The Interiors

Volume 5, Issue 1 - December 2016

Volume 5, Issue 1 - December 2016

Publication Date:
December 1, 2016

Total Articles:
39

Pages:
1 - 271

ISSN:
2319-4804

Editorial Team

Editors
Dr. Neeraj Kumar
Dr. Neeraj Kumar Chief Editor

Professor in P.G. Dept. of English and Research Centre

Magadh University, Bodh-Gaya

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Dr. Pratap Singh
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D.D.U. Gorakhpur University, Gorakhpur
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Former Professor and Head P.G. Dept. of English
Magadh University, Bodh-Gaya
Dr. Alo Sircar
Former Professor and Head P.G. Dept. of English
Magadh University, Bodh-Gaya
Dr. H.M. Prasad
Former Professor and Head P.G. Dept. of English
Magadh University, Bodh-Gaya
Dr. I. K. Masih
Former Professor and Head P.G. Dept. of English
Magadh University, Bodh-Gaya
Dr. C.P. Singh
Former Professor and Head, P.G. Dept. of English
Magadh University, Bodh-Gaya
Dr. S.M.P.N.S. Shahi
Professor and Head, Dept. of English
Ranchi University, Ranchi
Dr. Somnath Prasad
Professor and Head, P.G. Dept. of English
Magadh University, Bodh-Gaya
Dr. A. K. Bachchan
Professor, P. G. Dept. of English
L.N. Mithila University, Darbhanga
Dr. A. A. Khan
Professor and Head, Dept. of English
Govt. D.T. College, Utai, Durg
Dr. Parmanand Jha
Associate Professor and Head, Dept. of English
C.M. College, Darbhanga
Dr. K. K. Narayan
Associate Professor and Head, Dept. of English
Gaya College, Gaya
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Articles in This Issue

39 Articles

Vivekachaitanya and Jatadhari’s Spiritual Awakening in Confessions of a Sannyasi and The Man from Chinnamasta

GEETA M. PATIL , URMILA SURYA

In Indian culture spirituality plays a vital role. Spirituality has the goal of liberation which means to acquire the moksha. It is an integration of Sadhana, meditation, mantra, Vedas, shlokas, etc. There are two basic and the greatest enemies of...

Keywords: Spirituality, meditation, saint, Indian culture, tradition, ashram, contemplation, animal sacrifice, Bhagwadgita, Upanishads, hermit, seclusion, materialistic world, paintings.

Siddis in India: Diasporic Identity and Syncretism

Karan Singh *

Siddis, a diasporic community of African-Indians which has approximately 50, 000 members, is spread chiefly in three states of India— Karnataka, Gujarat, Maharashtra. Siddis are descendants of Bantu people of Southeast Africa who first left their...

Keywords: Heritage, Syncretism, Diaspora

Meditative Contemplation on Rivers in India and Canada : An Eco-Cultural Perspective

KALIKINKAR PATTANAYAK *

To think of human civilization or culture, be it Indian or Canadian, without rivers is an impossible proposition. The Ganges in India has arrested the attention of the sensitive poets like Arvind Krishna Mehrotra and Susheel Kumar Sharma. They hav...

Keywords: Struggle, goal, hazards, harmony, catalyst.

Aravind Adiga’s The White Tiger : Justifying Crime

VIJAY CHANDRA VERMA *

Written in Indian background, Aravind Adiga’s The White Tiger is a severe attack on the existing social, political and financial divisions of society. The novelist’s exquisite efficiency of enquiring into the existing divisions of society through...

Keywords: Social, political and financial divisions, oppressive system, unwanted controversy

Manju Kapur’s Home: Journey towards Autonomous Self

SANTOSH CHAHAR *

The present paper intends to explore the identity crisis and growing need and desire of being self-dependent by women in the urban upper middle classes through Manju Kapur’s novel Home. The author has depicted through the character of Nisha, that...

Keywords: Identity, self-dependency, autonomy, entrepreneurship, patriarchy, upper middle class, business-families.

Rasa in John Keats’s Lamia

NIDHI VATS *

This paper intends to explore the Indian theory of “Rasa” in a Western literary work like John Keats’s Lamia. Rasa is one of the most prominent concepts of Sanskrit Poetics. We see its usage in almost every piece of ancient and modern Indian liter...

Keywords: Keats, Lamia, Sanskrit poetics, Rasa, sentiments

Lord Byron’s Poetic Technique : A Study

RAGHUNATH PRASAD KACHHWAY *

Byron is a great satirist. The Augustan age is essentially an age of satire and Byron, too, has his fascination for satires. In his poetry Byron has satirised love, war, women, politicians, English society and even his own contemporaries. While sa...

Keywords: Burlesque, mockery, irony, digressions, duality of tone

Kiran Desai’s The Inheritance of Loss :A Quest for Identity

ASHOK KUMAR *

In Kiran Desai’s The Inheritance of Loss twin strands straddle across continents mapping the contours of the ethno-racial and historical relationship between people from different cultures. Primarily it is about Love, Longing, Loss and Identity Cr...

Keywords: Identity, culture, immigrants, loss, Anglophilic, shadow-immigrants

Eco-feminism in Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things

MOHAMMAD EKRAMUL HASSAN *

This paper will explore Arundhati Roy’s novel, The God of Small Things, in the context of ecofeminism. In Indian subcontinent growing protests against environmental destruction and struggle for survival and existence have highlighted the inter-con...

Keywords: Eco-feminism, environmental studies, Co-existence

Issues of Pronunciation while Teaching EFL in the Context of Saudi Arabia

MOSTAFA FARUK AHAMED *

English is such kind of language that if it is not pronounced correctly, its meaning will be changed. And even sometimes meaning becomes opposite to the base word. So pronunciation is a very important issue while learning English. As Arabic speaki...

Keywords: Pronunciation, opposite, accuracy, investigation, mispronunciation, suggestions.

Woman’s Subjugation: A Critical Study of Bapsi Sidhwa’s The Pakistani Bride

PURNENDU SHANKER *

By definition, post colonialism is a period of time after colonialism and incorporates writings of those countries which have been affected by the imperial process from the moment of colonization to the present day. Bapsi Sidhwa, a post colonial v...

Keywords: Colonial abandonment and alienation, identity of womenfolk, gender bias and gender segregation, patriarchy, subjugation and abuse of women rights.

Literature and Society

KANHAIYA KUMAR SINHA *

The history of literature dates back to the dawn of human civilization. The societies were formed by the human beings with objectives of fulfilling the human needs and aspirations. Setting aside which came first- literature or society the aim of th...

Keywords: Literature, French Revolution, reflection, metaphor

Characters of Mulk Raj Anand’s Major Novels : A Critical Analysis

JAIRAM SHARMA *

Mulk Raj Anand in his novels draws characters from the real society around him, people whom he happens to know in actual life. During his life’s journey, some characters even haunt the novelist and compel him to write about them. Speaking as a nov...

Keywords: Untouchable, realism, protagonist, social conflict, humanism, downtrodden

Anita Desai’s Fasting, Feasting : A Heart-touching Feministic Saga of the Sacrifice of Women at the Altar of Marriage

KUMARI RASHMI PRIYDARSHNI *

Marriage is assumed to be the primary business of a woman’s life through which the patriarchal values perpetuate. The themes of Anita Desai’s compositions are chiefly love, matrimony and divorce which ultimately annihilate a woman’s life. In India...

Keywords: Post-Colonial Movement, Feminism, ambulatory, Oedipus complex

Exploring Human Psyche During Communal Violence: A Study in Bhisham Sahni’s Tamas

ABHISHEK KUMAR *

Human psyche has been decoded and unfolded time to time and it has been recorded in different genres of literature. Communal violence has unfolded a different human psyche. The novel Tamas written by Bhisham Sahni explores various aspects of human...

Keywords: Communal, dignity, massacre, partition, harmony, riot, manipulate, psyche, kafirs, marauders, financial destruction, bloodshed.
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