Raj Raj Mukhopadhyay M.Phil. Scholar, Department of English, Visva-Bharati Abstract The eminent Bengali litterateur Saradindu Bandyopadhyay is famous for his two extremely popular characters, notably Baroda, the bhutanweshi or the ghost-hunter and Byomkesh Bakshi, the satyanweshi or the truth-seeker. However, the frameworks within which these two figures operate are entirely different from each other. Whereas […]
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The New Poetry: Tagore, Whitman and Sri Aurobindo
Dr Goutam Ghosal Professor of English, Visva-Bharati University Abstract Despite Sri Aurobindo’s problem of expression between 1917 and 1920, when he was serializing The Future Poetry in The Arya, he could speak a lot, in wonderful moments of revealed prose, about the possibility of a dynamic revival of poetry from the ancient times. He finds […]
Vijay Tendulkar’s Kamala: A Pathetic Picture of Women in Indian Society
Shovan Dhibar Abstract Since the Vedic Age women remain under the shadow of men, the dictator of the then society. With almost same ability and talent they were subdued with the ways of rituals, manners and religious workings. They are learnt and understood that they are nothing but the shadow of men whose only divine […]
An Intensive Study of Profound Feeling: Graceful Dust
Soutik Sen Poetry is perhaps the most difficult, mysterious enchanting and uncertain expression of human feelings and emotions that can encapsulate an entire universe in its brief periphery. Naturally it is really a Herculean task to critically appraise a book of poem. A book of poem is like a closed envelop, which if opened, can […]
A Quest for True and Selfless Love: In the Perspective of Kamala Das’ My Grandmother’s House
Arindam Mukherjee Abstract The general critical opinion regarding the poetry of Kamala Das is that she is obsessed with love and rather than finding salvation in art, her poetry speaks of continuing disappointments in love. As a confessional poet, she writes about sexual frustration and desire, of the suffocation of an arranged love-less marriage, of […]
Teaching Grammar Creatively Initiating Communicative Activities in the Class Room
Prashant Mishra Language learning has been regarded as a creative activity and not a mechanical process involving memorization through repetition. Since learners encounter different socio-cultural situations in their lives, they cannot always use the same memorized sentences in all the communicative situations. It has been established through various researches carried out during the last century […]
Baul, Tagore and Humanism
Joydeep Mukherjee & Dr Susanta Kumar Bardhan Abstract The study attempts to deal with the age old folksong tradition called Baul in relation to its humanistic aspects and its impact on Tagore. An attempt has been made to study the source and history of Baul already existing in several books mentioned in the Bibliography for […]
The Politics of Representation: Cultural Appropriation and Ethnicity in Kalyana Rao’s Untouchable Spring
Dr Baisali Hui Abstract Dalit identity and its literary representation have long been a contentious field of discussion. The translation of Kalyana Rao’s masterpiece Untouchable Spring into English brings to focus many issues such as cultural appropriation and subversion of mainstream assumptions about Dalit life and ideology. How primitive art forms were modified and reinvested […]