Prasenjit Das Ph.D. Research Scholar, Dept of English, Ranchi University, Ranchi You see, we’ve always been acting. Aboriginal people are the greatest actors in the world…We’ve acted up before magistrates, we’ve acted up before the police, we’ve acted up before social workers; we’ve always done our own mime…—Jack Davis. (as qtd. in Shoemaker 235) It…
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Tagore’s Chitra, Prakriti and Shyama – Cases of Macrocosm in A Microcosm
Mr. Surajit Sen Lecturer, Department of English and Soft Skills, Faculty of Management ICFAI University Meghalaya Handers Building, Lummawrie, P.O. Laitumkhrah, Shillong – 793 003, Meghalaya, INDIA. Abstract: As a humanist, Gurudev Tagore sought to serve the humanity. As a visionary, he saw through the deeds of humans and tried to bring in a change…
Recalculating Words’ Worth
Louie Crew, USA Emeritus Professor at Rutgers: The State University of New Jersey Up! up! my Friend, and quit your screen; Or surely you’ll grow double Up! up! my Friend, and safely wean. Why all this toil and trouble. These CRTs bring endless strife: Come, hear the woodland linnet. How sweet its music! on my…
The girl on the threshold
Sunil Sharma A girl-child, Tiny, Unsure, Afraid, Standing Near The open safety- door Of a neighbour’s silent house, In a suburban Mumbai high-rise, Tentative, Quiet, Searching for a friend With her round brown eyes, In that dusty narrow marble Corridor with locked doors, Whipped by the whistling wind; Her solitary Childhood As lonely as A…
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Code-Mixing as a Strategy Used by Radio Jockey’s on Radio-Mirchi 93.9FM (Pune)
Sunayana Chowdhury Assistant Professor, Dept. of English, Hojai Girls’ College, Hojai, Nagaon, Assam Abstract People in most parts of the world are either bilingual or multilingual. In India most of the people speak at least three languages, the regional language, the national official language- Hindi, and English. While using three different codes people very often…
Members Are Sunflowers
Problems of Cultural Plurality in Amitav Ghosh’s Fiction
Dr. Sujatha S. Reader & Head, PG Dept of English NSS Hindu College, Changanacherry Kerala The emergence of a nationalist ideology and its eventual hegemony in the colonies was a by-product of colonization and the popularisation of scientific temper and bourgeois liberal ideology it triggers. The nationalist ideology betrays a sort of ambivalence, when it…
Between Rocks: A Pantoum
Carol Smallwood Waiting for a stop light I read: For Weed Control Call Today and remembered hanging clothes over porch rails to dry: the long stem daisies, the Queen Anne’s Lace beginning in May, catnip flourishing between rocks that made Minnie play. Some leaves the size of paddles topped with flower displays flourished as if…
Amitav Ghosh’s Selected Novels and Exploration of 20th Century
Biman Mondal West Bengal. The history of twentieth century literature is often nowadays written in two broad categories: one was Modernism and the other Postmodernism. They were the two large periods of the 20th century. Like modernist literature, postmodern literature is part of socio- cultural and historical development and it can be seen as a…