Realistic Portrayal Of Dogra

Much of the conflict in Lahiri’s short stories stems from feelings she experienced early in her life. Her experience as an outsider and her resentment of her family’s Indian heritage provided the inspiration for much of her writing. She uses the conflict inside marriage to explore feelings of personal identity and alienation in her short stories. Her characters face many personal difficulties in their marriages. “Marriage is the unifying theme for the collection, and is the key element in most stories” (Bess 167).

The short story written by Fahimeh Q. Basenji, he shares in his writings about “The Yellow Wall-Paper and Story of an Hour”. In the journal, he discusses how the two stories are similar but have different narrator experiences. He tells how “female characters oppressed by the patriarchal authority in the marriage and their oppression” (1). The author writes about how a female author can

The first night's story in Arabian Nights is that of the Merchant and the Demon. Told by Shahrazad, the story offers a remarkable parallel to her own situation as she faces immanent death. Thus, the story of the Merchant and the Demon is told as a parable within the frame story, presenting a poignant analogy for Shahrazad's own situation. The Merchant and the Demon is a short tale but one filled with themes such as power, guilt, justice, and moral responsibility. Through the clever analogy with her own situation, Shahrazad also explores the theme of creative problem solving in tricky situations. Moreover, the story illustrates the core differences between pre-Islamic and Islamic values in Arabian society. Because the theme of gender roles and norms are not present within the Merchant and the Demon, the story shows how sexism is simply a form of general political and social oppression.

This book is a wonderful work of art by Malcolm Bosse. Even though quite sad, Tusk and stone takes you through a wondrous adventure of a boy and his misfortunes. It tells a wonderful tale of Arjun, a young boy who was a brahmin, a very high class, and his quest to find his sister. The story is belayed in a simple, realistic way, and it is, historical fiction.

One Thousand and One Nights is a collection of stories from Middle East and South East Asian countries that have been translated by various authors over hundreds of years. Even though it is a collection of stories from different counties, they are all centered around the frame story of King Shahryar and his wife, Scheherazade, who narrates the stories for a span of one thousand and one nights in an effort to stop the King from killing more innocent young women as punishment for his first wife’s adulterous act. The stories that she recounts to King Shahryar convey a greater sense of adventure, truth, fantastic imagination, magical creatures that symbolize the Middle Eastern countries. Nevertheless, there are several important themes that come out of the stories such as the relationship of crime and punishment, power and wealth, and tensions between the sexes that are present from both the ancient civilization of Middle Eastern countries and present day Middle Eastern countries. This paper will focus on the frame story, “Story of King Shahryar and His Brother”, to illustrate the beginning of a recurring theme in all of Scheherazade’s stories of the unfair balance of power between the male and female characters.

Kim gives a vivid picture of the complexities in India under British rule. It shows the life of the bazaar mystics, of the natives, of the British military. There is a great deal of action and movement, for Kipling's vast canvas painted in full detail. The dialogue in the novel makes use of Indian phrases translated by the author, they give the flavor of native speech in India. They are also touches of the native behavior and shrewdness.

When one thinks about the country India the first thing that will come to their mind is their rich, colorful clothes and animals that are part of their culture. Most do not think of the literature in India, and how life is incorporated into their writing. A common theme throughout Indian literature is life, and literary elements were used to reveal themes throughout their writing. A theme of pain in the narrator 's life was explained more to the reader through the use of personification, repetition, and irony. These literary elements make the narrator 's pain become more prominent and have more of an impact on the reader.

People may speak out words in life that may affect themselves and other after losing someone that was significant, which can connect to Indian and Pakistani literature. All parts of a struggle coming back to a character facing the past being alone in life can create emotions overall. Readers must comprehend that people in society today can relate to Indian and Pakistani literature where one feels alone. A reader who looks at Indian and Pakistani literature can understand that people with struggles in India or Pakistan countries can go through a lot with their emotional past. For the most part, the significance of Indian and Pakistani literature is to make a reader acknowledge how going through a tough situation can cause circumstances that get emotional for a character's self and others around them. In today's society, people may associate to this literature to distinguish a relationship with people being alone through the countries India and

Composed ages ago, The Mahabharata still continues to be retold in various literary, graphic and visual media. In the hands of the postcolonial Indian English novelist the mythological past takes different shapes. Unlike retellings of previous centuries, these novels do not view the epic as a mere tussle between dharma and adharma. They re-narrate their past but from a different perspective. They demolish authority, stereotypes, icons and sexist values. This paper seeks to examine how notions of gender are subverted and notions of victimhood and agency are playfully dealt with, in these modern retellings of The Mahabharata. This paper will be dealing with two hyper-masculine characters from The Mahabharata, namely Duryodhana and Bhima. Pushed to the brink of half-existence, both these characters seem to share their frustrations in being misunderstood, half-understood. Beneath all the masculinity, the massive strength, the oozing machismo, we get two marginalised men waiting to be heard. Our reading of these novels reveals how rewriting epics gives voice to the subordinated speaker and also analyses the ways in which individuals of this age resist hegemonic notions of gender and class.

The Serpent and the Rope, Raja Rao’s second novel, was an immediate success. Its popularity can be measured as it has received maximum number of critical responses, not only in India but from abroad too, among all his novels. Add to that, announcement of the Sahitya Akademi award for the year 1963 attracted greater readership and academic demand. It has been prescribed in the syllabi of many universities. It is the story of Ramaswamy, a young Brahmin from the south India. He goes to France to do research in history, there meets and marries Madeleine, a teacher of history, but drift apart gradually as Ramaswamy comes to realize the gulf between the Indian and Western concepts of love, marriage, and family. It is important to note that the gap

There are many women who have left their marks behind in shaping the society. But in this research paper the main focus will be laid upon Sita and Draupadi. As discussed earlier that how much these two women had to suffer in their respective lives, we also learn in the later part of the two epics that how these women turned their sufferings into struggle for justice. Both women represent feminine power in their own ways.

The paper presents the current situation of the people of Kashmir. It is the study ofShahnaz Bashir’s- The Half Mother. The novels satirize the political and bureaucratic system, India’s tyrannical role and the Military oppression in Kashmir. The title of the paper is The Sufferings and Struggle of a Mother (Haleema) for her Disappeared Son (Imran) - In Shahnaz Bashir’s- Half Mother. Kashmir is a very beautiful place and was a princely state up to 1953 with its own prime minister. It is why Kashmir is generally known as paradise on earth and this paradise has become not hell but the ‘capital of hell’ due to mass killing, murder mystery, displacement, disappearance and sexual harassment, by military and paramilitary forces. The paper deals with

This essay focuses on the theme of forbidden love, The God of Small Things written by Arundhati Roy. This novel explores love and how love can’t be ignored when confronted with social boundaries. The novel examines how conventional society seeks to destroy true love as this novel is constantly connected to loss, death and sadness. This essay will explore the theme of forbidden love, by discussing and analysing Ammu and Velutha's love that is forbidden because of the ‘Love Laws’ in relation to the caste system which results in Velutha’s death. It is evident that forbidden love negatively impacts and influences other characters, such as Estha and Rahel, which results in Estha and Rahel’s incestuous encounter.

Folklore superstitions and even the supernatural are some of the favourite themes of Khushwant Singh. He himself has said that his “roots are in the dunghill of a tiny Indian village”. Khushwant Singh achieves dual purpose by the use of these elements. First, the elements make the stories interesting and secondly, they fulfil the satirical purpose of the author. In additions, the elements make stories both romantic and realistic. The folklore and the supernatural belong to the fairy land. They are the elements of fantasy. But they are followed by the people in villages even at the cost of death. This is reality in Indian

It uses unique terminologies. The best part of book is its story. The author has portrayed our classical legends like Shiva, Sati, Nandi, Birbhadra, Daksh as true human beings of flesh and blood and has used our Classical legends as the springboard of his story. Author uses a lot of modern world lingo and also author describes characters a bit modern. The characters are not new, but the tales, told in the third person narration, are totally a creation of notional thinking. The objectivity of the author over the pivotal question of ‘Virtue/Vice’ also allows the readers to form their opinion independently and rationally. True to its pseudo-epics structure, the author has broken the stories into small episodes and readers will be attracted to it once they start reading. There is a veracious unity of Time, Place and action in the book though some reliable distractions have provided it a different level to our ‘willing suspension of