb salvage, with a significant increase in survival without major amputation. Indirect angioplasty, where the intervention is applied to collateral vessels to the angiosomes, yielded similar results to direct angiosome-targeted angioplasty. Applying the angiosome model of the foot in direct angiosome-targeted angioplasty improves outcomes for patients with recalcitrant diabetic foot ulcers in terms of primary wound healing, mean time for complete wound healing and major amputation-free survival.
Keywords :
Diabetic foot ulcer, angiosome, angioplasty