G.A. Ghanshyam Iyengar Professor of English Govt. M.L. Shukla College (Bilaspur University, Bilaspur) Seepat, Bilaspur (C.G.) 495 555 Creative writing is not just a matter of practical mastery, but of intimate emotional identification between subject and word – something that cannot be acquired by schooling, reading, or elegant conversation. [David McCutchion. As qtd. In Indian…
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Globalization and the Changing Urban Realities in India in Chetan Bhagat’s One Night @The Call Center and 2 States
Anil Kshirsagar Assistant Professor Dept. of English, M.J. College Jalgaon Maharashtra. 425001. & Mrs. R.P. Bonde Head, Dept. of English M.J. College Jalgaon Maharashtra. 425001. & Dr. Suvarna T. Shinde Head, Dept. of English, Arts & Commerce College for Women, Dhule Maharashtra.24001. Ever since the time India opted to go global, sweeping socio-economical, political, and…
The Relationship of the Siblings in Danielle Steel and Arundhati Roy’s Novels:A Comparative Study
B.Abirami Ph.D. Scholar Department of English Anna University, Chennai Tamilnadu. & Dr.S.N.Mahalakshmi INTRODUCTION Literature extracts the innermost feelings of both the reader as well as the writer and the chore of literature is to entrust a positive thought to the readers. It is the task of literature to involve the readers into the work and…
Existential Crisis in Second-Generation Immigrants in Jhumpa Lahiri’s Unaccustomed Earth
Shivangi Srivastava Research Scholar Department of English and Modern European Languages University of Lucknow Lucknow– 226007 India Jhumpa Lahiri belongs to the second generation of Indian immigrant writers in United States. Lahiri concerns her writing with the consciousness of the need for regaining roots in the tradition of India and a strong nostalgic pull towards…
Refugees as ‘the Subaltern’ in The Hungry Tide
Shital Shamdhan Maher The society has been studied by different approaches and angles in humanities and social sciences. Society is a place where a person or groups strive to attain equilibrium in cultural, social, political, economical aspects with a person or groups who possess the power to utilize it. Some people still lack behind in…
The Different Modes of Rebellion and its Effect on Society through a Study of Small Remedies and Difficult Daughters
Shibani Banerjee Assistant Professor Sir Padampat Singhania University Udaipur, Rajasthan. The problem of search for identity is inextricably related to the problem of existence. It has been a popular theme with women writers of Indian fiction in English. They have tried to depict this theme in their works in one way or the other. On…
Under the Eastern Eyes: Recolonisation and Debating the Women Question in the Academia
Sanchayita Paul (Chakraborty) Gour College, Gour Banga University, Malda, West Bengal. The study of feminism has been part of the pedagogic discourse of the Indian academia. The post-graduate courses on English facilitate a familiarity with the feminist scholarship across the country. In fact, feminism in its academic institutionalization has been faring well. But there is…
Githa Hariharan – A Writer cum Activist with Commitment
Vemuri Rupa Department of English & Humanities Anil Neerukonda Institute of Technology and Sciences Visakhapatnam & C.L.L. Jayaprada Department of English Andhra University Visakhapatnam Does the law sanction a woman’s right to be a parent? This may be a facetious question, particularly in Indian society, which eulogises motherhood with every breath it takes. But this…
Women as Nation in Blashphemy
Ranu Ostwal Gaud India Etymologically the word Nation means the one that has been born. It can be seen as an imagined entity. Nation can also be explained as a group of people who allocate and practice same traditions, cultures and narrations of the past times through their common language. So nation without limited margins…
Angela Carter’s Critique of Enlightenment and Postmodern Aesthetics in The Infernal Desire Machines of Dr. Hoffman
Rajaram Zirange Head, Postgraduate Department of English, Bharati Vidyapeeth Deemed University Yashwantrao Mohite College, Pune (India). After her Heroes and Villains, Angela Carter comes back again to the imaginary landscape and bizarre kind of communities in her novel The Infernal Desire Machines of Dr. Hoffman. Her purpose, in this novel, here is to deconstruct the…