Rukhsana Saifee Assistant Professor of English, Chartered Institute of Technology, Aburoad (Raj) ‘IF’ by Rudyard Kipling is a didactic work meant to give instruction. This poem is a popular classic of English literature for its familiarity and inspiration. The poem is full of humility and warmth and is a timeless appeal of the passing down…
Author: Vishwanath Bite
Toothpaste
Romi Jain I lifted down the sole toothpaste, discovering it on a stony shelf, whose corners were the growing colony of experienced, strong cobwebs It held systematic and partly disordered things, but all unused, all of use, all packed, intact, except for one– the eraser of dirt on teeth My hands knew their mission the…
A Comparative Study of Wordsworth’s I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud and Emerson’s Rhodora
Hussein Salimian Rizi University of Semnan, Semnan, Iran. & Pyeaam Abbasi Assistant professor, Dept. of English, Faculty of Foreign Languages, University of Isfahan, Hezar Jerib street, Isfahan, Iran. Abstract American Transcendentalism and English Romanticism, though faraway from each other, were quite concurrent and experienced various social and political changes the chief of which was,…
Luce Irigaray’s Concept of Sexual Difference: An Over-view of Its Psychological, Cultural, Philosophical and Civic Implications
Ridhima Tewari Ph.D. Scholar, English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad. In the Introduction to her book Thinking the Difference: For A Peaceful Revolution, Luce Irigaray says: I have never called myself simply a feminist, and I feel very little common ground today with a good many feminists, especially when it comes to the relationship between…
The Idea of the Nation State and It’s Disconnect with the Subaltern in Amitav Ghosh’s The Hungry Tide
Richa Joshi Pandey Research Scholar in Department of English, Hemwati Nandan Bahuguna Garhwal University, Srinagar, Garhwal. Uttarakhand. Abstract: The current paper deals with the idea of what is it that constitutes a nation state. Different theorists like Smith and Anderson are briefly discussed and so are their theoretical shortcomings in explaining the cultural plethora that…
The Spark in Disneyland
Rich Murphy 32 Pinecliff Drive Marblehead, MA 01945 At the theme park, the Golden Gates distract the joy-boys from the black boot overhead. Replicas and items salvaged from the fires in Europe stud the hubbub and maintain the rushes in the New World. Adrenaline substitutes for the ongoing once-in-a-lifetime experience. The walking museum pieces from…
Search for Values and Truth in T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land
Dr. Renu Singh Assistant Professor, Deptt. Of Applied Sciences, Madan Mohan Malviya Engineering College Gorakhpur- 273010 U.P- India & Dr. Arjun Dubey Professor & Head, Deptt. Of Applied Sciences Madan Mohan Malviya Engineering College Gorakhpur- 273010 U.P- India Abstract: About TS Eliot the essentials are clear. He was one of the finest poets writing in…
Culture Vulture
Rati Agnihotri India There are culture vultures everywhere; eager to bite in the golden dust. Dust no ordinary, it smells of gorgeous cobwebs of ancient civilisations The culture vultures eye the cobwebs First a look Then a kiss And at last a passionate embrace that sets the cobwebs shivering. “Who are these aliens, licking me,…
Influence of Culture and Ancient Philosophy on Mahesh Dattani’s Plays and Its Interpretations
Rashmi Jain Research Scholar, University of Allahabad Mahesh Dattani is a contemporary iconic dramatist whose plays are combination of tradition and modernity. In his plays one finds the fusion of various cultures and philosophies. Alyque Padamsee says that at last we have a playwright who gives sixty million English speaking Indians an identity. Drama in…
PASTORALE
Mrs. RanjaniNeriya USA the open window listens to the rowlock’s roulade, yawn of crows in the guava tree, the muscled plank across the stream yawping moodily to early feet; I hear the windlass purr a kittenish wheel, coir hiss a pot gurgle well-deep, the women who dawn busy hanging out the wash on long rejoicing…