Arup Kumar Mondal The University of Burdwan, Burdwan, West Bengal, India. Abstract: Vijay Tendulkar’s Silence! The Court is in Session theorizes the subdued condition of women-folk in the post-independence Indian scenario. Benare, the school-teacher who is trying to come out as an independent woman falls a victim to the patriarchal mouse-trap. She only hopes to…
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Counterbalancing the Injury and Progress in Tradition: Rama Mehta’s Inside the Haveli
Sunanda Bose Asst Professor (Dept of Humanities) Siliguri Institute of Technology,WBUT (India) ABSTRACT: The paper researches into the socio cultural perspective in particular with Rama Mehta’s “Inside the Haveli”. It is an endeavor to preserve women writer’s effort towards the emancipation of their gender. It supports thoughts and missions of the protagonist and spearheads the…
Love Manifestation by African-American Males in the Selected Fiction of Toni Morrison and Alice Walker
Archana Awasthi Lecturer, Karamat Husain Muslim Girls P. G. College, Nishatganj Lucknow India. Love is “one passion which satisfies man’s need to unite with the world and to acquire at the same time a sense of integrity and individuality…” (Segal, 31). It is one of the most powerful and basic human emotions, absence of which…
The Clash of Mundane and Spiritual in R.K. Narayan’s Novels
Dr. Sujata Asst. Prof. in English, Department of Humanities and Management, FET, MRIU, Faridabad (Haryana), India Abstract: The paper probes the role of spiritual in communicating Narayan’s overall life vision. Narayan is a mature artist who has his feet firmly rooted in his social and cultural ethos. His chief protagonists, though leading the most ordinary…
LSRW and L2 Engineering Students
Dr. Anubha Shrivastava Assistant Professor Dept. of Applied Science G.L.Bajaj Institute of Tech. & Management Greater Noida, UP, India Review of Literature EAP (English for Academic Purposes) researchers, such as Christison and Krahnke, 1986; Ferris, 1998; Ostler, 1980, have surveyed L2 students enrolled in subject-matter courses to ascertain their perceptions about the relative importance of…
Value-Concerns and Contemporary Indian Drama: A Study of Gurcharan Das’ 9 Jakhoo Hill
Sudeep Kumar Research Scholar, Department of English and Cultural Studies, Panjab University, Chandigarh. India. Abstract: The rise of middle class in India is a phenomenon in itself. Along with other academic disciplines – sociology, economics, political science, anthropology – literature has attempted to give a critique of it. A shift has taken place from old…
Sexual and Emotional Repression of Women: A Portrayal
Dr. Anshu Raina Verma Assistant Professor Dept. of English, LPU. Post-colonial literature consists of a body of writing emanating from Europe’s former colonies. It addresses the concerns of history, identity, ethnicity, gender and language. An important consequence of post-colonialism has been the acknowledgement and re-appearance of women’s experience after being concealed in the histories of…
Bengali Diasporic Culture: A Study of the Film Adaptation of Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Namesake (2003)
Subrata Kumar Das Ph.D. research scholar Centre for the Study of Indian Diaspora, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad. Jhumpa Lahiri’s novel The Namesake (2003) is a culture-oriented, more precisely, a Bengali diasporic culture-oriented novel. As a diasporic novel it represents the diasporic themes like displaced, dislocated and deterritorised feelings of the first generation expatriates like Ashima…
Orientalism and the Awakening of the “Other” in Dorris Lessing’s The Grass is Singing
Ansa George & Elizabeth Sebastian I MA English, St. Aloysius College (Autonomous) Mangalore, Karnataka-575003 Abstract: Edward Said makes use of the term, ‘Other’ in his work Orientalism to represent the East. This terminology was adopted from Jacques Laccan’s ‘Mirror Image’ concept. According to this concept the child begins to understand his or her identity by…
Triplex of Spirituality, Disillusionment and Strength Formation of Bharatiyata Identity in E.M. Forster’s A Passage to India
Annu Yadav Rajasthan “East is East, West is West, and never the twain shall meet,” (Rudyard Kipling, Kim, qtd. Childs) The celebrated statement from Kipling’s Kim, is very suggestive in understanding E. M. Forster’s modern classic about colonial India, complex British-Indian relationship and their consequences. E. M. Forster- a “profound observer of India” (Amartya Sen,…