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Socio-Poltical Concerns in Mulk Raj Anand

Source: http://www.yabaluri.org/CD%20&%20WEB/sociopoliticalconcernsapr76.htm BY: SHYAM M. ASNANI Dr K. R. S. Iyengar’s pioneering and perceptive study (Indian Writing in English) has firmly established the existence of the tradition of Indian Writing in English. Its achievements and a measure of significance can no longer be challenged. It is now possible, thanks largely to his efforts,

Father Returning Home: Dilip Chitre

Bijay Kant Dubey My father travels on the late evening train Standing among silent commuters in the yellow light Suburbs slide past his unseeing eyes His shirt and pants are soggy and his black raincoat Stained with mud and his bag stuffed with books Is falling apart. His eyes dimmed by age fade homeward through the humid monsoon night. Now I can see him getting off the train Like a

Poetry: An Indian Perspective

What Is Poetry? The Origin And Development of Poetry, How To Write It Modern Poetry? (An Indian Perspective) By: Bijay Kant Dubey                                    Poetry, what is poetry, how to define it? What it forms the crux of it? How the base? Several things conjure upon the mind’s plane while taking it deeply, deliberating upon the topic under discussion. Poetry is emotions and

Dilip Chitre’s “The Felling of The Banyan Tree”

Dilip Chitre's “The Felling of The Banyan Tree” (An Appreciation) By: Bijay Kant Dubey “The Felling of The Banyan Tree,” by Dilip Chitre, is a poem of the cutting of a centuries old mythical banyan tree, shifting from Baroda to Bombay, leaving behind the memories and remembrances connected with the old paternal ancestral house where he grew up and passed his days even though the scenes and