Rajendra Kumar Dash, Asst. Professor, Department of English, C. V. Raman College of Engineering, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India. & Namita Panda, Asst. Professor, Department of English, C. V. Raman College of Engineering, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India. The fictions of R.K. Narayan (1907-2001), especially his novels, can be regarded as more or less a socio-historical chronicle of India…
Author: Vishwanath Bite
Gender Performativity: A study of Mahesh Dattani’s On a Muggy Night in Mumbai and Dance Like a Man
Theme of Immigration in the Novels of Rohinton Mistry
Mrs. Priyambda Singh Dr. Vikas Jaoolkar Asst Proff (Humanities) Head Dept. of English Truba Group of Institutes Govt. Hamidia College Bhopal (M.P) Bhopal (M.P) INTRODUCTION Rohinton Mistry was born and brought up in Mumbai in the mid fifty’s, migrated to Canada at the age of 23. Mistry belongs to that class of the Indian authors…
God Virus and Quantum Mechanics: An Upheaval to Tom Stoppard’s world in Hapgood
Praveen Kumar Anshuman Assistant Professor, Dept. of English, Kirori Mal College University of Delhi, Delhi-110007, India. Some names defy logic, syllogism, and Euclidian arrow; and in fact they prove it through these things in surprise. Tom Stoppard is not just a name that arose out of unfertile realm; he bears the indelible stamp not just…
Three Kings (1999): An Orientalist Representation
Morsal Shaif Haidarah Ph.D Research Scholar in English University of Madras Many critics argue that the film, Three Kings(1999), satirizes war. They consider this film as anti-war film. Hagopian(1999) points out that “ war is hell, but in David O Russell’s picaresque action comedy-drama, it’s also hellacious”(n. page).Ram Samudrala points out that Three Kings is…
The “Daily Jangle” between a Rich Old Husband and his Fashionable Young Wife
Mohammed Sagheer Ahmed Al-fasly Ph.D. Scholar Dept. of P. G. Studies & Research in English Kuvempu University Jnana Sahyadri Shankaraghatta-577451 Shimoga Dist Karnataka Dr. Rachel Bari Associate Professor Dept. of P. G. Studies & Research in English Kuvempu University Jnana Sahyadri Shankaraghatta-577451 Shimoga Dist Karnataka Richard Brinsley Sheridan’s The School for Scandal has many central…
Self-consciousness and Self-affirmation: A Study of AlbertCamus’s The Stranger
Y.Mercy Famila Assistant Professor, Dept. Of English, Yuvakshetra College, Mundur, Palakkad, Kerala, India The storm has died away, and still we are restless, uneasy, as if the storm were about to break. Almost all the affairs of men remain in a terrible uncertainty. We think of what has disappeared, and we are almost destroyed by…
Linguistic Skills and Communicative Abilities
M. S. Wankhede Language is a means of communication through which we transfer out ideas, emotions, and thought; express our love, anger and get understood by other persons. It is language that distinguishes human being from other species. It has been the common experience of all human beings that language is acquired in proper surrounding…
Remembering and Retelling ‘Selves’ In Small Remedies
Dr.Kavya.B Lecturer in English Karnataka “…nothing in life comes “next” but….every thing exists together and at the same time within us ….there is no past to be “ brought forward” in a human being, but ….he is his past at every moment and …..the present is merely that which his past is capable of noticing…
Lorraine Hansberry: Giving Voice to the Oppressed Silence
Gursimran Kaur One of the most celebrated black playwrights in America to break the color barrier in the theatre was activist and feminist Lorraine Vivian Hansberry, who was born on May 19, 1930, in Chicago, Illiois. She was the youngest by seven years of four children. Her parents, Nannie Perry Hansberry and Carl Augustus Hansberry,…