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Education in India: Macaulay's Era

Source: https://swarajyamag.com/culture/how-india-made-britain-more-literate-the-beautiful-tree-beyond-dharampal How India Made Britain More Literate: The ‘Beautiful Tree’ Beyond Dharampal It wasn’t India which improved its schooling system by imitating Britain’s. Rather, it was the other way round. Every Indian learns at some point about how India was educated by the British and how

LIFE of my life, I shall ever try to keep my body pure from Gitanjali

"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,

Preface to Lyrical Ballads: Wordsworth

Theory of poetry “Poetry is the thought and the words in which emotion  spontaneously embodies itself.”          Thoughts on Poetry and its Variations by Mill. Wordsworth took the hint and produced the theory of poetry which is contained in Preface to Lyrical Ballads wherein, at least two places; he points out: “All good poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feeling,” and “It

Wanderer: A Tale of One Girl (Story)

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

Sea Breeze, Bombay: Adil Jussawalla

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

Dhauli: Mahapatra

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

Summer: Mahapatra

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