Nagraj Holeyannavar Myth is fictitious belief of the people in a popular manner. Hence, many of them do not believe it because of its allegorical nature. But it is the belief which is fore- grounded in the tradition of the past and it is of real life presented in a fictitious manner. This has led…
Tag: Indian English literature
Mulk Raj Anand’s Two Leaves and a Bud: A saga of Gangu’s injured self
Dr. Priyanka Sharma Associate Professor Department of Applied Sciences & Humanities K.I.E.T. Ghaziabad (U.P) India “Man lives consciously for himself but unconsciously he serves as an instrument for the accomplishment of historical and social ends.” i (Tolstoy: 1991: 06) The Indian English Literature is richly dipped in hues of its native cultural ethos. It gives…
Deconstructing Mother-Daughter Relationship: A Study of Manju Kapur’s Difficult Daughters
Jitender Singh MDU Rohtak, India. The relationship between mother and daughter is characterized by tenderness, love and affection. It is generally conceived as the most sacred bond replete with care and concern. The same kind of representation is found in the literature as well of the earlier times, since literature is a mirror to the…
Bakha Stands as Balram Halwai: The Comparative Study of Two Epic Characters
Mr.Sakate Bharat Shamrao. Balwant College,Vita. Indian English Literature written in India during the pre-independence period and after post-independence period is representation of that period. Specially Mulkaraj Anand, Tagore, Arundhati Roy, Arvind Adiga are representatives of their age, through their specific characters. In this sense we have to turn towards Tagore’s ‘Gora’ (1921) Krishna Kripalani described…
Linguistic Skills and Communicative Abilities
M. S. Wankhede Language is a means of communication through which we transfer out ideas, emotions, and thought; express our love, anger and get understood by other persons. It is language that distinguishes human being from other species. It has been the common experience of all human beings that language is acquired in proper surrounding…
Treatment of Puranas in Raja Rao’s Serpent and the Rope
Dr. Alka Sharma Puranas are not merely fabricated stories .Puranas narrate a sacred history. In other words , Puranas tell us how through the consciousness , a reality came into existence-it can be a complete reality or only a fragment of reality . Infact , Puran is such a dynamic word which always revigorate the…
An Exploration of Narrative Technique in Gita Mehta’s A River Sutra
Mrs. Madhuri Bite Gita Mehta is one of the well-known contributors in Indian English Literature. Indian English Literature has a long tradition of women writers such as earlier novelists Kamala Markandaya, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, Anita Desai, Shashi Deshpande, Arundhati Roy, Kiran Desai, etc. Compared to these women novelists Gita Mehta’s contribution is though quantitatively less…
Post Modernism and English Literature: What is Post Modernism?
Dr. Pawar N.B. Dean, Faculty of Arts & Fine Arts Solapur University, Solapur (M.S.) It is possible to identify a singular feature- the hallmark of post-modernism, which would suggest a unity in diversity. Post structuralism and post-modernism are partners in the same paradigm. Together they exercise a joint critique of modernist ideas of order and…
Comparative Stylistics Prof. Dr. Anand Patil Pune, India. Renowned critic of Marathi and Indian English Literature Comparative imagination and dialogic modes of thinking are necessary for the comparative cultural study of postmodern writer’s style. We live in the age of terror and translation, interculturalism and internationalism. The greatness of the work of art will be…
An Interview with Dr. Basavaraj Naikar By Dr. Vishwanath Bite
Dr. Vishwanath Bite: Will you tell us something about yourself (place of birth, school and anything in between)? Basavaraj Naikar: I was born in Naragund of the then Dharwad district in Karnataka on August 1, 1949. I was educated in the Practising School of Government Training College for Men, Dharwad from the first standard to…