Dr. Arjun Dubey Associate Professor (English) & Head Ph.D(English) Department of Applied Science & Humanities Madan Mohan Malaviya Engineering College, Gorakhpur 273010 & Dr. Shradha Srivastava Faculty(English) Ph.D(English) Department of Applied Science & Humanities Madan Mohan Malaviya Engineering College, Gorakhpur 273010 Introduction A cross-cultural writer Bharati Mukherjee is one of the lively and illuminating stars…
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Individual versus Communal Morality in U.R. Anantmoorthy’s Samskara
Aditi Dev Research Scholar Punjab University, Chandigarh. Two things fill my heart with constantly renewed and Gripping wonder and awe, the more often and more intently my thought focuses on them : the starry heaven overhead and the moral principle within. – Kant (qtd. in Puri 85) In every age and every epoch, there have…
The Prince in Ambiguity: A Machiavellian Reading of Shakespeare’s Sonnet Sequence
Abhinaba Chatterjee Delhi University Shakespeare’s sonnets cannot be dissociated from the ordering of the individual sonnets or from the author’s intentions as a poet. In keeping with his primary aims, Shakespeare used the sonnets to guide the reader on a journey toward achieving self-actualization. Along this way, Shakespeare’s very personal poetry illuminates the dichotomy between…
R.K.Narayan: The Grand Old Man of Indian Fiction
Showkat Hussain Dar (ex-student, Central University of Kashmir) Country: India(Jammu And Kashmir) This is an axiomatic fact that the Indian fiction in English is the most popular of all forms and has gone ‘transnational’ with Indian diasporic living in the West and writing beyond nationality. The Big Three phrase coined by William Walsh comprises of…
Manohar Shetty’s Animal Poems: A Critical Study
Shahaji Mastud In the present research paper an attempt is made to explore the animal world depicted in the poems of Manohar Shetty’s three collections : A Guarded Space, Borrowed Time and Domestic Creatures. This critical appraisal of his poems will unfold the deeper meaning of the animal world steeped in Shetty’s psyche. Poetry from…
A Womanist Reading of Denver in Toni Morrison’s Beloved
Selma Chouchane Magister degree in Anglo-Saxon Literature and Civilization Department of English University of Bejaia, 6000 Algeria Abstract Toni Morrison’s Beloved represents a watermark in the slave narrative. The novel speaks about the physical and psychical consequences of slavery on African Americans either as slaves or former slaves. Yet, the novel brings some ways to…
Women’s Portrait Gallery in Samina Ali’s Madras on Rainy Days
Saykar Satish Govind Assistant Professor, Department of English, D.P.Bhosale College, Koregaon Samina Ali’s novel Madras on Rainy Days is the reflection of her own life. Samina Ali says: “India is my birthplace and home, my heart, my core. My first book, MADRAS ON RAINY DAYS, is entirely set in Hyderabad because I wanted to start…
Freedom, Love and Sexual Awakening in Kambili: An Account of Chimamanda Adichie’s Purple Hibiscus
Samir Kumar Mahato The current article focuses on religious oppression and patriarchal dominance being imposed on a fifteen-year-old girl Kambili and her desperate search for freedom. She attains freedom and eventually with awakening sexuality she falls in love with an African priest Father Amadi. Though one-sided, it lifts the silence from her world, truths are…
The Portrait of a Visionary: Girish Karnad’s Tughlaq
Dr. Sadhana Agrawal Asst. Prof., Dept. of English Maharani Laxmibai Govt. College of Excellence, Gwalior (M.P.) India The present study is a modest attempt to examine Girish Karand’s Tughlaq, which is noted for its historical theme and contemporary relevance, and to throw light on Tughlaq, the central figure of the play, who stands for administrative…
Virtual Image: Truth And Self
Rupam Goswami Assam, India A smooth demarcation that profoundly exists between Me and me in real breathings proclaim that’s not claimed, during hours of growth behind the walls of two similar unlike worlds, yet do I see Me in both! How kind to mankind has been man- an insane Me builds me the same, a…