Introduction Indian English literature associates to that body of work by writers from India, who write in the English language and whose native or co-native language could be one of the various regional and indigenous languages of India. In Indian English writings Kashi Prasad is known to be the first Indian poet writing in English. Sochee Chunder Dutt was the first writer of fiction. In the beginning, thematic base was politics and can be seen in the Raja Ram Mohan Roy. And later he had dedicated
had excellence in writing prose, all of them taking the budding Indian English literature of British India, to heights of excellence and merits. Nehru is however particularly remembered for his Glimpses of World History, Discovery of India and an Autobiography. Indian English literature till 1970 made up a rather viable industry as it captured the mood of the changing times. Apart from the three greats of Indian English Literature, Mulk Raj Anand , R.K.Narayan and Raja Rao, a number of other prominent
on the main aspects that pertain to my essay topic; outlining in detail the media’s traditional portrayal of gender in both film and television, the male gaze as seen in film, the sense of purpose and political debate behind feminist film-making and the dominance of the male power structure within a patriarchal society. In this text, Jill Nelmes doesn’t touch upon any one film as such, in a more broader case-study sense, that I could potentially focus my essay on. But what is quite potentially useful
The distinctiveness of Indian theatrical tradition in the dramatic cultures of the world—its antiquity as well as its aesthetic appeal—is more or less indisputable today. The roots of theatre in India are ancient and deep-seated. Theatrical expression of some kind or the other has been since primitive and mythic times, an integral part of Indian life. Our knowledge about the initial, primitive stage of theatrical activity in India is very meagre. However one can safely say that theatre in India as
State building and Nation Building (Journal Article) This is an essay by Juan J. Linz, which discusses the processes involved in state and nation building from a historical and contemporary perspective. It explains the difficulties faced in making a nation out of a state and vice versa. 4. State and Society in India:
had constituted meeting of the 15-year tenure at the Hindi slang made popular in South India but it did not happen . Hindi was given the status of official language in 1949, when it was decided to January 26, 1965, the only official language of the Indian Union will be the only Hindi. But after a lapse of 15 years when it came time to implement because of opposition from Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri Tamils assured him that until all the Hindi the national language Hindi with English as the official
The author was inspired by the last major investigation of the subject b which was done by Hanna Pitkin over four decades ago and in his ambitious volume, he fills a major gap in the literature by examining the future of representative forms of democracy taking into cognizance the present-day trends and past theories of representative democracy. Being aware of the need for clarifying key concepts and institutional trends, the author
Until the beginning of the 20th century there was no formal education available for Dalits. Dalit literature as a genre emerged only in 1970’s through some of the Dalit protest movements in Maharshtra and Andhra Pradesh. Dalit literature is the literature produced by the Dalit consciousness. Human freedom is the inspiration behind it. Dalit literature must be written from the Dalit point of view and with a Dalit vision. The “Dalit view point” calls for writer to internalise the sorrows and sufferings
The role of writing strategies in the process of writing has become more and more important and differences between more and less proficient learners have been found in the number and range of strategies used, in how the strategies are applied to the task, and in appropriateness of the strategies for the tasks (Chien, 2010; Hu & Chen, 2007; Mu & Carrington, 2007; Ridhuan & Abdullah, 2009). This implies the interplay of a number of components for successful application of writing strategies. Having
In ‘Skeletons of Men’ and ‘A Woman Like Me’, Enchi Fumiko and Xi Xi explore the construction of a female self and the idea of a female voice within systems that suppress them. With the use of a female narrator and the process of storytelling, the female characters in these texts are given a voice through which their experiences are told indirectly. This alternative channel of communication, despite ultimately still being limited in reach, allows these oppressed women to express their personal self