Vol 4 No 2
Shimla Journal of Poetry and Criticism
Shimla Journal of Poetry and Criticism
The Homo sapiens as you and I represent today, is a young species. We may havesurvived a difficult challenge…that of survival. One reason for this successful survivalagainst all odds of the law of jungle was the social evolution of the human being. Man learntto use coordinated ways of cooperation as modus operandi for long-term continuance….
The Indian untouchables form a thick crust of faceless and nameless human anthill which has no singer of their own agonies. In social arena, it is the high caste Hindu reformers who weep for them… But what is pitiable is the absence of any literary efforts by the untouchables to stimulate and inspire a genuine…
Indian women’s poetry in English, still a marginalized area of critical study, is slowlygaining ground as a significant and identifiable area of research. The woman writer’sreconstruction of life through the various literary forms and modes emphasizes the validity ofBeheroze Shroff’s statement: “The time has come for women to stop seeing through men’seyes and language–we have…
The arrest of Yashpal brought his revolutionary activism to silence. The zest to do something for the betterment of the society at a micro and of the nation at the macro perspective could no longer be achieved as a revolutionary any more. But those who live with the resolve to serve the nation relentlessly cannot…
A poet, publisher, editor, novelist, and actor, Raewyn Alexander, with the publication of her first novel Fat (1996)1 , makes a path breaking entry into New Zealand’s literary world of fiction. With her emerges a new paradigm of women’s writing which is not anti-male, but probably indirectly pities men. Prior to her, no novelist has…
Set against the backdrop of postcolonial era in Kenya, Ngugi wa Thiong’o’s Devil on the Cross portrays irony at its crest – with the devil on the cross instead of Jesus. Written entirely in Ngugi wa Thiong’o’s Gikuyu language after he stated that he would no longer put pen to paper in English, the tome…
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