Our Lady of Sorrows

Like Anita Desai, Kamala Markandaya(Suraiya), Shashi Deshpande, Nayantara Sahgal, Ruth Prawar Jhabwalla and Githa Hariharan Mukherjee exposes many facets of feminism, encompassing agitation for equal opportunity, sexual autonomy and right to self determination. We find the same in the novel Desirable Daughters where the heroine Tara ventures to widen her horizons in matters of marriage, love and sex; redefines her roles as wife and mother. Social identities are far from getting fixed in some…

Mirabella POV “Turn that light off!” I scream at my little brother Mason, while covering my head with my pillow. “Mom says to get your butt out bed now or else she will come up here and kick it for you,” he screeches like the little banshee he is and runs out of the room. I groan in disgust and let myself fall out of bed onto the floor, my muscles not bothering to cooperate. But I digress and continue getting ready for the day. My black hair goes up into a bun, jeans are thrown on, and a…

Joyce Carol Oates short story “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been” follows Connie, a young woman seeking to find attention from teenage boys. This mindset soon leads her to an encounter with Arnold, a man with a big ego looking to woo Connie into his arms. While each character has their own motives, they actually are both quite similar in what they are looking for. Connie’s seeking attention and acceptance from others to build her up, and Arnold is looking to show others and himself that…

“Bare Soul.” Thank you, Kalpna, thank you for sharing such deep parts of your heart and soul with all of us. Once your words have touched us, we can never be the same again. We will become more tolerant, more understanding, not only of others but, of our very selves. May you keep on writing and sharing with us. John Harricharan, award-winning author of “When You Can Walk on Water, Take the Boat” and other…

Silly poems and deep, dark truths are the world of Shel Silverstein. The lights in the attic always seem to be on; however, if one takes a hard look at Silverstein’s work, one must look beyond the lights in the attic to delve through the rest of the house to come up with a whole picture of who Shel Silverstein was. As with most authors, the face put forward in public for consumption rarely matches the behind-the-scenes person who keeps personal secrets away from society. All understand this…

beats, So calm and sweet, A true Angel in the streets. Coming to an End Coming to an end, As all things must, Not a soul around, Only dust, Fire burns the ground, But no one’s there, No one can stop it now, No one cares, The world, a burning mess, Our creation, Fire engulfs it now, Nation by nation Coming to an end, As all things must, Watch and you might see, From skyscrapers to dust. A Twist-filled Night In the middle of the night, When it began to rain, The house woke, The phone rang,…

personification of Satan itself, and you will be the destroyer of their happiness and their hopes in life. We, as people of the world, have become deceptive and untruthful. We’ve started to lie and live by lies, and that continues throughout our lives, even in our relationships. But I have to let it go and think positively for only today. You really need to be always beside your loved ones and the people you might lose in your life and tell yourself to be strong to be able to defeat the…

century”. William states that what film has brought into the picture at the end of this century is the possibility that the circle will become complete, that the represented reality will cross the threshold that constitutes it, thereby contaminating our reality. Realism versus illusionism To illustrate the distinction between Realism and Illusion, he uses the Blair Witch Project, which was released in the summer of 1999. In the film, terrified viewers believed…

His obsession with El Greco started when he went to study in Madrid where he was impressed by El Greco’s magnificent heads. As early as 1899 he had filled page after page of a sketchbook with caricatures of Greco-like portraits, often with flamboyant ruff collars, exaggerating their pointed chins, their schematic quality and their hyper-refined tonality. One of his heads even had the inscription: Yo El Greco, yo Greco! Shortly afterwards Picasso’s Blue Period followed and there his pictures were…

In life there are good times and bad times, well life for me started on Monday April 1, 1987 3: 00 pm at the jubilee hospital to my grateful parents Fredericka and Devon Blake. I was now making my first appearance into the world. My mother told me that I was the best thing to happen in her life and she thank god that I was safely delivered in to the world without anything bad happening to me. My father and mother said that I was a precious and valuable gift from god. After my appearance I was…