The number of Indians settled abroad or working in the US or UK and writing fiction has been steadily increasing. One could look at this critically in terms of the expat experience, cultural interface and so on. In India English is the answer for breaking social barriers, gainful employment and also acceptance. You can think…
A reflection on Pearl S. Buck’s China, Wang Lung’s devotion to the land, O-lan’s stoicism, and the changing values of a society in transition.
Krishnamohan · Following MA in English (language), SV University (Graduated 1990)8y What are some of the good books or novels which can be read in the sociology genre, apart from books we read for sociology as an optional? “Sociology Themes and perspectives” by Haralombos, “ Sociology A guide to problems and Literature” by TB Bottomore are two eminently readable books. “ The Nagas in the nineteenth century” by Verrier Elwin, Haimendorf’s “The naked Nagas, The Raj Gonds of Adilabad “ are not just sociological texts, but deeply resonant works of art depicting with fascinating detail the empathetic study of a people from very close quarters.
Passion for literature, continuous study and the ability to hold a classroom’s attention matter most; storytelling and performance can make the subject come alive.
Style in English or for that matter in any Literature is the distinctive way in which writers express their thoughts; so much so that the style of a writer marks his or her presence and intellect at work. To make an example, the style of John Milton is so lofty and grand that it needs…
Wordsworth’s poetry is characterized by the poet’s visionary sympathy with the countryside of his birth, which was more powerful for him than conventional religion. His association with Nature had supplied him his true education.This is followed by his eager political enthusiasm for establishing a just society and his passion for liberty. When these hopes are…
Completed reading Charlotte Bronte’s Villette. It is a magnificent work. I expected some flashes of brilliance or a craftily arranged plot. What amazed me is the denseness of her imagination and the maturity of her thought. Lucy Snowe the orphan heroine of the novel arrives in Villette searching for a vocation to establish herself and…
Sociology is the study of society and India is the second largest populated country in the world with an immense variety in terms of class, caste, culture, language, religion, occupation, tradition and custom which are the chief interests of a sociological inquiry. From a predominantly agrarian society with a feudal outlook, with a population residing mostly in villages pursuing traditional occupations like weaving, pottery , brass smithy, black smithy, fishing, oil pressing, tanning, toddy tapping, butchery, stone cutting, carpentry, masonry, hunting, sheep and goat rearing and other such myriad occupations some of which are considered menial, India progressed into an industrial society with a vast
“O God! that madest this beautiful earth, when will it be ready to receive thy saints? How long O Lord how long?” Saint Joan by GB Shaw “If thou didst ever hold me in thy heart absent thee from felicity awhile and in this harsh world draw thy breath in pain to tell my story”…
All the world’s a stage and all the men and women merely players. Shakespeare has long ago resolved this question about the relation between life and drama. Drama has laid the foundation for the evolution of other genres of Literature like the novel or the short story. In the days before the invention of printing,…