CONTENTS OF WRITERS EDITORS CRITICS (WEC) 6.1 MARCH 2016

Contents

Feedback of WEC 5.2 September 2015

RESEARCH ARTICLES

Expression of Motherhood in Shashi Deshpande’s A Matter of Time

--Anita Sharma & Vishal Kumar

Manju Kapur’s Difficult Daughters: A Deconstructive Feminist Reading

G. Baskaran

“Women can Make and Women can Break”: Dalit Feminism in India through Select Texts and Contexts 

--Jaydeep Sarangi

The Search of the Past in Bharati Mukherjee’s Leave It To Me

--Shubha Mukherjee

Worldview of Interconnectedness in the Songs Mavilan Tribe

--Lillykutty Abraham

Redefining the Spiritual and Ethical Harmony of a Human Being through GB Shaw’s Caesar and Cleopatra

--Md. Afrozuddin

Marital Dissension in the Novels of Manju Kapur

--Nirjharini Tripathy

Violent Relationship of Shashi Deshpande’s Male Characters with Female Characters

 --A. Padmavathy

The Unheard Symphony: A Reaction against Blatant Sexism in Alice Munro’s “Boys and Girls”

--Syed Mir Hassim

Multi-dimensional Vignette in the Poetry of K. V. Dominic

--Manas Bakshi

Treatment of Colourism in Toni Morrison’s God Help the Child: A Gynocritical Perspective

--Sebin Justine

Patriarchal Elements in the Feminine Desire in Song of Songs

--Nisha K. Thomas

Exploring Trauma and Representing the Voiceless: A Critical Study of the Selected Poems of Jayanta Mahapatra

 --Sibasis Jana

Cultural Materialism in the Selected Short Stories of K. V. Dominic:  A Critique

--S. Barathi

REVIEW ARTICLES

T. V. Reddy’s Minor Gods as a Chronicle of Rural Life

--Joshua Horton

Depiction of Anger in Poetry: An Analysis of Vijay Vishal’s Anger in Contemporary Indian English Poetry

  --T. V. Reddy

Live Life with Hopes and It Turns a Blessing, Tells Whispers in the Wilderness

--P C K Prem

Poetess Mary John Thottam: Her Life & Poems

 --Fr Varghese Paul, SJ

BOOK REVIEWS

Smita Das’s (ed.) Ramesh K. Srivastava: Man and his Work (A Collection of Critical Essays)

-- Alka Rani Purwar

Nalini Sharma’s  The Strange Equations

--S. Barathi

K. V. Dominic’s Who is Responsible? (A Collection of Short Stories)

--Patricia Prime

REPORT

Rendezcussion on Michael Madhusudan Datta

--Bhaskar Roy Barman

SHORT STORIES

The Price of a Vote

--Chandramoni Narayanaswamy

The Photograph

--Jayanti M Dalal (Trans. Rajshree Parthivv Trivedi)

You are a Flop--a Miserable Flop

--Nalini Sharma

A Dumb Show of Lovers

--Ramesh K. Srivastava

Spinning the Thread of Life

--Jaydeep Sarangi

POEMS

Tribute to Siachen Martyrs

K. V. Dominic

Spring Flies Too Soon

O. P. Arora

You Buy His Tunes

O. P. Arora

Living in Patterns

 P C K Prem

Imagination

Bhaskar Roy Barman

Mulberries off the Mulberry

Jairam Seshadri

Winter’s Pickings

Jairam Seshadri

Left over

Manas Bakshi

If, At All, Kolkata Could be

Manas Bakshi

I am a Cop’s Wife

Nalini Sharma

Prisoner of War

Nalini Sharma

O! Divine Mother
Ram Sharma

Ode to the Farmers...                                                                                  

 Sibasis Jana

Green Philosophy

Sibasis Jana

Eliminate Pangs from Globe

Sugandha Agarwal

The Crucifixion

Talluri Mathew Bhaskar

True Religion

Vijay Kumar Roy

The Creator is One

Vijay Kumar Roy

Our Esteemed Contributors

Authorspress: Author’s Press in True Spirit & Sense

Authorspress: Author’s Press in True Spirit & Sense

Dr. K. V. Dominic

The generosity of vision, and acumen, abundance and spontaneous flow of academic and human interest are making the publishing house Authorspress, New Delhi greater and greater in its professionalism. It is doing the job with amazing knack and brilliance. Its messianic voice is a fountain of inspiration for both the budding and the established writers. It skillfully maintains the synchronization between pecuniary and cerebral tug of war.

The clans of publishers have propagated so rapidly during the last few decades that authentic and meticulous ones have often been put in the shade, and even thrown out. In view of this fact Authorspress has been doing wonderfully in publishing quality books of all kinds with superb editorial work, scrupulous scrutiny of the manuscript, meticulous proofreading, and yet without disregarding the aesthetic and artistic face. Its website is an excellent medium which enhances its stature and at the same time enables the authors, critics and readers to obtain books of their choice effortlessly. The growing stature of a publisher always lends respectability to its authors making it like an oasis in the vast desert around us. The books bearing this publishing house's insignia had an automatic acknowledgment as an author of importance.

The publishing house is different in its entrepreneurship and the person holding and running the press himself is a great human being, scholar and academician. His integrity and commitment is par excellence. The publisher showcases wonderful quality books to its credit in scholarly, creative and academic arena. The cover and quality of the book have been fetching praise and compliments not only from all across India but also from readers in the US, UAE, UK and other countries. Its books and journals are packed immaculately well, printed in absolute perfection, the page texture is more than what work deserved. Who can better bear the testimonial of these facts other than an author whose twenty books have so far been published by Authorspress:

1.       Who Is Responsible? (A Collection of Short Stories)

2.       Multicultural Studies on Three Nobel Laureates: Rabindranath Tagore, Toni Morrison & Alice Munro

3.       Abheepsa: Kavita Sangrah

4.       Indian Literatures in English: New Directions Newer Possibilities

5.       Multicultural Symphony (A Collection of Poems)

6.       Jayanti M. Dalal: Select Stories

7.       African and Afro-American Literature: Insights and Interpretations

8.       Changing Face of Women in Literature: The Flaming Spirit

9.       Critical Perspectives on the Poetry of R. K. Singh, D. C. Chambial and I. K. Sharma

10.   Multicultural Consciousness in the Novels of R. K. Narayan

11.   Critical Evaluation of Contemporary Indian Poetry in English

12.   Concepts and Contexts of Diasporic Literature of India

13.   Discourses on Five Indian Poets in English: Keki N. Daruwalla, Shiv K. Kumar, Pronab Kumar Majumder, Syed Ameeruddin and Aju Mukhopadhyay

14.   Studies on Six Indian Poets in English: Jayanta Mahapatra, Hazara Singh, P C K Prem, Gopikrishnan Kottoor, Manas Bakshi, Chandramoni Narayanaswamy

15.   Sarojini Sahoo’s Feminine Reflections

16.   Write Son, Write (A Collection of Poems)

17.   Stephen Gill’s Poetry: A Panorama World Peace

18.   Winged Reason (A Collection of Poems)

19.   Discourses on Contemporary Indian English Poets

20.   Postcolonial Readings in Indo-Anglian Literature

It knows well how to give room to the author and present the book in a suitable set-up. What makes it different from other publishers is its immensity and the way it handles the quality. The title, subtitle and cover design reflect and suggest the best one to make it reveal the content well. 

PHILOSOPHICAL MUSINGS FOR A MEANINGFUL LIFE: AN ANALYSIS OF K. V. DOMINIC'S POEMS--EDITED BY DR. S. KUMARAN AND PUBLISHED BY MODERN HISTORY PRESS, MI, USA

CONTENTS

Preface

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Chapter 1       Introduction

Poetic Mind of K. V. Dominic

-P C K Prem

Chapter 2       Humanism in K. V. Dominic’s Winged Reason

-Dr. S. Kumaran

Chapter 3       An Angel in Flight: A Critique of K. V. Dominic’s Winged Reason.

- Dr. Sudhir K Arora

Chapter 4       K. V. Dominic’s Multicultural Symphony: A Critique

-Dr. Sudhir K Arora

Chapter 5       K. V. Dominic—A Humanitarian in Conception and Socio-Consciousness: An Analytical Study of Write Son, Write

-Dr. D. C. Chambial

Chapter 6       K. V. Dominic’s Winged Reason: Poems of Man’s Earthly Life and Painful Realities 

-P. C. K. Prem

Chapter 7       Social Criticism in the Poetry of K. V. Dominic

-Prof. T. V. Reddy

Chapter 8       Concurrent Predicaments and Urge for Philanthropy in the Poetry of K.V. Dominic

-Dr. Sugandha Agarwal

Chapter 9       Poetry for a Better World: A Critical Look at the Poetry of K. V. Dominic 

-Dr. Rob Harle

Chapter 10     A Requiem for the Disconsolate: K. V. Dominic’s Poetry as a Social Criticism

-Dr. J. Pamela

Chapter 11     Poetry for Meaningful Life: A Critical Analysis of K. V. Dominic’s Poetry

-Dr. Bhaskar Roy Barman

Chapter 12     K. V. Dominic as a Social Critic: A Study of His Poems

-Dr. S. Ayyappa Raja

Chapter 13     Philosophical Voyage of K. V. Dominic

-Dr. Arbind Kumar Choudhary

Chapter 14     The Poet of the Marginalised: An Analysis of Dr. K. V. Dominic’s Poetry

-Anisha Ghosh (Paul)

Chapter 15     K. V. Dominic’s Poetry: Rebellion and Reticence on Winged Reason

-Joe  Palathunkal

Chapter 16     A Critical Analysis of K. V. Dominic as a Philosophical Poet

-Dr. Patricia Prime

Chapter 17     The Relation between God, Man and Nature in K. V. Dominic’s Poems

-Dr. Mahboobeh Khaleghi

Chapter 18     K. V. Dominic, the Messenger of Humanity, Peace and Harmony in the Universe

                        -Dr. Sangeeta Mahesh

Chapter 19     Philosophical Musings for Meaningful Life: An Analysis of

K. V. Dominic’s Poetry 

-Dr. Radhamany Sarma

Chapter 20     The Landscape of Kerala in K. V. Dominic’s Poetry

-Anisha Ghosh (Paul)

Chapter 21     Eco-critical Perspectives in the Poetry of K. V. Dominic

-Dr. S. Barathi

Chapter 22     Ecological Issues Reflected in the Selected Poems of K. V. Dominic

-Dr. Rincy Mol Sebastian

Chapter 23     Ecological and Social Issues in K. V. Dominic’s Multicultural Symphony

-Dr. Arbind Kumar Choudhary

Chapter 24     Holistic Musings:  K. V. Dominic as a Poet with Purpose

            -Kavitha Gopalakrishnan

Chapter 25     Interview with Prof. K. V. Dominic

-Prof. Elisabetta Marino

List of Contributors

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Contents

RESEARCH ARTICLES

The ‘I’ in the Poetry of Kamala Das: A Study of Displacement

--Bibhudutt Dash

Struggle of the Ineffectual Angel in Manju Kapur’s Difficult Daughters

--M. R. Chandran

‘Unspeakable Suffering’ and ‘Calm forbearance’ as projected in Kamala Markandaya's Nectar in A Sieve and A Handful of Rice: A Brief Analysis

--S. Chelliah

Analysing the Dichotomy of White Culture and Aboriginal Culture in

Patrick White’s Voss

--Chithra S.

Communal Folk Life and Individual Identity in Richard Wright’s Black Boy

--S. Khethzi Kerena

Gender, Culture and Nation in Bapsi Sidhwa's The Pakistani Bride

--Lata Mishra

Culture, Mediation and Conflict Resolution in Nayana Currimbhoy’s Miss Timmins’ School for Girls

--Lekshmi R. Nair

Multiculturalism and Decentering the Racial Identity in the Fictional World of Hanif Kureishi

--Md. Sajidul Islam

Indian Ethos and Gandhian Ethics in R. K.Narayan’s The Vendor of Sweets

--Mini V. S.

Infertility and Identity Crisis in Kapur’s Women

--Nirjharini Tripathy

Suniti Namjoshi’s The Blue Donkey Fables--The Writer as a Poet

--Keerthi Krishnamoorthy & Raichel M. Sylus

A Critical Evaluation of Girish Karnad’s Flowers and Heap of Broken Images: A Game of God

--Roselin Linitta George

Survival of the “Other”: The ‘Staying Alive’ of Female Characters in Sefi Atta’s Swallow

--Sajna P.

Image of Women: An Analysis of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Half of a Yellow Sun

--S. Umarani & S. Kumaran

Telling the Untold: A Reading of Toni Morrison’s A Mercy as an Eternal Story of Love and Betrayal

--Syed Wahaj Mohsin & Shaista Taskeen

A Dalit Avatar and Matua Cult

--Manohar Mouli Biswas

REVIEW ARTICLE

The Grief of Arjuna and Sri Krishna’s Response: Shrimad Bhagavadgita Revisited

--Ramesh Chandra Mukhopadhyaya

Love, Loneliness, Desire and Despair in Kamala Das’s Summer in Calcutta

--P. Gopichand & P. Nagasuseela

Colours of Life in C. L. Khatri’s ‘Haiku’

--Sudhir K. Arora

BOOK REVIEWS

K. V. Dominic & Mahboobeh Khaleghi’s (eds.) Multicultural Studies on Three Nobel Laureates—Rabindranath Tagore, Toni Morrison and Alice Munro

--Ketaki Datta

K. V. Dominic’s Who is Responsible? (A Collection of Short Stories)

--Kavitha Gopalakrishnan

Jaydeep Sarangi’s The Wall and Other Poems

--Mahuya Bhaumik

GENERAL ESSAYS

Sanathana Dharma as the Life-Force of India in the light of Swami Vivekananda’s Message

--T. V. Reddy

Swami Vivekananda and Socialism with Special Reference to the Present Indian Polity

--Manas Bakshi

INTERVIEWS

Interview with Ketaki Datta

--Elisabetta Marino

An Interview with Patricia Prime

--Mark Pirie

SHORT STORIES

Into Father’s Shoes

--Ramsh K. Srivastava

Branded Witch

--Manas Bakshi

A Lesson Well Taught

--Shaista Taskeen

POEMS

ON THE NEW YEAR

--Stephen Gill

Straight is the Way

--Sheikh Rabiul Haque

In the Path of Life

--Sheikh Rabiul Haque

Canvas

--Patricia Prime

The Eyes Have It

--Patricia Prime

Road Sweeper

--Patricia Prime

The Return

--Patricia Prime

Grief

--Patricia Prime

Illusive Contours

--Manas Bakshi

Smile a Day

--Manas Bakshi

Parental Duty

--K. V. Dominic

Karma is Akarma

--K. V. Dominic

The Season of Harvest

--Hrushikesh Singh

Yet A Smile

--Hrushikesh Singh

Our Home

--Saroj Bala

Life

--Saroj Bala

A Poet Was Killed That Very Night

--Anisha Ghosh Pal

Our Esteemed Contributors

                                                                                                            

REPORT OF THE TWO DAY NATIONAL SEMINAR ON ENVIRONMENTAL LITERATURE CONDUCTED BY GIEWEC AT CMS COLLEGE, KOTTAYAM ON 5TH AND 6TH DECEMBER 2015

Report of the National Level Two day Literary Festival of GIEWEC in Collaboration with the Department of English, CMS College, Kottayam, Kerala on 5^th and 6^th December 2015

Dr. K. V. Dominic

Guild of Indian English Writers, Editors and Critics (GIEWEC) in collaboration with Department of English, CMS College, Kottayam, Kerala conducted a two day national level literary festival at CMS College on 5^th and 6^th December 2015. The topic for the festival was "Environmental Literature and Beyond."

At 11 am on 4^th December 2015, a Press Conference was organized by GIEWEC at the Press Club of Kottayam. Led by Dr. K. V. Dominic, Secretary-cum-chief organizer of the festival, Dr. Joji John Panicker, Joint Secretary-cum-chairman of the organizing committee, Fr. Varghese Paul, Life Member of GIEWEC and Dr. Jacob Eapen Kunnath, HoD in-charge of the Department of English, CMS College, participated in the press conference. Detailed information of the festival was published in the leading Malayalam Newspapers on 5^th December.

In the inaugural session at 10 am on 5^th December, Prof. T. V. Reddy, President of the GIEWEC was the Chairperson. Dr. Joji John Panicker, Assistant Professor of English, CMS College welcomed the guests and audience. Dr. Jacob Eapen Kunnath delivered a short vehement speech on Eco Literature. Dr. Roy Sam Daniel, Principal of CMS College inaugurated the literary festival by lighting the lamp. He talked on the importance of preserving clean environment.  Prof. T. V. Reddy lectured on the hazardous effects we have been experiencing of the destruction of nature and environment. Dr. K. V. Dominic expressed deep gratitude to Dr. Joji John Panicker for organizing the festival. He also thanked the Faculty and students of the Department of English as well as the college management for collaborating with the GIEWEC for the festival. He made a special grateful mention of the great selfless services Shri. Sudarshan Kcherry, Founder Member of GIEWEC as well as Publisher of Authorspress, New Delhi has been rendering to the GIEWEC members by publishing more than a hundred of their books. Shri. Sudarshan Kcherry in his very brief address spoke of the necessity of flowing with the system. Dr. Jaydeep Sarangi, Vice President of GIEWEC spoke on the great attempts done in the field of Eco Literature in the country, particularly in the North Eastern States.

In the book launching ceremony that followed twenty eight new books and journals of the participants were launched. The authors include Dr. K. V. Dominic (Thodupuzha) – 6, Dr. Jaydeep Sarangi (Kolkata) – 4, Dr. T. V. Reddy (Tirupati) – 2, Dr. Ratan Bhattacharjee (Kolkata) – 2, Dr. Shruti Das (Berhampur) – 2, Fr. Varghese Paul, SJ (Ahmedabad) – 2, Profs. P. Gopichand & P. Nagasuseela (Guntur) – 2, Ms. K. Pankajam (Chennai) – 2,  Dr. Janatha Ratheesh (Nagercoil) – 2, Dr. Ketaki Datta (Kolkata) -1, PCK Prem (Himachal Pradesh) – 1, Ms. Annie George (Kottayam) – 1, Dr. Santosh Alex (Kochi) – 1.

Dr. S. Kumaran, Treasurer of GIEWEC delivered the vote of thanks at the end of the session.

In the paper presentation session that followed Dr. Shruti Das, HoD and Associate Professor of English, Berhampur University chaired. After the lunch there was a poetry reading session chaired by Prof. T. V. Reddy. Twenty poets read their poems on the theme “Nature and Environment.” The second session of the paper presentation was chaired by Dr. Ketaki Datta, Associate Professor of English, Bidhannagar Govt. College, Salt Lake City, Kolkata.

GIEWEC’s Executive Committee and General Body Meeting were conducted at 5.30 pm.

On 6^th December, Sunday, the second day of the festival there were two paper presentation sessions and one poetry reading session. The paper presentation sessions were chaired by Prof. Sibasis Jana, Assistant Professor in English, Panskura Banamali College, Panskura, Purba Medinipur, West Bengal, and Dr. S. Kumaran, Assistant Professor, PG & Research Dept. of English, Thiruvalluvar Govt. Arts College, Rasipuram, Tamil Nadu. The poetry reading session was chaired by Profs. P. Gopichand and P. Nagasuseela, Associate Professors of English, JKC College, Guntur, Andhra Pradesh.

In the valedictory session at 3.30 pm Dr. Ketaki Datta welcomed the chief guests and audience. On the Dias were Dr. Roy Sam Daniel, Principal, Dr. T. V. Reddy, Dr. K. V. Dominic and Dr. Joji John Panicker. After brief addresses by the dignitaries participation certificates were distributed. The festival ended with Dr. Joji John Panicker’s vote of thanks followed by the National Anthem.

Overall, the festival was a grand success. The credit goes to the Chairman of the Organising Committee, Dr. Joji John Panicker who took the initiative several months before and got GIEWEC’s proposal sanctioned by the college management. He worked really hard for several days and nights and could very well coordinate his colleagues and PG and UG students for the great outcome. GIEWEC’s bouquet of gratitude to him!