Author: Vishwanath Bite

  The Dynamics of Psyche in Bharati Mukherjee’s Wife Kanika Agarwal Research Scholar, Dayalbagh Educational Institute, Agra-282110 Abstract: Psychology studies the systematic account of the subtlety and complexities of the human mind, examples of which are accumulated by literature through the centuries. Thus psychology and literature ally with one another. Encouraged by the psychological discoveries…

  Rohinton Mistry’s Family Matters: A Journey towards Thematic Exploration Dipankar Parui Assistant Professor Department of English, Hijli College, P.O- Hijli Co-operative, Kharagpur-721306, West Midnapur, West Bengal. Abstract: Parsis novelists have always played a pivotal role in the arena of English literature. Rohinton Mistry is one such prolific Parsi novelist who was born in India but…

  Iswaran’s Crystal Dream of Education and A Storyteller and Under the Banyan Tree: R. K. Narayan’s Two Short Stories Cruz L. Bonilla Universidad de Granada Spain The heterogeneity of India’s colonial and postcolonial policies of education pervades R. K. Narayan’s prolific career. A perplexed mythic conception of reality is followed by popular lessons of…

  Marginalized Women in Anita Desai’s Fasting, Feasting Bhuvana Ramachandran Research Scholar Canara College, Mangalore & Dr. H. Madhava Bhat Dept. Of English, Vivekananda College, Puttur We may have to admit that the existence of a ‘margin category’ validates the presence of a ‘centre category’ which controls it by adopting exploitive and suppressive practices. The…

  A Friendship Destined to be Doomed: A Critical Study of Girish Karnad’s Hayavadana                                    Avijit Pramanik Junior Research Fellow Department of Humanities and Social Sciences NIT Durgapur The notable Indian critic M.K.Naik deplores the pathetic situation of Indian English drama in a very sensitive way in his A History of Indian English Literature:                         Unlike…

  The Death-Humor Paradox (Based on contrastive study of Georgian and American humorous epitaphs and obituaries) Thea Shavladze Ph. D, Associate Professor of Batumi State University, Batumi, Georgia Abstract: Paradoxical juxtapositions of death and humor in today’s world are on the rise. My intent in this paper is to refute wide spread opinion that Georgians…

  Home and Away: The Dialectics of Diasporic Identity Sarfaraz Nawaz Assistant Professor Department of English Shibli National College, Azamgarh   What is a diaspora? Obviously, given the ambivalent positions that the diasporas hold straddling two worlds with an experience of dislocation common to them whatever be the nature of their movement from the home…

  Suicide: Power and the Body Ashwin Bajaj Assistant Professor of English Gargi College University of Delhi Michel Foucault’s work has been central to thinking the various modalities of power which operate in the modern state. In Discipline and Punish and The History of Sexuality, he traces the history of power matrices and how the…

  An Ecofeminist Study of Alice Walker’s The Temple of My Familiar Dr. N. Kalaamani Professor and Head Department of English Bharathidasan University Tiruchirappalli – 24 & M. Ravikumar Research Scholar Department of English Bharathidasan University Tiruchirappalli – 24   Abstract:             Ecofeminism is a social and political movement which evolved  from various feminist movements….

  Freewill versus Determinism in The Old Man And The Sea   Dr. Milan Swaroop Sharma (Associate Professor of English) IIMT College of Engineering, Greater Noida             Freewill reflects in–“the capability to say yes when yes is needed, to say no when no is needed, and sometimes to keep quiet when nothing is needed –to…