Contemporary Literary Review India

7-14

Authors: Dr Shiv Govind Puri

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni is a diasporic writer who migrated to America from West Bengal. Though settled down in the new land, she sees the country India as her native village where she had spent her early days of life. This is the connection of the writer to her native land. She visits her place Kolkata as a place of her olden roots with her American husband. Divakaruni in her novel The Palace of Illusions talks of the social conditioning of a woman who descends her positioning in the cultural paradigm. She also talks of the significance of cultural scripts, which provokes a woman to negotiate her with space created through undergoing agency. The agency helps the society to have the desired result. Under the paradigm of discourse literary assignments correct the agenda from time to time. Through her text, Divakaruni tends to establish that the migration in the life of a woman is very significant as it liberates her from tradition as well as scripts. The new land’s experience generates fluid of renegotiation which can be accessible only after abolishing the olden, traditional space. Jasbir Jain posits the condition of a woman who wants to be diasporic, “wishes to renegotiate both the cultures simultaneously primarily because it is not possible to relate to the new reality without altering inherited constructs. You simply cannot relocate them as they are (Jasbir Jain Writing Women Across Cultures, 141).

31-45

Authors: Tanvi Gupta

A civil rights activist who fought against hypocrisy and inequity, Audre Lorde (February, 1934 – November, 1992), was an African-Caribbean American writer, or as she identified herself, “a black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet’. In her book Zami: A New Spelling of My Name (1982), which she describes as “…an unfolding of my life and loves” and a Biomythography, i.e. an amalgamation of history, myth, and biography, Lorde subtly placed her own story in light of everything that was essentially wrong with America in the fifties (Lorde 190).

50-69

Authors: Deepa Bhandaru

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74-79

Authors: Syed Kazmi Ali Kazmi

The story is about an internal and physical suffering of a cancer patient. His life is a bundle of misery and he wishes to leave this life for peace. How the protagonist tries to find meanings in his life by indulging himself in dreams where everything is more real for him. To read this article online, open in html page. You may also download the PDF copy of this article. You are permitted to save this article for future reference.

89-96

Authors: Collins Justine Peter

This story narrates the protagonist's (Romer) idea of parenthood and his own excitement of becoming a parent revealed through various instances, conversations with characters who he encounters on a single day. To read this article online, open in html page. You may also download the PDF copy of this article. You are permitted to save this article for future reference.

105-106

Authors: Saronik Bosu

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109

Authors: Dr. Divya S.P. Das

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117-118

Authors: Kate Linden

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121-125

Authors: Daniel de Cullá

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131-136

Authors: Tatjana Debeljacki

Book Review on A House Made Of Glass To read this article online, open in html page. You may also download the PDF copy of this article. You are permitted to save this article for future reference.

15-18

Authors: Dr Mohammad Ameen Parray

Dr Mohammad Ameen Parray regularly contributes to various newspapers including the Greater Kashmir, the Kashmir Times, the Rising Kashmir, the Kashmir Uzma, and the Kashmir Dispatch, sometimes with the pen name Ameen Fayaz. Dispatch 4 is one of the series of his stories published with CLRI.

27-42

Authors: Vijaya Bhaskar

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47-49

Authors: Gary Beck

Gary Beck 312 East 30th Street, #5E New York, NY 10016 (212) 481-8220 garycbeck@yahoo.com www.garycbeck.com www.facebook/AuthorGaryBeck

55-57

Authors: Rita Bhattacharjee

Persephone is a poem written by Rita Bhattacharjee.

73-81

Authors: Piya Chakrabarti

Piya is very much artistically inclined and her passions include classical literature, linguistics, painting, embroidery, gardening, cooking and mathematics. Her persistent dream from childhood is to become an author. She likes to experiment with her paintings.

15-20

Authors: Shihabudheen C

Laila Halaby’s Once in a Promised Land is one of the most interesting of novels published in post-9/11 America. No one, who is interested in contemporary American fiction, can overlook this work by Halaby who is herself an Arab American. The novel is noteworthy in that it projects a striking image of America in general and of post-9/11 America in particular. In the process, it poignantly unveils the experience of Arab-Americans in the wake of the 9/11- terrorist onslaught. This paper is an attempt to briefly explore this aspect of the novel. In the current, post-9/11 international political scenario, Halaby’s novel certainly has a considerable amount of significance about it. The life of the Arab-American diaspora is of special concern today. For, Americans of Arab origin have all been seekers of the Golden Fleece in America. The novel throws light on how gratifying the Golden Fleece is now to them. Scrutiny of the post-9/11 Arab American experience in the novel will also help us understand some of the issues that even in our civilized world still shadow the phenomenon of exile and expatriation.

24-27

Authors: Ritu Bajaj

A Letter to a Hindu — Essay of Leo Tolstoy is a fiction work by Ritu Bajaj.

31-43

Authors: Dr. Dalip Kumar Khetarpal

Christ’s Second Coming — A Spiritual Rationalist’s Perception is a poem by Dr. Dalip Kumar Khetarpal.

48-50

Authors: Jayendrina Singha Ray

Mariners Lost in their Albatrosses is a poem by Jayendrina Singha Ray.

53-54

Authors: Rimni Chakravarty

Seasons is a poem by Rimni Chakravarty.