Creative Saplings
Not a member yet
504 research outputs found
Sort by
My Forecast by R Revathi Ramamurthy
No full textMy Forecast
R Revathi Ramamurthy, Former Dean & Principal of Shri Krishnaswamy College for Women, Annanagar , Chennai -4
While Everything Changes
Get PDFThe poem is a reflection on how our world and our relationships, in fact, change silently, and as a college kid I find myself looking at the world changing into the world of deadlines and group projects, of the world of the warm and easy strolls on the campus to a cold and emotional world of winter semesters. The friends who once used to be close, friends who think they should go study together over a pizza, are becoming distant slowly, as their hearts are closing like the dorm basement door, it seems that we all are just making casual swings around the hub of the silent halls. That shift generates this feeling of separation and betrayal, in a way of demonstrating how quickly the gentleness of a lecture discussion can get into indifference, in a manner that a class discussion can become cold as soon as the mark is put in. Through all these changes, one thing remains constant to me, and that is myself. In this world where everything in the cafeteria menu, as well as the professor expectations, is subject to change, my very presence of consistency serves as a soothing anchor of its own, giving me the experience that resilience and self-knowledge truly hold in a world of emotional storms
Derrida in JNU: A Novel by Nigitha John
Get PDFDerrida in JNU: A Novel by Nigitha John, New Delhi: Magic Moon Publishers Private Limited, ISBN 978-8198144584, Pages-172, 2025, Price: 600/
American Violence as a Catalyst for the Oppression of Muslim Identity in Post-9/11 Attacks: A Study of H.M. Naqvi’s Home Boy
Get PDFThe contemporary British-born Pakistani novelist, Naqvi, has written two novels. His first novel, Home Boy (2009), narrates the sociocultural dilemma of the Muslim character Chuck, who faces stereotyping, insult, and torture from his American counterparts, just because he is a Muslim. This study, accordingly, focuses on the oppression of Muslim minority characters in America, positing that the American society represents a violent society, which is central to the oppression of Muslims in the selected novel. The objective of this study, thus, is to examine the author’s depiction of the American society as a violent society that oppresses the Muslim minority characters in the selected novel. To achieve this objective, the author’s depiction will be examined using a textual analysis methodology and applying Young’s concept of violence and its related critical insights on oppression to selected textual evidence from the novel. The findings will demonstrate the Muslim minority characters’ oppressed state as a signifying factor of their vulnerable position amidst the violence of the American society
The Songs of William Blake and Sant Kavi Lakshmi Sakhi: A Spiritual, Mystical, and Literary Exploration
Get PDFBoth William Blake and Sant Lakshmi Sakhi belong to two different religions, cultures, and climes, but their views and visions, images, and imaginations have very close conformity in both matter and manner, which make the readers mesmerized in the realms of spiritualism, mysticism, and literature. William Blake was the late 18th century and early 19 th Century mystic and spiritual poet whose classic work " Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience" dealt with spiritualism, mysticism, and romanticism in its rich manifestations with meaning and message not only to the contemporary age but even today in this dry and monotonous age of materialism. Similarly, Sant Kavi Lakshmi Sakhi, the great saint of the Bhojpuri language, was the 19 th Century mystic and spiritual poet whose four classic divine works, namely Amar Sidhi, Amar Kahani, Amar Bilas, and Amar Faras, are milestones in the field of spiritual and mystical poetry often suffused with the colour and craftsmanship of the various tools and devices of great art and literature. Unfortunately, the language Bhojpuri in which Sant Lakshmi Sakhi has poured his thoughts and messages woven into the fabric of art and beauty, is marginalized today in Bihar, and such classic works that need to be restored, preserved, and upgraded for posterity are in utter negligence. Modern Facebook boys and girls have little concern about such classic legacies. The aforementioned four Granthas of Sant Lakshmi Sakhi, which are called "Granth Ramji," are worshipped in the Samadhi Sthal ( Monastery) at Teruwan Math near Sattar Ghat on the bank of pious river Narayani ( Gandaki) in the district of Gopalganj, Bihar, India. "Amar Sidhi," and its translation into the English language is being processed. Today, the young generation must know their heritage and legacy, and it is time to wake up with concerted efforts to make "the local to vocal," which is also part and parcel of the Modern Indian Knowledge System of Education
A Cultural Materialist Comparative Study of Mulk Raj Anand’s Untouchable and Om Prakash Valmiki’s Joothan
Get PDFThe paper attempts to identify the caste-based social structure of India by implementing the theory of cultural materialism. It evaluates how caste becomes a tool for social dominance and oppression of individual identity by comparing Mulk Raj Anand’s Untouchable and Om Prakash Valmiki’s autobiographical work Joothan. Both protagonists, Bakha (Untouchable) and Valmiki (Joothan), faced cultural dominance through ideologies of one class over another and how it completely blocks an individual\u27s progress. It shows how people are subjected to both physical and psychological violence and how the Power of money and materialism shapes this society. While Indian culture is often projected as rich and diverse, the analysis reveals underlying materialism and inherent biases. The study demonstrates how inter-generational social practices, as depicted in Untouchable and Joothan, severely restrict social mobility for lower cast members