http://www.boloji.com Boloji is the world's biggest Articles Database. en-us Fri, 27 Apr 2012 04:00:00 GMT Fri, 27 Apr 2012 09:41:01 GMT http://www.boloji.com/specials/rss.xml Indian Solutions ideas@ekant.com (Ekant Solutions) ideas@ekant.com (Ekant Solutions) http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=14451 In The Washington Post Stephanie McCrummen and Adam Bernstein wrote in an obituary on the death of 82-year-old Chinua Achebe that he invented modern African fiction and shaped generations of writers worldwide . Nadine Gordimer the South African novelist and Nobel laureate hailed Mr. Achebe in a review in The New York Times in 1988 calling him a novelist who makes you laugh and then catch your breath in horror - a writer who has no illusions but is not disillusioned. 21-May-2013 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=14451 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=14426 Main stream writing in our country has not given any importance to the lives and the ways of living of the lowest of the low though our literature sahitya did take interest in the lives of individuals with no dislike negligence or hatred for people born in lower and untouchable castes in spite of the fact that they were not living in affluence or with panditya. The lower unprivileged castes were called untouchables for several hundreds of years and had come to be called Dalits which did not yet make any difference to huge sections of people. Possibly during the last seven or eight decades since leaders like Mahatma Gandhi and Jyotiba Phule Bhimrao Ambedkar began a crusade to establish equality and justice. Dalit themes ignored and not given any prominence till these leaders took up the noble and necessary cause have been getting attention and importance during the last fifty years. 15-May-2013 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=14426 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=14422 Satis Shroff has translated Nepali literature prose and poems by Nepali writers such as Laxmiprasad Devkota Muna Madan Bhupi Sherchan Banira Giri Kathmandu Bhisma Upreti Krishna Bhakta Shrestha Bal Krishna Sama Ich Hasse Auf der Suche nach Poesie Abhi Subedi Toya Gurung Dorjee Tschering Lepcha Die Ameisenk nigin Der Spinnenmensch Guruprasad Mainali Der Martyrer Krishna Bam Malla Der Pfluger Lekhnach Paudyal Der Himalaya Hridaya Singh Pradhan Die Tr nen von Ujyali Shiva Kumer Rai Der Preis des Fisches Sharad Sharma Woman Nature Toya Gurung Mein Traum Binaya Rawal Phulmayas Dasainfest Abhi Subedi Am Abend mit dem Auto Bimal Nibha Jumla Jiwan Acharya Der Bildhauer Muglin etc. into German a part of which can be read under the title Im Schatten des Himalaya. 15-May-2013 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=14422 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=14329 Whether a story novella or novel Dark Afternoons is a remarkable piece which sets people thinking of many things seriously. It appears at first as an ordinary Bengali family s tale but as it progresses to the middle it begins to develop as a compendium of the social evils of prostitution and the dangers of AIDS the devilish acts of men suggesting that things could be set right only by acts of kindness compassion and forward-looking qualities charity and understanding of both men and women no matter their age. 25-Apr-2013 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=14329 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=14307 The title of Herta Muller s Nobel lecture is Every Word Knows Something of a Vicious Circle . It s a very significant title. First of all emphasis is laid on every word. Every word is important. Then every word is not merely a word it s loaded with the things it knows. Every word knows something. We can see that the author lays extreme importance on words. Every word is important because every word is pregnant with knowledge. But the final part of the title is the most important because it says a lot about the life vision of this great writer. 21-Apr-2013 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=14307 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=14302 Literature has several functions and creative writing takes many forms called genres. Each genre has slightly different norms for criticism. Literary Translation has come to assume great importance in the context of translation being recognized as a genre. The need for expanding horizons of understanding between various language communities demands literary translation into and from many languages. 25-Apr-2013 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=14302 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=14224 We do not have a Shakespeare in our midst A Shakespeare might have known how to create out of pure imagination. He might have known how to make his readers weep and laugh through the pages without himself doing so - a master craftsman a detached creator almost like God Well we do not have any such one in our midst who could create sheer unpolluted and impossible joy of an As You Like It or thick weighty overwhelming pain of a Hamlet . What we have instead are some talented and some not so talented people prone to writing who live out their own life stories in the pages sometimes mixing a mild dose of imagination just as an expert cook uses spices. But the backbone of the narrative remains the life of the author. The intensity in the words comes only when the author describes something s he has gone through 28-Mar-2013 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=14224 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=14209 Chinua Achebe was the first African writer who painted a non-romantic picture of this tribal life without apologising for the bad or praising the good. He is the founding father of African English literature 25-Mar-2013 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=14209 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=14201 Aju Mukhopadhyay a bilingual poet author and critic writes fictions and essays too. He has authored 30 books and received several poetry awards from India and USA besides other honours. He is a regular contributor to various magazines and e-zines in India and abroad 24-Mar-2013 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=14201 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=14195 I like this genre of campus novel simply because it s about campuses. I also like this genre because it s somewhat dominated by Professors of English. And finally I like this genre because I ve written a short campus novel. These are enough reasons for liking a genre I suppose. A campus is a closed world. The word campus denotes a self-sufficient educational premise. Whenever the world is closed there are possibilities of intrigue suspense politics romance and even injustice there. This is an interesting genre indeed where the narcissistic instincts of Professors find full satisfaction. Write about yourself read about yourself get the attention. But as we ll see in the course of this lecture there s a lot more to the campus novel than just narcissism. 22-Mar-2013 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=14195 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=14157 Amitav Ghosh as a practitioner of post modernism in novels focuses entirely on the colonialism s impoverished and usually non-white victims. They are given the central position not the white masters. Amitav Ghosh took nearly three and a half years to write the second book of his Ibis trilogy. 14-Mar-2013 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=14157 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=14144 Among the galaxy of Indian contemporary English poets Dr Jaydeep Sarangi is shining in the poetic firmament like a bright star. His poems lift the veil from the hidden beauty of the world and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar. His pen chronicles a new history of the downtrodden oppressed people his personal pangs and sorrows his day to day dullness of life as well as his happy celestial days of life. It spotlights on the several issues of the rural life and his childhood lonely days his grown up memories and his days amid the urban setting. Hence his words have special gusto. 12-Mar-2013 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=14144 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=14111 Of the great makers of Bengali Dalit Literature Manohar Mouli Biswas stands out as an outstanding figure in the history of Bengali Dalit Literature. He was born and brought up in a remote village Dakshin Matiargati in Khulna district of Purba Banga East Bengal in 1943. He passed Matriculation in 1959 with Letter marks in Math. After passing Intermediate Science in 1961 with National Scholarship he took admission in C.U and completed graduation in 1963. 09-Mar-2013 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=14111 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=14083 Autobiography is a deliberate opening up of the self. One writes an autobiography out of inner compulsions only. In this sense it is a very personal kind of genre. One bares oneself knowingly for the world. When a reader touches an autobiography her his reasons for doing so are mostly emotional. We usually do not go to an autobiography to know exactly when the author was born what is her his educational background or what are the important dates of her his life and so on. An autobiography is not a CV. Basically to read an autobiography reflects an urge to get personal. 05-Mar-2013 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=14083 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=14079 Bob Dylon once said that it s not easy to define poetry. Perhaps he was right. But it is said that the crown of literature is poetry. According to the great philosopher Aristotle poetry is finer and more philosophical than history for poetry expresses the universal and history only the particular. In the general sense of term it is a literary creation in which special intensity is given to the expression of feelings and ideas by the use of distinctive style music and rhythm. 04-Mar-2013 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=14079 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=14054 Sharmila Ray teaches history at City College Kolkata India.She has authored four books of poems. She is the current editor of the journal Poetry Society of India.She has experimented her poems with sarod Avijit Ghosh and the result is a CD-Journey through Poetry and Music. Her poems short stories have appeared in various national and international journals and magazines. She has conducted poetry workshops with children organized by British Council and Poetry Society India. She has been reading her poems in various parts of the country. 27-Feb-2013 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=14054 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=14049 Among the recent Indian English poets T.V Reddy occupies a significant place. His poems unveil the inner essence of life. 26-Feb-2013 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=14049 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=14014 Shodh presents a micro world of a woman where husband ma-in-law neighbors etc. hold a paramount position. Analyzing Shodh was not easy for me. It is a very flat piece of writing. Thought content of a novel is its main strength. It does not mean that a novelist should philosophize unnecessarily. Actions as they are depicted and characters as they behave must evoke ideas. The words must be pregnant with something indecipherable something beyond. Something should be left unsaid. Something must hang in the air of a novel. The reader must be compelled to respond to identify and to get affected. A novelist must know how to move laughter and tears in a reader. 20-Feb-2013 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=14014 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=13990 Writers of every genre have enriched English literature with their genius. Some have been admired for the intricacy of the plots others for their finely etched characters. A few have won rave reviews for the language while some have been applauded for the style. But rarely has an author been universally acknowledged for the complete mastery of the language plot style and characterization. Yes the wizard in question is Pelham Grenwille Wodehouse the pasha of plot the czar of characterization the maestro of metaphor the sultan of simile and the indisputable lord of the language. 15-Feb-2013 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=13990 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=13961 This novel The Alien Sky set entirely in India throws light on the craftsmanship of Paul Scott as an evolving writer. He combines different strands of the story with great expertise while highlighting the problems and dilemmas confronted by Eurasians. We also come across the peculiar predicament of some Anglo-Indians who feel their roots are in India preparing to stay on away from home which is alien to them. Paul Scott also deals with the political turmoil that was witnessed before India became independent. Most of the themes perceivable here are to gain greater magnitude and significance in his magnum opus The Raj Quarter subsequently. 12-Feb-2013 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=13961 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=13547 The Bengali folktales are primarily women s tales. The chief teller of these tales are mostly women - grandmothers mothers aunts or elder sisters the setting in which these tales are typically told - at night by the bedside or in the kitchen during meals or during the afternoon nap in a hot and humid Bengali summer day - traditionally constitute the so-called women s realm. 07-Dec-2012 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=13547 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=13523 Asha Viswas is an academic and renowned poet.An eminent critic scholar of repute she loves poetry and breaths poetry.Here is an attempt to present some of her views on English poetry in India in general and her own poetry in English in particular.. 05-Dec-2012 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=13523 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=13251 . 23-Oct-2012 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=13251 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=13213 A number of material cultural and theoretical developments have introduced tremendous changes in social life and the ways of understanding reality. These changes have impacted the nature and study of literary writings including poetry. The shift informing the understanding of reality informs destabilization of traditionally established and accepted social norms as well as literary canons. Consequently the emphasis in literary writings now marks a shift from representation and reproduction of reality to its construction reception and the influences that determine its nature. 17-Oct-2012 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=13213 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=13198 Puja Malushte says in her paper presented at the 9th World Haiku Festival held at Bangalore India in February 2008 that Shirish Pai a well known author and poetess is the precursor of the haiku movement in Marathi. She started writing haiku in 1975. She studied Japanese haiku its origin changes from tanka to haiku and its nature. She has published 5 Marathi Haiku books. 16-Oct-2012 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=13198 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=13152 Patricia Prime is co-editor of the New Zealand haiku magazine Kokako reviews interviews editor of Haibun Today and writes reviews for Takahe Gusts and Atlas Poetica and for several Indian magazines. Jaydeep Sarangi had a conversation with her. 11-Oct-2012 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=13152 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=13077 In an earlier time the writers had great crave for using satire and considered it as the greatest literary tool but as they came under the influence of western culture they felt the need of doing something extra that would be helpful to make them extra-ordinary by making the distance between the writer and his craft. In this reference irony becomes a significant device and confers upon us the finite qualification and discrimination that distinguish a mature experience of the writer. 04-Oct-2012 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=13077 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=13046 Affable nature of a multidimensional personality Aju Mukhopadhyay at once endears him to all he comes across.Lover of nature and all forms of life spiritual in approach and thought kind at heart he mesmerises people with his child like smile and simplicity.A tribute to an amazing range of his works especially when U.N Convention on Biodiversity is held in Hyderabad during October 2012. 02-Oct-2012 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=13046 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=13000 Ever since time writers and poets have been writing about war and peace. This article is a perspective on the subject in the light of high acceleration of change. Have we learnt any lessons from history 07-Oct-2012 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=13000 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=12994 Chekhov was born in 1860 in Taganrog a small and declining port on the Sea of Azoz six hundred miles south of Moscow. In his childhood he had to work hard to make living for himself and for his brothers and sisters. Working on odd jobs he studied on his own and graduated from grammar school in 1879. Then he managed a scholarship and studied medical at the Moscow University from which he graduated in 1884. He was a man of many talents and interests. During his short life Chekhov 1860-1904 played many roles medical doctor landowner environmentalist social activist and others. 26-Sep-2012 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=12994 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=12831 My aim through this article is to propagate that Pinter has shown alienation of the human being from the self and the others. Disaffection is somewhat caused by lack of communication and as a result the isolated self is tricked in his own condition. So Pinter s characters tend to be inert agents in life which is in fact another option. Pinter extends Beckett s absurdist ideas and adopts the Absurd Drama to emphasize his social concerns as he is also a social critic. The targets of his criticism are covetousness loss of values and broken human relationships. The playwright challenges the audience for a reform on these exacting points. Pinter s characters also suffer from the uncertainty of existence. In fact this concern is closely related to the strange identity of the individual. 12-Sep-2012 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=12831 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=12792 Charles Dickens was born as a favourite child of utter penury suffering and misery and also unknown humiliation. He had calmly and gracefully endured his poignant participation in the most dehumanizing social economic and political conditions of his time. All his life he desired and struggled in his own novel way to correct them to the ease and comfort of the masses. In his reformist zeal are omnipresent his genuine humanitarian sympathies his forceful protests against the complicated and callous legal system 06-Sep-2012 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=12792 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=12322 The Glass Palace is comparatively a thicker book not because Ghosh has changed his style or subject matter but because the narrative is extended up to three generations. This is once again a book about geographical entities space distance and time. Many stories have been woven together. There are many characters. It is a saga of many families their lives and their connection with each other. To take this book in its entirety and comment on it is not an easy task. But to begin with the beginning we can say that this novel of Amitav Ghosh is the story of an Indian orphan who is transported to Burma by accident. 09-Jun-2012 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=12322 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=12269 Countdown a small book of 106 pages with 13 unmarked chapters exposes the nuclear lobby in India as well as Pakistan. It is a spontaneously written book. The occasion of writing it is India s nuclear explosion test on 11th May 1998 followed promptly by the Pakistani tests. Ghosh visits Pokharan in Rajasthan the site of tests Siachen glacier at India-Pakistan border and then finally Pakistan. 09-Jun-2012 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=12269 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=12249 Amitav Ghosh s training as an anthropologist has been an important formative factor in his books. Travelling comes naturally to him. Much of what he has written is travel based. This book Dancing in Cambodia at Large in Burma is a pure travelogue. With an anthropologist s eye for accuracy and authenticity Amitav Ghosh s studies life art social culture and political institutions of the places he visits. Thematically speaking displacement has been a central concern of Ghosh s work. Coming and going departures and arrivals have always been relevant symbols of his narrative structure. 26-May-2012 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=12249 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=12222 The Calcutta Chromosome is such an amalgamated body of work. It is so confusing so alluring and so gripping. It has science religion myth nihilism transcendental philosophy Indian superstitions logic rationality and what not. In the boiling cauldron of his brain Ghosh has cooked a mixed dish for us. But it is certainly tasty. For the commentator however the problem remains-where to begin where to end. The best approach would be to begin straight away express the ideas as they come. 17-May-2012 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=12222 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=12203 The world is witnessing an unprecedented violence. It is our joint endeavour that would ensure that we live in a peaceful world and pass the earth to our future generation so that they could say that our ancestors were not all that evil which seems to be doubtful looking at the disastrous consequences that the world is witnessing today. Time and again the poets philosophers and saints acted as conscious keepers of the nation. 29-Apr-2012 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=12203 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=12202 In an Antique Land is essentially a book by an anthropological historian. With serious concerns of a historian Amitav Ghosh points out at the tragic turn of events in history of Asia and Middle East and particularly India. This book underlines the unarmed nature of Indian trade and commerce before the advent of Vasco-de-Gama in India. The author wants to bring to focus a forgotten period of history which shows how free and liberal India s collaboration with the Arab and the Chinese world was. He highlights the easy flow of human warmth and trust that existed between a Tunisian Jewish merchant and his Indian helper Bomma. 06-May-2012 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=12202 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=12173 All criticism is personal or at least that is what I feel. Right from choice of an author or a book how it works on one s mind how one takes it adjusts and balances its impressions on one s mind and finally how one comments on it-it is all terribly personal. The Shadow Lines has been no ordinary experience for me. It brings a ticklish sad sweet sensation with it. It is difficult to comment on this book just because it is so good. Many papers have been written on it. It has received the Sahitya Academy Award way back in 1989. 12-Aug-2012 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=12173 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=12143 Many big changes go quietly unnoticed. The first novel by Amitav Ghosh The Circle of Reason brought one such change. The Circle of Reason is remarkable for many reasons. Its theme is different from traditional concerns of Indian English Fiction. It challenges a direct and simple appreciation. In fact it needs a different type of approach to be grasped fully. The book itself is sort of a paradox. It exudes restlessness with extreme control and poise. 20-Apr-2012 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=12143 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=12133 I think we are all aware that most English poetry today is written in unmetered free verse with lines of varying length suiting the writer s whim to convey his meaning. In fact I have heard it comment about such a production that it is merely prose in staggered lines that fall short of the right page margin. This state of the art one doesn t forget is one evolved from what English poetry used to be something structured in meter and rhyme. What happened 29-Apr-2012 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=12133 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=12117 A writer gives herself himself to the world. A secretive person cannot be a writer. The innermost processes of an individual s psyche fill the pages and then only the writing becomes valuable. What is the appeal of a piece of writing The attraction comes exactly in proportion as to how much the author has unraveled her him self. To what extent the author has been successful in sharing her his self with the reader-this decides the charm of a work. To be able to laugh and cry in the pages in the criterion of ability for a writer. The story line the plot the movement and the structure- all these are peripheral. The core lies with the giving away of her himself on the writer s part. A writer must not hold back. 14-Apr-2012 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=12117 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=12114 The Birds of Paradise is Paul Scott s finest novel before The Raj Quartet. He has found the artistic method congenial to the powers of maturity the measured development of related themes through simultaneous narratives in retrospect in the present and in prospect a complex interplay of shifts in time and place. 07-Apr-2012 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=12114 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=12113 We call children simple but they are not so simple in terms of psychological analysis. To understand a child s psychology is as difficult as it is necessary. There are many types of children - gifted dull invulnerable vulnerable morally sensitive thick skinned contemplative casual social unsocial wild or subdued. It is difficult to say as to why children differ from each other. Genetic structure and environmental influence are the two major deciding factors. Many psychologists have given their theories regarding the issue. 06-Apr-2012 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=12113 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=12017 Travelling to other branches to knowledge on and off is a rewarding exercise. Great minds belong to everyone. A reading of The Invisible Hand by Adam Smith yielded some very basic and practical management mantras for me. It is amazing to see how great minds think simply and plainly. Adam Smith draws his conclusions from simple observation of economic activity. He watches economic efforts of countries groups and individuals with a fresh outlook. His vision is his own he is not burdened by who said what. 10-Mar-2012 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=12017 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=11978 Since time immemorial poets dramatists and writers have sung praises of wild expanse forests rivers mountains birds and the whole of majestic Nature. Pristine environment has been one of the major sources of inspiration. 03-Mar-2012 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=11978 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=11894 C.D.Narasimhaiah sucessfully blends the best of East-West poetics. Born to a semi-literate shopkeeper he grew up listening to the folk tales and songs from his mother and folk version of Ramayana sung sonorously by his father. W.G.Eagleton his teacher at Maharaja s college Mysore arranged scholarship for his study at Cambridge University and young Narasimhaiah was assigned to F.R. Leavis as supervisor of his studies. He visited America on Rockefeller scholarship. At Princeton he used to meet Einstein the scientist who inspired him to recover wisdom of ancients. He also perceived the spiritual streak in American Literature though the nation is known to be interested in materialistic pursuits. 12-Oct-2012 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=11894 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=11797 Literature is the dictionary of life. Liberty is understood and sought for through knowledge only. The importance of literature mainly lies in bringing out this sort of realization in everyone. Every nation has classical literary master pieces that are helpful for the development of mind and character. In India Mahabharata and Ramayana are best examples to quote for that purpose because it is true to say that what is not in them is nowhere to be found as they clearly say that based on dharma or justice life has to be lead and enjoyed before attaining absolute state at the end. 18-Jan-2012 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=11797 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=11769 Psychology and literature have always been considered quite intimate and neighboring to each other. But the aspect to underline is that the word Psychology has often been used in a very negligent manner. Common sentences like his psychology is not good or he is crack or he is mental show how ignorantly people refer to the complex well knit branch of science and medicine namely Psychology. 10-Jan-2012 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=11769 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=11765 After Shakespeare and Milton the poet who has settled well deep in the heart is William Wordsworth. He has established for Nature a unique place and a Universal appeal in his poems in literature which no one has superseded and surpassed so far in the world. Generally poets depict the beauty of Nature or show the similarities between the different moods of men and the sound the fury the gentility etc. of Nature. But in the case of Wordsworth Nature itself seems to have expressed everything for him through his pen like a benign teacher does to a good student. 08-Jan-2012 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=11765 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=11686 One of the basic criteria for deciding the greatness of a writer and a piece of writing is weather a reader is being given some new method of understanding life. Generally it is called a theory of life. Whenever I think of this great canon I am reminded of the tall figure of Ayn Rand. Agreement and Disagreement are peripheral subsidiary and supplementary. The central work is to give an Idea. Criticism is reaction but the creation of an idea is action. This is the domain where Ayn Rand excels. 07-Dec-2011 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=11686 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=11542 If literature is an expression of life it has to be magical mysterious and mystifying. Nothing can be more shocking than reality. Mundane things ordinary proceedings and routine activities of the urban population cannot be called the whole of the truth. Latin American literature has always resisted the so called civilized influence that results in study of alienated self meaninglessness of life and such boring stuff. Cultures such as Indian and Latin American boldly refuse to take life at its surface. Time past is time present and is time future. Latin American literature has taken the whole web of life into its fold. The pagan practices the occult rites and the force of the unknown and the unknowable dominate this literature. 15-Oct-2011 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=11542 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=11520 The 80-year-old Transtromer Transtromer is one of the greatest Scandinavian poets and has had a profound influence in the literary world as Sweden s most important poet since World War II an influence that has steadily grown and has now attained a prominence comparable to that of Pablo Neruda s during his lifetime. But if Neruda is blazing fire Transtromer is expanding ice. 08-Oct-2011 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=11520 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=11511 I apologize in advance for not posting this as a comment on Professor Tiwari s article on Amrita Pritam. The reasons are though she is erudite she is averse to controversy and debate as my attempts with comments to stimulate debate s failure shows and there are persons who frequent this website who believe that any comments on any article should follow the adage that brevity is the soul of wit . 03-Oct-2011 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=11511 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=11505 Amrita Pritam is a prolific writer and a versatile genius. Her essays short stories and novels written in Hindi and Punjabi have been translated into more than thirty regional and foreign languages. Among the contemporary Indian writers she occupies a unique position. This uniqueness arises because of her foray into both lovely and harsh imaginative world which apart from being confessional outpouring of a sensitive soul is also a reflection on the patriarchal social constrains. The present paper is an attempt to understand the spoken unspoken ordeal of Amrita Pritam as reflected in her two autobiographies. 01-Oct-2011 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=11505 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=11455 Intizar Husain s short story Complete Knowledge is a beautifully and effectively written short story in the tradition of Jatak Katha . All Jataka tales narrate a moral tale through the experiences of a Bodhisattva one destined to enlightenment. The tradition of Katha Vaachan where a learned speaker tells a tale of knowledge and wisdom to attentive and eager listeners is based on stories of Hindu mythology. It is a pleasant surprise for the reader to find Intizar Husain using the tradition of Hindu mythological narrative telling in such an easy effortless and simple manner. 18-Sep-2011 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=11455 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=11349 The sheer multitude that is India is both a boon and a bane. It is good that majority of Indians do not know as to what is happening in the elite English dominated literary scene. They are busy chanting Shri Ramcharitmanas and singing bhajans. They do not know that they have become a commodity a hot selling product in the literary market. A particular idea of India sells. 20-Aug-2011 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=11349 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=11335 . 03-Oct-2012 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=11335 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=11158 Erstwhile colonies of the world unite sounds a loud call. Nevertheless the loudness of the call does not undermine its relevance and legitimacy. The politics of colonization has been such that countries that had been close historically and culturally in the past have now been distanced. Countries that would have been natural friends have become enemies. For example Thailand Mammyar and Singapore are very near to Indian culture and ethos. But the significant part of their trade and bilateral dealing are with Europe. The fact that our colonizers were the same people and they exploited and ransacked our different lands should actually kindle sympathy. Ironically it is not so. 30-Jun-2011 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=11158 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=11142 The Hungry Tide which won the Hutch Crossword Award in 2004 and was adjudged the best work in English fiction is a wonderful piece of fiction that extensively deals with the local rhythms of contemporary Indian life as lived in the remote rural areas cut off from the hustle bustle of city life. 26-Jun-2011 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=11142 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=11141 . 26-Jun-2011 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=11141 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=11140 The novel depicts the emerging challenges in this typical southern town in the time of extraordinary transformation in India. Technically the plot of this novel is constructed on the parallel line of Adiga s first novel because if the story of The White Tiger runs over seven nights of addresses to the Chinese Premier the narration of Between the Assassinations spreads over seven consecutive days. But whereas there is only one powerful protagonist in his debut novel in the second one with the cartographer s precision and the novelist s humanity 26-Jun-2011 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=11140 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=11139 Tennessee Williams has dragged some hidden subjects into limelight. An arch observer as any true artist must be he selected from an enormous store of impressions of people and presented them through synthesis of his art. He often shocks his audience by his themes like lynching political chicanery rape incest nymphomania homosexuality promiscuity drug addiction alcoholism castration impotence and cannibalism. He wrote plays that clearly reflected his own tensions and those of the times in which he was living. 26-Jun-2011 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=11139 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=11135 Paulo Coelho tries to invoke the female face of God especially in his novel By the River Piedra I Sat Downand Wept. This powerful idea has been a constant factor in the works of Coelho. All energy is basically feminine and yet it has to fight for recognition in the realms of formal religions and social and cultural set-up. This has been one of the greatest ironies of human civilization. Coelho has his own way of presenting things. By the River is not a very long novel. It is very artistically created. The atmosphere the symbols and the thrust areas have been carefully chosen. 26-Jun-2011 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=11135 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=11133 The novel Salaam Aakhiri opens with glimpse of the dark and sinful lanes of Sonagachi the most notorious redlight area of Calcutta bringing the readers face to face with the stock exchange of bodies Salaam Aakhiri waiting to be claimed by prospective customers. It is a world that is not regulated by the usual societal norms and practices for living and being. It is an insulated space where the male sexual identity gets defined through the literal ownership of another human being s body or to use Stoltenberg s phrase through the eroticism of owning 401 . It is a state of affair that reinforces and sexualizes women s subordinate status and invades and destroys her real self. 26-Jun-2011 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=11133 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=11132 The paper is take off from Madhu Kankaria s novel Salaam Aakhiri in Hindi which she attempts to dispel any misconceived notion we have of these fallen women who are forced to lead a life of sexual servitude and devaluation in a morally corrupting exploitative urban underworld. The title of the novel may be loosely translated as the last salute farewell or goodbye to a life that gone bad a female body which is not celebratory but offensive ridden with infectious and diseases. The reason for selecting this text lies in its urgency its effective use of multiple genres of reportage documentary and fiction in a manner that lays bare the deeply entrenched psychosocial impact of sexual slavery and exposes the tolerationist attitude of the consumerist society and the State. 26-Jun-2011 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=11132 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=10851 The judgments are at times blinded by our perception. What we perceive reflects on our own condition to perform in wanted direction. When we think deeply and one pointedly on any good reason good or bad an unseen pull starts lingering and it does builds up to pull us in the direction of our thoughts to achieve perform and sustain. This process ties the bonds of attachment more strongly in either way-positive or negative 16-Aug-2011 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=10851 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=10658 . 12-Mar-2011 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=10658 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=10251 When Roark tells Keating To sell your soul is the easiest thing in the world. That s what everybody does every hour of his life. If I asked you to keep your soul would you understand why that s much harder he is only stating an indisputable fact of life. There is no greater sacrifice than the sacrifice of the soul. 28-Nov-2010 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=10251 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=10192 Generations after generations chilldren read remember and sing nursery rhymes. Besides entertainment values there are deep truths and great wisdom in them. Here I try to analyse a couple of them from this point of view. 19-Nov-2010 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=10192 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=9921 Poetry is nothing but language of the heart. Every person who can think logically and listen to the heart beat can emotionally express feelings of love hate compassion anger feel and hurt balance system. 07-Nov-2010 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=9921 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=9689 The great Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa pronounced as MAH -ree-oh VAHR -gahs YOH -suh has finally won the 2010 Nobel prize for Literature. The Swedish Academy which manages the Nobel Prize stated that the award goes to him for his cartography of structures of power and his trenchant images of the individual s resistance revolt and defeat. For many years he had been sidelined by the academy for political reasons. 08-Oct-2010 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=9689 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=6904 . 09-Aug-2010 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=6904 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=6902 . 09-Aug-2010 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=6902 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=6896 . 09-Aug-2010 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=6896 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=6857 Man has yet to fully comprehend the depths of the human mind. Many mysteries lay hidden beneath the layers of consciousness affecting the character and behaviour of man. The root cause of manifold complexities prejudices thoughts and beliefs human mind is an enigma that has intrigued man for centuries. In the process of analyzing the human mind its power and mystery several behaviourists psychologists and experts have delved deep into the subject and paved the way for man to take his faltering step into the realm of the unconscious a term attributed to Sigmund Freud. 07-Sep-2010 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=6857 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=6856 I reported at the Publisher s office dot on time. However when I gave my card at the reception I was directed to meet not the father but the son. While the father seemed to be a man of the world urbane suave and shrewd the son appeared to be young and brash. He flipped through the manuscript like a doctor going through promotional literature on the latest female contraceptive and looked at me. 09-Aug-2010 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=6856 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=6855 Internationally acclaimed Egyptian writers Ahdaf Soueif and Radwa Ashour were in India recently. Ahdaf is the author of The Map of Love - that was short-listed for the Booker Prize in 1999 - and she has just won the Mahmoud Darwish Award for her narrative fiction . Radwa has penned The Granada Trilogy and co-authored a two-volume work Arab Women s Writing A Critical Reference Guide 1873-1999 . 09-Aug-2010 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=6855 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=6854 Wordsworth in his beautiful poem Daffodils rapturously narrate how his heart is imbued with infinite happiness at the sight of a sea of daffodils. For him daffodils symbolize the joys and happiness of life. 08-Aug-2010 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=6854 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=6698 Vicente was one of the greatest Spanish poets of Twentieth century and was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1977. Vicente Aleixandre has been called an existentialist a mystic pantheist and a neoromantic. I have been hunting for his poetry collection A Longing for the Light for a long time. I could gather a copy only this year. This poem is taken from it. 09-Oct-2010 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=6698 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=3640 Salman Rushdie is an eminent postmodernist. A pioneer in the field of Indian English Diasporic Literature Rushdie s fiction accurately portrays the complex and confusing postcolonial postmodern world. All his novels represent his interpretation of history and the world and their influence on life and society. A postmodern novelist that he is Rushdie reflects the rebellion from conventionality. Like most postmodern writers his fiction too has a touch of unreality and vastness that is needed to project contemporary reality a reality devoid of borders. In his latest novel Shalimar the Clown Rushdie 2005 he voices this concept of a borderless world and its implications 09-Aug-2010 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=3640 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=2464 . 08-Aug-2010 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=2464 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=2462 As with the other utopias Lost Horizon is perhaps not a pure invention. It may be based on traditions long current in the Far East of a hidden paradise. Early Buddhist writings call it Chang Shambhala and describe it as a source of ancient wisdom. Belief in it was once wide-spread in China the Kun Lun Mountains were rumored to contain a valley where immortals live in perfect harmony while in Indian tradition there was a place called Kalapa north of the Himalayas where lived perfect people. 09-Aug-2010 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=2462 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=2451 Even though we know that the journey of our path is more important than the destination of death we continually fear this inevitable. Building on this fear in Ode to a Nightingale John Keats illustrates the need to escape from reality and understanding the sadness that comes from the realization that there is no real escape. 08-Aug-2010 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=2451 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=2448 The sense of exile and alienation is a complex issue because of its psychological origin. At any point of time human beings live in a definite geographical location and within a particular social setting. They are also tuned-in to certain cultural norms and have specific emotional investments. Basically they live in spaces that have either physical presence or are born out of such concrete parameters into conceptual presences geographical and social spaces fall into the former category whereas cultural and emotional spaces belong to the latter. 09-Aug-2010 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=2448 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=2446 Man is dislocated here and all his life s constant and persistent strife is his determined attempt to relocate himself to the place of his ambition and dreams. The entire tenor of this pursuit relentless or effortless is decorated with frustration and faith sureness and success fall and rise humiliation and achievement disgrace and denial. This is always the pre-determined fate of all the high and the low mighty and the meek princes and the paupers and all other millions in mortal form. Who can achieve ataraxy lauded essential to be happy Reconciliation born of complete surrender and hard-gained faith alone is the true wisdom needed to fulfill life. All else is futile and fruitless. 09-Aug-2010 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=2446 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=2441 The Gothic one of the leading genres in the mid nineteenth century is very prevalent in Charlotte Bronte s Jane Eyre. The imagery of the novel transgresses slowly into the protagonist Jane Eyre and she becomes a gothic character. 08-Aug-2010 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=2441 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=2439 F. Scott Fitzgerald was a remarkably gifted novelist a writer par excellence with his very own indelible stamp of dainty luminosity. Fitzgerald s literary magic was not just rooted in his delectable prose or his amazing range and versatility but it also dwelled in his poetic imagination dazzling vision and seemingly effortless and also transcendental craftsmanship. 15-Aug-2010 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=2439 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=2437 One of the primary instructions to mastering the technique of writing is the ability to read other works and learn from them. In The Essay on Criticism by Alexander Pope the speaker states that a great danger lies in judging other works carelessly. He believes that the practice of judging incorrectly leads to poor writing because the principles of both are closely related. 09-Aug-2010 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=2437 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=2435 Of all the damned things in the world it had to be me. Fifty years later I still feel like asking why me Well he never answered and his oblique remarks which were an excuse for an answer has yet to answer my question. The only statement I got out of him regarding the matter was that he had just broken up with Catherine and my story had given him new hope. 06-Aug-2010 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=2435 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=2420 . 09-Aug-2010 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=2420 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=2417 Is It about the status of widows towards the end of nineteenth century in Bengal Has it something to do with the significance of amorous needs Does it stress on philanthropic work a rich man finds peace in in the absence of simple and granted favors or is it about the occult attraction which beastly beauty holds over man Yes the novel deals with each one of these and several other hidden and visible themes at different levels by stringing them together in a story that appeals to heart and mind equally. Somewhere though it is not clear whether author intended or not the role of destiny too creeps into the story. 09-Aug-2010 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=2417 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=2416 In A Passage to India E.M. Forster poses the question of friendship between the Indians and the English. He finds that certain innate problems such as miscommunication hierarchy and mass generalizations have separated these groups and thus they can not remain friends during this time. 09-Aug-2010 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=2416 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=2413 Spirituality and supernaturalism have always been topics of literary consideration but there are specific historical moments when controversy erupts and new standards are put into place. In the midst of this disagreement the Gothic novel emerged as a new genre of writing and it directly addressed this highly contested topic. 09-Aug-2010 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=2413 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=2407 The oral tradition of song was a very important part of medieval culture. In addition to the entertaining value they hold songs in medieval times served many other functions. Beowulf one of the greatest epics of that era gives emphasis to the role of song with the introduction of the scop. Primarily a story-telling singer the scop s role in the poem also includes the position of historian and announcer of heroic codes. 09-Aug-2010 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=2407 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=2406 Language is the universal method of arbitrary communication. We use words to get out of more difficult things. We talk instead of implementing those words into critical actions. We believe that this talk will sufficiently replace those important deeds. 06-Aug-2010 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=2406 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=2401 . 09-Aug-2010 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=2401 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=2399 Did Jalal al-din Rumi the 13th century Persian poet and great Islamic Sufi mystic whose 800th birth anniversary is being celebrated around the world this year shun the feminine and treat it merely as carnal 09-Aug-2010 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=2399 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=2395 Masculinity and control go hand in hand. One like Shakespeare s warlike general Othello has difficulties not being able to maintain complete dominance over all aspects of his life. His military dominance transposes itself into the social sphere as well and Othello s complete distrust of his own wife causes irreparable damage to his psyche. 09-Aug-2010 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=2395 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=2393 F. Scott Fitzgerald was a remarkably gifted novelist a writer par excellence with his very own indelible stamp of dainty luminosity. Fitzgerald s literary magic was not just rooted in his delectable prose or his amazing range and versatility but it also dwelled in his poetic imagination dazzling vision and seemingly effortless and also transcendental craftsmanship. 09-Aug-2010 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=2393