Contemporary Literary Review India

12-25

Authors: Inakali Assumi

Arundhati Roy in her novel The Ministry of Utmost Happiness has talked about numerous socio-political issues as the novel is set against the background of the Indo Pakistan riot. It revolves around a character named Anjum, also known as Aftab who is a hermaphrodite, and through her Roy portrays the third gender of the Indian society. The novel traces the life of Anjum and how she was able to break the misconception and the stereotyping of the hijras. This paper aims to explore the themes of love and sexuality which are vividly portrayed in Arundhati Roy’s novel The Ministry of Utmost Happiness. The major characters in the novel struggle to find a sense of belongingness and acceptance in the world which is divided in the name of gender, sexuality, class, politics etc. This paper analyses the psychological trauma and the complexity in the relationships of the two major characters Anjum and Tilo.

33-49

Authors: Rani Unnamalai K

Literary realism attempts to illustrate life in texts without romanticizing ordinary experiences. Upamanyu Chatterjee's work English, August presents the people of rural India. The protagonist of the novel, Agastya, is a civil servant and he encounters the people of Madna. I propose that in the novel’s postcolonial setting of rural India, the nation replicates the imperial power. The bureaucratic system in India poses as a mimicry of the imperialist rule; a masquerade of colonial modernity in India. This paper also examines the impact of colonialism on the individual's psyche. The characters face anxiety over self in various instances as bureaucrats and individuals. This paper seeks to explain the modernist method of writing in critiquing the colonial modernity in India and the objective reality that the realist writings tend to produce. My paper claims that the novel in the style of bildungsroman is a comical subversive critique generated against the narratives of the nation.

58-79

Authors: Dr. Tanutrushna Panigrahi

Nineteenth century Indian literary and cultural conventions were the outcome of several historical turning points. One such phenomenon was the intensifying of missionaries’ activities with the objectives of Christian propagation and religious conversion in the country. For the purpose, missionaries wrote, translated and printed massive amount of religious and secular literature and the genre of prose was the vehicle. While doing so, they introduced to the Indian literary soil a new form, and developed an identifiable literary pattern, a common literary core, and interrelatedness throughout the country which can be considered as the result of their taking the stronghold of certain cultural and literary reigns from weaker hands. This essay examines the missionaries’ role and functions in the development of the literary modernity in the nineteenth century India by taking a comparative case study of Assam and Orissa. It takes into consideration both similarities and differences in the development of prose, translation, text books and print technology.

92-108

Authors: Dr. Uttam Balu Koli

The present research article highlights the group of same letters opening with the alphabet ‘C’ in the different words of English language having different pronunciations. The group of same letters opening with the alphabet ‘C’ in the different words of English language, having different pronunciations, are 43 in numbers which are: ca, cce, ccla, cco, ccu, ce, ch, cha, che, chi, cho, chri, chro, chu, ci, cia, cka, cke, cla, cle, clea, cli, clie, clo, co, coa, coe, con, coo, cou, cqui, cra, cre, crea, cri, cro, cru, cry, cta, cti, ctro, cu and cy. The group of same letters opening with the select alphabet of ‘C’ in the different words of English language, having different pronunciations, have been written with examples including words and phonetic transcriptions which will help to acquire the proficiency over the select area of study. Conclusion and references have been included.

115-120

Authors: Arpita Chowdhury

The Stranger is a story by Arpita Chowdhury.

126-130

Authors: Debasmita Das

Just Another Story of a Hobbit a story by Debasmita Das.

137-141

Authors: Sakshi Amit Nadkarni

A Floral Love is a story Sakshi Amit Nadkarni.

145-147

Authors: Dipanjana Bandyopadhyay

Two Sisters is a poem by Dipanjana Bandyopadhyay.

154-155

Authors: Haritha Harekrishnan

Tranquility – To Accomplish is a poem by Haritha Harekrishnan.

158-160

Authors: Pramod Rastogi

Enlightenment is a poem by Pramod Rastogi.

165-166

Authors: Rohan Kumar Mohapatra

Books, not of paper is a poem by Rohan Kumar Mohapatra.

172-178

Authors: Umera Fatima Riyaz

Perplexed Souls is a poem by Umera Fatima Riyaz.

184-187

Authors: Dr. Shiv Sethi

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