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The Criterion Vol. 6, Issue-1 (February 2015

Sr. No.	Name of the Author	Title of the Paper	Fulltext
Indian English Literature
01	Cruz L. Bonilla	Iswaran’s Crystal Dream of Education and A Storyteller and Under the Banyan Tree: R. K. Narayan’s Two Short Stories	Fulltext
02	Dr. Madhuri Sood	Gandhian Values in Colonial and Post Colonial Indian English Literature	Fulltext
03	Avijit Pramanik	A Friendship Destined to be Doomed: A Critical Study of Girish Karnad’s Hayavadana	Fulltext
04	Dipankar Parui	Rohinton Mistry’s Family Matters: A Journey towards Thematic Exploration	Fulltext
05	Kanika Agarwal	The Dynamics of Psyche in Bharati Mukherjee’s Wife	Fulltext
06	Kavita	Arun Joshi’s The Apprentice: A Conflict of ‘Life’ and ‘Living’	Fulltext
07	Dr. Madhu D. Singh & Dr. Sunita Bhola	An Enduring Bond: The Mighty Himalayas in Ruskin Bond’s Writings	Fulltext
08	Bhuvana Ramachandran & Dr. H. Madhava Bhat	Marginalized Women in Anita Desai’s Fasting, Feasting	Fulltext
09	Dr. Ab. Majeed Dar	Isolation in Wilderness: A Protest against Social Norms in Anita Desai’s Fire on the Mountain	Fulltext
10	Dr. Manish Singh	Shades of Caste and Class and the Woman in Samskara	Fulltext
11	Dr. Ganpatrao Baburao Patil	Quest for Identity in Amit Chaudhuri’sFreedom Song	Fulltext
12	Dr. Gunjan Agarwal & Pooja Kaushal	Social Consciousness in Anita Nair’sLadies Coupe	Fulltext
13	Dr. Pratibha Kalani	Family Nexus as Means to Jagan’s Attainment of Samprajnata Samadhi	Fulltext
14	Dr. Rajib Bhaumik	Bharati Mukherjee’s The Tiger’s Daughter: The Woman Protagonist’s Strange Trepidation in the Homeland	Fulltext
15	Raju Ta	Telescoping the Past and the Present in Dattani’s Final Solutions: A Critical Discourse on the ‘Diary’	Fulltext
16	Ritu	Transcending Gender Confines in Shashi Deshpande’s A Matter of Time	Fulltext
17	Samra Saeed	Wings of Fire: Autobiography of APJ Abdul Kalam, The Juvenile Reconnoiter	Fulltext
18	Simran Kaur Bhatia	The Vision of India: Socio-Cultural Matrix	Fulltext
19	Sripurushotham Sekhara Rao	The Theme of Man- Woman Relationship in Anita Nair’s Mistress	Fulltext
20	Tannu Sharma	An Engagement with Modernity: The Crooked Line	Fulltext
21	Dr. Vinita Singh Chawdhry	Dialectics of Longing and Belonging in Indian Diaspora: A Recontemplation	Fulltext
British Literature
22	Bhashkra Charya	Doris Lessing’s The Golden Notebook:A Feminist Shell of the ‘Free Women’	Fulltext
23	Dipika Rani	Henry James’ The Portrait of A Lady: An Odyssey from Illusion to Reality	Fulltext
24	Hindol Palit	The Conflict between Intuitive Morality and Economic Rationalization in The Mayor of Casterbridge	Fulltext
25	Dr. Ihsan-ur-Rahim Malik	The Image of India in Shelley	Fulltext
26	Dr. Somveer	Intersection of Enterprise Culture and Male Ethos in Caryl Churchill’s Top Girls	Fulltext
27	Sudesna Som	‘Our old letters, of poetry and other things’: Letters and Journals as Strategic and Thematic Ploys in A.S.Byatt’s Possession	Fulltext
28	Sutirtha Chakraborty	Reassessing Heathcliff: A Tortured Soul/ A Vindictive Monster	Fulltext
Language & Linguistics
29	Ajaz Ahmad Dar	Teaching English as a Second Language (SL)/Foreign Language (FL) to Children	Fulltext
30	Gunaprova  Gogoi	Vocabulary: Active and Passive Vocabulary: Various Techniques of Teaching Vocabulary	Fulltext
31	Prativa Rani Saha  & S. Kanchana	The Effect of Using Task-Based Learning Activities in Teaching Academic Writing to Engineering Students	Fulltext
32	Priyanka Sen	‘New Learning’ and Missionary Fashioning of Pedagogy at Serampore in the Early Nineteenth Century	Fulltext
33	Dr. Rajani Sharma	The Emergence of Changed Patterns in English Language with Cyber Slangs or Lingua Franca: Approaching a Perspective	Fulltext
American Literature
34	Amir Riahi Nouri & Zohreh Ramin	The Free[d] Slaves of The March	Fulltext
35	Karunesh & Dr. Somveer	Suppression to Self Assertion: Journey of Black Woman in Gloria Naylor’s The Women of Brewster Place	Fulltext
36	Dr. Milan Swaroop Sharma	Freewill versus Determinism in The Old Man And The Sea	Fulltext
37	Dr. N. Kalaamani & M. Ravikumar	An Ecofeminist Study of Alice Walker’sThe Temple of My Familiar	Fulltext
Criticism
38	Ashwin Bajaj	Suicide: Power and the Body	Fulltext
39	Sarfaraz Nawaz	Home and Away: The Dialectics of Diasporic Identity	Fulltext
40	Thea Shavladze	The Death-Humor Paradox	Fulltext
Comparative Studies
41	A. David	Wisdom as Elucidated in The Bible and Bhagavad  Gita: A Brief Comparative Study	Fulltext
42	Irem Seklem	A Comparative Study between The Catcher In The Rye and “Bloodchild” in Terms of Their Aspects of Initiation	Fulltext
Film & Literature
43	Janesh Kapoor	The Ambivalence of Representation: Fiction and the Filmic Craft	Fulltext
African Literature
44	Jyoti Dahiya	Magic Realism in Ben Okri’s Selected Novels	Fulltext
Russian Literature
45	Deeba	Time as a Presence: A Study of Anton Chekhov’s Three Years	Fulltext
German Literature
46	Aamer Shaheen, Sadia Qamar & Kinza Sadique	Construction of the Romanian Society in Herta Muller’s The Passport: A Marxist Analysis	Fulltext
French Literature
47	Labanya S. Unni	Individual Consciousness Versus Social Identity in Sartre’s Being and Nothingness	Fulltext
Irish Literature
48	Dr. Ruhul Amin Mandal	Seamus Heaney’s Door into the DarkOpens up Vertiginous Possibilities	Fulltext
I N T E R V I E W
01	VIshwanath Bite	Vishwanath Bite in Conversation with Anita Nair	Fulltext
02	VIshwanath Bite	Vishwanath Bite in Conversation with Kaveri Nambisan	Fulltext
03	VIshwanath Bite	Vishwanath Bite in Conversation with Chitra Banerjee-Divakaruni	Fulltext
04	VIshwanath Bite	Vishwanath Bite in Conversation with Mahesh Dattani	Fulltext
05	VIshwanath Bite	Vishwanath Bite in Conversation with Utpal Datta	Fulltext
06	VIshwanath Bite	Vishwanath Bite in Conversation with Abhishek Majumdar	Fulltext
07	VIshwanath Bite	Vishwanath Bite in Conversation with Anupama Chandrasekhar	Fulltext
08	VIshwanath Bite	Vishwanath Bite in Conversation with Manohar Shetty	Fulltext
09	VIshwanath Bite	Vishwanath Bite in Conversation with K. Satchidanandan	Fulltext
10	VIshwanath Bite	Vishwanath Bite in conversation with Arundhathi Subramaniam	Fulltext
11	VIshwanath Bite	Vishwanath Bite in Conversation with Neelam Chandra	Fulltext
12	VIshwanath Bite	The Poet as a Critic: Vishwanath Bite in Conversation with Nandini Sahu	Fulltext
13	VIshwanath Bite	Vishwanath Bite in Conversation with Vinita Agrawal	Fulltext
P O E T R Y
01	Vinita Agrawal	Missing Person	Fulltext
02	Nandini Sahu	From Dust to Dust: A Voyage	Fulltext
03	Neelam Chandra	Journey of the Soul	Fulltext
04	Stephen Gill	On The New Year	Fulltext
05	Craig Kurtz	Anatomy of a Catastrophe	Fulltext
06	Lana Bella	Upturned Hand	Fulltext
07	Abhijit Narayan	Indifference	Fulltext
08	Abdullah Shaghi	The Future!	Fulltext
09	Perveiz Ali	Vote for Truth	Fulltext
10	Anik Banerjee	A Dark Revelation	Fulltext
11	A. P. Govindankutty	Birds on the Guava Tree	Fulltext
12	Jeyakirthana J.	Disclosure	Fulltext
13	Kunal Narayan Uniyal	Dwarfed By Ego	Fulltext
14	Lovely Dutta Prusty	Who am I?	Fulltext
15	Mrinal Kanti Ghosh	My Meeting with the Duke of Ferrara	Fulltext
16	Mugdha Pandey	Truth	Fulltext
17	Naveen Kumar Kottidi	The Reflection	Fulltext
18	Ashok Niyogi	Satyameva Jayate – Truth Alone Triumphs	Fulltext
19	Prem Kumar	Ode to the Indian Crow	Fulltext
20	Shalini Yadav	Survivor	Fulltext
21	Chandra Shekhar Sharma	On the 30th Anniversary of Bhopal Gas Tragedy	Fulltext
22	Simmi Gurwara	Is there any Newness Around?	Fulltext
23	Sreyasi Sen Gupta	Mingle	Fulltext
24	Sunaina Jain	The Criss-cross Lines	Fulltext
F I C T I O N
01	Frank Zahn	Lost in Babyland	Fulltext
02	Jennifer Palmer	Pills	Fulltext
03	Katherine Du	Roses in the Dust	Fulltext
04	Sayantan Pal Chowdhury	Entry and Exit	Fulltext
05	Subbaram Danda	Dreams, Fears and Secrets	Fulltext
06	Vidya Panicker	An Unnamed Revolution	Fulltext
B O O K    R E V I E W
01	Divya Pandey	The Mother I Never Knew By Sudha Murty	Fulltext
02	Gagan Bihari Purohit	Sita By Nandini Sahu	Fulltext
03	Iram Shafi Allaie	The Book of Gold Leaves By Mirza Waheed	Fulltext
04	Khan Touseef Osman	The Shadow Lines By Amitav Ghosh	Fulltext

 

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