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The Predicament of Indian Woman in Arun Joshi’s The Strange Case of Billy Biswas
Full text linkArun Joshi with five published novels to his credit occupies a significant place in the history of Indian English Literature. He rose to prominence as a novelist with the publication of his first novel ‘The Foreigner’ in 1968. In his novels he has artistically depicted the themes of rootlessness, social and racial tensions and prejudices, the conflict between tradition and materialism, faith and reason, search for one’s self and painful experience of exile and alienation. ‘The Strange Case of Billy Biswas’ presents the predicament of Meena Biswas as a by-product of her husband’s quest for self. Marital discord, husband’s disappearance and death, and last but not least the responsibility of looking after her aged father-in-law & male child make her life a tale of untold miseries and excruciating experiences. Being an Indian woman, she patiently and ungrudgingly bears her misfortunes with no deviation from the established standards of Indian society
R. K. Bhushan’s Muse: An Evaluation
Full text linkBhushan is so much influenced by Wordsworth that his love for nature also seems to be Wordsworthian. Ponds and Rivers are the examples that teach the philosophy of life. Ponds are always associated with a confined life that breeds selfishness, egoism and narrow-minded. Rivers are associated with the flow of life that does not take but believes in giving life to others. Rivers teach how to be broad-minded and live for others. Rivers flow in search of identity and ultimately are lost in the sea. But, to mingle in the sea—the eternal sea is the desired goal of life. R. K. Bhushan’s Muse experiences mixed feelings, sometimes she is bruised at the contemporary landscape dotted with materialism which negates spiritualism and values in life, sometimes, she seems to be nature conscious, sometimes, she becomes philosophical to the extent that she inspires to inculcate patience and peace and sometimes, she surrenders everything at the altar of Sai Baba. The poet in Bhushan makes an inward journey right from the outward world
The Poetry of S. L. Peeran: A Hope for A Better World
Full text linkS.L. Peeran, a Judicial Member of Customs, Excise and Gold Control, Appellate Tribunal, Chennai, is a bilingual poet composing poems in English and Urdu. He has seven collections of poems to his credit. The poetry of S.L. Peeran is an outcome of his confrontation with the stark realities of contemporary society. He is uncommonly sympathetic and knowledgeable about man’s faults. He is dolorous at the rapid growing capitalism, imperialism, individualism, communalism, tyranny, agony, dissatisfaction, poverty, avarice, corruption, exploitation, violence, moral degeneration, selfishness and profanity. He is well conscious of the lethal and unhealthy situations around him. His poems are a call to invoke in dead veins of man- spiritual light, wisdom, peace, truth, happiness, glory, universal brotherhood, devotion, beauty and goodness and to revolt against darkness, foolishness, war, inhumanity, egoism, selfishness, superficiality, ugliness, indifference and jealousy
The Love Poetry of Baldev Mirza: An Assessment
Full text linkMirza is a poet of red rose and its fragrance. His poetry is largely a conversation among the lovers in which the poet sometimes longs, sometimes aches, sometimes pines, sometimes pains and sometimes converses with his lover in his dream world. The poetry of Baldev Mirza abounds in the incidents of worldly lovers who sometimes shiver, sometimes weep, sometimes meditate and sometimes see the image of their loving one in their dream. Mirza can speak to the readers without assuming a pose and his insistence on the efficacy of love and longing breath a different kind of stuffy atmosphere to the India English poetry. His poem which are written in anguish of unfulfilled desire and some on anticipation of the benediction of the benediction of a promised communion, provide a simple and unaffected impression readers mind as well as leaves an optimistic and sensitive note to the good things of life which makes life more human and humane