Dr. R. Prabhakar Assistant Professor Dept. of English Blood! Blood! Blood! Cops Blood! Naxals’ blood!! Innocent victims’ blood!!! Vikrama Simhapuri University Nellore Andhra Pradesh India. All the blood is red similar in colour That is as widespread wild flood That made the pastures the red Hades. Whose fault is it? Who is the responsible for…
Author: Vishwanath Bite
Food in Diasporic Constructions of Home and Belonging in Meera Syal’s
Anita and Me Pooja Swamy Ph D Research scholar RTM Nagpur University, Nagpur (Ms) Abstract: The socio-cultural experiences associated with migration and different forms of displacement can be most appropriately captured by the concept diaspora. Diasporic works often locate themselves in a liminal space between cultures while the female immigrant writer has the difficult task…
Riot: A Socio-Cultural Ethos
Phutane Padmavati Vasantrao Ph. D. Research Student Dept. of English Shivaji University, Kolhapur. Shashi Tharoor’s Riot (2001) is a novel about the history, love, hate, cultural collision, religious and fanaticism and the impossibility of knowing the truth. Riot narrates the story through journal entries, interviews, letters, scrapbooks, news paper clippings,extracts from personal diaries, and conversations….
Reaffirmation
Peter Cowlam Why yes, the pursuit ends here, An outpost of urbanisation, Where an iron bench and rain-streaked wall Are the only topography. Here our heir designate Is no less solitary an individual Than the last – unlikely guarantor Of imperfectly understood beliefs. These we do our best to recall – A solemn paperwork Under…
Religion and Guilt in Asif Currimbhoy’s Om, Abbé Faria and Monsoon
Anusuya A Paul Assistant Professor Department of English New Horizon College Marathahalli Bangalore. The present plays of Currimbhoy offer extensive scope for studying the conflict of the modern man with religion. Currimbhoy seems to consistently project that the modern man’s spirituality leads to the victimisation of himself basically because his attachment with God and his…
Feminist Perspective in the Novels of Gita Mehta
Priti R. Patel Assistant Professor, L. C. Institute of Technology, Bhandu Gujarat Indian English literature originated as a necessary outcome of the introduction of English education in India under colonial rule. In recent years it has attracted widespread interest, both in India and abroad. It is now recognized that Indian English literature is not only…
The Rose Bud
Neha Singh Assistant professor of English Mata Sundri College, Delhi University. Of all the blooms that decked the pews, so splendid in their vibrant hues, the fragrant rose buds caught most eyes, holding the promise of long lives. Yet outside on the dusty road, there lay a rose bud dirt-cloaked, and hurrying feet to its…
Between Things
Ipshita Nath M.A. English (Semester III) Centre for English Studies School of Language, Literature and Cultural Studies Jawaharlal Nehru University, India. Mud and sewage and the stink of Everyday excrement Rotting minds Wilting in the odour of A putrid world, with no breath Or fresh air to save a Dying soul of The one with…
Secondary Citizens: Women in the Novels of Jane Austen
N.G.Nandana Research Scholar Department of English Bangalore University “18th-century women inhabited houses that were nearly always exclusively owned and dominated by men, and as there was virtually no exterior existence for these women, it is natural that the world inhabited by Austen’s heroines would have been one of interiority.” (Berglund. p. 14) Contrary to popular…
Family Bondage in Diasporic Space: Firm or Fragile
N.Nagajothi Ph.D Scholar/ Research Centre of English Language & Literature V.V.Vanniaperummal college for women, Virudhunagar 626 001. TamilNadu , India. Human relationships are innate and key bondage throughout the Universe. Human hearts are bonded with sensitive chords of family ties. In this neo-colonial era, when chords of family bondage is stretched across continents and generations,…