Paulina Shur Address: 10 Starboard Way, Latham, NY 12110 As always during rush hour, passengers on the subway train were so crammed, there was hardly any room to move an elbow. The train’s abrupt stops shoved them into each other, and in order to exit, they had to thrust their way through the crowd. Such…
Author: Vishwanath Bite
Stranger Things
Jamie Wilson Seattle, Washington Squirreled away on the second floor with the customer service girls, the collection guys, the loan processors, and other invisible employees, Paul wonders if the fluorescent lights ever stop burning. The lights—hidden behind frosted plastic panels that play hopscotch with gray ceiling tiles—are on when he arrives in the morning, when…
Racism : A Colour Paradigm in Asif Currimbhoy’s Goa
Yoosaph A.K. Lecturer in English, King Saud University, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Asif Currimbhoy emerged as a notable Indian English playwright in the post- independence period. Faubian Bowers commented about him that he was “India’s first authentic voice in the theatre”. His modern plays were well known in India and abroad. The dramatic groups…
Ayn Rand’s Art of Characterization with special reference to The Fountainhead
Tanaji S. Kamble Assistant Professor, Department of English, Shahajiraje Mahavidyalaya, Khatav. M.S. (India) Ayn Rand (1905-1982) is a nineteenth century Russia-born American novelist and Objectivist philosopher who contributed to the popular literature with her four novels- We the Living (1936), Anthem (1938), The Fountainhead (1943) and Atlas Shrugged (1957). Her eight works of non-fiction help…
Gender Discrimination in Mahesh Dattani’s
M. A. Sami Siddiqui Assistant Professor, Dept. of English, JES College, Jalna. Mahesh Dattani is a contemporary Indian playwright. His plays are significant from the point of view of form as well as content. He has received the Sahitya Academy award for his contribution to Indian Drama. R. K. Dhavan calls him ‘a fresh arrival’(1)…
Girish Karnad’s Yayati and Bali: The Sacrifice: A Study in Female Sexuality
Pratima Chaitanya Assistant Professor, Department of English, Harishchandra PG College Varanasi-India Gender issues seem to be suffused in most of the plays of Girish Karnad. In his plays, Karnad very dexterously pictures the condition of a typical Indian female, ruled by the patriarchal order bounded by tradition, but whose spirit remains unbounded. Although the playwright…
Portrayal of Motherhood: A critique of Kamala Das’ and Nissim Ezekiel’s Select poetry
Dr. Naveen K Mehta Faculty-Board of Studies The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India, New Delhi (India) Kamala Das, one of the vibrant voices in modern poetry in English, has successfully portrayed Mother’s point of view in her one of the poems, entitled, “The Middle Age.” It is a powerful intimate poem. The poem is…
THE INFLUENCE OF VEDIC THOUGHTS ON R.K.NARAYAN
Jothilakshmi.R 1 Dr. G.Meenakshi Sundaram2 DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH CSI COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING KETTI POST, THE NILIGIRIS – 643215 TAMILNADU, INDIA R.K.Narayan, Raja Rao and Mulk Raj Anand are the harbingers of a new age in Indian English fiction. Raja Raos’ India is philosophical and Anands’ social and Narayans’ is essentially naturalistic. As M.K Naik writes,…
Multidimensional dialogues in Harold Pinter’s Old Times
Dr. Dinesh Panwar, Department of English, Ajay Kumar Garg Engineering College, GZB, India Pinter’s dramatic dialogue is based on both the colloquial and a neatly structured manipulation of the vernacular. In reviewing the Brimingham, Repertory Theatre’s 1993 production of Old Times, Michael Billington stresses the important theatric impression inherent in, this quality of Pinter’s language….
Stereotypes in Hanif Kureishi’s The Buddha of Suburbia
Cristiana Cornea The Faculty of Letters, “Babes-Bolyai” University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania Hanif Kureishi’s novel, The Buddha of Suburbia, presents numerous discrepancies existing between the English and the Indian culture, emphasizing the fact that stereotypes such as race, nationality, religious orientation are capable of turning the world upside-down and of presenting a perfect image of the society…