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Philosophy of Life in Rabia
Get PDFRabia Basri, was the first female Sufi Saint of Islam, also known as Rabia al-Adawiyya. Rabia’s views are based on God\u27s compassion, claiming and preaching that love is the only road to God. There is no clear distinction between good and bad, for it is reduced to Unity, and God is the only writer of mankind\u27s actions. God is the one who determines man\u27s will.. The aim of a Sufi\u27s life is only to love God and pursue His grace and happiness, which is impossible unless the person serves humanity. 
Pathetic Condition of Women in Margret Atwood\u27s "The Handmaid\u27s Tale"
No full textMargret Atwood is one of the highly talented Canadian writers. Her works are closely related to social and political issues. The Handmaid\u27s Tale is one of the best works of Margret Atwood which placed her among twentieth-century leading feminist writers. Male dominance, identity crisis, gender discrimination, and patriarchal setup are most commonly seen in her works. Through The Handmaid\u27s Tale, she portrayed the suffering of women under patriarchy. In every society considered women has no role except reproduction. Women faced both mental and physical harassment all over the world. women were compelled to sacrifice their life for others. The main intention of this paper is to present the pathetic condition of women with the help of Margret Atwood\u27s highly influential fiction The Handmaid\u27s Tale
Exploring Motherhood and Oppression in Geetanjali Shree’s Novel Mai: Silent Mother
Get PDFReproduction and motherhood are two major aspects which have been discussed throughout the history of feminism. There are a number of literary works which provide enough space to mother characters that can be categorised as maternal fiction. After analysing the portrayal of mothers and their narrative it seems that the sole purpose of women is reproduction. This is how they can have a fulfilling life. In this paper we analyse the portrayal of women in the Indian context and how Geetanjali Shree silently questions this institutionalised and idealised picture of mother in her novel “Mai: Silent Mother.” She depicts how societal apparatus works to imprison women
India and Britain Inside and Outside Sakku Bai and Jackson: The Narrator and the Anglo-Indian Family in Ismat Chughtai’s “Quit India” (“Hindustan Chod Do”)
Get PDFIsmat Chughtai’s short story “Quit India” (“Hindustan Chod Do” in Urdu, 1953) represents the relationship between Indians and British colonists and Anglo-Indian Indians by examining the life of Eric William Jackson, a British official in pre-Independece India and an unemployed outcast and displaced person following Independence who lives with his working-class lover Sakku bai, and the narrator’s outlook towards the family. The ex-British official Jackson’s attempt to “Indianize” himself perhaps fails after Independence because he does not seek the desire of the new Indian state in the spaces of business and government like he does in the domestic space of Sakku Bai’s lodgings and in his relationship with her and perhaps also because the narrator and the other citizens of the new Indian state ignore those who are powerless such as the charwoman Sakku bai and the unemployed Jackson. The narrator’s focus on Jackson and Sakku bai’s family seems to indicate, at least partly, a desire to look outside the domestic sphere for mental and spiritual stimulation even though she appears to be a typical domestic goddess. This could be related to the women’s movement’s need for a greater role for women outside the house in pre-Independence and Independent India
Traces of Spiritual Nationalism in the Selected Poems of Ranu Uniyal and Arundhati Subramaniam
Get PDFRanu Uniyal and Arundhati Subramaniam are contemporary Indian English Poets. They are deeply rooted in Indian soil. Their poems are full of Indian ethos and deal with a wide variety of subjects. Spiritual nationalism is one of them. Like Aurobindo Ghosh, for them nationalism means true devotion towards one’s country and its people irrespective of their faith, caste, race and sex. India is a multilingual, multicultural and multireligious country. The conflicts on the basis of religion and culture are inevitable. People are often misguided by conservative and narrow- minded religious leaders and politicians which sometimes results in riots. Both Uniyal and Subramaniam believe that riots in a multicultural country like India are inescapable. India has faced so many invasions and incursions but continued to grow with the passage of time. The biggest strength of India is its spiritualism. It has empowered it during all external and internal assaults. Uniyal and Subramaniam believe that the negative forces which are destroying the peace and harmony of the nation can be defeated by realizing the core values of Indian culture. The objective of this research paper is to compare and explore the national ethos present in their selected poems: “In a City of Riots” by Uniyal and “Home” by Subramania
Environmental Concerns from the Page to the Screen: The Road and The Mist in Perspective
Get PDFThe publication of Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring in 1962 triggered widespread concerns for the environment that eventually gave rise to environmental studies and ecocriticism. Writers of fiction presented frightening pictures- the result of the conflict between humans and the environment. Stephen King’s novels like The Mist and The Stand were quick to point out the catastrophic consequences that awaited the human race. Another novelist who voiced his concerns for the environment was Cormac McCarthy. Almost a reclusive figure, McCarthy won the Pulitzer Prize for the novel, The Road. Stephen King’s The Mist and Cormac McCarthy’s The Road share striking similarities; both the novels present the human community coming to terms with an Eco-catastrophe. Both the novels got adapted into motion pictures, which showcased the issues and concerns raised by the novelists before a wider audience. The Mist was released in 2007 and The Road hit the screens a couple of years later. With the release of the motion pictures, environmental concerns raised by Rachel Carson in Silent Spring and furthered by King and McCarthy had successfully made a foray into the world of digital media. During the latter stages of the 20th century, environmental concerns and studies had remained confined to print media, demonstrations, agitations and pamphleteering. With the publication of the novels like The Mist and The Road environmental concerns and issues gained mass appeal. This culminated with the release of the motion pictures, which managed to garner critical acclaim and presented before a diverse audience, the issues plaguing the human-nature relationship
Eco-Critical Approach of Amitav Ghosh and Kamala Markandaya
Get PDFThis paper deals with the eco-critical approach of Amitav Ghosh and Kamala Markandaya in their select novels. The focus is on finding the approach of Amitav Ghosh and Kamala Markandaya towards continuous devastation of the natural atmosphere and deterioration of the relationship between man and nature. Both the writers are called great environmentalists who criticize the inhuman behaviour and ill-treatment of the human beings towards the aspects of nature. The healthy atmosphere of the universe has been getting destroyed since long back by different illogical and unethical attitude of the people towards one another and towards the nature. Both the writers have highlighted in their novels the imperialistic tendency of the colonizers and growing modernization which devastated the healthy environment and broke the amicable relationship between man and nature. This paper studies the Sea of Poppies (2008) of Amitav Ghosh and The Coffer Dams (1969) of Kamala Markandaya. An analytical method is used to go through the study
Gandhian Approach for Modern India: An Analysis
Get PDFMahatma Gandhi the leader, social reformer, thinker, philosopher and above all the seeker after truth shaped our nation with the help of his experiments and experiences and propounded the various theories of morality and ethics. The ethics and values elaborated by him are, in fact, the outcomes of his personal experiments blended with the contemporary situations, surroundings and phenomena. Almost every aspect of life, nation and society is included in his philosophy. In his philosophical views democracy and its essential factors find proper place. His global vision of universality prevails upon the foreign policy of our country. Gandhi was in favour of equality especially in matter of laws; he is of the opinion that there must be equality among the different groups of society. Discrimination on the basis of class, colour, creed, sect and category ought not to be existed. He was an ardent believer of the concept that service to human beings is a service to God. According to him democracy is not only a rule by the people for people but it is also a blend of unity, ahimsa, national integration, solidarity, responsibility, rights, morality especially in Indian context
Literary Maxim as a Catalyst in Cultural Edification
Get PDFThe role of literature in the formation of culture is an oft repeated and much discussed topic of interest in any civilized world. In spite of that, very seldom we realize the sanctity and validity of this discourse. It is a grim reality that the modern world looks at odds with its cultural concerns and subsequently it alienates itself from the framework of responsibility, which is an utter disregard for a developing culture. Being a preliminary branch of art, literature serves a dual role in the scheme of things for the cultural development. On the other hand, it is an outcome of cultural progression, because the literary treasure of any social group is a part of its culture. On the other hand literature provides all the necessary ingredients for the formation of a culture – complex, that is an aggregate of cultural ethos. Mathew Arnold described art as a “criticism of life”. This view was an extension of Aristotle’s belief that art depends upon the imitation of nature. There was however some other scholars like Oscar Wilde, who believed that life itself imitates art. Both these theories are interesting and vital in understanding the concerns of literature as a work of art in the construction and preservation of culture. At the same time we have to formulate a canon for delineating the cultural concerns of literature. The topic of this research paper is an attempt to draw our attention toward this fundamental issue, that relates the human society to a larger canvass of its designated ideals
Predictors of Learner’s Goal Orientation in the Indian KFL Context: A Learner\u27s Background and Scocio Psychological Perspective
No full textKorean language education in India has marked its 56th year this year. With its footprints marking from the year 1971, there has been a remarkable progress in last 50 decades. Starting from a number as few as 3 to a larger number of 300(approx.) Indian students at present learning Korean language all over India, shows the increasing interest of Indians in Korean language and culture. Among some of the pioneer names in India, various institutions such as Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi University, Central University of Jharkhand, EFLU Hyderabad, Manipur University are the well know institutions. Various different kinds of Korean language programs for both long-term and short-term courses are conducted in these institutions.
As the very aim of any education marks the first steps of the learning process, it is very vital for us to understand the aims of the learners, as to understand why and how they thought of learning a particular language. It not only gives a prospective for designing learner-centered curriculum, but also helps a teacher to understand the various factors, which result in individual performance and learning processes.
As many of us would believe that learners have certain characteristics, which lead to more or less successful achievements of their aims of learning the language. Every human being has set of factors affecting their process of language learning and hence it is crucial to understand the background of a learner in order to provide him/her with the right tools to learn a language. Indian learners growing up in a multicultural and multilingual environment, have a certain degree of peculiarities in terms of language learning competence. They have various demographic, motivational learning factors and resource factors acting upon them.
Hence, with the same focus this paper tries to identify the wide spectrum of aims of Indian learners in correlation with the socio psychological perspectives pertaining to their personal family and linguistic background. This study is also exploring as to how the multicultural and multi-linguistic background of Indian learners affect their aims and achievements of language learning