Khushbu Lakhupota

Hello Friends,  This is blog is my response to the task assigned to us by our teacher Yesha Ma'am on Study of Poems of the African Literature. THEMES IN THE POEM VULTURES BY CHINUA ACHEBE Popularity of “Vultures”: “Vultures” by Chinua Achebe, a Nigerian poet, is a beautiful piece of poetry. The poem first appeared in 1971 in Collected Poems. The poem obliquely presents the stark reality of colonialism and its impacts on the locals. The beauty of the poem, however, lies in its metaphor of vulture that feeds on dead bodies and still loves each other amid the ruins. “Vultures” As a Representative of Colonial Mindset and its Predatory Tactics:  Chinua Achebe presents a vulture sitting on a dead tree looking despondently in the rain with greyness in the atmosphere. It is sitting close to another vulture, showing love with each other having bald heads as if pebbles in the grass. Yesterday, they had had their fill with a swollen-eyed corpse. They gulped everything. Now they are waiting fo

Hello Friends,  This blog is my response to the task assigned to us by our teacher Yesha Ma'am on Petals of Blood, A n ovel by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o. So read, understand and enjoy. Happy Learning! Click here to view Teacher's blog and Presentation in it. About the author  Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o born James Ngugi on 5 January 1938 is a Kenyan writer and academic who writes primarily in Gikuyu and who formerly wrote in English. His work includes novels, plays, short stories, and essays, ranging from literary and social criticism to children's literature. He is the founder and editor of the Gikuyu-language journal Mũtĩiri. His short story The Upright Revolution: Or Why Humans Walk Upright, is translated into 100 languages from around the world. Ngũgĩ was subsequently imprisoned for over a year. Adopted as an Amnesty International prisoner of conscience, the artist was released from prison, and fled Kenya. In the United States, he is currently Distinguished

Struggles of Transgender in Arundhati Roy's novel, The Ministry of the Utmost Happiness Abstract Arundhati Roy's 2017 novel The Ministry of the Utmost Happiness deals with several issues. This paper analyzes the struggles of transgender, as observed in the novel with the character of Anjum, a transgender. This paper tells how the first person to accept the child is mother, father, and then comes the society. But in most of the transgender cases, children are neglected by their own family first and then the society. So, in this way the third gender becomes "Other", the marginalized, subaltern, colonized in one way or the other. It's very difficult for humans to survive when being neglected by one's own parents or forced by them to follow some basic laws of society. This is the sad reality of contemporary society. Here literature has become the true mirror of the society that shows the real picture. The role of the writer is to bring into light the problems, pai

Hello Friends,  Here I'm sharing my experience on the 34th Memorial Lecture by Prof. Noam Chomsky.  Prof. Noam Chomsky A Brief Introduction Avram Noam Chomsky (born December 7, 1928) is an American linguist, philosopher, cognitive scientist, historian, social critic, and political activist. Sometimes called "the father of modern linguistics",  Chomsky is also a major figure in analytic philosophy and one of the founders of the field of cognitive science. He is Laureate Professor of Linguistics at the University of Arizona and Institute Professor Emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and is the author of more than 150 books on topics such as linguistics, war, politics, and mass media. Ideologically, he aligns with anarcho-syndicalism and libertarian socialism. For more details click below link: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noam_Chomsky My Experience It was a very wonderful experience and a great opportunity for us. The lecture was just the previou