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Pathways to Success and Excellence (16 True Inspirational Stories) by Kiran Kumar Singh.
Get PDFPathways to Success and Excellence (16 True Inspirational Stories) by Kiran Kumar Singh. Reviewed by Dr. Shaleen Kumar Singh, 1st Ed. 2023, Jaipur: Wisdom Words Publishing. ISBN: 978-93-90765-86-
Intersectionality in Girlhood Studies: Analysing the Denied and Reclaimed Journeys of Agency in Diverse Societal Milieus
Get PDFThe transition from girlhood to womanhood is a fundamental and often natural phase in a young woman\u27s life, marked by self-discovery and growth. However, for a vast sea of girls across various regions and races, this process is unnaturalised and tainted by violence, abuse and suppression of identity. Their girlhood is stifled by a patriarchal society expecting them to conform to conventional gender roles, leaving them no room for joyful self-exploration. Therefore, girlhood studies becomes a crucial field of research to understand and highlight the resilience, agency, and creativity of girls while acknowledging the myriad systemic challenges they face, serving as poignant reminders of the need to nurture the girlhood of all young women, allowing them to flourish and discover their own unique paths to womanhood. This paper herein proposes to delve into this theme, seeking to understand how these dynamics influence the lived realities of girls who are denied a free girlhood, while exploring how they reclaim their voice in their fight against oppression. This study draws insights from Alice Walker\u27s coming of age novel \u27The Color Purple\u27 along with selected sections from Rassundari Devi\u27s autobiography \u27Amar Jiban,\u27 as these literary works illuminate the harrowing experiences of female characters forced into premature adulthood. Additionally, the study references \u27To Kill a Mockingbird\u27 in order to compare the nuances of stifled girlhood experiences across the boundaries of race, region and ethnicity. Scholarly voices such as Tanika Sarkar and Martha J. Cutter, etc. will also be cited simultaneously to enrich the analysis by encompassing aspects of feminist literary theories. 
War Trauma in Second Generation: Suffering of Zaid from The Good Muslim
No full textThis study investigates the long-lasting effects of war trauma over multiple generations, focusing on the analysis of Tahmima Anam’s novel The Good Muslim. The narrative centres around the suffering experienced by Sohail, a Bangladeshi revolutionary combatant dealing with post-traumatic stress disorder, guilt, and religious extremism in the aftermath of the 1971 conflict. Additionally, it explores the unintended consequences of his little son Zaid, who becomes a victim of the second generation without his knowledge.
The paper examines the transformation of Sohail from a carefree young person to a disturbed individual who strongly adheres to fundamentalist Islam. This highlights the profound psychological scars caused by the brutalities experienced during the conflict—his adherence to rigorous religious practices and emotional detachment from family showcase hallmark PTSD symptoms. Nevertheless, Sohail’s trauma has profound repercussions for Zaid, a six-year-old who is deprived of parental affection and normal childhood freedoms due to his father’s rigid rules. Zaid experiences social isolation and receives cruel treatment in a religious school, leading to episodes of violent outbursts, a tendency to steal, and repetitive recitations that indicate a possible anxiety problem.
Through the lens of psychoanalytic theory on childhood trauma, the paper argues that Zaid represents the ‘silent victims’ of war - a second generation forced to inherit the suffering borne of their parents’ anguish. This comprehensive depiction highlights the broader event and serves as a sombre reminder of the human toll of violence. Achieving reconciliation requires addressing invisible wounds that perpetuate across generations
Introducing Marxist Literary Criticism
Get PDFMarxism as an ideology and mode of practice continues to exist in the twenty first century. It is not as orthodox and dogmatic as it used to be in the mid twentieth century. It has absorbed and reformulated many contemporary critical trends like post-Marxism and has reappeared in different theoretical garbs. Marxist literary criticism is by no means a bygone critical mode; it is very much in practice and has taken on different forms of enquiry like post-colonialism and cultural studies. Given the all-pervasive nature and presence of Marxist literary criticism in academic and research world and its usefulness in exploring hidden aspects of texts, it is significant to know its basics and recent developments in its pursuits. As long as people are still thinking dialectically, they are still disagreeing with each other, and as long as people are still disagreeing with philosophers, Marxist literary criticism will be important. Marxism, in particular, had several modifications. It is important to note that someone who really believes in and supports Marxist political theory ought to put it into reality. The present paper tries to briefly sketch its basic assumptions and its mode of enquiry. Researchers and students need to get their ideas and views about Marxist literary criticism clear so that they can apply its tenets to texts for insightful understanding.  
An Interview with Indian Writer Dr. Dipak Giri
Get PDFAn Interview with Indian Writer Dr. Dipak Giri by S. Mahalakshm
Beyond The Waste Land: A Critique of Maja Herman Sekulice’s “Out of the Wasteland” and Poetry of Dr. J. S. Anand
Get PDFThe paper examines the strategies of interaction with—and moving beyond—the text in two contemporary poets: Maja Herman Sekulic and Dr. J.S. Anand, looking at their invoking Eliot\u27s The Waste Land as a way that turns both works on medium level reminders or allusions by adapting them to (their) respective othernesses. The research aims to answer the following questions: In what ways do these two poets make use of The Waste Land in their poetry, and for which reasons are such allusions employed within contemporary praxis? The texts that will be analysed are Sekulic\u27s "Out of the Wasteland" and Anand’s The Dominion of the Netherworld, with a mention to “Ground Zero.” This essay argues that Sekulic\u27s "Out of the Wasteland" functions both as an homage and a parody to The Waste Land, suggesting how contemporary life has formed into decay Eliot never could have envisioned. The first stanza disparages the mimesis of The Waste Land yet questions anyone remembering modernist poetry to be able to capture a fractured and disenchanted contemporary existence. Using suggestive imagery and an even heavier reliance on Eliot, Sekulic makes the point that there is no need to represent modern life (a lesson its critics appear yet unwilling or unable to comprehend), with her tone subtler than ever in leaving readers be subjected only by sorts of ridiculousness. On the other hand, Anand\u27s work is also examined in relation to how he confronts The Waste Land with what epitomizes all that is awful about existence today. Both poets are shown to use Eliot\u27s text as a base from which they not only critique and reflect upon the escalating disaster of contemporary existence but also remake The Waste Land in terms relevant to current global anxieties
A Geocritical Reading of the Playwright Ramu Ramanathan’s Play The Boy Who Stopped Smiling
Get PDFToday’s education system is more focused on the development of the infrastructure of the institution than the mental and insightful development of the students. Rabindranath Tagore in his short story titled Tota kahinee or The Bird’s Tale said that “the cage is improving, but what news of the bird?” (Tagore, 4). The playwright Ramu Ramanathan is an excellent vocal or throaty of these issues. Most of the writers in general and the playwright in particular associate children’s stories with fairy tales. They don’t often even write any sort of drama or any piece of writing from a small child’s perspective. Their questions and queries are sidelined. The writers are least bothered about the mental space of the characters. We the people force the children to memorize our school syllabi, courses, formative and summative exams, and class work. According to Nehal Hardik Thakkar, “The children aren’t given a proper individual space, and their issues have remained socially invisible”. We don’t often push them to enjoy and learn something. We never ask them to forget about marks and all. We don’t also encourage them not to chase success. We insist and compel them to pursue success. If we critically think about it, we will come to know that we push them to get traumatized and assist them to stop their smiling. The epoch-making playwright Ramu Ramanathan in his play called The Boy Who Stopped Smiling talked about all these exact things. He breaks the traditional way of drama writing and here in this play, he uses the concept or the style of Grips theatre. The study of this paper will attempt to discuss this play from a geocritical perspective. Here the researcher will try to spend a maximum amount of time to discuss about the space, place, and several other things. Through the central character named Malhar, the playwright endeavored to provide a lifelong lesson to all the parents\u27 community. Here in this play, other characters make fun of the protagonist named Malhar. They called him mad and also wanted him to be sent to a mental asylum. Nobody in this play thinks from Malhar\u27s perspective; even the mother of Malhar avoids visiting the space and place of Malhar’s mental faculty. All of the other characters stigmatized him as mental and crazy and also considered him as poorly weak