Madhvi Gangahar Research Scholar, Department of English, H.P. University, Shimla-171 005 (H.P.) The increasing rate of suicides in the modern progressive society has given a tremendous shock to all the life loving people as it indicates the estranging sociological and psychological conditions prevailing in the society. Every individual is participating in a cross country race…
Author: Vishwanath Bite
An Ecocritical Reading of the Orature of Mavilan Tribe
Lillykutty Abraham Assistant Professor Vimal Jyothi Engineering College Chemperi, Kerala India This paper attempts to look at the oral literature of mavilan tribe settled in the Kannur and Kasaragod districts of North Kerala from an eco critical perspective. The oral literature of this tribe represents their eco consciousness in the form of folksongs, folktales, proverbs,…
Farewell
N. M. Leepsa & Shailendra Kumar Small hands of watch that covers the vast Like winking of the eyes, time travels so fast Gone are the lives like a thing fragile Friends’ chuckles laughter and smile Creeping into heart the love’s essence Will echo in the ears for the mile distance Running into orchard in…
The Concept of Indian Modernity in Anita Desai’s Journey to Ithaca
Lakshmi A K Assistant Professor Dept of English Govt Victoria College Palakkad Kerala India The monolithic notion of modernity became problematic by the end of the two world wars and with the advent of post colonialism, postmodernism and post structuralism. The concept of modernity had to be revised as colonial imperialism gave way to globalization….
Dearest Darkness
Kousik Adhikari Dearest darkness, I can touch you now, Spell you, cut through your magic veins, count the imprisoned blood That remains a fantasy like an innocent truth, I covered myself from your gazing eyes, Mind is a beautiful bubble of created rushes Seeming negations Of myself and you, And you are an another necessary…
“To perceive is to suffer”–Aristotle: A Post-Colonial Reading of Chaim Potok’s The Chosen
Sangeetha Rachel Koruth Research Scholar Institute of English University of Kerala Kerala India Jewish diasporic communities around the world were not free from tribulations. Too often they have been ghettoized and excluded from the reality of belonging to the ‘new country’, and they suffered when their cultural practices were mocked at and discriminated against. They…
A Preliminary Study of Pahari and Its Sound System
Dr.Abdul Qadir Khan Assistant Professor Department of English University of Azad Jammu & Kashmir Muzaffarabad The present study is an introduction to the Pahari Language, spoken in Azad Jammu and Kashmir, Pakistan. It is a neglected language, which has rarely been explored by linguists in the past. It has neither a written a grammar nor…
Providing an Instructional Framework to Explicitly Teach Reading Comprehension Strategies in English Language Learning Classrooms
Al Tiyb Al Khaiyali Washington State University, USA Reading comprehension instruction is considered one of the major challenges that most English language teachers and students encounter. Therefore, providing a systematic, explicit, and flexible model to teaching reading comprehension strategies could help resolve some of these challenges and increase the possibility of teaching reading comprehension, particularly…
Quest of the busy modern-man
The Seekers’ Attempts to Transcend: Some Reflections on Boorstin’s History of Seeking and Ikeda and Toynbee’s Life Discourses
Jemimah Gaite Pizarro College of Arts and Humanities, Palawan State University Philippines Abstract Using some stories from Boorstin’s book The Seekers as points of departure, this paper presents the different attempts of the intellectual figures to seek and define the meaning of human existence which began in the Age of Enlightenment. Even if majority of…