Jitender Singh Research Scholar MDU Rohtak, India Human beings are the products of the social system in which they live and dwell, and in order to play their societal roles appropriately, certain types of relationships have been established. One thing that these relationships give birth to is a sense of commitment. One of the most…
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Sri Aurobindo’s Critique of Science and Rationality
Jaspal Singh Head, Department of English, G.G.D.S.D. College, Hariana, Distt. Hoshiarpur, Punjab, (India) Pin-144208 Introduction: The beginning of the Twentieth Century was a period of intense disturbance and turmoil as a wind of change was sweeping the entire human civilization. The old order was giving way to the new. Mankind had never seen such drastic…
A study of selected plays of Wole Soyinka in the Light of Decolonization
Md. Jakir Hossain Research Scholar, Department of English, AMU, Aligarh-202002. Franz Fanon effectively describes the drama of decolonization: “Decolonization never takes place unnoticed, for it influences individuals and modifies them fundamentally. It transforms spectators crushed with their inessentiality into privileged actors, with grandiose glare of history’s floodlights upon them. It brings a natural rhythm into…
Appearance versus Reality: Exposition of Faulty Political System in India in Adiga’s The White Tiger
Irfan Ahmad Thoker Research Scholar Lovely Professional University Jalandhar, Punjab India is called the largest democracy in the world and Indians are proud to be called so. It is a country where people have freedom to express and the right to elect their representatives. These elected representatives are supposed to work for the welfare of…
Seamus Heaney and the Poetics of Place
Iffat Maqbool Asst Professor Dept of English University of Kashmir. Despite the ascendancy of “Formalist” poetics in the second half of the twentieth century, a literature of engagement was increasingly offered from those emergent cultures that needed new paradigms to counter the modernist model offered by the western academia. Cultures like India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka,…
Beckett and the World of Misfits and Mangled Characters
Fayaz Sultan Assistant Professor in English IUST, Kashmir, India –192301 In on Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic In History, Thomas Carlyle advocates that history is the, ‘’biography of Great Men’’, heroic individuals who arrive onto the world stage take humanity to higher levels of human consciousness and existence and prove pole stars in the apocalyptic…
Art and Social Dialectics: A Critique of Yerima’s Kaffir Last Game and The Sisters
Oguntoyinbo Deji Department of Languages, Faith Academy, Ota. Art comes from the Latin word ‘ars’ which means skill. Art, according to the Webster New World Dictionary, is defined as “creativity of man as distinguished from the world of nature” (78). In the broadest sense, art, according to the Encyclopaedia Americana embraces all the creative disciplines…
Cultural Complexity in Nissim Ezekiel’s Works
John Wesly Associate Professor of English, Dept of Science and Humanities, Loyola Institute of Technology and Management, Dhulipalla, Satenapalli, Guntur Distt,(AP) India. & N. D. R. Chandra Professor, Dept of English, Nagaland University Kohima Campu, Nagaland, India. I Nissim Ezekiel avails himself the composite culture of India to which he belongs, he considers himself to…
Naipaul’s India : A Wounded Civilization : A Political Perspective
Bhupinder Singh & JapPreet Kaur Bhangu V.S Naipaul born in Trinidad to parents of Indian descent is an eminent writer known for novels and works of non-fiction which include essays and travel writings. Winner of Nobel Prize and numerous other literary prizes, he has focused time and again on the legacy of colonialism of the…
Caught in the Mire of Colonial Neurosis – An Analysis of V.S Naipaul’s House for Mr Biswas
Jon Mohd Bhat Assistant Professor English IUST, Awantipora, J&K, India Naipaul’s reluctance to see his and his community’s condition of hybridity in a positive way stems from the unique history that he belongs to. He is not able to celebrate the developing creole culture of the Caribbean like African-Caribbean writers such as Lamming and Edward…