Dr. S. B. Bhambar Head, Deptt. of English Arts & Commerce College, Nesari. Tal. Gadhinglaj Dist: Kolhapur Pin:416504 Humanism is a philosophy, the central concern of which is man and his happiness. It underlies the value and dignity of human beings and takes him as the measure of all things. Humanists like Socrates, Mahatma Gandhi…
Author: Vishwanath Bite
Alienated Soul of Richard Wright in Black Boy
Bhakti D.Kulkarni Research Student, Shivaji University, Kolhapur. Maharashtra Richard Nathaniel Wright was an African-American author of novels, short stories and nonfictions. He was renowned for his autobiographical book ‘BLACK BOY’ (1945). It describes his early life from Mississippi to Chicago, his troubles with white employers and social isolation. This autobiographical novel is based on Richard’s…
Morichjhapi Revisited: Fictionalizing History in Amitav Ghosh’s The Hungry Tide
Sukanta Das Assistant Professor, Department of English, P.D.Women’s College, Club Road, Dist.- Jalpaiguri, West Bengal, India, Pin- 735101 The trajectory of development of the discipline of history underlines shift and changes in its orientation. No strict difference between history and literature was made in earlier times. Such a conception of history meant that there was…
Necessity of English for Employment
Sharmistha Basu Asst Prof, Department of English, Narula Institute of Technology, WestBengal University of Technology Kolkata –700109 Introduction Today the world and our nation in particular is witnessing a third industrial revolution namely communication revolution. This in turn is having a significant impact in our business and workplace. In the international commercial sphere English has…
English for Specific Purpose Introduction and Role of Teacher in Teaching ESP
Dr. Babita Tyagi Professor, Dept. of Professional Communication, RKGIT, Ghaziabad Introduction Learning English for specific purpose is actually designed to meet specific needs of the specific profile within a time frame. This involves orientation to specific spoken and written english required to carry out specific academic and workplace tasks. Development of ESP ESP derives from…
Gender, Postcoloniality and Strategies of Survival: A Note on Third World Feminist Critical Practice
Sudipta Chakraborty Assistant Professor in English Department of English Sreegopal Banerjee College Hooghly, West Bengal Since its inception under the aegis of Enlightenment philosophy and democratic idealism during the late eighteenth-century, which marks the consolidation of ‘modernity’, feminism had closely been associated with the movement of ‘human rights’ as a vitally integrated humanist manifestation of…
Fluid Identity: Bharati Mukherjee’s Jasmine
Dr. Asha Susan Jacob Associate Professor Postgraduate Department of English St. Thomas College Kozhencherry Kerala 689641 A ubiquitous term taken for granted, identity is an intrinsically psycho-social concept with multifarious temporal and spatial connotations. Defined generally as “who or what somebody is” the term is derived from the French word identité, which has its etymological…
Revisionist Myth Making as a Means of Countering Patriarchy in That Long Silence
Sonima K K Assistant Professor in English St.Joseph’s College Irinjalakuda Thrissur Kerala Sita following her husband into exile, Savitri dogging Death to reclaim her husband, Draupadi stoically sharing her husband’s travails… No, what have I to do with these mythical women? I can’t fool myself. (That Long Silence 11) In a fictional career spanning two…
Ganesha’s Babies
Healing their Wounds: Writing as Processing in Shashi Deshpande’s Novels
Dr. Anupama Chowdhury Assistant Prof. of English Dept. of English MUC Women’s College, Burdwan WB, India. “Processing” is a popular word among psychologists. As the psychoanalysts suggest, most of our problems are caused by the fact that we do not always process our feelings and thoughts. Sometimes we just let them lie there, festering like…