Ms. Tejaswini Kiran Mane Research Student, Department of English, ShivajiUniversity,Kolhapur, Maharashtra,India. & Dr. (Mrs)P.V.Ghorpade Associate Professor, Department of English, K.R.P.Kanya Mahavidyalay,Islampur. Maharashtra,India. Culture can be defined as the learned beliefs, attitudes, values, norms and customs of a society or group of people, shared by them and transmitted from generation to generation within that society. It…
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Identity Crisis in Kiran Desai’s Inheritance of Loss
Shyam Ji Dubey Lecturer (English) NIET, Gr. Noida Despite many definitions and connotations of ‘identity’, Sudhis Kakar’s view, quoted in Modern Indian Novel in English – “at some places identity is referred to as a conscious sense of individual uniqueness, ..… and at yet other places as a sense of solidarity with a group’s…
Textualizing Postcolonial India: Gita Hariharan’s Siege and Kiran Desai’s The Inheritance of Loss
Dr. Smriti Singh Dept. Of Humanities and Social sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Patna, New Government Polytechnic, Patliputra colony, patna-13. The emergence of Postcolonialism as an important critical tool has led critics to question certain concepts and ideas which were taken for granted, especially the notion of ‘nation’ and ‘citizenship’. This in turn has led…