Adam Klein O troupe of little vagrants of the world, leave your footprints in my words. – Rabindranath Tagore The professor looked hopelessly at his bird. Sleeping! How does it manage to sleep through such noise, he thought. The professor noted the tiny feathers, like hatch marks around its eyes and the eyelids smooth as…
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Role of a Teacher in 21st Century
Vitthal Gore Sameena Begum Associate Professor of English Instructor Nizam Institute of Engineering and Jizzan University, Technology Jizzan, Near RFC, Deshmukhi, Hyderabad Kingdom of Saudi Arabia In the post-modern era, English language teaching and learning has gone through a phase of change. It has seen developments and shifts in the areas like teaching-learning methodologies, learning…
Use of ‘Pakistan’ as a Metaphor: A Study of Kamleshwar’s Partitions
Vinod K. Chopra Lecturer in English. G.(G)S.S.S.Hamirpur, Distt. Hamirpur (H.P.). India 177 001 The independence of India on 15 August 1947 was undoubtedly a red letter day in the history of the sub-continent as it was on this day that the shackles of the British slavery were broken giving way to long cherished dream of…
Indian Writing in English: A Cultural Alienation
Vijay Kumar (Senior Lecturer) DIT School of Engineering, Greater Noida & Jyoti Jayal (Research Scholar) The English and Foreign Languages University Lucknow Campus Indian writings have absorbed at least three major currents: the mid European Aryan, the Muslim and the British, “three cycles during each of which a strong and creative influence provided the primary…
Identity Crisis in Eugene O’neill’s The Hairy Ape
Umadevi Associate Professor, Department of English, S.F.R. College for Women, Sivakasi-626 123. Virudhunagar District. TamilNadu. India. Identity crisis or the quest for identity is basic to the live of human beings. It is innate in every man. So search for identity is an archetypal and universal motif in the literature of all ages. At the…
English – The Language of Success
R.S.A.Susikaran Asst Prof, Department of English, Oxford Engineering College, Tiruchirappalli, Tamil Nadu, India , PIN – 620 009. English is the universal language of the world because it is one of the most commonly used language .English has become the prevalent language of business and international correspondence the most widely spoken language in the world,…
Creative Writing: Past and Present
G.A. Ghanshyam Iyengar Professor of English Govt. M.L. Shukla College (Bilaspur University, Bilaspur) Seepat, Bilaspur (C.G.) 495 555 Creative writing is not just a matter of practical mastery, but of intimate emotional identification between subject and word – something that cannot be acquired by schooling, reading, or elegant conversation. [David McCutchion. As qtd. In Indian…
Existential Crisis in Second-Generation Immigrants in Jhumpa Lahiri’s Unaccustomed Earth
Shivangi Srivastava Research Scholar Department of English and Modern European Languages University of Lucknow Lucknow– 226007 India Jhumpa Lahiri belongs to the second generation of Indian immigrant writers in United States. Lahiri concerns her writing with the consciousness of the need for regaining roots in the tradition of India and a strong nostalgic pull towards…
Githa Hariharan – A Writer cum Activist with Commitment
Vemuri Rupa Department of English & Humanities Anil Neerukonda Institute of Technology and Sciences Visakhapatnam & C.L.L. Jayaprada Department of English Andhra University Visakhapatnam Does the law sanction a woman’s right to be a parent? This may be a facetious question, particularly in Indian society, which eulogises motherhood with every breath it takes. But this…
Interpreting the Dialectics of Duality in Anita Desai’s
Clear Light of Day Narinder K. Sharma Assistant Professor in English DAV Institute of Engineering & Technology Jalandhar-144008 (Punjab) Anita Desai is a writer who does not believe in weaving the plots of her novel merely on a figment of imagination. As one delves in the world of Desai, one feels that though a work…