The City and the River Dr. Arvind M. Nawale, Head, Dept. of English, Shivaji Mahavidhyalaya, Udgir, Dist: Latur Among the Indian English writers who qualify as existentialist, Arun Joshi is the first and finest one. His novels are strongly influenced by the existential philosophy of Satre, Albert Camus’ and Kierkegaard. His journey of fictional works…
Author: Vishwanath Bite
PRAGMATIC ANALYSIS OF ABUSES IN ‘COOLIE’
Dr. Arjun Jadhav, Prashant Mothe, Associate Professor, Assistant Professor, Dept.of English, Dept.of English, Fergusson College, Pune-04 Adarsh Senior College, Omerga. Preliminaries If abuses are treated as speech acts, the sociological novels of Mulk Raj Anand can be best understood. The novel Coolie by Mulk Raj Anand is replete with abusive expressions. The writer deliberately creates…
Dramatising Democracy/Democratising Drama: A Cross Sectional Analysis.
Anita Singh Professor Department of English BHU Varanasi- 221005 Email:anitasinghh@gmail.com To all unprejudiced reflection it is clear that all art is from its origin essentially Of the nature of dialogue. All music calls to an ear not the musician’s own, all Sculpture to an eye not the sculptor’s, architecture in addition calls to the step…
The Spiritual Sense of Alienation in Diasporic Life: Reading Anita Desai, Bharati Mukherjee, Sunetra Gupta and Jhumpa Lahiri
Dr. Amit Shankar Saha Kolkata, India. Exile, in its literal sense, is a physical condition but the sense of exile is not necessarily a manifestation of a dislocated existence. Even if there is a geographical displacement, the exilic condition in many cases is only superficially physical and fundamentally psychological and spiritual. The external exile either…
BOOK REVIEW
Title: A Bird Alone, Author: Ketaki Dutta, Publisher: Sarup Book Publishers Pvt. Ltd., 2008. 148 pp. Reviewer: Pinaki Roy Assistant Professor of English, Malda College, Rabindra Avenue, Rathbari More, District: Malda – 732 101 The ash-grey cover-jacket and the title of Ketaki Dutta’s debut novel are self-revealing of the storyline. In spite of the usage…
Book Review
Title: Creative Writers on Indian English Novelists Editors: Arjun Jadhav, Nandkumar Lawande and Prashant Mothe Publisher: Jyotichandra Publication Pvt. Ltd, 2010. Price: 550/- 270pp. Reviewer: Madhuri Bite Official Reviewer, The Criterion: An International Journal in English ISSN: 0976-8165 The history of Indian English novel can be very much aligned to the advent and supreme reign…
An Interview with Dr. Basavaraj Naikar By Dr. Vishwanath Bite
Dr. Vishwanath Bite: Will you tell us something about yourself (place of birth, school and anything in between)? Basavaraj Naikar: I was born in Naragund of the then Dharwad district in Karnataka on August 1, 1949. I was educated in the Practising School of Government Training College for Men, Dharwad from the first standard to…
They and Us Killed Us, A Review of Ayi Kwei Armah’s The Healers
Title: The Healers Author: Ayi Kwei Armah Genre: Novel Publisher: Per Ankh Pages: 351 ISBN: 2-911928-04-0 Year of Publication: 1978 (this edition 2000) Country: Ghana; Africa Reviewer: Nana Fredua-Agyeman Authors write for different reasons. To some writing has a therapeutic effect. Some write to express a personal opinion, some write toward an idea whereas others…