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Welcome Readers! This blog is a part of thinking activity assisgened in classroom Click Here to know more about it..                                "The White Tiger" "The White Tiger"   is a debut novel written by Indian author Arvind Adiga ,  was published in 2008 and won the 40 th Man Booker Prize in the same year as well. This ground breaking Epistolary novel moves further with the binary narrative of Indian society in a letter from having seven chapters, which is a hard hitting on the naked reality of India, striking in different cultures and compromises two faces, brighter and darker side of India in a term of exploitation of various sections in rising India through the character of Balram Halwai- a modern Indian hero. His views on rich and poor India get more crystal clear when Arvind Adiga quotes, “The dreams of the rich, and the dreams of the poor-...

✓   How ON@TCC shaped me? Since the five years I am diving up in the ocean of literature and the journey is still going on and through these years I came across many novels, short stories and poems. During this I learnt that “Literature holds up a mirror to the society”. Recently I read Chetan Bhgat’s best-selling novel “One Night @ The Call Centre”.   Now let me tell you little about this particular novel, how it helps me in becoming better me. Though I heard about   Chetan Bhagat as a voice of young India, never read any of his work. This was for the first time I read ON@TCC. Have you ever think about a bollywood scene of   having a cup of hot tea/coffee in winter night and you are reading something which smoothen your mind with having a storyline that provide you a lesson to come across certain problems in your life. Then perhaps ON@TCC is fine choice for you guys. “The more you read, the more lives you live within one life” All the six ...

Sunday Reading: Literature and Religion We used to give many metaphors to literature such as  a very famous is that ‘Literature is mirror of society’. It projects the virtues of society and ill side of society as well. It is also widely said that it is an imitation of human action; here one thing that we all have to keep in mind is that literature is not only a reflection of society but it is a corrective mirror as well which demands us to bring some positive changes rather than following blind beliefs.  Because of this we can always find a conflict between religion and literature, literature helps in broaden our horizon whereas religion encroaches it. Though the religion is all about myth and narratives which are known to us and we follow it without thinking rationally. Religion blinds a man very strongly that he/she might not able to think rationaly or to question anything. Where as poetry as a part of literature, it is a criticism of life; aims to make p...

What do you think about Cultural Study?     To put it in a simple words, it is about  culture, we surrounded by and how the surrounding affect us in creating our dynamic personality as well as in instilling a sense of belongings.  Cultural shall be remain different from person to person or from place to place as it is acquired by different people in different manners. Moving further to it, in a literary language it can be defined as… Cultural Study is an interdisciplinary study that investigates the ways in which ‘culture’ creates and transforms individual experiences, everyday life, social relations and power as well. Indeed, it deals with all the humanities such as Psychology, Philosophy, Sociology and so on. In fact it is an umbrella term and it has a very deeper significant. As a consequence, cultural study also became a part of NTA,NET examination. In order to enlighten us with the field of cultural study and how it works, on the 26 th ...

Language Lab Review A Language Lab is a dedicated space for foreign language learning. It is a platform where one can easily learn foreign language by accessing audio-video materials as well is helps a lot in enhancing ones LSRW skills. In order to learn second language and to enhance our knowledge about it, particular task about language lab was assigned to us by professor, Click Here to know more about it. Five Advantages of Language Learning software 1) In India, we are learning English as a second language that’s why perhaps for everyone, it becomes difficult for us to catch the exact pronunciations of words. Language Lab helps to learn the exact pronunciation.   It also allows us to record our pronunciation of particular word, after that we can compare it with its actual pronunciation. This helps to learn the foreign accent as well as various aspects of phonetics of language. 2) In every learning programme at the starting point, it provides a basic u...