Serkan Engin They draw a knife of grief and throw a razor to hell while slicing their courage thinner. Their stomachs are deserted and their dreams are blinded, their pupils are dice shaken to pain. They walk along with a suicide anthem as violence suckles their teazel life. They are wasted of life and, definitely,…
Author: Vishwanath Bite
Remapping Identity and Selfhood: Multiculturalism and Plurality in Monica Ali’s Brick Lane and Zadie Smith’s White Teeth
Sagarika Dutta Research Scholar, Department of English & Other Modern European Languages, Visva-Bharati, Santiniketan. Among the numerous literary trends that have found its place in Contemporary English Literary Canon, issues relating to diaspora studies have generated interest in scholars and readers. There has been restructuring of the literary canon in recent times that have included…
Treatment of Subaltern Agony in Mulk Raj Anand’s Untouchable
Dr. Dhanesh M. Bartwal Assistant Professor of English, THDC-IHET Tehri Garhwal (UK), INDIA & Dr. Richa Bijalwan Assistant Professor of English, THDC-IHET Tehri Garhwal (UK), INDIA Societies always remain categorized and subaltern issues are the consequences of these categorizations. The etymological meaning of subaltern is below the rank. The British Military officer used this term…
BOOK REVIEW
Ahmed Yerima‘s Basic Techniques In Playwriting (2003). Place of Publication: Ibadan, Nigeria. Publisher: Kraft Books. Number of Pages: 165. Binding : Paperback. ISBN: 978-039-101-0. Price: N1,000. Reviewed By: Oguntoyinbo Deji Faith Academy, Canaanland, Ota, Nigeria. Playwriting is not a gift. It is a skill to be consciously learned. An aspiring / potential dramatist or theatre…
The Intellectual behind India Unbound
Deepak Dhillon Ph.D Scholar, M.D.U Rohtak ( Haryana) & Parvesh Dahiya M.D.U Rohtak( Haryana) India Unbound (2000) is famous and most read book written by Gurcharan Das. He is a well known author and public intellectual. He has special interest and keen eye on the so called economic ascent of India. With his education (graduate…
Breaking the Silence: Women’s Protest Voiced in Vijay Tendulkar’s Silence! The Court is in Session and Jana Natya Manch’s Aurat
Debayan Deb Barman Assistant Professor in English, THLH Mahavidyalay (University of Burdwan) Mallarpur, Modian, P.O. Ganpur. Pin- 731216. West Bengal. India Theatre has always been an active and lively medium for expression of contemporary socio-cultural crisis issues. It has proved to be a committed art form with an intention for positive socio-cultural change. In this…
Ecocritical Reading of Yann Martel’s Life of Pi
Deepali Yadav Amity University Noida, Uttar Pradesh (India) “Only when the last tree has been cut down; Only when the last river has been poisoned; Only when the last fish has been caught; Only then you will find that money cannot be eaten” Yann Martel’s ‘Life of Pi’ justifies the irony behind the stated proverb….
Magical Realism in the Fictional Works of Manoj Das
Dr. Pragyan Prabartika Dash Lecturer in English Vyasanagar Autonomous College Jajpurroad, Odisha, India Magical Realism has gained currency as an artistic genre in the Post Colonial and Post Modern era. The chief practitioners of this genre are Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Ben Okri, Alejo Carpentier, Tony Morrison and Salman Rushdie who created milestones in world literature…
Surfing Silence
Book’s Title: Global South Asians:- Introducing the Modern Diaspora (2007)
Writer: Judith M. Brown, Publisher: Cambridge University Press India Pvt. Ltd. , New Delhi, Publication Year: 2007, ISBN No: 978-0521606301 Reviewed by Subrata Kumar Das Ph.D. in Indian Diaspora Centre for the Study of Indian Diaspora University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad Brown’s book projects not only the historical background of South Asian migration since the early…