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The Implications of British Colonial Domination on the Indian Cultural Ethos
Get PDFAs Indians, we invariably disremember the impact of colonial rule on our ongoing lives and outlook. The British Colonial influence successfully altered our perception of ourselves. It deprived us of the self-assurance which otherwise is overwhelmingly present in the populace which subscribes to an illustrious past. The British attacked at the core of our belief system, our sense of self-sufficiency and self-reliance. This paper aims to discuss the systematic manner in which the representatives like Thomas Babington Macaulay of the British Raj carried out their strategy of dispatching Indian knowledge and traditions to oblivion to create an impression of British pre-eminence by creating an augmented reality. The paper aims to bring forth the relevance and urgent need to revive and instill national and cultural self-esteem amongst us as Indians
Isolated Voices in Jhumpa Lahiri’s Interpreter of Maladies
Get PDFPeople living all over the world belong to different religions, follow different cultures and speak different languages. If people of one nation go to another nation for their livelihood or education, they have to adapt themselves to the changing situations and places lest they should experience untold sufferings. Life throws all a lot of challenges, both simple and complicated, and it is up to all to rise and perform, take decisions that can be sometimes satisfying, and sometimes disturbing, and walk through it as if none were affected by it. It is not an easy thing to do. It is never easy to answer his heart as the questions surface and resurfaces time and again. Life is not a bed of roses to live easily. Lahiri is an Indian by birth but she has America as her permanent dwelling place. Hence, she has faced a lot of problems as an immigrant which she tries to show in her work. Hers are perfectly placed words lining themselves into elegant sentences whose subject matter: family, mothers and daughters, assimilation, alcoholism, children, marital love and touch us all
Searching for the Self in the Novels of Thomas Hardy from the Existential Lenses
Get PDF‘Aham Brahmasmi’, the soul of ‘Hindu and Yoga’ philosophy, reveals the integrity of the Atman (self or soul) with Brahman (the Absolute). Unless and until, one understands AHAM (self), one can’t attain one’s BRAHMAN (Absolute). Not to talk about sages and seers, this ‘Absolute’ is nothing but a desired destination for a common man. The literature of the world is nothing, but the literature of the man, the literature of the choice, the literature of the free will, and the literature of the self—authentic and inauthentic. It is the self that makes and mars the man. This is why ‘Self’ has been a thing of debate since the rays of cultures and civilizations fall on the pious ground of this blue planet. Seeing all this, an attempt is made to describe in brief the ‘Self’ along with its various types. Why it is called an omnipresent thing and how it is an impersonator, is the next thing. It is also in the crux of this exploration. What the various theories along with the various theorists are related to it, is also aimed to mention in this paper. What the ‘Searching for the self’ or ‘self-searching’ is, and what the existential thinkers think about the self, is the prime of the present paper. The essential thing here is to shed light on how the major novels of Thomas Hardy are about ‘Self-Searching’ along with its examining through the existential lenses
Exploring the Elements of Postcolonialism and its Exponents
Get PDFPostcolonialism is an academic discipline that analyses, explains and responds to the cultural legacies of colonialism and imperialism. The purpose of the present study is to examine the postcolonialism and elements of postcolonialism such as marginalization, identity, multiculturalism, racial discrimination, hybridity, mimicry etc. The article discusses the thoughts of Frantz Fanon, Edward Said, Homi K. Bhabha, and Gayatri Spivak on postcolonialism as well
Bama’s Sangati: A Traumatic Chain of Gender Discrimination
Get PDFSangati (1994), a novel in translation from Tamil to English, is the second work of Bama (b.1958) also known as Bama Faustina Soosairaj, a Dalit feminist. It is a unique novel without any marked plot or central character, and it seeks to explore the impact of a number of discriminations suffered by Dalit Christian women. This paper is a realistic investigation into the text of the novel to find out the events of gender discrimination resulting into subjugation and marginalization of women especially Dalit women, like Velliaiyamma, Mariamma, Thayi, Vasuki, Maikkani, Maikkani’s mother, Esakki and the narrator herself. All of them are exploited by the male members of their family as well as society and bear the traumatic behaviour at every step of their pathetic lives. In the broad light of day, they are entertained as the home servants and in darkness of night; they are treated as an object of sexual satisfaction. Women have been declared as misbegotten and treated as animals, objects of sexual pleasure, and slaves of men who have their birthrights to exploit, to beat, to burn them alive and so on
Disability Studies: A Path Breaking Approach in Literature
Get PDF“Man is unique, though he is impaired”. The uniqueness had been challenged in ancient time and considered disabled as sinners and cursed people. During middle-ages the uniqueness of disabled persons has been challenged and used them for entertainment purposes. Later they have been considered as wild and brutal and also gave much importance to the caretakers rather than disabled. Modern age especially later half of twentieth century the disabled got good position in literature due to the impact of civil rights movement and the writings of literary personalities. The life writings of disabled people made them to fly up to the heights of their life and also it inspire both able bodied and disabled to achieve their goals. At present disability studies is one of the growing branches of literature
Subjugation and Transformation of the Major Female Character in Chetan Bhagat’s One Indian Girl
Get PDFChetan Bhagat is a popular Indian writer. He exposes the various issues being practiced in society. All his novels present the problems of youths, their hopes, aspirations, dreams and frustrations. The Present novel One Indian Girl is acclaimed for his stance on female issues. This novel is presented from the female perspective. Radhika is the major female character in the fiction. She is victim of the male chauvinism. She undergoes many tribulations but in the end she takes her own decision. She doesn’t accept the male choice. After much emphasis she accepts to do arrange marriage but at the she realizes her own importance and refuses to marry. She determines to live life according to her own terms. The writer presents her expedition in a fantastic way
The Theme of Gender Violence in Manjula Padmanabhan’s Play Lights Out
Get PDFMany Indian women writers have contributed to the development of Indian writing in English and taken it to the respectable position. Manjula Padmanabhan is one of them. She was born in Delhi in 1953. She has spent early years of her life in Europe and Southeast Asia. Later, she returned to India. She is a playwright, journalist, comic strip artist and children's book author. In Indian writing in English, Manjula Padmanabhan emerges as a sensitive writer who aims at the presenting the realistic problems instead of portraying the romantic, fanciful notions. She is one of the Indian woman playwright who attempted to bring a positive behavioural change in women towards themselves as well as society toward women. Her plays are issues oriented and deal with social reality. Thus, her style and content are realistic in a believable manner. Her plays are majorly women centric and thus present their perspective and narrative. Thus, this paper is a study of Manjula Padmanabhan’s Lights Out (2000) in the light of gender insensitivity and violence
Kamala Das: Her Concerns
Get PDFOne cannot think of a better way of introducing the concerns of Kamala Das- than by, quoting from her autobiography - My Story. “Poets, even the most significant of them are different from other people. They cannot close their shops like shop men and return home. Their shop is their mind and as long as they carry it with them; they feel the pressure and the torment.” (MS, 165). Reading Kamala Das’s works have been like journeying through a land that has its share of flood and famine, of lush green gardens and cold graves and scorching sun and rain bow skies, such is the harvest of thought in her work. Her works take leap from love to life, to death with the adeptness of an ace sprinter and the peculiar charm lies in how she manages love and life with the same intensity that she employs to celebrate them
An Ecofeminist Reading of Kavery Nambisan’s A Town Like Ours
Get PDFEcofeminism is a term that shows the relationship between Ecology and Feminism. It is a branch of Ecocriticism which studies how the oppression of women is interlinked with nature. Naturally the “Land” is compared to a Feminine gender as it is fertile and nurtures the life similar to a female who nurtures her family and finally owned by a male as a property. Ecofeminism on the other hand offers a way of thinking which encourages interconnectedness of people with the environment and addressing the oppression and marginalization of women alongside. This paper focuses on how the protagonist Rajakumari is associated with nature and also about her psychological growth interlinked with the environment and with the other characters in Kavery Nambisan’s A Town Like Ours. The researcher will further critique the condition of Indian women under the patriarchy and how anthropocentric activities in the development process affect nature and humans