Saumya Rajan Academic Officer NIOS, MHRD Govt. of India Ruth acts as a postmodernist woman in a new avatar. On one hand she perhaps, evolves as a new woman in ultra postmodern terms, bold enough to accept what she is, taking all power in her hands. On the other hand, she falls prey to her…
Author: Vishwanath Bite
An Ecofeminist Reading of Shashi Deshpande’s The Dark Holds No Terrors
S.R.Adlin Asha Ph.D English (Full Time Research scholar) Department of English Bharathiar University Coimbatore-46. Ecofeminism The concept of connecting women with the nature dates back to the times of ancient classical mythology. Nature is feminized because it is seen as possessing the same qualities as women at the time when most of the romantic writing…
African American and Dalit Autobiography
Shivaji D. Sargar Associate Professor and Head P. G. Dept. of English, Mahatma Phule College, Panvel. (India) Literature is an artistic expression of the relationship between the thoughts and feelings of human mind and the social conditions surrounding it. When some new stream of thoughts and feelings begins to flow continuously with its uniqueness, quality…
Beyond Broken Columns: Mahesh Dattani’s Final Solutions and the Quest for ‘Horizontal Comradeship’
Abin Chakraborty West Bengal, India. The attempts to imagine the Indian nation as a united political community are repeatedly ruptured by what Pramod Nayyar calls the processes of ‘postcolonial subalternization’ which refers to all those forces of oppression that continue to ravage India on the basis of class, caste, gender, creed and of course religion….
Indian Youth and Cricket Mania: Chetan Bhagat’s Three Mistakes of My Life
Guide- Dr. Kranti Vats Prof. M.V.M.College, Bhopal Co- Guide- Dr. Shubhra Tripathi Prof. M.V.M.College, Bhopal Head of Dept. English, M.V.M. College Bhopal. Asst. Prof. Sapna Tiwari Dept. Of Humanities Truba Group of Institutes Bhopal. This study determines to attempt the madness of Indian youth for cricket. This game has taken a vast and huge place…
Enslavement to Autonomy in Anita Nair’s Ladies Coupe
S.Suganya, MA (English), Research Scholar (Ph.D. English) Bharathiar University. Coimbatore Where ladies get honour, god arrives there A Hindu mythical slogan is not in practice even among the Hindu community but there is only on the pages of religious books. During the Pre-Aryan age women were gratis and equivalent to men. But from the medieval…
Reflective Practice through Journal Writing- A Case Study
Dr. B. Samrajya Lakshmi Associate Professor of English Department of Science and Humanities, Lakireddy Balireddy College of Engineering, Mylavaram, Krishna (Dt.), Andhra Pradesh, India Introduction Diary/Journal Writing A teaching journal/diary is an ongoing written account of observations, reflections, and other thoughts about teaching, usually in the form of a notebook, or electronic mode, which serves…
Nativism, Love and Sorrow in Nissim Ezekiel’s Night of the Scorpion
Md. Sahidul Islam Research Scholar Department of English Aligarh Muslim University Aligarh-202002, U.P. India. Nativism is a “term for desire to return to indigenous practices and cultural forms as they existed in pre-colonial society” (Ashcroft 159). This radical concept of nativism, which was commonly found in the Indian writings during the pre-colonial India, in fact,…
The Wretched of India: The Socio-cultural Space for the Untouchables in Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things
Dr. Safiul Islam M.A., B.Ed., PGDL, Ph.D. Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh-202002, INDIA. Like racism which is the fundamental factor in dividing people in European history, the caste system, a deep-rooted factor hindering the integration of people in India, affects the socio- economic and socio-cultural system of Indian society. The most unwanted and exploited ones are…
Twins’ Estrangement in The God of Small Things
Ram Avtar Vats Research Scholar of Mewar University, Rajasthan (Associate Professor, English) Department of Applied Sciences & Humanities IIMT, College of Engineering, Greater Noida Rakhi Sharma Research Scholar of Mewar University, Rajasthan (Assistant Professor, English) Department of Applied Sciences & Humanities ITS, Engineering College, Greater Noida The time comes, the father falls sick of cradling…