Professor in P.G. Dept. of English and Research Centre
Magadh University, Bodh-Gaya
The Interiors Volume-3 Issue-1
Woman in Indian society is not treated as a person but only as a possession. She is a victim not only of man’s inhuman attitude but also of the Hindu Dharma which maintains that wife is her husband’s property and has no individuality outside that...
Women down the ages have tried their level best to clinch for themselves a permanent niche in every sphere of life braving all odds. The literary world did not remain untouched. Women writers of every language have acquired remarkable recognition...
P eople form a nation’ – it is absolutely true. The temperament of the people determines the temperament of their nation. If they are immoral and corrupt, what will be the fate of their nation? Can we expect a noble society from them? Can we expe...
A House for Mr. Biswas (1961) is generally considered a magnum opus of V.S. Naipaul. The novel is about Mohun Biswas, a third generation diasporic individual of Indian origin in Trinidad. The novel begins with the birth of Mohun Biswas under circu...
Mahatma Gandhi was a staunch upholder of moral uprightness. Most of his disciples were honest, straightforward and indifferent to power politics. They followed his principles, both in letter and spirit. In the novels of Mulk Raj Anand, Raja Rao, R...
Arundhati Roy was born on November 24, 1961 in Bengal. Her full name is Suzanna Arundhati Roy. Her mother Mary Roy, well-known as a social activist is from Kerala, and her father Baba was a Bengali Hindu tea planter. She spent her crucial childhoo...
Vikram Seth’s The Golden Gate is a novel in verse. It was first published in 1986 and then in 1989 by Oxford University Press, Delhi. Seth got the much coveted Sahitya Akademi Award for this book in 1988. The poet-novelist puts in about 13 month h...
Indian fiction, which portrayed the evils of child marriage and dowry system during pre-independence period, has now come to witness the emergence of a new woman and a new female consciousness in the present decade. It has given up the old patriar...
Mulk Raj Anand, one of the greatest Indian novelists is also regarded as the father of the Indo English literature. Almost all his novels deal with the theme of social picture and realism. He is known for the depiction of the lives of the underdog...
The purpose of this paper is to display Hemingway’s vision of man and his action related to exploration of the ‘self’. With his strong faith in the potential and dignity of man, the novelist contends that an individual’s ultimate goal should be to...
Nayantara Sahgal is perhaps the only Indo-English woman novelist who is also a political columnist. Her newspaper articles are characterised by their topicality, simplicity and boldness. Nayantara Sahgal’s work ranges from factual and emotional au...
The credit of bringing name and reputation to Indo-English fiction goes to a few contemporary writers such as Mulk Raj Anand, Raja Rao, Nirad C Choudhary and R.K.Narayan. And among them R.K.Narayan is one of the leading figures. Narayan got much p...
The legacy of writing is continued from generation to generation with the depth of intellect, insight into the Indian traditional patriarchal society. The era of 1970’s witnessed the transformation from the truly Indian traditional women to the wo...
Shakespeare is an artist for all ages, all people and all countries. Unlike his contemporary, Ben Jonson, he presents a particular society set against a particular background. In this context we may remember the oft-quoted statement of Ben Jonson,...
Rabindranath Tagore, as we all know, is one of the greatest Indo-English dramatists in English literature. And drama for him, as perhaps with a firm structure, is not just an exercise in drama, but a path and means of exploration into the various i...
