Dr. Janmejay Kumar Tiwari University of Allahabad, Allahabad There is a substantial difference between the term diaspora of the third century B.C. and that of twentieth and twenty-first century diaspora. The term has been metamorphosed into a concept, a theory. In earlier centuries diaspora meant only “a dislocation from the nation-state or geographical location of…
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Towards Developing Pragmatic Competence
R.S.A.Susikaran One of the aims of teaching language is the development of communicative competence in the user of the language. This is truer in the context of teaching English as second language in the pan Indian, multilingual, pluralistic context in country. The English language has assumed a larger role in the context of globalization and…
The Existentialism in R.K. Narayan’s The Guide
Dr. Sunita Rani Assistant Professor(Ad-hoc) Dayanand P.G. College, Hisar, Haryana( India) Published in 1958, The Guide is the most acclaimed novel of R. K. Narayan that won him not only immense popularity but also the Sahitya Academy Award for 1960. Of all the Indian novelists writing in English, Narayan alone has the distinction of being…
Existentialism in the Women Characters of Anita Desai’s Fire on the Mountain
B.Sreenivasa Reddy Assistant Professor, Department of S&H , Lakireddy Bali Reddy College of Engineering, Mylavaram,Krishna Dist.,Andhra Pradesh ,India. & Sujit Kumar Rath Associate Professor, Department of CSS , Lakireddy Bali Reddy College of Engineering, Mylavaram,Krishna Dist.,Andhra Pradesh ,India. Abstract: This paper focuses on the tumultuous, pathos-filled subaltern existential struggles invariably engulfing the lives of the…
Christianity and Women: A Glimpse at E. Elizabeth Vickland’s Daughter of Brahma: A Tale of the Brahmaputra Country
Sudipta Phukan Assistant Professor Department of English, Sonapur College Assam, India During the colonial era, Christian missionaries played a vital role to uplift the colonized people with westernization and Christianity. Most of the times the colonial rulers took help of the Christian missionaries to dominate the colonized people with the “Bible” where “guns” failed to…
Feminist Themes in Taslima Nasrin’s French Lover
Dr. Sigma. G. R. The subordination of women under patriarchy is a common subject all over the world. Alfred Tennyson, in his poem “The Princess”, echoed the universally prevailing attitude to women when he wrote: Man for the field and woman for the hearth Man for the sword and for the needle she, Man with…
Quest for an Identity in the poems of Mamta Kalia
Shruti Singh Lecturer, BBD University Lucknow The term identity enables us to understand the person, as well as the various roles the person has within each community that she or he is participating in. The concept of identity (as opposed to social identity, or role identity) describes who they are, their feeling, their hopes and…
Themes Prevalent In The Novels Of V.S. Naipaul
Shehla Ali & Alka Gopal Department of English litrature, Saifia Arts and Commerce College, Bhopal Naipaul’s works take the reader on a journey of experiences from the local to the global and from a narrow perspective to a broader and more encompassing vision. This chapter will discuss some of the prominent themes in Naipaul’s fiction.Mr….
The Concept of Human Dignity in Renaissance Humanism
Dr. Sheeba Azhar Assistant Professor Department of English College of Applied Medical Science Hafr Al Batin University of Dammam Kingdom of Saudia Arabia Dr. Syed Abid Ali Lecturer Department of English College of Applied Medical Science Hafr Al Batin University of Dammam Kingdom of Saudia Arabia Humanism is “A non religious philosophy based on liberal…
Native American Female Power and Authority
Shaik Shaheen Taj HOD, S&H Dept Nimra Institute of Science and Technology Vijayawada Andhra Pradesh. My great grandmother told my mother: Never forget you are Indian. And my mother told me the same thing. This, then, is how I have gone about remembering, so that my children will re- member too. (Quoted in CLC, Vol.84)…