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The Unbroken Chain of Communal Bonding Under the Ashes Of Partition: Its Retrospective Exploration in Sunanda Sikdar’s Memoir A Life Long Ago
Get PDFIndia was partitioned into two political units - India and Pakistan in 1947. The people of both communities, Hindus and Muslims, were made the objects, in the words of Hamid Naficy, of “tragic paws in the power game” (Home, Exile, Homeland-Film, Media, and the Politics of Place 8) of politics. In both geopolitical fragments, the minority sector was disallowed and marked them as “others”, “forgotten or repressed”, according to Ania Loomba’s, notion of the role of a nation propounded in her Colonialism/Post Colonialism (169). The Partition, therefore, caused the horrific communal atrocities, mass slaughter of both Hindus and Muslims, and a massive exodus of minorities in both units. This explicit sociological impact of Partition is focused in almost all Partition literature rather than the dream of unity and the emotional fusion of minds of the people of both communities. The paper, therefore, attempts to dig out the suppressed area of love and faith to each other that is reflected in the literary work of Sunanda Sikdar’s A Life Long Ago. This area of communal bondage is revealed in this memoir by explaining Lalon Fokir’s philosophy of universal brotherhood and John Locke and David Hume’s theories of memory that unravel the eternal nexus through memory.
 
Train to Pakistan: A Saga of Unsalvaged Suffering
Get PDFThe torments of the colossal human tragedy of the partition of India and its aftermath are still being borne by the people of India in some way or the other. The fissured social and emotional spirit of the people is still not healed. The horrific scenes of partition still haunt the psyche of the Indians. Millions were massacred and those that were alive were like live corpses moving around. Their sufferings are unfathomed. They not only suffered physically but also mentally and emotionally. Khushwant Singh’s Train to Pakistan is a novel that unfolds all aspects of suffering and pain which were endured by the people at that time. Singh has been successful in communicating to his readers the tribulations of the partition days, the harrowing experiences, grossness, the madness and the bestial horrors.The displacement of people from one country to another became the root cause of the whole holocaust. The village which bustled with activity turned into a kenopsia. Singh’s rankling at the idea of partition can be perceived in the novel. In the novel, Singh has vehemently written about every aspect of the dreaded violence to which women were subjected. It is quite obvious from the conditions prevailing in India that this splitting of the country was a futile effort. It sowed the seeds of communal discord permanently. People are still suffering they have not fully recovered from this psychosomatic trauma. The seeds of harmful weeds that were sown by the partition are still being reaped by the Indians
Music of Survival: A Search for Identity in the Works of Richard Wright
Get PDFThe complexly changing nature of American life and the vigorous versatility and all-encompassing spread of the written record are the marks of American literature. Social forces always make their imprint on literature. Especially in America where the democratic processes bring the people into immediate familiarity with and sensitive response to cultural forces, the literature has responded quickly to such pressures. African American literature consists of the literary work by the writers of Afro-origin settled in USA. The category“ slave narratives” were writings by people who had experienced slavery. It described their journeys to independence and their survival struggles. The concepts explored and issues raised were racism, slavery, and social equality
The Omnipresent and The Omnipotent – Surveillance and Power: A Critical Analysis Of Suzanne Collins’ The Hunger Games
Get PDFThe objective of this paper is to trace the derivation of power through imperious surveillance upon the citizens of Panem and the consequent denial of citizen rights. The paper also analyses the nature of people’s fear of being watched and how the overbearing surveillance system in action can violate individual privacy. The act of being continuously watched or monitored and the knowledge of being under the control of power, a \u27watchful eye\u27, can create a huge impact upon the people under surveillance. In the modern world, people are being watched continuously and closely and are tracked through economic activities and electronic media. The paper aims to prove that surveillance in any form is a constraining force limiting people from being themselves. The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins portray a dystopian post-apocalyptic land of Panem where the Capitol uses surveillance and the people’s fear of being watched as tools to assert their power over the citizens. After years of being watched and controlled, the people of Panem have forgotten basic citizen birthrights and the beauty of freedom in their lives. These people lose their real identity in this cage where they are devoid of any individual preferences. If the citizens are not completely aware of the value of privacy which is an inherent human right and much required for individual growth and development, the possibilities of losing the contemporary world to such a dystopian reality are high
String of Relationship in the Sky of Multiculturalism: A Reading of Khaled Hosseini’s The Kite Runner
Get PDFThis paper proposes how the relationship that exists between different characters in his novels is experimented in diverse conditions and the characters are tested and tried to discover their unique paths of assimilation with their loved ones to the completion of their circle. Despite the spatial differences, each character is connected with a string of bond which portrays the ‘similarity’ of difference, yet humanity in need of understanding. The physical space and emotional space of Baba’s beautiful house in the Wazir Akbar Khan district is contrasted with the shack of Hassan and Ali breaks the dichotomy of contentment and dissatisfaction. Simultaneously with the diversity of multiculturalism it creates fantasies of escape from ideological and cultural divisions altogether. Interconnected relationship and affections blur the ethnic, social, geographical and economic variances in individual.The characters all experience a personal journey for love in their own way through their words and actions. The genetic ties to the geographies of privilege, ethnic difference and social status often challenged through the personal affinity. Troubled relationship like Baba and Amir, or an enigmatic friendship like Amir and Hassan or passive bond like Ali and Hassan or even a romantic relationship like Amir and Soraya are circulating the web of ontology. Relationship, assimilation and struggle of people cross path with desperate societies resulting a relief from haunting memories. The longing for love and to be loved draw the characters to find the web of their completeness and ultimately that give them the strength to fight back with their vulnerabilities , surpass their limitations, and eventually to purify their guilt through overwhelming acts of self-sacrifice
Factors that are Associated with Homosexuality
Get PDFThe both comparative and affirmatives studies about homosexuality, truth, fact such all things were included in this paper. In this century, changes have evolved in the society and the acceptance of the society towards the LGBT community. That acceptance can give much strength to the people. Also, in this paper, we discuss about a movie and how he changed his behavior. Here I have an anthology called Yarana and examine some of the poems
History, Epistemology, and Interdisciplinarity of Comparative Literature: A Study
Get PDFThe paper discusses the historical significance of the academic discipline Comparative Literature, focusing on key theorists and their arguments on the methodological nuances of the discipline. The paper distinctly presents the disciplinary associations of Comparative Literature and tries to frame it from a reader’s perspective. The status of Comparative Literature in academia highlighting the historical timeline is discussed along with presenting the crisis the discipline has faced/faces in its methodological approach
From Heaven Lake: A Thematic Analysis
Get PDFCulture is a running blood in the artery of a man or a country from which it makes all round progress. Nourished through culture, a citizen of a nation leaves a special identity before society and the other nations. Thus culture becomes synonym of a person, a society and a nation. If we neglect our culture, we cannot make all round progress because culture is a watchman a defender and a guard of our characters, morality and nationality. On the other side it describes the traditions of the past in the references of the present and the other it gives natural and calm acceptance to the new changes of society. It does not accept the negative aspects. Travel and culture are related to each other. Through travel one can get more particular view to a complete knowledge, which one had seen, better than any other information. If we are travelling through an area, we can survey and observe it in a better way. One comes very close to the people. So, ‘Travel’ is one best source of knowing culture. ‘’ Indica’’, written by a foreign traveller, Magsthenese, is the best source book on Indian culture and political system. Many foreign writers came in India and described Indian culture, society, economic pattern and condition and political system in their books. Among these writers are Huein-Tsang, Fi-hein, It-sing and Albaruni. Books written by these writers are best source of Indian culture.  
The Concomitant Subversion of the Gender Binary through the Assertion of Transgender Identity: A Study of Manobi Bandyopadhyay’s A Gift of Goddess Lakshmi
Get PDFIn their attempt at gender identity assertion, the transgendered simultaneously subvert the gender binary norm. The reclamation of one’s gender identity aids the transgender individual to correct the biological mishap that results in a female psyche trapped in a male body and vice versa. The intense psychological conflict and the horrific transphobic violence from family and society, often drives the transgendered to suicide. Lisa R Miller and Eric Anthony Grollman in “The Social Costs of Gender Non-Conformity for Transgender Adults: Implications for Discrimination and Health” claim that the 2008 NTDS (the National Transgender Discrimination Survey) proves that frequent stigmatization and assault often drives the identity minorities towards substance abuse, alcoholism and/or suicide (Sociological, 826). However, the accomplishment of gender identity transforms the hitherto diffident individual to express oneself fully and articulate his/her personality in its entirety. Manobi Bandyopadyay’s A Gift of Goddess Lakshmicharts her struggle to become the woman in her mind in the face of ridicule and harassment from the academic circle. Her determination and persistence to assert herself paved her way to become the first transgender principal in India. Therefore it may be assumed that the subversion of normative dichotomy of gender results in the establishment of the transgendered’s true gender, which assists in the expression of one’s personality.
 
Torn between Cultures: Reading Shashi Tharoor’s Riot
Get PDFShashi Tharoor is a distinctivevoice in the Postcolonial Indian literature in English with his remarkable contribution of more than 16 works of fiction and non-fiction. Postcolonialism refers to a set of theoretical concepts, approaches and interventions which deals with the diverse effects of the interaction between the colonizer and the colonized. History, politics and culture have always been a dominant preoccupation of the Indian English novelists. The compulsive obsession was perhaps inevitable since the genre originated and developed concurrently with the climatic phase of colonial rule. As a diplomat and writer, Shashi Tharoor has explored the diversity of culture in his native country. He has made his point in many of his interviews that the novel is full of collisions of various sorts- personal, political, cultural, emotional and violent. Riot is a novel about the ownership of history, about love, hate, cultural collision, religious fanaticism and the impossibility of knowing the truth. The novel chronicles the mystery of an American 24-year old lady, Priscilla Hart. The intention of this paper is to explore the cultural conflict between the East and the West and an attempt is made to examine Shashi Tharoor’s Riot as a conveyor of the various distinguishable features to the divergent cultures. The characters of Riot are facing problems and striving to achieve their identities as Indians and as individuals in Indian society. Lakshman, though an educated Indian, cannot share his intellectual ideas with any fellow Indians, but feels quite comfortable with Priscilla, an American lady. Yet, he cannot completely forego his Indian identity and is aware of their irreconcilable gap between their culture, values and outlook towards life.