Contents Preface 1 Bhola 2 Nisha the ghost 3 The well diver 4 School inspector 5 Radha 6 Raja Saheb 7 Picnic 8 Birds eye view 9 Dak Bungalow 10 Maya Debi IndexWhile some of the stories in this collection namely Well diver School inspector Radha and prince are based on events that look place years ago of which the author had a personal knowledge the other stories are fictional in natureThe scene of an old woman sitting on the verandah with a monkey at her side feeding at her breasts is as lively in my memory as that of a blind old man with his pepper coloured close cropped hair a lean body with muscles who visited our house often accompanied by his granddaughter for recovering fallen articles from the well in the compound I was only a lad of seven or eight years old at that time So also the boat tragedy that snapped shut the lives of four members of a family when they were out picnicking at a river side which shook the entire township of Burla a sleepy town where a dam was being built in the year 1957 is ever fresh in my memory I worked as an engineer at Burla at that time and witnessed the heart wrenching scene at the cremation ground where pyres in a row were litWhile Nisha the ghost is the story about a girl who died under tragic circumstances and who turned into a ghost that decided to live in an old mans house and shared the joys and sorrows of the family till her sad end Raja Saheb is an account of a ruler of a princely state during British Raj who adopted means foul and fair to enrich himself and ultimately met his sad end jacket 178 pp. Artikel-Nr. 99481

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Indian Literature in English : Critical Assessments: Vol: I

Amar Nath Prasad and Ajay Kumar Srivastava

Verlag: Sarup, New Delhi, 2007

ISBN 10: 8176257656 ISBN 13: 9788176257657

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Hardbound. Zustand: As New. New. Contents Preface. Contributors. 1. The idea of nation/nationalism in Tagore's poetry/Arnab Baul. 2. Aurobindo and Rabindra the Angel Eyes/Bithika D. Sarkar. 3. Style Metre and imagery in the plays of Sri Aurobindo/Saryug Yadav. 4. Reflections of woman in the works of R.K. Narayan/Md. Ejaz Alam. 5. The concept of Gandhism in the novels of Bhabani Bhattacharya/Sudarshan Sharma. 6. Riding the tiger of deceit a study of Kalo's character/Jitendra Prasad Singh Padma. 7. Ruth Prawer Jhabvala's Get Ready for Battle a critical study/Nagendra Kumar Singh. 8. The Devil's Wind a nationalist or a rebel/Dinesh Chandra Kumar. 9. Dialectics of society and self in the novels of Kamala Markandaya's A Pleasure City/Nagendra Kumar Singh. 10. The problem of style in Anita Desai/Jagjiwan Prasad. 11. Alienation and disharmony in the novels of Anita Desai/Anita Singh. 12. The Autobiography of an Unknown India a critique/S.P. Swain. 13. Nissim Ezekiel and his humanism/Rajiv K. Mallik. 14. The Failed Art of Arun Joshi/Ajay Kumar Srivastava. 15. Social and historical realism in The God of Small Things/R.S. Sharma and S.B. Talwar. 16. Sex for the Sake of Sex a study of Shobha De's Starry Nights/Shivputra Shivraj Kanade. 17. The plays of Vijay Tendulkar a brief Study/Amar Nath Prasad. 18. Manoranjan Das an experimental playwright/Uma Sankar Padhy. Index. Indian Literature in English Critical Assessments is an anthology of critical essays contributed by different teachers and scholars of English literature. The authors discussed in this book are R.N. Tagore Sri Aurobindo R.K. Narayan Bhabani Bhattacharya R.P. Jhabvala Manohar Malgonkar Kamala Markandaya Anita Desai Nirad Chaudhary Nissim Ezekiel Arun Joshi Arundhati Roy Shobha De Vijay Tendulkar and Manoranjan Das. Most of the papers of this anthology are research papers prepared for presentation in the National and International seminars and conferences. They deals with the various aspects of Indian Writing in English e.g. nationalism style and imagery the persecution of women Gandhian ideology alienation and disharmony Indianess and several other shades of Indian Literature in English. The book will certainly be fruitful for students teachers and research scholars who want to be more conversant with the perspectives of Indian Writing in English. 242 pp. Artikel-Nr. 65081

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