R.K. Dhawan
41 books
This compendium of 19 papers attempts to provide deep insight into the life and works of Chetan Bhagat, one of the best-selling English novelists of India. It critically analyses the society and popular culture, state of corruption, humour, the present-day dynamics of male-female relationship, cultural confluence, the human conditions in info-tech society, and the ethics of sex, marriage and morality as depicted in the novels of Chetan Bhagat.
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Taking into consideration plays, poetry and fiction, the book explores the feminist trends in Indian English writings by delving into the writings of Shobha De, Kamala Markandaya, Githa Hariharan, Anita Nair and others. It views the fiction by women and on women in the contemporary literary scene. It examines the literature on marginalisation of women in society, discussing the depiction of women that brings out their protests and concerns. It deals with ...
The twenty four essays in this volume deal with the major Indian-American writers and explore the thematic concerns and issues that they raise, such as crisis of alienation and squalor, search for identity, complexities of immigrant experience, new world religion, exposition of terrorism and human rights, globalization, and marginality.
The writers studied in this book include Anita Desai, V. S. Naipaul, Edward Said, Jhumpa Lahiri, Amitav Ghosh, Meena Alexander, ...
The book deals with the public grievances at the District, State and Central levels. It analyses the nature of citizen's grievances and their underlying causes, the inadequacy of the existing administrative machinery of the existing administrative machinery for redress of citizens complaints, and shows how ineffective it is in providing relief and in inspiring the confidence of the people. Is there an integrated policy in the government's efforts at redress of ...
For the students of B.E./B.Tech. of different Technological Universities of India, also useful for the students of ITI and ATI. In accordance with the Bureau of Indian Standards (B.I.S.) SP: 46-1988 and IS: 696-1972. Simple and Lucid language with systematic development of subject matter. 4. More than 2500 illustrations with proper explanation. Computer Aided Drafting (CAD) in multi colour. Typical and miscellaneous problems given in ...
For the students of Polytechnic Diploma Courses in Engineering & Technology.
For the students of B.E./B.Tech of Maharshi Dayanand University (MDU), Rohtak and Kurukshetra University, Kurukshetra.
Useful for the students of B.E./B.Tech. of different Technological Universities of India. According to the Bureau of Indian standards (B.I.S.) SP: 46-1988 and Is: 696-1972. Covers all the topics of engineering drawing with simple explantion. Also inlcudes chapters on Geometrical Drwaing and Computer Aided Drafting. More than 1500 illustrations with proper explanations. Numerous Solved problems, questions for self explanation and ...
The present volume is the third in a series featuring younger Canadian scholars from around the Asia-Pacific region and is the initiative of the Pacific Asia Network of Canadian Studies (PANCS). The papers cover a wide range of subjects: literature, diaspora, multiculturalism, history, international studies, commerce, trade, health, environment and media. The volume reflects the richness and diversity of the relationship between Canada and the Asia-Pacific.
Sally Morgan, a writer of tremendous potential, has to her credit a number of published works, the most significant of which is My Place. She has also established herself as a visual artist whose paintings reverberate and reinforce ideas and themes expressed in the work under study. This work has been a consequential text because the readers have taken cognizance of the responded to the historical implications of Morgan's story and relate spontaneously to her ...
Indian fiction in English has come of age. In the recent years, Four Indian novelists have won the prestigious Booker Prize. The present volume offers a critical response to the prize-winning Indian novels, viz Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children, Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things, Kiran Desai's The Loss of Inheritance and Aravind Adiga's The White Tiger. The volume makes a rich contribution to the fast-growing corpus of Indian ...
The central objective of the present book is to discuss the theoretical investigations carried out by Indian women writers in their works and to arrive at a deeper understanding of feminist contentions. Fiction by women constitutes a major segment of the contemporary Indian Writing in English. It provides insights, a wealth of understanding, a reservoir of meanings and a basis of discussion. The feminist literary critics strongly believe that women must create a ...