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The Mothers of the Kite Fliers and Kite Runners: An Against-the-Grain Study of Khaled Hosseini’s The Kite Runner
Get PDFThe cover page of the novel The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini showcases the brilliant reviews the book received from Daily Telegraph, The Times, Sunday Express and Isabel Allende. Set on the backdrop of a politically troubled Afghanistan, the novel is a tale of friendship, love, loss, betrayal, and hope, coupled with the central Christian theme of guilt and redemption. However a closer reading of The Kite Runner reveals a bizarre reality. In this “… devastating, masterful and painfully honest story of a life crippled by an act of childhood and cowardice and cruelty” (Daily Telegraph), all we get to know are the fortunes and the miseries of the Afghan males, but what about the women? The lack of women characters is so stark that to any sentient reader, it almost appears as if the Afghan community is formed solely out of male members. Only when the story shifts out of Afghanistan, the woman becomes somewhat visible in the character of Soraya. Even then, does the woman in the house attain the same subjectivity as that of the man? Does she succeed in being relevant in the society where a child is more its father’s than its mother’s? Where do the mothers of the kite fliers and kite runners stand in a society whose spirit is best reflected in the kite fighting tournament, a passion passed from fathers to sons? This article is thus an attempt to unearth and explore the unvoiced trivialising of women as the Other in Khaled Hosseini’s The Kite Runner
Amar Nath Prasad’s Pebbles on the Seashore : Vivid Images of India
Get PDFIn 21st century, Indian English poetry presents vivid images of India considering socio-cultural realities of our time. Dr. Amar Nath Prasad’s poem collection Pebbles on the Seashore also represents this truth. Without love and sense of beauty, human life becomes dry and mechanical. Nature is the great source of love and beauty. Dr. Prasad has considered it as the centre of his poems. Nature- environment is the lifeline for every living but human’s lust for material progress harms nature. Dr. Prasad has highlighted it realistically. Love, nature and nation are very appealingly portrayed in his poems. The first poem of this anthology “The Priest of Nature” has been prescribed in B.A. Part II (Semester III) of Sant Baba Gadge, Amravati University, Maharashtra. A preliminary analytical examination of Amar Nath Prasad\u27s poetry demonstrates his mastery of similes, metaphors, and other literary techniques, all of which he has skillfully and brilliantly employed. His combination of form and emotion is excellent, and it deserves critical acclaim, especially in this empty and constricting period when people feel so alone and alone. The poetry will undoubtedly turn out to be a comfort to the worries, fears, and hardships of contemporary, materialistic man
Sita: A symbol of Strength, Resilience, and Empowerment in The Forest of Enchantments
Get PDFThe epic, Ramayana is an enduring literary classic and serves as a guide for social practices, which have a great deal of influence even today. Ramayana is about satisfaction, sacrifice, honesty, and destruction of greed and indiscipline. The epic pictures the birth of goddess, Lakshmi as an avatar to rescue the earth and to destroy the evil kings, who plunder the resources and destroy life through bloody wars and evil conduct. Sita is one of the significant characters in the epic, Ramayana who is considered to be one of the Panchkanyas and respected as the epitome of all womanly virtues for Hindu women. Ramayana depicts women as warriors in domestic life and the novel, The Forest of Enchantments, depicts the incredible journey of women in a patriarchal society and pictures the struggle of modern women to achieve their identity in both their families and society. Chitra Banerjee in The Forest of Enchantments explores the characters of women and brings out their qualities like their moral strength and urges them to attain their destiny. The novel brings out the importance of women’s role in both their family and society
The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling
Get PDFThe Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling, Penguin UK, The Paperback – Illustrated, 8 June 2009, ISBN 978-0141325293, Pages- 240, Price- 353
Tribal Perspectives in India: Critical Responses by Dipak Giri
Get PDFBook Review "Tribal Perspectives in India: Critical Responses by Dipak Giri, Books clinic Publishing, Chhattisgarh, India, 2020
The Creative World of Nandini Sahu by Vipan Kumar
Get PDFBook Review "The Creative World of Nandini Sahu by Vipan Kumar, New Delhi: Authorspress, 2024, Pages:282