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     Summary :- Swami and Friends(1935) ,is a pure art  of childhood written by R K Narayan. He is  a pure artist of Indian English literature. He has also gone through the experiences of journalist as his career. First of all, he writes for newspapers and magazines then he starts writing as a pure writer. His work may be classified into different categories as political novels, domestic novels and sensational novels. He has written about 10 novels and more than 150 short stories.In learning about the town "Malgudi", readers are introduced to Swaminathan and his friends in  his novel, a group which includes Somu, Sankar, Mani and Pea. They have a very close friendship despite their differences, which doesn't seem to follow the phrase, "Birds of a feather flock together". Graham Greene said, "It is a classical school boy story of a child, written with complete objectivity, with a humour strange for our fiction, closer to Chekhov than to a...

Key Words  ( Transformation,Redemption,Gender, Feminism,Tradition vs. Modernity, Greed, Materialism, Attraction and Sexuality ) Summary    'The Guide' is one of the best narrative novels written by R K Narayan.He was an identical novelist of India.This novel is a mirror of modern Indian society, the protagonist and occasional narrator of R.K.Narayan’s The Guide. Raju is a character whose entire life is  upon the sins of hypocrisy and dissimulation. He shows multiple careers including his work as a tourist guide in his hometown of Malgudi, southern part of India.His other career as a “Dance Manager” for Rosie. (The seductive dancer he begins an affair with when she visits Malgudi with her husband, Marco). His final reincarnation as a holy man in a small village in India; premised deceptions and lies. The life  of Raju dramatizes the way in which Raju’s propensity for deceit leads him into trouble. Openly, Narayan suggests us through ...

R. K. Narayan(1906- 2001), was born in a village 'Rashipuram' in Madras, South India. His father's name was Krishna Swami and he educated at Maharaja College in Mysore. There  was a magic represented by him that 'R' represented his village and 'K' represented his father. He himself established as a writer, written for newspapers and magazines. He won many awards for his literary skills. He came into contact with a beautiful girl 'Rajam' whom he fell in love and so soon he kept a marriage proposal before her father. By his approval, they got married. After four years of his marriage, she died so that was an electric shot of his life. His novels directly hit the core of human heart.                       He started writing through his emotional levels, his first novel 'Swami and Friends' (1935) and its successor 'The Bachelor of Arts' (1937) are both set in the e...

Kamala Das(1934- 2009),she was a leading figure in Indian English literature, her Malayalam pen name Madhavikutty, Muslim name Kamala Surayya. She was Indian author who wrote openly and frankly about female sexual desire and the experience of being an Indian woman. She was a part of a generation of Indian writers whose work centred on personal rather than colonial experiences, and her short stories, poetry, memoirs, and essays and a number of articles brought her respect and notoriety in equal measures. She wrote in both languages,mostly poetry in English and also for south Indians in Malayalam under the pen name Madhavikutty.                        She was born into a high class family. Her mother, Nalapat Balamani Amma, she was a well-known poet and her father, V.M. Nair, he was an automobile company executive and a journalist in our country. She grew up in what is ...

" George Bernard Shaw ", he was born on July 1856 and he died on 2nd of November 1950 at 94, he was known at his insistence simply as Bernard Shaw, was an Irish playwright, critic, polemicist and political activist. His influence on Western theatre, culture and politics extended from the 1880s to his death and beyond.He had British nationality and Irish too.He wrote more than sixty plays, including major works as Man and Superman (1902), Pygmalion (1912) and Saint Joan (1923) . With a wide range,  incorporating both contemporary satire and historical allegory, Shaw became the leading dramatist of his generation, and in 1925 was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. He was born in Dublin, he moved to London in 1876, where he struggled to establish himself as a writer and novelist, and embarked on a rigorous process of self-education. By the mid of1880s,he had become a respected theatre and music critic in London. He  was following a political awakening there, he joined th...

Everyone knows that education is the backbone of any society in the world and system of education is the vein through which its potentiality is functioning. I can't stop myself to write about this system after realizing very close across the nation. Everyone wants to provide better education to their children as much as possible. Through it,we think about improvement and development of the society. This is the most essential part of human life. Our government is also providing so many amenities to the students at very large scale. Government is spending more and more money regarding education in its regulating area. By this system of government, students have been benefiting time to time and they also thank the government for this good initiative. I have also seen the students of our society working in different fields across the world and also they maintain high class groups after earning sound money. They get whatever they want in their lives and able to provide the same to t...

Christopher Marlowe (1564- 1593), he was the greatest dramatist in English literature before William Shakespeare. He hailed from a shoe- maker family, nothing sure of his life record but we suppose that he completed his B.A in 1583 with very low record of merit so that the university refused him his admission in M.A. Then, he started work as a spy in British Government channel during his free time. When he performed his duty with full force by maintaining privacy of government. By taking care of his personality, the university decided to grant him M.A degree in English.                      On another side, he was very ambitious to write dramas and wanted to establish himself as a famed dramatist in the world. He had not enough source to write at home therefore he took decision to move from there and shifted in London. After spending six months there, he wrote Hero and Leander ...

Everyone knows and has been facing social issue these days. I have especially gone through  the Indian novels written by women writers. Almost themes of novels reflect the social and cultural issues, but it is considered to the voices of women across the country can be heard, not to be seen by the men. Most of Women Novelists explore their personal thoughts and ideas against the suppressed voices of women through their literary essence. Meena Kandasay, a poet, fiction writer, social activist and the boldest voices of young women. Jhumpa Lahiri, also a young voice of India for pathetic issues of women. Nayantara Sehgal, a writer of women having political background, her voice is also the same. Kiran Desai's thought reflects the social and cultural clashes in The Inheritance Of Loss.Anita Desai, a novelist, short- story writer and children's author reflects the same but by elevating the modern sensibility like T.S.Eliot, Virginia Woolf. Urvashi Butalia is an Indian feminist a...

Ira Trivedi is an excellent Indian writer, born in 1988 in Lucknow ,Uttar Pradesh. She got quality education from different parts of the country,graduated in Economics and MBA from Columbia University. She hails from upper middle class family. Art of writing is also in her blood like Kamala Das because her grandmother 'Kranti Devi ',a popular Indian author. She is a devoted yoga instructor in New Delhi. She wrote mostly for the children for positive energy of yoga. She has been writing a number of articles for newspapers and magazines. She wants a revolution in the society regarding issues of women and gender. She won the awards for innovation of thoughts;she is the only girl to talk internationally about Marriage and Sexuality. She is unmarried till date but very confident to talk about any burning social issue. She always comes on the news channels in India to speak boldly about the issues of sexual exploited women. She has written 8 famous books from penguin publishing h...

Human frustration is a social phenomenon when two young individuals interact each other then desire of physical intercourse will grow gradually. At any rate, they want to satisfy,  if in this case, they fail to have sexual desire and satisfaction, frustration will grow with them. The result sexual frustration could be seen by mental,physical, emotional,social, religious and spiritual activities across world wide. These are the essential activities of human beings but not allowed to perform anywhere in a natural manner because there are so many restrictions to perform in the human society. This frustration creates ill thoughts and commits big mistakes in life. William Shakespeare wrote this frustration in best work 'Venus and Adonis '. D.H.Lawrence also wrote it in his most controversial novel 'Lady Chatterly ',published in 1928. It dealt with human sexual frustration of a young married woman like Lady Chatterly whose husband was paralyzed due to war. Here in th...

She was born in Chandigarh in middle class family in 1971 but she passed her precious time of childhood in Pune and Mumbai. She completed her study in creative writing from Columbia University and she was the daughter of well known author. She got popularity from her first book 'Hullabaloo in The Guava Orchard' and she won the Booker Prize for 'The Inheritance Of Loss'. In her book, she explained the life of women who were in poor condition. She reported to the community of sex workers in the society in 'Night claims The Godavari'. Her work was also published in the international magazine like 'New York '. She wrote many articles and heart touching short stories but themes related to the pitiable condition of women in the male dominated society. She wanted to remove cultural barriers and restrictions for women from the society through her great works. Literary art is in her blood but beyond that art she goes to find out the miseries of women and...

Chinua Achebe, a well known person among the African novelists who had challenged European perspective in the direction of Africans. He was the father of African literature. He portrayed by giving a true account of people of Africa their belief ,habit ,customs and superstitions moreover what they thought of white people. By discussing upon the nagro tribes which are disintegrating and falling apart by the impact of British colonization. Reaching of Christian missionary whose purpose was to spread the message of Christianity and convince the  people over there to change their religion. His attention actually based on African facts and myth in the both novels “ Things fall Apart ” and “ Arrow of God” turned up the metamorphosis of Africa from traditional to new manner. In his  investigation, he placed the transfigure as a aftermath of culture of ancient tribal’s bestow a concept of the primitive African background. There is an advancement of African, past history was fo...

 “Blow, Blow, Thou Winter Wind”, this poem has been extracted from Shakespeare’s play ‘As You Like It’. Shakespeare presented this song in that play because he was closely to the ingratitude of man. He is widely known as the Lighthouse of English.  He wrote 37 plays and 154 sonnets. After marriage to Anne Hathway,he soon moved to London.Within a few years, he was well known as a leading actor and playwright. His is great plays as Hamlet(1602), Othello(1604), King Lear(1605), Macbeth (1606),The Merchant of Venice(1596),Twelfth Night (1601),The Tempest and he also wrote a number of of articles in his literary career. He was very close to watch The Human Relationship in his life.  Here,I am going to explain in this poem, is about man's ingratitude.The cold winter wind does not cause much suffering as men’s ingratitude.       “Blow,Blow,Thou Winter Wind,               T...

William Shakespeare is one of the best poets and dramatists of English literature across the world. Everyone knows that he is the light house of English literature across  the world. His concepts are totally based upon love, affection, pity, sympathy and lust from the bottom of the sea of thought and beauty. There are so many works of William Shakespeare in which natural force of love and affection can be seen with the help of our close lence as love  of "Romeo and Juliet". In "As you like it", natural force of love can be also seen ; In his many sonnets, truly or earthly love can be seen. According to William Shakespeare, the concept of love is not artificial but it is a natural force that has been originated from the forth chamber of heart, brain and senses. This is a kind of passion which has power of nature to taste the meaning of human life in this world. He has represented through sonnets and plays that the people have not power to save the essence of lov...