Nehal Hardik Thakkar Research Scholar, K.E.T’s V.G.Vaze College ([email protected]) Abstract In India, a lot of pressure is imposed on children for performing better than others in the examination. For many, the parents decide which career they should opt as they are considered incapable ofmaking decisions for themselves. Children are given no individual space and their […]
Volume IX
A Critical Discourse on Aesthetics in Contemporary Indian Dalit Literature
Limbad Girishkumar Nagjibhai Ph.D Research Scholar, Hemchandracharya North Gujarat University ([email protected]) Abstract This paper is an attempt to study Aesthetics in contemporary Indian Dalit literature. Dalit literature is prominently a literature of social reform and awareness. In the second half of the 20th century, Dalit literature has emerged as a new literary current to address the […]
Serenity in Insanity: Exploring Love in Sajid Ali’s Laila Majnu
Dr Shruti Rawal Assistant Professor, IIS (Deemed to be) University ([email protected]) Abstract The paper explores the layered notions of love and sanity as depicted in Imtiaz Ali’s Laila Majnu. The movie is a modern adaptation of the classic and tragic love story. The paper intends to not only analyze the movie, in all its hues, […]
The Empire is Resurfacing: Rapacious Neocolonial and Bounteous Primitive in Buchi Emecheta’s The Rape of Shavi
Dr. Arun Singh Assistant Professor, Department of English, University of Rajasthan ([email protected]) Abstract The paper explores the newly emerging structures of the ‘Empire’: the insidious forms of neo-imperialism seeping into a ‘primitive’ society. Buchi Emecheta’s novel The Rape of Shavi deals with the accidental intrusion of a group of Western people into an indigenous African […]