Contemporary Literary Review India

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Authors: Anand Bajaj, Kumar Parag

The article focuses on fiction of Taslima Nasrin that highlights the hardships faced by women in a third-world orthodox society of Bangladesh. The article explores to establish that Nasrin, quite contrary to the charge of just being a propagandistic writer, is actually an astute social observer. In her writing, she provides solutions, which are in sync with her radical feminist stance. The paper shows that Nasrin challenges the patriarchal society and tries to give the message that submissive women can’t create a just society.

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Authors: Gudepu Manju Latha

The traditions, culture and society in India have given precedence to men over women in multitude of issues concerning family, administration, decision-making and several other matters of high magnitude. This gender bias has gradually taken a shape as male chauvinism, which resulted in the oppression of women and subjected them to insufferable physical, psychological, moral and ethical castigation. Women, albeit contribute equally with men in societal and domestic affairs, are not allowed to enjoy equal status with men in traditional India. Indian society has always manifested them as obedient daughters, dedicated mothers, devoted wives and loving siblings. The funniest thing in Indian culture is a mother, being a woman, alienates her daughter and manifests antagonism to her, if she makes attempts to question gender-bias in her family or in society. The novel is an impeccable manifestation of post colonial period where a woman is fighting for her constitutional rights for education and power. The female protagonist Saritha in the novel acquires good education and becomes a doctor despite her mother’s antipathy to girl education. She sustains her mother’s antagonism to her who perpetually maltreats her with her offhand attitude to her very existence in the family as she wrongly concludes her as the murderess of her dear brother, Dhruva. Further, she is estranged from her family as she marries a person of her choice. Her husband, Manohar is a school teacher. Saritha, being a doctor, achieves a quick identity in the society which is quite distasteful and unendurable to Manohar. Consequently he develops inferiority complex and starts humiliating her. She realizes that her professional success has made hers an ill-starred marriage. She decides not to be a victim of her husband’s sadism. Her introspective thinking fills her mind with abundant strength to move ahead in her life. The article delineates Shashi Deshpande’s powerful portrayal of a woman, who undauntedly fights with the world that gives no countenance to her aspirations, and proves her identity by being independent and self-reliant.

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Authors: Dharmana K Chaitanya

Life's Fiction is a story by Dharmana K Chaitanya. A silent village girl who tries to unleash her thoughts, but find's more fictional her life than real. When the realistic problems reache threshhold limit, she quests for a life to be more fictional. Thus her story twists.

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Authors: Javed Latoo

When he reached a fork in his road and I know some of us have a beautiful mind are the poems written by Dr. Javed Latoo.

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Authors: Richa Tripathi

I am Sita is a poem by Richa Tripathi. This poem talks about the inner strom of Sita after her abduction by Ravan when she was counting her days without her eternal love for Shri Ram.

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Authors: Navdeep Kaur

The book After Amnesia is an original research on the plight of bhasa criticism (criticism on language) since the beginning of 19th century when the trasitional change in the bhasa criticism was grafted with the Euro- centric criticism. The book deals with the memory disorder that made indian bhasa critcs to forget the link between pre-British bhasa tradition and modern bhasa criticism.

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Authors: Dr. Dalip Khetarpal

Book Review on Prof. Pashupati Jha’s Taking on Tough Times by Dr. Dalip Khetarpal. Most of the poems in the anthology, Taking on Tough Times, suggest how our beautiful and sacred earth has been deprived of all its spiritual and moral values that humanity cherishes, that man should formulate and imbibe. Disenchanted thus, with all-pervasive ills and evils, the poet vents the plethora of his disgruntled feelings through this anthology, enriched with his own philosophy, love, a deep sense of humanitarianism, proletarianism, optimism and undying faith in God.