Author: Vishwanath Bite

  Vishwanath Bite in Conversation with Abhishek Majumdar Dr. Vishwanath Bite Assistant Professor in English Government of Maharashtra's Ismail Yusuf College, Jogeshwari (E), Mumbai, 60. Maharashtra, India. Abhishek Majumdar is a playwright, theater director, teacher, and actor based out of Bangalore. He writes in English, Hindim and Bangla. He is currently the artistic director of the Indian…

  Title of the Book: The Shadow Lines Author: Amitav Ghosh Year of Publication: 1988 Place of Publication: Great Britain Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Ltd.   Reviewed By: Khan Touseef Osman PhD Research Scholar University of Kashmir   Imaginary Boundaries and Post-Partition Nation-State The Shadow Lines came out in 1988, after the success of his first…

  Title: The Book of Gold Leaves. Writer: Mirza Waheed. Publisher: Penguin / Viking Books. Publication Year: 2014. Number of Pages: 339. Format: Hard-cover. ISBN-No: 9780670087426. Price: Rs.449.                                                         Reviewed By: Iram Shafi Allaie M.Phil Scholar (2014) Department of English University of Kashmir   The Kashmir of 1990's witnessed a tumultuous period which by now…

  Knowledge Construction and identity Politics: A Review  of  Nandini Sahu’s Sita (2014), The  Poetry Society of  India ,Gurgaon  ( Hariyana ) ,India . PP – 129, R S 220/-, ISBN: 978-93-83888-19-1(PB).   Reviewed By: Gagan Bihari Purohit R.N. College, Dura, Berhampur Odisha   Rendered as a “poetic memoir … in the first person narrative”…

  Book: The Mother I Never Knew                                                                              Author: Sudha Murty                                                                                              Publisher: Penguin Books India                                                                                  Year of Publication: 2014                                                                                           Number of Pages: 206                                                                                                Price: 250 INR                                                                                                                        ISBN – 9780143422259   Reviewed By:                                                                                                             Dr. Divya Pandey                                                                                          Department of English and MEL,                                                                              University of Allahabad, Allahabad.   Sudha Kulkarni Murty, a Padma Shri awardee is an Indian…

  On The New Year Stephen Gill Canada   What then if it is a New Year This day is the same as any other day of last week even last year. The wilful ghosts of sorrow have not dissolved nor have the fogs of ignorance which float over the cold tombs. Rather, they have…

    Journey of the Soul Neelam Chandra While stationary remained the body The soul detached itself From the form And high it soared…   The body it watched From the roof, Crossed the boundaries Of the house, Touchedthe clouds- Crossed them And then reached You To blessings seek.   A white light From You…

  From Dust to Dust: A Voyage Dr. Nandini Sahu New Delhi, India   Air In the Air’s dirge and in its uncanny speech In the symbolic inscape, towards an anonymousacreage to reach. In the muted melancholy, winding round and round In the deep scars of ages, sheltering words from their sound. The ‘anatomy of…

  Missing Person   Vinita Agrawal I don’t remember anything about the day we emptied mother's ashes in the river. Just the overcast grey sky, dowelled like a Serengeti of gloom somewhere up above.    The hospital had trussed her hermetically to prevent chemical bloating, scaffolded her abdomen in particular…too much tumor there, they'd said…

  Seamus Heaney’s Door into the Dark Opens up Vertiginous Possibilities   Dr. Ruhul Amin Mandal Jadavpur University, Jadavpur,  Kolkata. Seamus Heaney, one of the finest Irish poets and next to Yeats, is a Nobel laureate. He shows his genre right from the publication of his maiden anthology Death of a Naturalist in 1966. Door…