Priti R. Patel Assistant Professor, L. C. Institute of Technology, Bhandu Gujarat Indian English literature originated as a necessary outcome of the introduction of English education in India under colonial rule. In recent years it has attracted widespread interest, both in India and abroad. It is now recognized that Indian English literature is not only…
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Development-Induced Displacement: A Gender Perspective
Arup Majumder Ph.D Student, Dept. of Anthropology, Vidyasagar University, Paschim Medinipur, West Bengal. Development induced displacement is a contesting issue throughout the world. Deprivation of common people in the name of national development is not a new thing but on the other hand to ensure national growth development is extremely necessary. All the development issues…
An Ecocritical Reading of the Orature of Mavilan Tribe
Lillykutty Abraham Assistant Professor Vimal Jyothi Engineering College Chemperi, Kerala India This paper attempts to look at the oral literature of mavilan tribe settled in the Kannur and Kasaragod districts of North Kerala from an eco critical perspective. The oral literature of this tribe represents their eco consciousness in the form of folksongs, folktales, proverbs,…
A Preliminary Study of Pahari and Its Sound System
Dr.Abdul Qadir Khan Assistant Professor Department of English University of Azad Jammu & Kashmir Muzaffarabad The present study is an introduction to the Pahari Language, spoken in Azad Jammu and Kashmir, Pakistan. It is a neglected language, which has rarely been explored by linguists in the past. It has neither a written a grammar nor…
Poetics of Revelation: The Unmasked Beast in Eliot and Yeats
Fayaz sultan Assistant professor English Department of English, IUST Awantipora, Kashmir The beast that you saw was, and is not, and is about to rise from the bottomless pit and go to destruction. And the dwellers on earth whose names have not been written in the book of life from the foundation of the world…
Class Stratification in Aravind Adiga’s The White Tiger
Iqra Shagufta Research Scholar (English) Government College University, Faisalabad, Pakistan. & Noor-ul-Qamar Qasmi Lecturer in English GC University, Faisalabad, Pakistan Abstract: The White Tiger is the narration of a journey of the protagonist Balram from rags to riches amid fierce class war, exploitation, amorality and expanding globalization. Balram is crushed in a callously stratified society…
The Conflict between Worldliness and Spirituality in Siddhartha: Man of Peace
Dr.Basavaraj Naikar Professor Emeritus Former Professor and Chairman Department of English Karnatak University Dharwad 580 003(INDIA) The personality of Siddhartha or Bhagavan Buddha has attracted the attention of many artists and intellectuals all over the world. In India many novels and plays have been written in regional languages. In Kannada more than half a dozen…
Symbolism, Irony and Humour in Girish Karnad’s Play Tughlaq
Dr. Lakhwinder Singh Gill Associate Professor Post Graduate Dept. of English S. R. Govt. College for Women Amritsar (Punjab) Girish Karnad is a modern Indian playwright who draws the contours of contemporary reality upon the mythological canvas. Drawing the plots of his plays from Indian history, myths and legends, he presents them in such a…
India and the Poetic Voice Ezekiel’s Poetry
Arun Bera West Bengal Abstract: The article explores the conflicting voices of detachment and involvement in Ezekiel’s those poems that depicts India and Indian life exclusively. The Essay focuses on how family background, Jew identity and higher education In England moulds his identity as an Indian poet. Ezekiel’s poetry provides a a new lens to…
Fluid Identity: Bharati Mukherjee’s Jasmine
Dr. Asha Susan Jacob Associate Professor Postgraduate Department of English St. Thomas College Kozhencherry Kerala 689641 A ubiquitous term taken for granted, identity is an intrinsically psycho-social concept with multifarious temporal and spatial connotations. Defined generally as “who or what somebody is” the term is derived from the French word identité, which has its etymological…