Raj Gaurav Verma Research Scholar Department of English & Modern European Languages University of Lucknow. Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Marquez produces the theme of love in an unconventional way. The novel exhibits magic realism. As far as Love in the Time of Cholera is concerned, Marquez has not used supernatural elements…
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Soft Skills: Panacea for Sustainable Employability
Priti Vyas Abstract: The progress of industrialization, rapid technological developments and adaptation of sophisticated technology by industries has resulted in a mismatch between requirements of industry and the products of engineering institutions. As such the technical education has to face many challenges and the quality revolution, therefore, assumes tremendous importance in the highly competitive world….
Right Off the Bat: Baseball, Cricket, Literature ; Life Evander Lomke & Martin Rowe Philadelphia
Reviewed by Pramod Kumar Das Ph.D Scholar, Department of English Literature The English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad, India. & Narayan Jena Ph.D Scholar, Department of Liberal Arts IIT Hyderabad, India. In recent years there has been a steady increase in the popularity of cricket, soccer and other sports as different forms of entertainment. Right…
A Futile Sojourn: V.S.Naipaul’s An Area of Darkness
Pragnya Parimita Pradhan Research Scholar, P.G.Department of English Utkal University, Bhubaneswar V.S. Naipaul’s life was a journey which he has expressed through a variety of narrative forms ranging from fiction to travelogues to autobiography and history. For Naipaul, travelling was not a journey to reach destinations of far off countries, but a new way of…
Extensive Growth of Nuclear Family in Anita Desai’s Fiction
Dr. R. Prabhakar Assistant Professor Dept. of English Vikrama Simhapuri University Nellore Anita Desai’s fiction depicts the contemporary India. In the fiction of Anita Desai, the renowned writer of the contemporary India, the patriarchal culture and the personal conflict of identity of women of Indian society have taken new shape. Anita Desai, born on June…
Two Excerpts from Who’s Afraid of the Booker Prize?
novel by peter cowlam Who’s Afraid of the Booker Prize? consists of a Foreword and Diary entries, supposedly penned by Alistair Wye, amanuensis to celebrity English novelist Marshall Zob. What follows is Wye’s Foreword, and his diary entry of June 25th, recounting events at a private party Zob has thrown for the great and good…
The Song I Must Sing
Patrick Connors Toronto, Canada. If I cannot sing the song I must sing I won’t be able to share the blessing Destined to manifest when it is time After testing, faith, and growth make me prime Much great circumstances, it’s so hard to believe Such glad happenstances, who could conceive Pre-existing conditions, nothing to achieve…
What Shaped Ibsen into a Major Playwright?
Dr. Paonam Sudeep Mangang Assistant Professor, National Institute of Technology, Meghalaya Bijni Complex, Laitumkhrah Shillong – 793003 Meghalaya, India Abstract: Henrik Johan Ibsen is known as the ‘Father of Modern Drama.’ His dramas have influenced many well-known dramatists the world over. However, Ibsen’s development as a dramatist of repute had been influenced by various factors….
The Day Anu had a Haircut
Nandita Dutta Mumbai (India) Yet another morning when I jostle my way into the second class ladies compartment of the Churchgate local. Amid swear words, jutting elbows and the stench of fresh sweat mixed with talcum powder. I settle down and an elderly woman tugs at my shoulder to make room for her. I squeeze…
Human Relationships in Vijay Tendulkar’s Kamala: A Study
Kirdat Pandurang Ananda Lecturer in English Bharati Vidyapeeth,s Institute of Technology (Poly.), Palus Tal-Palus, Dist-Sangli. Maharashtra, India. Abstract: Drama in Indian languages has a remarkable growth in the recent decades. In post- independence era, contemporary Indian drama in English gives a brutal account of the social and political realities. Vijay Tendulkar is the most prolific…