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Hello Friends, This blog is my response to the task assigned to us by our Prof. Dr. Dilip Sir in the thinking activity on Gun Island by Amitav Ghosh. So, Read, Understand and Enjoy. Happy Learning! Click here to view Sir's blog AMITAV GHOSH: A Brief Introduction Amitav Ghosh (born 11 July 1956) is an Indian writer, best known for his English language historical fiction. He won the 54th Jnanpith award in 2018, India’s highest literary honor. Ghosh's ambitious novels use complex narrative strategies to probe the nature of national and personal identity, particularly of the people of India and Southeast Asia. He has also written non-fiction works discussing topics such as colonialism and climate change. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amitav_Ghosh Born 11 July 1956 (age 65) Kolkata, West Bengal, India Genre Historical fiction Notable awards  Jnanpith Award Sahitya Akademi Award Ananda Puraskar Dan David Prize Padma Shri Spouse Deborah Baker (wife) Novels The Circle of Reason (1986) ...

  Hello Friends, This blog is my response to the task assigned to us by our Prof. Dr. Dilip Sir. It's about learning outcomes from the Research Methodology Workshop organized by the Department of English, MKBU. So, Read, understand and enjoy. Happy Learning! This workshop was divided into three sessions by three different teachers and professors.  1. Importance of Research by Prof. J. P. Majumdar 2. Avoid Plagiarism: Qualitative research in the digital era by Prof. Dr. Dilip Sir Barad 3.  Citation: Tools and Techniques by Ms. Vaidehi Hariyani Click here to view Sir's blog. In the above video that is made by Dilip Sir, in this video, there are glimpses of the workshop.  It's a sweet and short video. 1. Importance of Research: Research is a pattern of thinking in mind towards whatever we do in life. Research is a lifelong activity. It leads citizens to think systematically, to come to opinions.  After Independence, last 40-50 years, in universities and colleges, e...

Hello Friends, This blog is my response to the task assigned to us by our Prof. Dr. Dilip Sir in the thinking activity of the novel The Ministry of Utmost Happiness. So, read, understand and enjoy. Happy Learning! Click here to view Prof. Dr.Dilip Sir's blog 1. Political Issues In this novel, Roy has depicted various political issues that exist in contemporary society since Independence. These political issues are created by groups of powerful people involved in the various activities meant for the welfare of humanity but to gain some profits they compromise with their values and let the citizens suffer they do corrupt things.    She tells the issues of Kashmir in which various groups are involved like the Indian army, Indian leftists who oppose the occupation of Kashmir, and the Kashmiri locals and militants who apparently resist the military occupation. All these groups on the surface show moral and religious ideals but in reality, they are the houses of corruption and for t...

Hello Friends, This blog is my response to the task assigned to us by our teacher Vaidehi Ma'am in paper 209: Research Methodology. My topic is The Mechanics of Writing: Spelling and a brief note on it. Spelling Spelling should be consistent in a paper. Some words can be acceptably be spelled more than one way. So if you write acknowledgment in one place, use that spelling throughout instead of the variant spelling acknowledgement. (Quoted text, however, must follow the spelling shown in the source.) Dictionaries To ensure consistency, use a single dictionary, if an entry has variant spellings, generally adopt the spelling listed first. Plurals The plurals of nouns are generally formed by appending -s (kids, laws, stars, Fridays, Obamas) or, for words ending in -ch, -s, -sh, -x, and -z, appending -es ( sketches, masses, Dickenses, brushes, taxes, Kleenexes, spritzes ).  Consult a dictionary for guidance about nonstandard plurals.  ⮚When the dictionary provides more than one pl...

Hello Friends,  This blog is my response to the task assigned to us by our Prof. Dr. Dilip Sir on the Research & Dissertation Writing Workshop organized by the Department of English, MKBU on 4th Jan 2022. In this workshop, the chief speakers, as well as the resource persons of the day, were Prof. Dr. Dilip Sir Barad and Dr. Clement Nodricimpa. It's a privilege to be a part of the department that gives us many opportunities to be a part of many seminars and workshops by special chief guests and experts in a particular field or area.  So, read, understand and enjoy. Happy Learning! Research and writing a dissertation 1. Introduction When students are told to conduct research and write a dissertation, they sometimes do not know where to begin, what is involved in research, what steps they must follow, what structure a dissertation must have, what argumentation style they may adopt, etc. Indeed, doing research and writing may be daunting to students. This may be because o...