Professor in P.G. Dept. of English and Research Centre
Magadh University, Bodh-Gaya
The Interiors Volume-3 Issue-1
It is said that utility defines aesthetics. Many eyebrows will be raised when this statement is associated with Chetan Bhagat. Many critics have posted him as 'incorrect' and many have shelved him in the like of a Sidney Sheldon. But what many hav...
Sudha Murthy describes her characters in such a way that they really become memorable and there is always the lasting impression upon the mind of the reader. Moreover, they appear living, moving about before the eyes and the most important thing i...
A ravind Adiga’s debut novel, The White Tiger has not only earned him the prestigious Booker Prize in 2008 but also established him as a socio-politically conscious literary artist. The White Tiger highlights the ever widening gap between rich an...
Immigrant literature meets the demand of merging geographical and cultural borders. Jhumpa Lahiri provides a useful foundation for understanding the cultivation of hybrid identities and weaves stories around women who dislocate themselves from the...
Indian society has been a changeless one. Romila Thapar elucidates how with the prevailing caste system, “each man… had its own role in the large and more complex network of the social structure.” (Thapar 30) Man’s ultimate destiny lay in the tran...
The present article attempts to give a glimpse into Alice Walker’s concept of ‘womanism’. She believes that ‘Womanism’ is different from ‘Feminism’. ‘Feminism’ talks about women and their hardships as a whole, whereas ‘Womanism’ deals with the Bla...
Bharati Mukherjee was born in Calcutta on 27 July, 1940. She got B.A. Hons in English from the University of Calcutta and obtained M.A. in English from the University of Baroda in 1961. She went to the University of Lowa to attend the writers’ wo...
It is often said or one may find after reading some novels of Mulk Raj Anand that Anand is not much concerned with women characters. It is a fact that most of his novels are even without a female character. But this position of the plot should not...
Science fiction is a genre which is used as a specific form with which we can experience 'new worlds' which are used as a means of investigating and destabilizing settled certainties concerning our own world and craving for an ultimate truth. It i...
Arundhati Roy is a significant booker prize winner in 1997 for her debut novel The God of Small Things.She is an Indian novelist who writes in English. In her novel, she has employed women characters whose position at home and in society can be an...
Amitav Ghosh is a well known scholar and novelist of Indian English literature. He has enriched the Indian writing in English with a number of novels, namely The Circle of Reason, The Shadow Lines, In An Antique Land, The Calcutta Chromosome, The...
Shashi Tharoor is one of the eminent English novelists of modern era. His works reflect a specific understanding of historical satire and fantasy of India. He has also reinvented India with a dazzling marriage of Hindu myth and modern history.
Among modern Indian English women writers, Shobha De is one of the most eminent and popular novelists of the present time. She was born in Maharashtra in 1948. She had graduated with a degree in Psychology from St. Xavier’s College, Bombay. She be...
Feminist scholarship aims at forging a new identity for women. The Women Liberation movement explored women’s identity by asking in Chris Weedon’s words “the very question what it is to be a woman, how our femininity and our sexuality are defined...
A campus novel, also known as an academic novel, is a novel whose main action is set in and around the campus of a university. It is a new kind of genre which came into existence in the 1950s. At that time, many such novels were being written, b...
