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Cinematic Adaptation of Literature and Enigma of Aesthetics is an analytical treatise on the discourse of kinship between literature and cinema. It is an interesting, informative and useful commentary on acutely pertinent and immensely contemporary issues and challenges in literary discourse about cinematic adaptations.The book is a corroborative effort by contributors to liberate adaptation studies from hierarchal structure and set it free from the hegemony of ...
Essentials of Educational Psychology is intended for the students of education of B.A; M.A; B.Ed; and M.Ed; Courses. It covers the topics which have been prescribed in the syllabus of different Indian universities, particularly University of Jammu. The author attempted to present the standard and the latest subject matter in a lucid style and in simple language for the proper understanding of the students. It is hoped that the book will serve the interest and ...
American Slave Narratives: Paul Laurence Dunbar’s The Sport of Gods, Richard Wright’s Native Son and Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching Godis a fine study of African American literature. Like Indian Dalit literature African American literature is a significant body of literature which everyone must read for enriching humanity. The book contains three chapters. The first chapter is a critical analysis of Paul Laurence Dunbar’s ...
Between the Two Dams is a collection of poems written in Maithili by Taranand Viyogi, which has been translated by Prabhat Jha in English. The poems written by Taranand Viyogi reflects upon many themes which are personal, social or political. The book is a gateway to the world of Mithila Lok. Lok in the sense of people as well as the land. Most of these poems center around the Koshi region or people belonging to that region. Apart from that, there are many poems ...
Since his school days, Amar Nath Dwivedi has been writing poetry, first in Hindi and then in English. Here Dr. Dwivedi has put together all his poetry in English: Random Reflection (1994), Fine Frenzy (1998), Protest Poems (2002), Beyond Borders (2008), and Wayward Wanderings (2012). He has also included here some of his newest poems. With this compilation, Dwivedi's English poetry will be readily available to readers and researchers.
Dr. Dwivedi is a widely ...
Romantic Strain in Henry Derozio and Kalapi is a study on the influence of Romanticism and Romantic poetry on literature written in Indian languages. However, a comparative study of two poets from two different languages can serve to shed new light on the way the Romanticism influenced Indian literature. The book comprises a comparative study of Henry Derozio, the first Indian English poet and 'Kalapi', Sursinhji Takhtsinhji Gohil, a Gujarati poet with respect to ...
Bibhu Padhi has published eleven books of poetry. His poems and scholarly articles have appeared in distinguished magazines and journals throughout the English-speaking world, such as Encounter, Contemporary Review, Poetry Review, Poetry Wales, The Rialto, Stand, The Atlantic Review, The American Scholar, Colorado Review, Commonwealth, Confrontation, Interpretations, Modern Fiction Studies, Modernist Studies, Philological Quarterly, New Letters, Poet Lore, ...
Prof. (Dr.) Ajay Kumar Patra former UGC-Emeritus Fellow of Post-Graduate Department of Zoology, Utkal University, Bhubaneswar has been conferred the most coveted and globally reputed Professor E.P. Odum Gold Medal -2007 and professor J.S. Datta Munshi Gold Medal-2009 by international Society for Ecological Communication at an International Symposium held at Dumka (Jharkhand). Dr. Patra has also been awarded Best Citizen of India Award in 2008 by International ...
This book aims to develop a key strategy for financial inclusion in an unbanked area and developing and effective payment Strategy for cash intensive commercial marketplace viz. Indian Mandi. Mandi was targeted as financial inclusion after extensive survey and secondary research as the number of cash transactions that take place in Indian Mandis are very huge. An alternative mechanism known as Parchi System is also used in Mandi to carry out transactions. But a ...
The book is developed as a Career Navigation Manual for the new entrants to the Corporate world. It not only gives an in-depth insight into cultivating the right mindset and competency for getting selected into the companies but also deals with how to survive and succeed in one’s professional career.
The book will be beneficial for:
Students seeking a corporate career,
Faculty for mentoring the students,
Freshers in the companies in their formative years ...
This book is a fictitious conversation in the form of dialogue between a devotee and Lord Krishna in the lines of The Bhagavadgita. The relationship cultivated by the devotee with the Lord is sakhyam – friendship, as Sri Radha, gopikas and Arjuna. Many spiritual, social and current issues are analytically and critically dissected and discussed providing an enlightening spirit and liberal attitude. Articles summarizing Indian spirituality and wisdom are also ...
Partition, despite seventy long years of its taking place, remains till date an event unsettled, unresolved, unpurged and unaccounted for in the historical, social, political and cultural psyche of the Indian sub-continent. The violence, massacre, bloodshed, trauma and the massive uprootings and ruptures that followed in its wake, constituted a prelude not just to the formation of new nations and to new structures of state and power, but to the transformation of ...
Mrs Namita Rani Panda is a poet, translator and story writer. She is born on 10th January 1965 in Sambalpur district of Odisha, India. Now she works as a Post Graduate Teacher in English in Navodaya Vidyalaya, Khordha, Odisha, under the Ministry of HRD, Department of School Education and Literacy, Govt. of India, New Delhi. She has been in this teaching profession since 1988. Her educational qualification is M.Phil (English), M.Ed. She has completed her Post ...
Born in the year 1962 Bharati Nayak grew up in Cuttack and graduated from the Ravenshaw College, Cuttack, Odisha. She has done her Masters degree in Political Science from Utkal University, Vani Vihar, Bhubaneswar. She is a bilingual writer, poet, critique and translator. She writes in English and Odia. Writing fascinated her from a very young age. She used to contribute regularly to school magazines. Her poetry has since come of age and has been published in ...
Claiming the Difference: Identity in Literatures and Cultures is an attempt to unfold representations of identity by a body of selected papers which critically engage the postcolonial world and its attendant issues. The authors appreciate and also evaluate the sense of difference as a key to understanding identities emerging through different literary traditions and cultural systems. Since identity in our times is increasingly believed to be a socio-psychological ...
This critical anthology interrogates the themes, techniques and characterization in the short stories of P. Raja who embedded in his deft constructions of the common place items and in his creative idiom, an ordinary situation becomes the exceptional and the strange. What comes sharply under the scanner is Raja’s handling of themes, techniques and characters in a typical vein of satire, wit and humour and his deep involvement in the issues and concerns of ...
Before you begin with this compilation of 33 poems, I would like to acknowledge that most of them are iterations echoing, what I'd like to call a sentiment – a sentiment of resilience, endurance, survival, existence, which has been assimilated and reflected into every fibre of my being and hence, my words.
Kashmir, my motherland, has given me vignettes incessantly, so profound and overwhelming, that I couldn’t help but write about them. This book in ...
This book investigates the ways in which the new diasporic consciousness is being represented on the world stage and explore the literary works that reproduce the identity of the new as well as the old diaspora. It seeks to open new horizons in the field of diaspora and introduces the new consciousness among the new diaspora communities. It includes the chapters on various writers of diaspora literature such as V. S. Naipaul, Chitra Banerjee, Amitav Ghosh, Shashi ...
Radical Rhythm, an anthology of poems by five brilliant poets of Odisha Bharati Nayak, Gyatri Mavaru, Lopamudra Mishra, Namita Rani Panda and Swapna Behera, has drawn my attention for several reasons: first, it is a collection of poems by five female poets; second, these five poets are from the same soil; thirdly, the anthology is “dedicated to the undying spirit of women” which indicates that these poets are feminist in nature; fourthly, the poets ...
Social and emotional skills are essentially the life skills which are of crucial importance in the life of a developing child. These skills are related to academic performance, adjustment and wellbeing during early childhood years and happiness& success in adult life. From the wellbeing perspective, during infancy and early year’s social and emotional competencies contribute to a sense of wellbeing in children and promotes development in cognitive ...
D.C. Chambial, PhD in Indian English poetry; retired from HP education service after about 38 years of service. He has won several awards for his poetry from India and abroad: Michael Madhusudan Award (1995), India; Lachian Art Letter Award (1987), USA; Gold Medal from Poetry Day Australia: Dove in Peace Award (2000), Australia, and Life Time Achievement Award from Intercontinental Poetry Society (2009), Participated in Word Congress of Poets in Madras and 6th ...
Bhaskar’s (debut ) anthology, Soothing Serenades: Straight from the Heart, a collection of sixty-two love poems emanating, as proclaimed, straight from his heart.. presents a vignette of love sketched in varying moods and displaying different attitudes."
Dr Arun K. Jha Professor, former Head of English Dept. and Dean of Arts, L.N.M.U., Darbhanga
Bhaskaranand Jha Bhaskar is a trilingual poet (Maithili, Hindi and English), short story writer, critic and ...
Sarala Ram Kamal's carefully crafted poems are inspirational, rich in imagery and contemplative. They speak beautifully of pain and care in all its beauty, radiance and trapping. For the poet, the integration of tradition and value is essential to overcome the apparent sense of struggle against the tyranny of circumstances. In this debut collection, her quiet and subtle voice can easily grab the attention of the readers.
P C K Prem (P C Katoch of Garh-Malkher, Palampur, Himachal, a former academician, civil servant and Member, Public Service Commission, Himachal, Shimla), an author of more than fifty books is a poet, novelist, short story writer and a critic in English and Hindi from Himachal, India.