Aditi Jana Ex-student of Burdwan University, West Bengal Rabindranath Tagore speaks of himself: I have had my invitation to this world’s festival… [Gitanjali, XVI] Going through “Gitanjali” is a musical journey for the readers. It has an unmistakable, inimitable lyrical flavour. The world of “Gitanjali” is full of hope, light, peace, bliss, happiness, assertion, assurance,…
Author: Vishwanath Bite
Indianness in Sarojini Naidu’s poetry with Reference to Her Major Poems
P. Sreenivasulu Reddy Asst. Professor of English GITAM University, Visakhapatnam Andhra Pradesh & Prof. B Sandhya Head, Department of English, GITAM University, Visakhapatnam Andhra Pradesh Abstract : Sarojini Naidu, the great patriot, politician, orator and the Nightingale of India was born on 13th Feb.1879 in Hyderabad. Most of her poems deal with the vast Indian Panorama….
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Adam Klein O troupe of little vagrants of the world, leave your footprints in my words. – Rabindranath Tagore The professor looked hopelessly at his bird. Sleeping! How does it manage to sleep through such noise, he thought. The professor noted the tiny feathers, like hatch marks around its eyes and the eyelids smooth as…
Susheel Kumar Sharma, The Door is Half Open. New Delhi: Adhyayan Publishers & Distributors. 2012. ISBN: 978-81-8435-341-9. pages 141 ;150.00/US $ 10.00 /UK £ 15.00
Reviewed by: Rashmi Jain* Research Scholar, Dept of English & MEL University of Allahabad, Allahabad-211002 The Door is Half Open contains 52 poems, some of which focus on the harsh realities of life, some on the casualness of life while some others just deal with the bonds in life. The book opens with an invocation…
A Deeper Insight into the Multi-Faceted Purports of ‘Silence’ in Vijay Tendulkar’s Silence! The Court Is In Session
Rajib Debnath Guest Lecturer at A.P.C. College,New Barrackpore, West Bengal, India. In this article I would try to highlight how silence, a society-bound and culture-bound word, has, beyond its surface significance, multi-dimensional underlying aspects in Tendulkar’s socially purposive and propagandist play Silence! The Court Is in Session which has, as its central impetus, ‘silence’ both…
Eroticism and Rebelliousness in Modern Indian Woman: A Psychological Analysis of Shobha De’s Socialite Evening
Rajender Kumar Research Scholar, Dravidian University, Kuppam, A.P. The modern Indian writers who write in English especially female novelists such as Anita Desai, Kamla Markandaya, Shashi Deshpande, Namita Gokhale and Shobha De are pre- occupied with the changing socio-cultural scenario of Indian life in which the new born Indian woman is emerging like Phoenix out…
Towards Ecological Indianness: Salim Ali’s Autobiography and the Evolution of Green Citizenship in Twentieth Century India
Rajarshi Mitra PhD Scholar, EFL University, Hyderabad. Few autobiographies of Indian men of science are as witty as Salim Ali’s The Fall of A Sparrow (1985). At times lively, at times dramatic and passionate Salim Ali’s autobiography has been in print ever since its publication in 1985. Born in the final years of the nineteenth…
Challenging the Ideology of Marriage in Volga’s Play The Six of Them
Rahul Narayan Kamble Assistant Professor Department of American and Caribbean Literatures, The English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad. The paper explores how Volga through her characters in the play The Six of Them attempts to expose the ideology created around the patriarchal institutions, such as marriage. If marriage is one of those institutions which are…
Changing Aspects of Women in Nissim Ezekiel’s Nalini Marriage Poem: Feminism in Trouble
Dr. Rabindra Kumar Verma The inequality between sexes has been vying attention of the scholars. The feminist scholars from different corners of the world have criticised discrimination between sexes and they have expressed their views of women’s freedom. The feminist scholars from India like Pandita Ramabai, Kamini Roy, Vandana Shiva, Gayatri Chakravarti Spivak, Lata Mani,…
Gender Biases and Resistance in Bharati Mukherjee’s Desirable Daughters
Mrs. Purnima Gupta Asst. Prof. in English Govt. Degree College, Samthar,Jhansi(U.P.) The contemporary time is the most suitable time for the full fledged development of the marginalized sections of the society such as woman and the scheduled class.Woman has been at the bottom of social hierarchy in Indian patriarchal set up for a long time;She…