English Literature

The forgotten Muslim heroes who fought for Britain in the trenches Vivek Chaudhary (For the Guardian) Link: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/nov/12/forgotten-muslim-heroes-fought-for-britain-first-world-war A biting wind whips across the rolling countryside, cutting through the crowd gathered on a hillside overlooking Notre Dame de Lorette, France�s national war cemetery. Huddled

How Colonial Violence Came Home: The Ugly Truth of the First World War By Pankaj Mishra (For Guardian Newspaper) For original, click on the link below Link: https://www.theguardian.com/news/2017/nov/10/how-colonial-violence-came-home-the-ugly-truth-of-the-first-world-war?CMP=fb_gu "Today on the Western Front,� the German sociologist Max Weber wrote in September 1917, there �stands a

"LIFE of my life" from Gitanjali By Bijay Kant Dubey The song number four from Gitanjali, beginning with �Life of my life, I shall ever try to keep my body pure� is similar in thought and idea, reflection and rhyming as the other poems are in this poetical series coming down to us as song offerings. After thanking God for this life, creation and the world, singing the songs himself,

Indian Marxist against Marx: Two Ways of Revolution i.e. Annihilation of Caste or Advancement of Capitalism By Dinesh Kumar Ahirwar Ph.D. on Thought of Dr Ambedkar and Mao Zedong Email: globaldemocracy2014@gmail.com Original link to the article: https://stillostracised.blogspot.in/2017/04/indian-marxists-against-marx-two-ways.html There are two ways of bringing about changes

Mahima Nanda [A curious student of mine portrays the rags of misogynistic society wherein women deserves a place in the close walls to do the household chores. The modern and educated students are, in fact, breaking the prejudice and hence the society rejected them, if not directly then indirectly. To put in other words, the society or system, as well as, the leaders are afraid not of any

By: Bijay Kant Dubey Partition's people stitched Shrouds from a flag, gentlemen scissored Sind. An opened people, fraying across the cut country reknotted themselves on this island. Surrogate city of banks, Brokering and bays, refugees' harbour and port, Gatherer of ends whose brick beginnings work Loose like a skin, spotting the coast, Restore us to fire. New refugees, Wearing blood-red wool

By: Bijay Kant Dubey Dhauli is one of the poems taken from the poetry-collection named Waiting written by Jayanta Mahapatra, a poet of note from Orissa and of an Oriya background, historicity, art and culture, but of physics as the subject of his study. Without knowing Orissa and Orissan history, one may not understand what the poet means to say herein as it is a poem of some historical

Fourth YouTube Vidoe "Coleridge and Romanticism" Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=whyL5bixsFA Link to Our channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCO4ZgnRhh9FKHF8hqgJSaJA By Bijay Kant Dubey Summer is one of those typical poems of Jayanta Mahapatra wherein he clutches along so many ideas and images to present his thesis and anti-thesis as George Bernard Shaw is in his talks

YouTube Literarism's YouTube link for the fourth video on the Romantic Nature in the Poetry of Romantic Poets Link https://youtu.be/QMixWiLcnok To be a member of our channel, do click the below link [Link] https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCO4ZgnRhh9FKHF8hqgJSaJA I know not how thou singest, my master! from Gitanjali by Bijay Kant Dubey I know not how thou singest, my master

Literarism's YouTube link for the third video on Wordsworth and Coleridge's "Lyrical Ballads" (1798) Link https://youtu.be/EwZT9hiuPB0 To be a member of our channel, do click the below link [Link] https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCO4ZgnRhh9FKHF8hqgJSaJA Kali The Mother: Swami Vivekananda By: Bijay Kant Dubey Kali The Mother is one of the poems of Swami Vivekananda which he

Article by Bijay Kant Dubey Father Returning Home by Dilip Purushottam Chitre is one of those poems which remind us of our father painted against the backdrop of his unfailing duty and oblation, tireless striving and efforts priceless as for keeping the things tidied and the routine work continuing. His labour gone unwarranted is beyond any doubt, but still complain we, as it is the go of

A River by A.K.Ramanujan by Bijay Kant Dubey A River is one of those poems of A.K.Ramanujan which deal with hashya, vyangya and vakrokti, satire, laughter, irony, comment and the oblique approach an its application in poetry whose master is none, but the poet himself. An expatriate academician Ramanujan used to live and teach in the States and that too in the South Asian language and

What Is Poetry? Who A Poet? (A Personal View) By Bijay Kant Dubey What is poetry? They said it, poetry is music, rhythm and beat of music, poetry is music, the rhyme and rhythm; poetry is music, lyrical thought. But said it not, words, poetry is words, poetry is also words, words, words, that make and unmake. Poetry is an arrangement of words and their alignment; poetry is a re-arrangement of

The Ghagra In Spate By Keki N.Daruwalla By Bijay Kant Dubey The Ghagra In Spate is one of the most representative poems of Daruwalla reminding us of those rivers of India which really wreak havoc during the rainy times or when the excessive water is discharged from the dams unable to contain in. Such a topic is really not the prerogative of all as those interested in geography can only

A.P.J.Abdul Kalam: The Man & His Vision By Bijay Kant Dubey The Vision I climbed and climbed Where is the peak, my Lord? I ploughed and ploughed, Where is the knowledge treasure, my Lord? I sailed and sailed, Where is the island of peace, my Lord? Almighty, bless my nation With vision and sweat resulting into happiness A.P.J. Abdul Kalam

"THOU hast made me endless" by Tagore By Bijay Kant Dubey Theme of Thou Hast Made Me Endless THOU hast made me endless, such is thy pleasure. This frail vessel thou emptiest again and again, and fillest it ever with fresh life. This little flute of a reed thou hast carried over hills and dales, and hast breathed through it melodies eternally new. At the immortal touch of thy

Poverty Poems�2 by Nissim Ezekiel By Bijay Kant Dubey Poverty Poems�2 forms a part of the series of poems written for depicting the heat and dust, poverty and misery, illiteracy and backwardness, underdevelopment and regressing into the background. Let us see how he takes up the things, a passer-by himself, a platform-passing fellow, gathering the images of India and going not like the

The Ghagra In Spate By Keki N.Daruwalla By Bijay Kant Dubey The Ghagra In Spate is one of the most representative poems of Daruwalla reminding us of those rivers of India which really wreak havoc during the rainy times or when the excessive water is discharged from the dams unable to contain in. Such a topic is really not the prerogative of all as those interested in geography can only

Pestilence by Keki N.Daruwalla By Bijay Kant Dubey Pestilence by Keki N.Daruwalla is one like Curfew in a Riot-torn City and The Epileptic taken from the same collection of poems entitled Under Orion which he wrote long back in 1970 to see its appearance from Writers Workshop, Calcutta as the first poetic venture of the writer and with whom he made his entry into the realms of Indian

An Introduction by Kamala Das By Bijay Kant Dubey An Introduction as a poem is an introduction of Kamala and she is getting introduced to the readers and critics of Indian English poetry. A confessional poetess, he is laying her inner heart bare, but one should not take it for that she is a simple girl, but is coquettish and intriguing. Her histrionics, theatrical stance, has none come to