Sandra Colly-Durand The Empire has fallen but its myths we continue to own Values of an era bygone continue to dethrone The Empire has receded but her values still reign They echo and resonate in the brain The invisible wounds of self hate still dominate Man Friday’s Language we negate Our tongues are still in…
Author: Vishwanath Bite
MY MEXICAN MUSE
Francis Murillo Emralino San Pablo City, Philippines. Green lights trace the catwalk as the Mexican muse travel with a mask surrounded by catchy phrases flavored with sadness, topped with short delights. She opens up through the microphone: Viva! como esta? And her metered words fell on deaf ears and on the love-struck alike. Behind this…
Determination Force
Cinderbella
Sangeeta Bhargava True to her name, Titli was flitting around like a butterfly, dodging her opponents with ease. She stopped running abruptly and stood by the side of the road as a rickshaw pulled up. She looked at memsahib fondly as she alighted; glasses perched on her nose, a pile of books in her hands….
Rendezvous with Rain
Rupanjali Baruah Assam, India Rain is moving towards an obscure destination, no name, just a place, the address unknown, but the reason for its arrival is quite known. It will begin some unsavory revelations in some lives. The sky rumbles in a cloudy, cool manner. The rain, in this way, takes a shorter route to…
A Rain-Washed Note
The Widening Gyre
Joanna Hoyt Tuesday morning was almost lovely enough to drive the memory of nightmare, the dream- images of friends and neighbors melting into a faceless mob, out of Ellen’s mind. The full moon hung low in the western sky. The east was streaked with pale gold clouds. Ellen would have lingered to savor it, to…
A Critical Study of Arun Joshi’s The Foreigner
Prof. Malshette Yogesh Trimbakrao Assistant Professor Dept. of Humanities & Basic Sciences Abhinav Education Society’s (Pune-46) College of Engineering & Technology (Polytechnic) Wadwadi-412801 Ms. Shete Sonali Shivraj Abhinav Education Society’s College of Education, Pune 46. In Arun Joshi’s first novel The Foreigner itself, Joshi analyses the problem of meaninglessness in life. The protagonist Sindi’s alienation…
Antinovels of Diaspora Women Writers between Continents: A Comparative Study
Ms.Waheed Shafiah Dr.K.Sandhya Assistant Professor in English Reader in English Gudlavalleru Engineering College Maris Stella Colleg Gudlavalleru-Vijayawada Vijayawada Andhra Pradesh – India Andhra Pradesh – India The paper centers on “Antinovels of Diaspora Women Writers between Continents.” Anita Desai has proved herself the most accomplished and admired chroniclers of middle- class India. Her novel, Fasting,…
Disability and the Question of Identity
Vivek Singh( Research Scholar) Ph.D. ( Cultural Studies) University of English and Foreign Languages, Hyderabad This paper focuses on issues of ‘identity of disabled people’ and looks at the debates that have problematised the general notion of identity in Disability Studies. It starts with a brief description of what is disability and how it has…