The untouchable question had been dogging the righteous thinkers right from Kabir and Gandhi to all the conscientious intellectuals of the day. Of the several ramifications of untouchability today the...
Abstract. Arundhati Roy is an Indian author who won the Man Booker Prize for fiction in 1997 for her best-selling novel The God of Small Things. The novel is semi-autobiographical and she narrated her...
The term "Commonwealth Literature" has been often labeled as Third World Literature. New Literature in English, Minority Literature and Post-Colonial Literature, as terms of convenience. It also maint...
Buddhism believes in the principle of equality, liberty, and fraternity. According to Buddhism, all human beings are equal, for they have been created by the same Father. There is no difference betwee...
Dominative stage/theatre/performance discourses usually depict societies where only the straight sexual orientation is taken to be the ?normal? rather than normative and the voice of the people with n...
Abstract. Meena Alexander is one of the foremost Indo-American poets. Her literary works deal with migrant memories, separation, trauma of being uprooted, exile and loneliness. Alexander?s works have...
Raja Rao, an eminent Indian English writer can be distinguished from his contemporaries like Mulk Raj Anand and R.K. Narayan due to his narrative techniques and philosophical sensibility. His first no...
The literature is a creator, it creates the intelligent society and intellectual human. It is the essential essence of any society and has abundance of knowledge about time and people. Book lovers are...
The fact that Arthur Miller's classic Death of a Salesman has been adapted into a Hindi film (Kapoor and Sons, 2016) is a revelation of some sort. The movie does never acknowledge its sources, and yet...
Philip Larkin belongs to the Movement poets. An atmosphere of gloominess pervades his poetry. The fact is that this gloominess does not arise from cynicisn. Rather it emerges from a detached observati...
Women in Indian society have to struggle and are marginalized by the constructed social norms in the name of culture, religion and caste. They are made incapacitate in all aspects of social life and a...
Poetry is the essence of one's thought. It is the perception of the inner soul. A poem on nature is the picturisation of the beauty of nature like trees, birds flying overhead, the struggle of a seed...
An Indian author, Mulk Raj Anand wrote his first novel Untouchable which reflects the pangs and suffering of dalits or downtrodden in Indian way of caste system. The author presents the issue of explo...
Abstract. The research paper is about the study of the way of life, customs and beliefs of the people against the background of certain time frame. The story moves around the central character Sula. T...
Structuralists explore signification with respect to underlying structural patterns (langue) and sees it as stable, finite and fixed. Poststructuralists reject the structuralist's notion of fixity and...
Structuralists explore signification with respect to underlying structural patterns (langue) and sees it as stable, finite and fixed. Poststructuralists reject the structuralist's notion of fixity and...
The concept of feminism seeks for the betterment of women in the prevailing patriarchal society. Alice Walker is an African-American writer well known for her feminist works. The term 'feminism' was c...
Humanity demands dignified life of each human being irrespective of caste, creed, class, gender, age or any other discriminating ground. It wishes for ensuring familial, social, economic, political, i...
Arundhati Roy has painted the canvas of the dirty picture of our society very aesthetically. The novel is an ?ugly picture beautifully described? in which the character of Ammu stands for Mary Roy and...
This article is based on Jhumpa Lahiri?s novel The Lowland. The family which revolves around each other and is ready to do anything and everything for the good of the members faces a movement. The Nax...
Quest for Identity forms the central concept for almost all the contemporary literature as well as the literature written from a feministic perspective. One or the other character is consistently in s...
Bhabani Bhattacharya was an Indo-English writer, born in Bhagalpur, Bihar. He has attained world-wide recognition and his books have been translated into twenty-six languages, sixteen of which are Eur...
Bama (Bama Faustina Soosairaj) is one of the most celebrated contemporary Dalit women writers whose work has been translated into English. Bama?s Sangati loosely strings voices that showcase how Dalit...
As far as post independent Indian English poets are concerned Kamala Das is one of the pioneering Indo-English poets who has contributed immensely to the growth and development of modern Indian Englis...
The first and greatest of all ballad-operas, is John Gay?s The Beggar?s Opera, written in 1728, wherein, he portrays an English society, which is drenched in the idea of self- interest and their growi...
Cross-dressing in the context of men and women prevails in the society through ages. It can be seen as old as clothing itself. Now and again humans have twisted the dress code to rework the gender bou...
The present article attempts to explore the causes of marital conflicts through the feisty voice of Meena Kandasamy in When I Hit You : Or, A Portrait of the Writer as a Young Wife, where an unnamed n...
There have always been ample discussions and numerous debates when referring to what society considers as less significant genders; and for a fairly longtime, their empowerment has been limited to w...
Dr. Vijay Chandra Verma's debut tragedy captioned Death of a Lover deals with madness of love of teenagers of both genders, psychologically as well as biologically in their flesh and bones. The budd...
Love those who love you; some good thing They find in you; nurse it: Love those who hate you; some bad thing They find in you; change it. We are human, 'bye' makes us cry, Simple jokes make us la...
