Dr. K.Saroja Devi America has been one of the few advanced nations in the world in social, political, economical and technological walks of life. The modernity and prosperity brought out drastic changes in the life-style of people. Though they enjoy the fruits of mechanization, there exists a vast gulf between traditional life and modern life….
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Social Taboos in Plays of Vijay Tendulkar and Mahesh Dattani
Dr. Santosh Kumar Sonker Assistant Professor Department of English & Foreign Languages Indira Gandhi National Tribal University, Amarkantak (MP) Vijay Tendulkar and Mahesh Dattani, the first is a Marathi playwright writing originally in Marathi but English rendering of his plays are also available and the second is an Indian English playwright writing in English, emerged…
Hunger for Identity in ‘Total Environment’ in Ghosh’s The Hungry Tide
Dr. Santanu Basak Assistant Professor in English Dr. Bhupendra Nath Dutta Smriti Mahavidyalaya Hatgobindapur, Burdwan, West Bengal India- 713407 Man, basically belonging to the ‘total environment’, seeks his space not in dualistic separation from nature but in his monistic identification with the ecosphere, not in the ‘shallow’ ecology where nature is valued only in terms…
Mother – Daughter Relationships in Manju Kapur’s Difficult Daughters
P. Samuel Asst. Professor / English Shree Sathyam College of Engineering & Technology, Sankari & Research Scholar, Anna University, Chennai (Scholar No. 10900131065) & P. Hephzibah Asst. Professor / English Nandha College of Education, Erode Abstract Manju Kapur’s novel Difficult Daughters is a story of a daughter’s journey back into her mother’s painful past. It…
The Juvenile Love Letter
East versus West: A Reflection of Cultural Conflicts in Rabindranath Tagore’s The Home and the World
Dr. Md. Sahidul Islam Department of English Aligarh Muslim University Aligarh–202002, U.P. India’s indigenous culture has great significance so far as the cultural identity of the country in its fiction in English is concerned. It was treated as one of the major themes in Indian fiction in English during the reign of the British Empire…
Dalit Feminism: A Transformation of Rejection into Resistance
Ruchi Tomar Research Scholar in Department of English, Lucknow University Patricia Waugh says: Women writers are beginning to construct an identity out of the recognition that women need to discover, and must fight for, a sense of unified self hood, a rational, coherent, effective identity. As male writers lament its demise, women have not yet…
Re-covering Women: Reading Two Partition Stories.
Priyadarshini Dasgupta Coordinator, Senior Section, Shree Bharati School, Kolkata. Dibyabibha Roy Assistant Professor in English, Maheshtala College, Kolkata. “Playing British Gods under the ceiling fans of the Faletlis Hotel – behind Queen Victoria’s gardened skirt – the Radcliffe Commission deals out Indian cities like a pack of cards …… A new nation is born. India…
Use of Indian Language in The Selected Novels of R.K. Narayan
K. Eswar Reddy Assistant Professor of English K.S.R.M. College of Engineering Kadapa-516003, YSR Dist., Andhra Pradesh, India & S.K.A. Rahiman School Assistant (English) Z.P. Boys High School, KHAJIPET, YSR Dist., Andhra Pradesh, India INTRODUCTION RK Narayan, an Indian writer in English, passed away a few years ago (1906-2001). He wrote simple tales and novels that…
Conflict in Tragedy
Dr. Rajkumari Ashalata Devi Assistant Professor Department of English Manipur University, Canchipur, Imphal -795 003 “All drama arises out of conflict” Nicoll, The Theory of Drama The basic element in determining the action of a play is the dramatic conflict which grows out of the interplay of opposing forces in a plot. The opposing forces…