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Celebration Committee Report

Committee Members, Khushbu Lakhupota Sneha Agravat Hello Friends, In this blog there is the report of the celebrations that have taken place in the year 2020 to 2022 in Department of English, MKBU. "Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success." – Henry Ford 1. International Yoga Day 2. ICT Day 3. Teacher’s Day 4. Farewell Function 5. Welcome Function 6. Independence Day 7. Republic Day 8. Virtual Literary Fest 2020 9. Hindi Day 10. Research & Dissertation writing workshop 4 Jan 2022 11. Translation Workshop 12. Research Methodology Workshop 7 Jan 2022 “People of our time are losing the power of celebration. Instead of celebrating we seek to be amused or entertained. Celebration is an active state, an act of expressing reverence or appreciation. To be entertained is a passive state-it is to receive pleasure afforded by an amusing act or a spectacle.... Celebration is a confrontation, givi...

Marxist Criticism & Feminist Criticism

Hello Friends, This blog is my response to the task assigned to us by our Prof. Dr.DilipSir on Marxist and Feminist Criticism. So, read, understand and enjoy. Happy Learning! MARXIST CRITICISM What Marxist critics do 1. They make a division between the 'overt' (manifest or surface) and 'covert' (latent or hidden) content of a literary work (much as psychoanalytic critics do) and then relate the covert subject matter of the literary work to basic Marxist themes, such as class struggle, or the progression of society through various historical stages, such as, the transition from feudalism to industrial capitalism. Thus, the conflicts in King Lear might be read as being 'really' about the conflict of class interest between the rising class (the bourgeoisie) and the falling class (the feudal overlords). 2. Another method used by Marxist critics is to relate the context of a work to the social-class status of the author. In such cases an assumption is made (which a...

When God is a Traveller by Arundhati Subramaniam

Hello Friends, This blog is my response to the task of thinking activity about the award winning poem "When God is a Traveller" by the poet Arundhati Subramaniam given to us by our Prof.Dr.DilipSir. So here my response, read and enjoy. Happy Learning! ☆ Introduction: This poet Arundhati Subramaniam and her Poetry Collection titled as "When God is a Traveller" got Sahitya Akademi 2021 award in English language. The above poem is the titular poem from the collection. This poem is based on an old story from Indian mythology, old like all Indian myths are. The great God Shiva held out the fruit of knowledge to his two sons, Kartikaya and Ganesha. And he said the one who travels the entire world and returns first will get the fruit of knowledge. Kartikaya jumps on to his peacock and takes off for this expedition around the world. Ganesha, wiser simply circles his parents...

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