Dr (Ms) Manjeet Rathee Associate Professor Dept. of English and Foreign Languages Maharshi Dayanand University, Rohtak-124001 The study of images of women in media and literature has been a significant area of concern for the last four decades because images as ‘the study of signification’ and ‘meaning production,’ play a vital role in shaping the…
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Reading Material for Developing Interactive Reading in Engineering Students
Madhu Sudhan Rao. M Dr.T.Sarada Research Scholar Research Supervisor Dept. of Enlgish Dept. of Enlgish university, Tirupati S.V.university, Tirupati Andhra Pradesh, India Andhra Pradesh, India Importance of Reading for Academic Achievement Books are an essential tool of learning, even in this technological age. ‘Learning to read and reading to learn’ is not an outworn slogan….
The Pangs of Transition in Bharathi Mukherjee’s Jasmine
Leelarajakumari. P Lecturer in English K L University, Guntur dist Guntur, Andhra Pradesh, India. Changes in the journey of life are inevitable. The effects they have are like sudden jolts of pain or joy. Bharathi mukherjee depicts these pangs of transitions through the tale of a typical Hindu girl Jyothi who transformed into various characters…
Adjustment of Diasporas through Integration: A Study of Toni Morrison’s Paradise
Dr. Khem Raj Sharma Assistant Professor, Department of English & European languages, The Central University of Himachal Pradesh, Post Box – 21, Dharamshala, Dt. Kangra-176215 Paradise (1998) is Toni Morrison’s seventh novel, which extends over a period from the late 1800s to the 1970s, and tells the story of a group of women who live…
Aims of Purushartha: Relevance to Mohan Rakesh’s Halfway House
Kharabe Ram Pundlikrao Dept. of English Study Centre, Prabhani, (M.S.) M.A.N.U.University. India is home to some of the most ancient civilizations, including four major world religions, Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism and Sikhism. Indians celebrate every religious festival with great enthusiasm. Apart from the festivals, another fundamental facet about Indian culture is a value system. The ethics…
M. G. Vassanji’s No New Land: A Study in Multicultural Aspects
N. Kavitha, Dr. P. Selvam Assistant Professor in English Assistant Professor in English Department of Science and Humanities PG and Research Department Sri Ramakrishna Institute of Technology Government Arts College Coimbatore 641 010 Coimbatore Tamil Nadu Tamil Nadu India India The ‘sovereignty of melioration’ regulates the present scenario which is unquestionably a Carrefour of burgeoning…
New Woman in Bharati Mukherjee’s Wife Jasmine and The Tree Bride
Jyoti Tabita Hermit Research Scholar University of Allahabad Allahabad. The status of women in India has been subject to many great changes over the past few millennia. From equal status with men in ancient times, through the low points of the medieval period to the promotion of equal rights by many reformers, the history of…
Silences and Shadows: Women in Mirza Waheed’s The Collaborator
We were the people who were not in the papers; We lived in the blank white spaces at the edges of print. Ishrat Bashir Kashmir, India Margret Atwood: The Handmaid’s Tale Nationalisms ‘have typically sprung from masculinized memory, masculinized humiliation and masculinized hope’, remarks Cynthia Enloe in Bananas, Beaches and Bases: Making Feminist Sense of…
If There Is a Poet, It Is This, It Is This: Aga Shahid Ali – Chronicler of Pain
Dr. Iffat Maqbool Asst. Professor Dept of English University of Kashmir The passing away of Aga Shahid Ali in 2001 was a collective loss to Kashmir- the most eloquent Kashmiri-English poet, a writer of unmatched elegance and virtuosity, a chronicler of pain- his poetry is the very stuff of beauty, loss and redemption. His death…
An Ecofeminist Reading of Temsula Ao’s Laburnum for My Head
Sikhamoni Gogoi Directorate of Distance Education Dibrugarh University Dibrugarh-786004 Assam Throughout the ages Nature and literature have shared a close relationship in the works of poets and writers across cultures. Literature is enriched with the depiction of natural sights and imagery, which not only illustrate human emotions and feelings for the environment, but also illustrate…