Dr.Y.Mercy Famila Head & Assistant Professor Department of English Yuvakshetra College Mundur Palakkad Kerala India. An existential crisis is a stage of development at which an individual questions the very foundations of the life, whether the life has any meaning. It is often provoked by a significant event in the person’s life like, marriage, separation,…
Author: Vishwanath Bite
Reflection of the Sense of Melancholy in Sarojini Naidu’s Poetry
Dr. Naveen K Mehta Reader & Head Communication Skills Department Mahakal Institute of Technology, Ujjain (MP) Sarojini Naidu popularly known as the ‘Nightingale of India’ is the greatest lyric poetess of pre-independence era in Indo-Anglian poetry. Her poetry is marked by intense lyric quality. The present paper is aimed to study the sense of melancholy…
Virginia Woolf and the Construct of Sanity and Insanity in Mrs Dalloway
Dr. Manjeet Rathee Associate Professor, Dept. of English and Foreign Languages Maharshi Dayanand University, Rohtak “My Madness Saved Me”- this bold summing up of Woolf’s life and work in the form of a title of a book by Dr Thomas Szasz seems not only to ‘deconstruct’ the popular notions on sanity and insanity prevalent in…
Train Pakistan – Azadi : Vice-versa Journey
Dr. Mangalkumar R. Patil Associate Professor, Dr. Ghali College, Gadhinglaj, Dist – Kolhapur. (PIN – 416502) Khushavant Singh is one of the most prolific and versatile twentieth century Indian writers in English. He was a lawyer by training. His most enduring work has been done in the field of Sikh history and biography. On the…
Frozen Lake
Mamta Madhavan Gold dust from larkspur ride through the lanes sprinkling nectar, fall in stile as they draw close to the fences. Like December, my eyes are glazed. Rivulets flow within the limits wanting to spill and wet the banks close and still impossibly far. Like December, my eyes are glazed. Scarred wounds stitched up,…
Shelley’s Dramatic Poem, Hellas Ideas in an Open-ended Conflict
Dr.Ihsan-ur-Rahim Malik Assistant Professor Central University of Kashmir Shelley’s play, Hellas, is examined here as a drama of ideas but these ideas are shown to be not merely abstractions but ideas as embodied in a genuine dramatic work. More important than this is the nature of Shelley’s commitment to these ideas which is not final,…
Intersecting Spaces and Their Influences in Selected Plays of Girish Karnad
Abhinandan Malas Ph D Scholar (BU), Guest Lecturer in English, New Alipore College, Kolkata, West Bengal, India. The evolution of different spaces in the modern world literature in English is an important phenomenon which has enabled us to relocate the individual within the postcolonial discourse. It is true that different factors have emerged in the…
Hindu Culture and way of Life Focused by Githa Hariharan in The Thousand Faces of Night
Majji Eswara Rao Assistant Professor of English GMR Institute of Technology, Rajam Srikakulam Dist, Andhra Pradesh, India India is a country with rich and varied cultural heritage, where Hindu Dharma is given pride of place. Sanatan Dhrama or Hindu Dharma is not a religion but a way of life. Any piece of literature which has…
Title: Niranjan Mohanty: The Man and His Poetry.
Author: Sudhir K. Arora. Publisher: Prakash Book Depot, Bareilly, 2011. Price: 80/- 136 pp. Reviewed By: Mrs. Madhuri Bite Managing Editor The Criterion: An International Journal in English ISSN: 0976-8165 www.the-criterion.com Sudhir K. Arora’s book, Niranjan Mohanty: The Man and His Poetry gives more information about Niranjan Mohanty, a wellknown Indian English poet and his…