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Paper Title:
A TETE-A-TETE WITH PROF. MANJU JAIDKA
Author Name:
Anupam Vatsyayan
Country:
India
Page No.:
1-8
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A TETE-A-TETE WITH PROF. MANJU JAIDKA
Author: Anupam Vatsyayan

Prof. Manju Jaidka is a name to reckon with in the widespread academic circle. This year, in October, after a long (more than 40 years), joyous, and rewarding journey as a teacher, she entered the phase of retirement from active service. In addition to the numerous administrative responsibilities which she shouldered during her illustrious career, like being the former Chairperson of the Department of English at Panjab University, Chandigarh,Director of the university IAS Study Centre, andconvenerof various committees, examinations and decision-making bodies, her main concern remains to forge an international network of like-minded academics for the exchange of scholarship, a task she has been successfully engaged in over the last two decades.
Her national and international assignments over the past four decades have been inspirational for many. She has been travelling and lecturing extensively in India as well as the US, UK, Europe, Canada, China, Nepal, etc. In addition, she is the recipient of prestigious fellowships, including a Fulbright and two Rockefellers. Throughout her career, she undertook assignments at universities like Oxford, Harvard, Yale, Illinois, Iowa, New York, and Concordia. Back home, as the Chairperson of the Chandigarh Sahitya Akademi from 2008-15, she made tremendous contribution towards the promotion of literature and culture in Chandigarh by organizing lit fests, book reading sessions, critical discussions, and literary events. She is presently the chief functionary of MELOW (the Society for the Study of the Multi-Ethnic Literatures of the World). In this capacity, over the last twenty years, she has been organizing international conferences successfully every year. Additionally, Jaidka has held the post of Executive Director of the International American Studies Association and also serves on the advisory board of several international organizations.

Paper Title:
CASTE AND RELIGION IN THE WORKS OF RK NARAYAN
Author Name:
Gagneet Pal Kaur
Country:
India
Page No.:
9-17
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CASTE AND RELIGION IN THE WORKS OF RK NARAYAN
Author: Gagneet Pal Kaur

This paper attempts to explore the varied facet of caste and religion as portrayed by RK Narayan in his novel the The Man Eater of Malgudi. RK Narayan was born and bred in South India. The formative years of his life were passed in this particular part of the country, and therefore he presents his limited point of view and moreover, it was the life of middle classes he depicts so finely. Their day to day chores, their way of speaking, their conflicts, stresses and strains in human relations within the domestic circle of this class he had himself experienced gives him a view of the caste and religious system of their life. This is the 9th novel of the writer and it was published in 1961. It is an allegory showing that evil is self-destructive but destruction of this evil is interpreted through the mythical structure of the Mahabharta. Narayan employs the idea of the mythical demon and describes it in relevance to the modern context. And it is in this way that he brings out the similarities and contrasts between the present and the past.

Paper Title:
PROBLEM OF GENRE IN DOSTOIEVSKY’S THE DIARY OF A WRITER
Author Name:
Gitanjali Singh
Country:
India
Page No.:
18-30
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PROBLEM OF GENRE IN DOSTOIEVSKY’S THE DIARY OF A WRITER
Author: Gitanjali Singh

A genre (from French "kind" or "sort", from Latin: genus) is a loose set of criteria for a category of composition; the term is often used to categorize literature and speech, but is also used for any other form of art or utterance. Genres are vague categories with no fixed boundaries, they are formed by sets of conventions, and many works cross into multiple genres by way of borrowing and recombining these conventions. Genres are often divided into subgenres. Literature, for example, is divided into three basic kinds of literature, which are the classic genres of Ancient Greece: poetry, drama, and prose. Poetry may then be subdivided into epic, lyric, and dramatic. Subdivisions of drama includes foremost comedy and tragedy, while e.g. comedy itself has subgenres, including farce, comedy of manners, burlesque, satire, and so on. However, any of these terms would be called "genre", and its possible more general terms implied. The term novel is now applied to an extended narrative or extended works of fiction written in prose. It is distinguished from the long narratives in verse of Chaucer, Spenser and Milton which, beginning with the 18th Century, the novel has increasingly supplanted e.g. Samuel Richardson’s Pamela, Laurence Sterne’s Tristram Shandy, Jane Austen’s Emma, Leo Tolstoy’s War and Peace and Franz Kafka’s The Trial etc. Richardson’s Clarissa is an epistolatory novel where the narrative is conveyed entirely by an exchange of letters. The actual term novel had a variety of meanings and implications at different stages. From roughly 16th to 18th Century, the term tended to derive its meaning from the Italian novella and the Spanish novella and the term denoted short stories or tales of the kind one finds in Boccaccio’s Decameron etc.

Paper Title:
KAMALA DAS: AN ‘EYE’ CONOCLAST
Author Name:
Roopsavi
Country:
India
Page No.:
31-36
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KAMALA DAS: AN ‘EYE’ CONOCLAST
Author: Roopsavi

Wipeout the paints, unmould the clay
Let nothing remain of that yesterday. (Das, “My Story”)
One of the earliest known and most widespread forms of inequality in the human history is Male Dominance. Women have been suffering the atrocities of man since ages and they have lived within their houses like a caged bird having no freedom and opportunity to realize their dreams. A number of women writers came forward to be the voice of the voiceless or the muted women especially to establish their identity in a world that seeks to marginalize them. From those uncountable names who raised their voice against such social injustice, one name that stands next to none in the whole length and breadth of Indian poetry in English today is Kamala Das.

Paper Title:
ROOTLESSNESS VERSUS DUAL IDENTITY: A STUDY OF THE PROBLEMS OF DISPLACED PEOPLE BY FOCUSING ON THE SELECTED WORKS OF PHILIP ROTH AND HANNAH ARENDT
Author Name:
Mandeep Kaur Randhawa
Country:
India
Page No.:
37-45
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ROOTLESSNESS VERSUS DUAL IDENTITY: A STUDY OF THE PROBLEMS OF DISPLACED PEOPLE BY FOCUSING ON THE SELECTED WORKS OF PHILIP ROTH AND HANNAH ARENDT
Author: Mandeep Kaur Randhawa

The displaced people often faces the problems like deracination, oppression, legal disabilities, an endless struggle with issues of identity and an often painful adjustment to a host land whose hospitality was unreliable and ephemeral. The concept of displaced persons implies a ‘homing desire’ which is not the same as a ‘desire for a “homeland”’ or an ‘ideology of “return”’ (Brah 180). Furthermore, as K. Gardner notes, the very migratory process inherently involves “acts of the imagination, in which home and destination are continually re-imagined, and thus forever changed” (35). ‘Home’ has always been a difficult concept to define because it has multiple meanings with differing levels of abstraction. For our purposes, we can point to four significant meanings of home: firstly, a geographical space or material home; secondly, a site where everyday life is lived, the ‘lived home,’ thirdly, a nucleus of social relationships and a point of identification, a cultural home; fourthly, a ‘desired home.’ Different meanings of home can be contradictory, while simultaneously bleeding into each other, within diasporic experience (Clifford 303-04). In brief, the term diaspora may be defined as “the collective forced dispersion of a religious or ethnic group, where the group’s cultural heritage is nevertheless preserved and the historical fact of dispersion is retained in its collective memory” (Chaliand and Rageau 3). In addition, diaspora communities usually retain an idealized memory of the original homeland, and they often feel “alienated and insulated” from their adopted location in the hostland. (Safran 83-4).

Paper Title:
JANE AUSTEN: A RADICAL INNOVATOR
Author Name:
SamanpreetKaur
Country:
India
Page No.:
46-51
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JANE AUSTEN: A RADICAL INNOVATOR
Author: SamanpreetKaur

Jane Austen’s authenticity is what makes her one of themost prominent women writers of England as well as worldwide. Although her works achieved the deserved appreciation posthumously, yet her works stand tall as prodigious models in the modern times. Her style is a proof of her skepticism of the conventional form of fiction prevalent during her times.She challenged the accepted norms and completely transformed fiction. It is evident not only from her letters to and discussions with her sister, Cassandra, but also from her novels.

Paper Title:
THE GOD OF SMALL THINGS- A READING FROM THE FEMINIST PERSPECTIVE
Author Name:
Anmol Nayyar
Country:
India
Page No.:
52-57
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THE GOD OF SMALL THINGS- A READING FROM THE FEMINIST PERSPECTIVE
Author: Anmol Nayyar

Arundhati Roy, born on November 24, 1961 in Shillong, Meghalaya, India is one of the most exceptional modern English women writers. She gained massive popularity with her debut novel, The God of Small Things which she started writing in 1992 and completed in 1996. The book won the prestigious Man Booker Prize in 1997 making her the first Indian woman writer to win this award.
The story of the novel revolves around the childhood experiences of two fraternal twins, named Esthappen and Rahel, born to a woman named Ammu who belongs to an upper class family. The novel is a well-knit amalgamation of conflicting ideologies of different classes, cultures, genders, races and castes of the society. The writer has fully exploited the devices of wit, rhetoric, humour and satire in the novel through the imagination of the two twins, Rahel and Esthappen:

Paper Title:
WEB OF MEMORIES IN A.K RAMANUJAN’S POETRY
Author Name:
Shrriya Thukral
Country:
India
Page No.:
58-62
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WEB OF MEMORIES IN A.K RAMANUJAN’S POETRY
Author: Shrriya Thukral

In new Indian poetry in English emerging in sixties and seventies A.K. Ramanujan occupies a prominent place by virtue of his intellectual substance,his ineluctable language and his ability to depict the inner human struggle. His poetic voice tends to be vigorous and his sensibility remains essentially modern .There is a marked sophistication born of an urban surrounding in his verse. He takes to his vocation seriously and treats it as exacting discipline .The English critic William Walsh rightly grades him with such fastidious Indo English poets as Nissim Ezekiel and R. Parthasarthy. In his scholarly introduction to Readings In Commonwealth Literature (1973), Walsh writes that the highest achievement of Indian writing in English is in fiction. In the words of Nissim Ezekiel, A. K. Ramanujan is one of those gifted writers who have used English language with force, delicacy and sensitivity.

Paper Title:
IT HURTS
Author Name:
Anmol Nayyar
Country:
India
Page No.:
63-64
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IT HURTS
Author: Anmol Nayyar

It hurts to see,
Honesty being bought,
meaningless battles being fought.
Innocence being used,
humanity being bruised.
Need being exploited,
wounds being salted.

Paper Title:
BRIGHT AND BLISSFUL MORNINGS
Author Name:
Ritu Kumar
Country:
India
Page No.:
65
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BRIGHT AND BLISSFUL MORNINGS
Author: Ritu Kumar

Mornings are always refreshing and rejuvenating
Mighty and Magnificent sun rising in the horizon
Hymns and pious bells chiming in the temple enliven
Birds sing in the sky and God seems to smile.
Exotic flora embellishes sights and sounds mind cherishes
Fresh whiff from the fleeting flamboyant floral rings.
Tall titanic trees kissing the heaven sway and swing.
Nature is at its best with divine serene and soothing effect
I stand spellbound wondering with awe and amazement.
God’s beautiful, blissful, magical and marvelous creations.
Each new morning is His blessing it seems to say,
Live life to fullest with ease keeping worries at bay.
Sow the seeds of peace, prosperity, positivity and piety
Greet happy mornings and bright afternoons every day
With prayer of gratitude to Almighty and love for humanity.

Paper Title:
TO MY MOTHER
Author Name:
Avinav Kumar
Country:
India
Page No.:
66
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TO MY MOTHER
Author: Avinav Kumar

Of grace, affection and elegance
You are a blend,

With shoulders always to lend,
My muddle you forever mend;
On you, I infallibly depend.

My life choices, you incessantly comprehend;
And back me up as would a friend.

These few lines are just inspired
From the beautiful writings you have penned,
Which at the best, I can just commend.

Paper Title:
WORLD OF STORIES
Author Name:
Ritu Kumar
Country:
India
Page No.:
67-68
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WORLD OF STORIES
Author: Ritu Kumar

Kings and Queens die but their stories remain alive.
In our infancy we listened to them with ajar mouths and smile so wide.

On a dark night when we siblings had a fight,
our mother’s story sessions made it beautiful and bright .
We had a peaceful sleep such is story’s might.

I met Lord Rama as human in Ramayan’s legion,
Witnessed Ravana’s fall and Lord Krishna’s magical vision.
Stories loom large in our life, reading them make us wise.
These aesthetic tales make generations rediscover and reconnect with lost vibes.

Paper Title:
DRIFTING YOUTH IN DILEMMA
Author Name:
Ritu Kumar
Country:
India
Page No.:
69
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DRIFTING YOUTH IN DILEMMA
Author: Ritu Kumar

Education in doldrums
Youth is frustrated
Nation in tatters
Leaders busy in barter
Doctors, Engineers and MBAs
Working in Metropolitan cities
Majority face torture.
Slog from Monday to Friday
Sleep like log on Saturday
Binge lazily on Sundays
Troubled by blues of Monday.
Worn out, lost and low paid
Where is youth leading to
Eateries and malls are full
Parents live in empty nests
Oh!! Welcome culture of west.

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