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The Criterion: Vol. 5, Issue-2 (April 2014)

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C O N T E N T S 

Sr. No.Name of the AuthorTitle of the PaperPageNo.PDF
01Pyeaam Abbasi & Homa PourkaramaliThe Rime of the Ancient Mariner: An Ecocritical Approach1-15PDF
02Abhinandan MalasGender Narratives and Cultural Perspectives in Girish Karnad’s Yayati, Hayavadana and Naga-Mandala16-22PDF
03Alpana Bhargava​Samuel Johnson: The Lexicographer23-32PDF
04Dr. R. AnanthbabuWomen Empowerment: A Criticial Study of Bharati Mukherjee’s Wife33-39PDF
05Dr. Anil S. KapoorThomas Hardy: ‘The Inestimably Subtle Man of Letters’40-54PDF
06Anita SRepresentation of Women in the Works of P.G.Wodehouse55-58PDF
07Chingangbam AnupamaAn Eco-Critical Approach: A Study of Selected North East Indian Poets59-67PDF
08Archana M. KulkarniSocialism in Mulk Raj Anand’s Untouchable68-70PDF
09Arya P. A.Body and Beyond: A Feminist Reading of Kamala Das’ Love Poems71-79PDF
10Ayusman ChakrabortyPandurang Hari and the Criticism of British Rule in India: An Assessment80-86PDF
11Badakynti Nylla IangngapA Postcolonial Reading of Isabel Allende’s Eva Luna87-95PDF
12Bilquees DarAga Shahid Ali as a Daisporic Poet96-99PDF
13Mereleen Lily Lyngdoh Y. BlahIf I Write You Are Not Dead100-103PDF
14Charanpreet RandhawaPresentation of Political Upheavals in Rohinton Mistry’s Such A Long Journey104-109PDF
15Mukhtar Ahmad DarArt and Activism: A Study of Mahasweta Devi’s Mother of 1084110-117PDF
16Saptorshi Das & Dr. (Prof) Arindam ModakSophocles’ Antigone: A Feminist Representation118-122PDF
17Dharmendra SinghTorn between Two Cultures: Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Namesake123-128PDF
18Divya BakshiDetexting Hypertext129-133PDF
19Farha Naz FarrukhFeminist Perspective in Anita Desai’s Where Shall We Go This Summer?134-137PDF
20Farooq Ahmad SheikhIt is all about Big God versus Small God: A Reader’s Response to Chapter One of The God of Small Things138-144PDF
21Firdous Ahmad MirIslam : V. S. Naipaul’s Politics145-155PDF
22Darbarsing D. GiraseDivakaruni’s Arranged Marriage: A Saga of Peripheral Existence156-160PDF
23Hanan AlazazThe Word as a Sword: Linguistic Resistance in Gulliver's Travels161-168PDF
24Hari Babu ThammineniGandhism Is Always a Powerful Tool of Social Change: A Study of Vizai
Bhaskar’s The Return of Gandhi
169-171PDF
25Dr. Harish G. TapadiaPortrayal of Tender Brother-Sister Relationship in George Eliot’s The Mill on the Floss172-176PDF
26Insha SirajCelebrating Womanhood in Kamala Markandaya’s Nectar in a Sieve177-181PDF
27Aneyes Ul IslamReading Khaled Hosseini’s A Thousand Splendid Suns as a Novel of Women Resilience182-187PDF
28Jasmine FernandezBack to Nature: A Reading of Kiran Desai’s Hullabaloo in the Guava
Orchard
188-195PDF
29Jayanta RanaExploration of English as the ‘Power’ Language in Mulk Raj Anand’s
Early Novels
196-203PDF
30Jharana Rani Dh. MajhiTranslating the Untranslatable: The Politics of Language in the English
Translation of Yajnaseni
204-209PDF
31Dr. Kafeel Ahmed ChoudhuryThe Other Feminine: Status of Women in Islam in a Globalized World210-215PDF
32Kiranpreet KaurDo You Know Me? The Study of Fear of Losing Identity in Manto’s Toba
Tek Singh
216-220PDF
33Sk. KhamarjahanDisquisition of Women Characters in Amitav Ghosh’s The Glass Palace221-228PDF
34Khushee SarohaA Regional Study of Dalit Autobiographies from Maharashtra, Uttar Pradesh and Punjab229-238PDF
35Latha K. ReddyMyth Ritual of Akkammadeities by Urumulavaru239-243PDF
36Dr.Bolla.Mallikharjuna RaoR.K.Narayan’s Talkative Man: A Study in Architectonic Quality244-248PDF
37ManjuClass Classification in Arnold Wesker’s Roots249-252PDF
38Mehvish SyedPatriarchal Pathology: The Case of Sam Shepard’s Buried Child and Mahesh Dattani’s Where There’s a Will253-259PDF
39Misha JoseMarriage to Morbidity: Women in Anita Desai’s Cry, the Peacock and Bharathi Mukherjee’s Wife260-264PDF
40Mohd MohsinAn Ecofeministic Reading of Leslie Marmon Silko’s Storyteller, Lullaby and
Yellow Woman
265-272PDF
41Dr. Mona GoelAn Analysis of Mother-Daughter Relationship in Difficult Daughters273-278PDF
42Naveen Kumar PathakEnglish Education: A New Mantra of Social and Economic Development in Rural India279-281PDF
43Dr. Nazia HasanThe World Breathes in Polyphony: Rushdie’s Resistance to Designed Uniformity through Haroun and the Sea of Stories282-289PDF
44Neelam Sanwal BhardwajEnlarging the Limits of the Canvas: Feminist Perspective in Githa Hariharan’s The Ghosts of Vasu Master290-295PDF
45Nivedita LahkarThe Idea of Nation as Heterogeneous: Midnight’s Children and The Shadow
Lines
296-298PDF
46Omila ThounaojamDislocation and Relocation in Toni Morrison’s Jazz299-305PDF
47Amitava PalLatent Lust in The Last Ride Together: A Study in Deconstruction and
Psychoanalysis
306-311PDF
48Dr. Pallavi BanerjeeThe Bluest Eye to Love: Thematic and Structural Evolution in the Fiction of
Toni Morrison
312-320PDF
49Ram Naresh PatelA Dalit’s Voice of Oppression, Resistance and Empowerment: A Critique of K.A. Gunasekaran’s The Scar321-326PDF
50Dr. Susant Kumar PatnaikFigure of Speech in R.K.Narayan’s The Bachelor of Arts: A Stylistic Approach327-334PDF
51Prabalika SarmaThe Portrayal of Violence in the Writings of Temsula Ao and Easterine Iralu335-342PDF
52Prakash Chandra PatelKiran Desai’s The Inheritance of Loss: A Saga of Human Relations343-348PDF
53Prasanta GhoshalMultiplicity and ‘Power’ of Rituals in Shri Jagannatha Temple349-357PDF
54Dr. Pratibha KalaniThe Nirvitarka Concentration as Represented in Narayan's Mr. Sampath358-363PDF
55Priyanka MaralEcocritism in Amitav Ghosh’s Sea of Poppies364-369PDF
56Dr. Rajani SharmaT. S. Eliot’s The Waste Land: A Perspective on Indian Thoughts370-377PDF
57Rajashree Pandiyan & Dr. Palany ArangasamySemiotics: A Literary Genre Universal378-383PDF
58Rakhi N PEcological Imperialism and its New Face: The Impact of Technology, Capitalism and Colonialism on Postcolonial Ecologies384-388PDF
59Ram Naresh SahDalit Voices: A Comparative Study of the Novels of Mulk Raj Anand and Richard Wright389-395PDF
60Prabhat RanaMaternity “Bastilled”: Vindicating the Suffering Revolutionary Women in Mary Wollstonecraft’s Maria396-401PDF
61S.RangarajanQuilting Relationships between Christopher Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus and William Shakespeare’s The Tempest402-406PDF
62Rathod Rameshwar BalchandA Postcolonial Interpretation of the Colonized: A Study of the
Autobiographical Elements in V.S. Naipaul's The Mystic Masseur
407-410PDF
63Ravi KantDalit Iconography and Modes of Resistance: Defying ‘an Aesthetic’411-418PDF
64Reshu Gupta & Vivek GaurIndo-English Women Poetry: A Journey from Feminism to Post-Feminism419-423PDF
65Rinkoo WadheraBucolic Imaginings and Urban Reality: Nissim Ezekiel’s Poetry Suspended in
Mid-Space
424-437PDF
66Rohini V. PathakInfluence of Society in Meena Kandasamy’s Social and Poetic Identity Reflected in her Poetry438-443PDF
67RupaVemuri & Prof. C.L.L.JayapradaThe Indian Urge to Rewrite: A Critical Study of Postmodern Indian English Historical Fiction444-453PDF
68Dr. Sadhana SharmaMahasweta Devi’s Outcast: Four Stories: The Subaltern do Speak454-459PDF
69Sambuddha Ghosh‘The World is Like a Mask Dancing’: Exploring Pluralist Paradigms of History in Chinua Achebe’s Arrow of God460-466PDF
70Muhammad Reza Samimi & Pyeaam AbbasiCultural Presuppositions in Translation from Persian into English: A Case Study of Two Persian Novels: The Blind Owl and The School Principal467-480PDF
71Dr. Sandhya GuptaGauri Deshpande’s between Births: Unravelling Poetic Sensibility481-487PDF
72Sarap N.S., Mahadik R.P. & Mehta P.G.Difficulties Faced by B.Sc. Agriculture Students in Learning and Use of
English
488-497PDF
73P. Saravanakumar & Dr.D.ShanmugamSeeking Comfort in the Same Sex: An Analysis of Female Characters in Anita Nair’s Ladies Coupe’498-507PDF
74Seema Sharma & Dr. Vidushi SharmaTed Hughes’ Poetry of Manichaean Paradoxes508-513PDF
75Sejal Mahendru The Interplay of Cinema and Theatre in the Shakespearean Trilogy of Lawrence Olivier514-521PDF
76Shailaja A. ChangundiDweller Diaspora in Iain M. Banks’ The Algebraist522-527PDF
77Farah SiddiquiMemory as the Axis of Poetry: A Study of A.K. Ramanujan’s Obituary528-533PDF
78Simwa SolomonModernizing Genre: Subversion of the Epic in Witi Ihimaera’s The Whale Rider534-537PDF
79M. SivapriyaA Seamless Transition from the Fictional to the Real in Anuradha Marwah’s A Pipe Dream in Delhi538-546PDF
80Smita SahuThe Emergence of Environmental Justice in Literature547-551PDF
81Dr. Sneh GuptaConfronting Reality: A Study on Naipaul’s India: A Wounded Civilization552-558PDF
82Dr. Sohail AhmedSocio-Political Irregularities/Anarchy and Caste Aberrations in Rohinton
Mistry’s Such a Long Journey and A Fine Balance
559-564PDF
83M. Subha & Dr. T. JayasudhaPostmodern Bricolage: A Study of Rahul Bhattacharya’s The Sly Company of People who Care565-570PDF
84Suchitra PramanikIgbo Culture as Colonial Resistance in Arrow of God571-580PDF
85Sukriti SobtiCreating Communities, Forming Families: Black Women in the American City581-587PDF
86Swati ChandraRashsundari Debi’s Amar Jiban and Binodini Dasi’s My Story and My Life as an Actress: A Comparative Study588-591PDF
87Tamali BhattacharjeeExploring the Self: A Study of Hazlitt’s My First Acquaintance with Poets592-596PDF
88Tripti TyagiRepresentation of History in Girish Karnad’s Tughlaq597-606PDF
89Dr. Vidushi SharmaSearch for Identity in the Poetry of Modern Indo-English Women Poets607-612PDF
90Vivek GaurInterrogating the Margins through Wordsworth’s Romanticism and Patanjali’s Yogasutra613-618PDF
91Zhou YunThe Difficulties in Translation Work and the Role of Translator619-622PDF
Poetry
01Bhaskaranand Jha BhaskarHues of Life623PDF
02Jawaid Danish Uprising ! (Translated by : Bina Biswas)624PDF
03Cleber PachecoVisions625PDF
04G David SchwartzSocrates Had Two Knees626PDF
05Frank ZahnA Sensuous Pause627PDF
06George K. KarosThe Foundry of Trapped Observations628PDF
07Jonathan DoughtyInheritance/Iteration629PDF
08Lara BiyutsElegiac Stroll630PDF
09Lovely Dutta PrustyMaa631-632PDF
10Dr. Madhuri SoodThe Old Age633PDF
11Mrinal Kanti GhoshRosalind I Am634-635PDF
12Prabal J. RoddannavarA Call at the Door636-637PDF
13Rupesh SinghShe Walks In Beauty638PDF
14Sarita JenamaniAscendant639PDF
15Dr. Abdullah ShaghiUn-Heavily Rained640PDF
16Dr. Shalini YadavI am Chaste641-642PDF
17Shobhana KumarBook of Monuments643PDF
18Siam HussainBeing a Ghost644PDF
19Dr. V. SunithaQuestion Mark645-646PDF
20Jawaid DanishI Was Not Your Virgin Touch! (Translated by: Varsha Singh)647PDF
Fiction
01Bruce ColbertAngel of the Morning648-661PDF
02Iram FatimaThe Compromise662-667PDF
03Jason FordA Signal from another Species668-680PDF
04Ramesh TiwariOur Inspirations are the Will of God681-686PDF
05Ravi KantThe Last Draught of Water: In Retrospect687-689PDF
06Rumpa DasPuja Thoughts690-691PDF
Review
01Abu SufianLong Day's Journey into Night by Eugene O'Neill692-695PDF
02Chittaranjan BhoiA Daughter Speaks (A Collection of Poems) by Shruti Das696-700PDF
03Dr. Hassen ZRIBAAfter the Arab Spring: How Islamists Hijacked The Middle East Revolts By John R. Bradley701-705PDF
04Hiren ZalaAll & Everything in Diagrams by Mohan Vaishnav706-708PDF
05Ram Avadh PrajapatiThe Mouth of Truth by S.C. Dwivedi709-711PDF
06Varsha SinghThe Ballad of the Bleeding Bubbles; A Fabulous
Bouquet of Love Poems by Ratan Bhattacharjee
712-713PDF
07Syeda Shahzia Batool NaqviDiaries of Traveler and Madman’s Song by K’nitin Sarma714-718PDF


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Wednesday, April 30, 2014

The Criterion: Vol. 5, Issue-1

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Sr. No.Name of the AuthorTitle of the PaperPg.No. PDF
01Abhishek DasHindu: Activism, Aesthetics and the Future01-05PDF
02Ajoy BattaFranz Kafka: Envisioning Derridean Concepts06-10PDF
03Altaf Ahmad Ganaie &
Dr. R.S. Chauhan
Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things: A Feminist Perspective11-13PDF
04Anju BalaSilence No More: A Study of Mahasweta Devi’s Draupadi14-16PDF
05S.A.Thameemul AnsariDiscourse on the Theme of ‘Self-determinism’ in Fourth World Literature17-21PDF
06Arpita PrasadProblematisation of the Image of Helen Keller in The Story of my Life22-24PDF
07Anil Shrirang AwadAcculturation of the Folk Dances: Special Reference to Maharashtra25-30PDF
08Basanti KarmakarVijay Tendulkar’s Kanyadaan: A Journey from Ignorance to Experience31-35PDF
09Dr. Vandana BhattThe Chaos of the Melting Pot: Multiculturalism in Bharati Mukherjee’s Fiction36-39PDF
10Dr. Mohd Shafi Dar &
Rashma Siraj
Acculturation in the Novels of V.S. Naipaul40-45PDF
11Dr. Deepti SharmaCaste System, the Scourge of Indian Civilization and Culture: Bama’s Karukku46-51PDF
12Farah Deeba ShafiqRevitalizing the Tradition: Mahesh Dattani’s Contribution to Indian English Drama52-62PDF
13Imran Majeed BhatTheatre of the Absurd and Samuel Beckett63-69PDF
14Irfan Mohammad MalikPossession as a Fictional Hybrid: A.S Byatt’s Tryst with Postmodernism70-72PDF
15Finitha JoseChildren’s Books Adaptations: A Reading of War Horse73-79PDF
16Ravinder KaurFlaubert’s Madame Bovary: A Paradigm of Lacanian Desire80-85PDF
17Dr. (Mrs.) Prabha Vig &
Komal Sharma
Comparative Analysis of Influence of Gender on Reading Interest of Inservice and Pre-service Teachers86-101PDF
18Ihsan-ur-Rahim MalikShakespeare’s Tragic Vision102-105PDF
19Dr. Meenu KhyaliaTheme of Alienation in Shashi Deshpande’s Moving On106-111PDF
20Saikat NandiConrad’s Treatment of Women in Heart of Darkness112-115PDF
21Neelima V.From Repudiation to Reconciliation: Mothers and Daughters in Amy Tan’s The Joy Luck Club116-119PDF
22Nibedita BandyopadhyayThe Role of Science and Technology as a Metaphor in Pynchon’s The Crying of Lot 49120-123PDF
23Raul Palma"All that David Copperfield kind of crap": The Explicit and Non-Explicit Unreliable Narrator124-131PDF
24Pouya Gholamalipur &
Mohammad Ali Alaeddini
Anti-Colonial Oscar Wilde: Homoeroticism in Classical Greece132-140PDF
25Chinta Praveen KumarGuilty Pleasures141-145PDF
26Raghul V. RajanThe Politics of Liberation in Kanthapura and its Upshot in Train to Pakistan: A Fanonean Critique146-152PDF
27Rajni KantEmpowering Women: A Feminist Reading of Kamala Das’ Works153-160PDF
28Dr. T Narayana &
BV Ramani
Human Elements in Gita Mehta’s A River Sutra161-166PDF
29Jayanta Rana‘Gendered Home’ in the Short Stories of Shashi Deshpande167-172PDF
30Reena VermaCreative Use of Language in Keats’s Odes: A Study in the light of Rīti Siddhānta (Theory of Style)173-182PDF
31P.RenugaThe Evolution of Feminine Freedom: A Study of Shashi Deshpande’s That Long Silence183-185PDF
32Reshu GuptaLand and Landscape in Anita Desai’s Cry, the Peacock186-191PDF
33Ruchi TomarMapping Subaltern Crisis in Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things192-196PDF
34Sadia HasanIt’s a SMALL’s World: Children’s Fiction in English197-200PDF
35Ch.S.SailajaA Comparative Study of Achievement in Grammar and Performance on a Cross Word Puzzle in English Grammar201-216PDF
36Santulan MahantaMutual Dependence of Power and Language217-220PDF
37Surajit SenNarrative Design of Ruskin Bond’s The Blue Umbrella: A Todorovian Model221-224PDF
38Anayat ShahOdyssey of Education in Kashmir and the Emergence of English Language225-231PDF
39Shaheena AkhtarSmall Remedies: Roads to Recovery232-244PDF
40Dr. Shalini YadavEthnic Transformation: Tara’s Forever Revolving Identity in Bharati Mukherjee’s Desirable Daughters245-252PDF
41Dr. Sheeba Azhar & Dr. Syed Abid AliTeaching English in Professional Colleges of Saudi Arabia: Trends and Challenges253-261PDF
42Beetoshok SinghaKipling’s Imperial Anxiety: A Study of The Strange Ride of Morrowbie Jukes262-268PDF
43Dr.Sonia khandelwalTechnique in the Novels of Lawrence Durrell269-281PDF
44P.Subapradha & Dr. R. ShanthiGynocentric Perspective of Morag Gunn in Margaret Laurence’s The Diviners282-285PDF
45Dr. Sutanu Kumar MahapatraNationhood, Secularism and Politics in Girish Karnad’s Tughlaq286-295PDF
46Dr. (Mrs) Jubanlak SutngaThe Identity of the Artist: Michael Ondaatje’s The Collected Works of Billy the Kid296-305PDF
47Sakshi ThakurTrain to Pakistan: A Direct Gaze at the Ugliness of Partition306-313PDF
48Vibhuti WadhawanDualistic Modernity and the Illegitimacy of Nationalism in Tagore’s The Home and the World314-321PDF
49Gaganpreet WaliaThe Role of Contexts in Textual Understanding of Literature322-329PDF
50Wasia MushtaqReligion and Literature: A Poetic Interface330-335PDF

B O O K    R E V I E W

01Hiren ZalaAll & Everything in Diagrams by Mohan Vaishnav336PDF
02Syeda Shahzia Batool NaqviSilhouette of Reflections by Neelam Saxena Chandra337-340PDF
03Dr Karanam R RaoMother’s Veena and other Poems by Anna Sujatha Mathai341-342PDF
04Nirjharini TripathyThe Street by Ann Petry343-349PDF
05Varsha SinghCurse of the Kalingan by Shobha Nihalani350-351PDF

I N T E R V I E W

01Gulnaz FatimaGulnaz Fatima in Conversation with Ruskin Bond352-357PDF

F I C T  I O N

01Arunabha GhoshThe Notebook358-362PDF
02Pratap Kumar DashThe Lost Identity363-371PDF
03Dr. Pushpa VKVoiceless Voices…372-375PDF
P O E T R Y

01AashmikaBorn376-380PDF
02Pijush Kanti DebAn Old Bi-Cycle381-382PDF
03Diane DehlerAnima/Animus383PDF
04Dr. Anupam R. NagarFarewell384PDF
05Peter CowlamRealpolitik385PDF
06Prabhat JhaA Young Man's Confession386​PDF
07Showkat Hussain DarMy Homeland387-388PDF
08G.H. SmithDepartures389PDF
09Subham GangulyAn Ode to My Confusions390-391PDF
10Sukrita Paul KumarResurrection392PDF

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Shanghai Jiao Tong University
The Knowledge Network
Vrije Universiteit, Brussel
Every Writer's Resource 
National Library of Sweden
Index Copernicus
University of Washington
Duotrope's Digest
Georgetown University
SPARC EUROPE
Colorado State University
Manual Library
ChaoYung University of Technology
The University of Hong Kong
Saint-Petersburg State University community
eBooks Center, UK 
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WorldCat
Kaohsiung Medical University
University of South Australia
Library of Congress
University of Oxford 
Emily Carr University of Art and Design
Wells College, USA
Western Theological Seminary
University of SaskatChewan
Science Center Berlin for Social Research, Berlin

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