Farheen Javed Department of English, Roorkee Engineering & Management Technology Institute, India Introduction English is a West Germanic language related to Dutch, Frisian and German with a significant amount of vocabulary from French, Latin, Greek and many other languages Approximately 341 million people speak English as a native language and a further 267 million speak…
Author: Vishwanath Bite
Silence and the Need for Communication in the Short Stories of Jhumpa Lahiri
Indu Prabha Pathak Research Scholar Banathali university (Rajasthan) Communication is the undercurrent theme of ‘Interpreter of Maladies’. The characters in the stories are tormented by maladies which accentuates the need for communication. Shuchen aptly observes: “The nine stories have in common certain themes and motifs, such as exile, displacement, loneliness difficult relationships, and problems about…
Pattern of Imagery: A Thematic and Structural Study of Selected Works of Jhumpa Lahiri
Hemlata Research Scholar Dept. of English and Foreign Languages M.D.U Rohtak (Haryana) & Meenakshi Goyal Research Scholar Dept. of English and Foreign Languages M.D.U Rohtak (Haryana) Jhumpa Lahiri is a second generation diasporic writer, observer and “ABCD i.e. another badly confused Desi” (Das 14). She experiences and represents the problems of alienation, frustration, marginalization, discrimination,…
Quest for Identity in Mahesh Elkunchwar’s Apocalypse
Archana Gupta (Research Scholar) Department of English and Modern European Languages University of Lucknow Lucknow, India In the paper I have tried to critically analyze Mahesh Elkunchwar’s play “Apocalypse”. In a critical study of the play, the linguistic features of the play linguistic features have been taken into consideration without having any extra-textual details of…
Adivasi
Stephen Gill Reghu knew that Adivasi was the Hindi expression for the aboriginals of India, and that the Adivasi were not within the Hindu caste system. He also knew that the Adivasi became paranoid about faces from outside when their forests began vanishing. Deforestation and the debasement of their mother activated Nexalites, Christian missionaries and…
My House on the Hilltop
Anikendu Ghosh My house on the hilltop, Where winds don’t blow It rages. Where clouds don’t pass It gathers. Where people don’t stock The birds do. My house on the hilltop, Where the garden resides Maybe, No longer Or is it ashtray? Where the doors And the windows, Often talk. My house on the hilltop,…
The Dalit Dimension: Representation of the Marginalized in Bama’s Sangati vis-a-vis Mahasweta Devi’s Breast- Giver
Soukarja Ghosal Ph.D. Scholar Dept of English & Comparative Literature Pondicherry University (A Central University) Puducherry-605014 Abstract The two terms “subaltern” and “dalit” are widely current among critics engaged in socio-political as well as anthropological studies. Apparently the two terms sound synonymous as both refer to a group of people who are marginalized in society….
Sackcloth and Ashes
Debasmita Ganguly A bloated throat wake me up this morning Some uncanny resonance with a flash Mephistopheles at your doorstep. Oh, Faustus! Leave those scattered contention, Remnants you found within Wriggle your path by those thick evenings Those penetrating rumination, Those affable agonies vaccinated into my soul “I hate life being caged”, you said. Oh,…
Poetics of Revelation: The Unmasked Beast in Eliot and Yeats
Fayaz sultan Assistant professor English Department of English, IUST Awantipora, Kashmir The beast that you saw was, and is not, and is about to rise from the bottomless pit and go to destruction. And the dwellers on earth whose names have not been written in the book of life from the foundation of the world…
James Joyce’s Ulysses: A Post-Colonial Text
Roghayeh Farsi Neyshabur University, Iran Emerging out of Joyce’s amivalence as an expatraite artist who never leaves his himeland imaginatively, Ulysses best reflects his post-colonial stance. This paper attempts to fill in the gap in Joyce criticism by reinscribing him in his quasi-colonial Irish context. The theoretical framework develops out of the post-colonial theories of…