Frederick Glaysher. Tagore then spoke. “You have heard Krishna, now Lord Vishnu’s eighth incarnation, Shiva. He will come down to us from Mt Kailash, from talking with squabbling ascetics. Lord Shiva will speak a different language.” Pointing, he said, “He will come over that rise. You shall be granted a vision few souls have ever…
Author: Vishwanath Bite
The Most Dangerous Game
Jéanpaul Ferro RUMOR HAD IT that he came from a place in Africa where the trees came alive during the night. On cool mornings he could be seen wandering the earthen gravel paths of the Volkspark Friedrichshain. Adedeji Ogunbunmi usually walked an hour in the morning, mostly near the Märchenbrunnen, which was known in Berlin…
The Womanist Quilt: An Ecofeminist Reading of Alice Walker’s The Temple of My Familiar
Yasmeen Farooq Khan Associate Professor Govt. College for Women Nawakadal, Srinagar Kashmir, India. Ecofeminism is as multihued, multi-located as feminism but more oriented towards praxis. Ecofeminism, as such makes a major contribution to ‘decentring’ by providing a conceptual connection between all oppressions and includes multiple interpretations of reality and knowledge. The shift of focus to…
Passing the Same Streets with Running Leopards: Reading Bijan Najdi’s Short Fiction in the Light of Shklovsky’s Defamiliarization
Fatemeh Pourjafari Department of English Language and Literature, Islamic Azad University, Kerman Branch, Kerman, Iran. Abstract Shklovsky understood literariness in terms of defamiliarization, a series of deviations from the ordinary language in order to force the reader to perceive the subject in a different way. The effect of this technique is to raise the willing…
Following Shadows That Fell Upon Me
Edgar Rider “Following shadows that fell upon me.” It first came hovering over him in a dream . The shadow engulfs the room encompassing the night lite. ‘Following shadows’ Zach recites these lines out loud. He remembers it from a nursery rhyme. His dream seems momentary. “Zach don’t be late.” Zach wakes up ready to…
Role of a Teacher in 21st Century
Vitthal Gore Sameena Begum Associate Professor of English Instructor Nizam Institute of Engineering and Jizzan University, Technology Jizzan, Near RFC, Deshmukhi, Hyderabad Kingdom of Saudi Arabia In the post-modern era, English language teaching and learning has gone through a phase of change. It has seen developments and shifts in the areas like teaching-learning methodologies, learning…
The Partition and Chaman Nahal’s Azadi
Dr. Diksha Sharma Department of Languages , Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS) Pilani , Rajasthan. The amputation of the Indian sub-continent into two countries on religious grounds in August 1947 turned out to be one of the bloodiest upheavals witnessed by Indian history. Although the Indians achieved independence from the British rule, yet…
Use of ‘Pakistan’ as a Metaphor: A Study of Kamleshwar’s Partitions
Vinod K. Chopra Lecturer in English. G.(G)S.S.S.Hamirpur, Distt. Hamirpur (H.P.). India 177 001 The independence of India on 15 August 1947 was undoubtedly a red letter day in the history of the sub-continent as it was on this day that the shackles of the British slavery were broken giving way to long cherished dream of…
A Society that Looks Back in Anger: Studying John Osborne
Devi Archana Mohanty Research Scholar (IIT Kharagpur) Lecturer, UCER, Greater Noida Abstract The dissatisfaction, disaffection and disapproval of the human condition is always expressed in different ages in different forms. Man as a social being never submits to tyranny or social despotism. If the existing social order is stifling, man does not sit silently and…
Teaching Fixed Expressions through Comics: An Exploratory Study
Introduction: M.Vijaya Lakshmi Assistant Professor of English Gudlavalleru Engineering College Gudlavalleru INDIA A few decades ago, there was a predominant view in the linguistic circles that vocabulary was subservient to grammar. Linguists at that time strongly supported the dichotomy of grammar and vocabulary and they preferred to lay emphasis on the structures of language rather…