Languages of India

Rock’s Rugged Whisper What took me to Arcot, the city of Nawabs, was the photograph of a Rock Cut temple at Vellore Museum. Though not at par with Ajanta and Elephanta Caves it was a beautiful sight and reminded me of Bagh Caves. Flanked by a carpet of green grass it seemed to represent the romance of ancient nomadic-spiritual life. Finding it was going to be difficult. First, the caption hardly gave any idea about its exact location and second, I didn’t understand Tamil. The problem…

ceaselessly strives to present the Changing colors of the Indian Environment significantly. She never repeats herself. The theme of her first novel, Nectar in a sieve is Hunger and Degrdation. In this novel this theme is presened in the context of rural India, where as in her fifth novel A Handful of Rice, this theme is depicted in urban setting. In the first novel, the theme of fatalism , rootlessness and human relations are boldly presented through the life of the poor Indian farmers who…

Recently I watched the movie, The Namesake that showed various aspects of immigration across family generations. The movie illustrated the in impact of a culture assimilation and identity search of an Indian family. They are several other points, but the crucial ones that will be discussed in this paper is identity and culture. This paper will focus on the characters and interviewee identified as immigrant and challenges in the new culture. The movie, the Namesake is about an Indian family who…

As its title suggests, place and space figure heavily in Jhumpa Lahiri’s latest novel, “The Lowland.” The reader finds herself journeying from the craggy shores of Rhode Island, to the bustling streets of Post-independence India, and finally in the hyacinth filled pools of the titular lowland area of Tollygunge, Calcutta. It is here that the mystery and tragedy of Lahiri’s novel takes place, a compassionate tale of family, betrayal, and political ideology set against the backdrop of the Naxalite…

The Exquisite Relationship between Lakha and Bakha Touching the Strings of Humanity in Anand's Untouchable - P.Venkata Sudhakar M.A..M.Phil., Bed ABSTRACT Mulk Raj Anand, one among the big three, has his own platform in Indo-Anglian Literature. All his major works spill exploitation and humanity. Especially a few encounters in Anand's first novel, Untouchable reflects humanity. Now-a-days, we see a lot of ingratitude between parents and their children and how the sensitive relationships are…

did in the case of Mistry. As a diasporic writer Mistry exposed varied ways in his narrative that explored methods to mirror their experience and symbolised their dislocated dwelling places and identities. India, Indian people and their psychology could not stop his temptation of writing about India. He is so much inspired by his country’s love that he presented a wider canvas of the nation in his second novel ‘A Fine Balance’ which interweaves the life of ‘subaltern’ marginalised and …

My choice book that I chose was, Eat Pray Love by Elizabeth Gilbert. It was published in 2006 with 108 chapters. The book is organized in the three countries that she traveled to, Italy, India, and Indonesia. When you first open the book, there is an introduction where she talks about what was most memorable to her during her travels. Comparing Blue Highways by William Least Heat-Moon and Eat Pray Love, they are both different but a bit similar in a way. The similarities with the two books are…

Today’s Teenagers live in a time of sweeping technological advances, culture shock and relative affluence. Consequently, their attitudes and cultural awareness exhibit a number of distinguishing characteristics. Teenagers in India are also a robust part of the economy. They have a significant income of their own to spend and also wield increasing influence on household purchases. Teenagers are an important segment which marketers cannot afford to ignore. Teens are important because of their…

Dr. Darshana Trivedi Professor & Head , Department of English, School of Languages, Gujarat University,Ahmedabad E-mail:-drshntrivedi@yahoo.in (M) 9228391245 Abstract Confronting the Power Structure: A Study of Dalit Self narratives from Humanistic Perspective Dr.Babasheb Ambedkar in his speech “Annihilation of Caste” says: You cannot build anything on the foundations of caste. You cannot build up a nation; you cannot build…

playwright, was born on 7 Th January, 1928 in Mumbai (Maharashtra).Silence! The court is in session (1967), the first Tendulkar’s play to become part of the New Indian Drama phenomenon of the sixties and the first significant modern Indian play in any language to centre on woman as protagonist and victim. With its production Tendulkar became the center of a general controversy. He had already acquired the epithet of “the angry young man” of Marathi theatre but now he was definitely marked out as…