PLACING MOBILITIES AND MOBILISING PLACES: DIS/RE LOCATING JAISHREE MISRA'S ANCIENT PROMISES.

Jaishree Misra occupies a significant seat in the gallery of Indo-Anglian writers. Her first novel Ancient Promises has garnered her wide popularity and critical acclaim. The novel Ancient Promises spins around the life of Janaki or Janu, who at a younger age was trapped in a love less marriage. Janu's displacement or transplantations to different places, whether it is Delhi, Kerala or London had a significant effect on her life and each of her journeys after her marriage, culminating in her migration to London had contributed much in shaping Janu into a bold woman. The paper tries to look into the significance of the metaphors of mobility, like travel or migration and their association with the concept of place. The paper strives to investigate how the 'places' affected, shaped and defined Janu's life and how the metaphors of mobility are intertwined in the plot and its significance in the story. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]