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ON@TCC: Portrayal of youth of modern Indian Middle class

Portrayal of middle class modern youth in Bhagat's ON@TCC   Paper no.13 The New Literature   Sem- 4   Roll No. 17   Email: italiyaminkal@gmail.com   Batch: 2018-2020   S.B.Gardi Department of English, MKBU Portrayal of middle class modern youth in Bhagat's ON@TCC          ~ Introduction:                     After the grand success of “Five Points to Someone”, Chetan Bhagat, author of blockbuster novel came up with his “One Night @ the Call Centre” in 2008. This novel holds mirror to the society that reflects the realistic problems of real India. In most of his novel, he is dealing with the realistic problems of real India. Unlike R.K.Narayan's Malgudi and Hardy's Weseex, his novel set in real world India. His ON@TCC is a study of reciprocal relationship between society and modern youth whereas each and every characters appears with reali...

"To the Indians who died in South Africa"

Introduction of writer:     Thomas Stearns Eliot was born in America to family where tradition was in the commerce and academic studies.Eliot, educated at Harvard and settling in England in 1915 and acquiring citizenship in 1927,went on to become the editor of the imagist periodical . He wrote prins like , The wasteland, Hollow men,Love song of J.Alfred ,prufrock etc.  Beside ,the peoms he also wrote a number of plays like Murder in the cathedral,The famliy reunion etc.      The poem starts with a tone of empathy for the displaced followed by an encouraging tone only to be replaced with his characteristic dark irony signifying the spiritual senselessness of physical action.      Wherever a man may be ,there is one place he yearns to be and the place is his home and hearth,for the food cooked by his wife.He wishes to sit at his door peacefully enjoying the sunset and watch his grandchildren playing in the dust with the grandchi...

"Compensation" by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Essay : Compensation by R.W. Emerson “Why should I keep holiday, When other men have none? Why but because when these are gay, I sit and mourn alone. And why mirth unseals all tongues Should mine alone be dumb? Ah! Late I spoke to silent throngs, And now their our is come”.                                                                     “Compensation” is a famous essay written by Ralph Waldo Emerson. The Essay was first appeared in his book Essays and later on published in 1841. In 1844, Essays: Second Series was published and subsequent republishing of Essays were renamed Essays: First Series. The essay describes the...

Thinking Activity on "The Sense of an Ending" by Julian Barnes

" The Sense of an Ending" "The Sense of an Ending" is a 2011 novel written by an English writer Julian Patrick Barnes, widely known as Julian Barners.  This blog is response to the questions asked by professor, Click Here to know more about it... 1)  "History is that certainty produced at the point where the imperfections of memory meet the inadequacies of documentation." How far can you agree with this definition of Adrian? Justify you answer with reference to your reading of ‘The Sense of an Ending’. "History is that certainty produced at the point where the imperfections of memory meet the inadequacies of documentation.” This is a famous quote from Lagrange which Adrian referred to in Old Joe Hunt’s class. In Julian Barne’s “The Sense of an Ending” history, memory and responsibility stay at the centre of the novel these also contribute in bringing clarity into Adrian’s death as well. To the greater extend I can be a...