DALIT POETRY IN INDIA – A HOICK WAVE IN INDIAN ENGLISH LITERATURE. Literature has the power and ability to construct and protect the cultural space of various communities. It also plays a vital role in providing more opportunities for self realization of any community by providing necessary information about the cultural, history and customary practices. The greater tradition could be visualized, imagined and witnessed through an effective literary presentation. This leads to the self realization of one’s cultural identity which will make the individual to hold the culture and other identity at the top. It is being adopted as a strategy for social change and social movements by the people in power, since literature possesses a greater value in the political dynamics of any state. These days discussions are going on the problems of marginalised groups of people all over the world-their social, ethnic, economic and cultural problems. Marginality with all its aspects is inde...
Ruskin Bond Ruskin Bond (born 19, May 1934) is an Indian author. His first novel, The Room on the Roof , published in 1956, received the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize . Bond has authored more than 500 short stories, essays, and novels which includes 69 books for children. He was awarded the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1992 for Our Trees Still Grow in Dehra . He was awarded the Padma Shri in 1999 and Padma Bhushan in 2014. Life: Ruskin Bond was born on 19 May 1934 in Kasauli , Punjab States Agency , British India . His father, Aubrey Alexander Bond, who was British, was born in a military camp in Shahjahanpur, a small town in north India. His mother, Edith Clarke, was Anglo-Indian . His father taught English to the princesses of Jamnagar palace , and Ruskin and his sister Ellen lived there till he was six. Later, Ruskin's father joined the Royal Air Force i...
FIGURES OF SPEECH... A Figure of Speech is a departure from the ordinary form of expression, or the ordinary course of ideas in order to produce a greater effect. Figures of speech often provides emphasis, freshness of expression, or clarity. Figurative language is the opposite of literal language. Literal language means exactly what it says. Figurative language means something different to (and usually more than) what it says on the surface Functions of Figures of Speech: To arrest the attention and retain it To stimulate the imagination To excite the emotions To compel by their Force and to allure by their charm To persuade or to please Figures of Speech may be classified as under: a) Those based on Resemblance such as Allegory, Apostrophe, Euphemism, Imagery, Metaphor, Pathetic Fallacy, Personification and Simile b) Those based on contrast such as Antithesis, Epigram, Oxymoron, Paradox and Pun c) Those based on association such as Metonymy, Symbol an...
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