INSTRUCTIONS / READ ME

Posted on 13:02 by 
About us: This is an Autonomous, Self efficient site solely built by you.  You Add/Request for the notes and after going through them the site gets updated.  All content(Notes) made available here is solely yours If you feel any content needs citations please  send us your claim/bibliography  and after...

Akkarmashi - Sharan Kumar Limbale

Posted on 07:29 by  with 6 comments
Easy Read: Writing is a form of therapy: sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose, or paint can manage to escape the madness, the melancholia, the panic fear which is inherent in the human situation. (Graham Greene 9) Sharan Kumar Limbale is an illustrious Dalit writer in India who has authored extensively up to forty books including...

A Devoted Son - Anita Desai

Posted on 06:44 by  with 2 comments
In this short sad story Anita Desai covers the generation gap, identity, the conflict between duty as a son and duty as a doctor, as well as the hypocrisy in perception of the same.Rakesh’s duties as a son were to study well, score well, work hard, earn well, marry well, settle well and then take care of his family well; Rakesh performed his duties...

India is a Strange Country - Khushawant Singh

Posted on 06:30 by  with No comments
This chapter is less about India than it is about Tyson's love for Martha.What's important in this sad little short story is: Indians' views on foreigners and vice versa Tyson's love for Martha the four types of foreigners - lovers, haters, half-haters and question marks (people whose opinion others don't know about) about the NARRATOR, not author Summary: "Stop...

Estranged - Soudamini Vasuki

Posted on 06:08 by  with No comments
Basic meaning of the heading:- "No longer living with their spouse."FIRST SCENEShastri's comment- description about Radha- The family athmosphere changes- Happiness is the feeling between two moments of suffering.SCENE TWOHappiness- The news that their house was blessed with their son's baby.Sadness- The decision of seenu to divorce Radha and marry...

Ecology - A K Ramanujan

Posted on 06:02 by  with 10 comments
The day after the first rain, Monsoon. for years, I would home in a rage, Interesting. What are you so mad about, speaker? for I could see from a mile away From a mile away, on the way home our three Red Champak Trees OUR three red champak trees had done it again, meaning they've done it before had burst into flower and given Mother her first...

Girl in the Kitchen - Videhi

Posted on 05:51 by  with No comments
Analysis:  Vaidehi’s poem “The Girl in Kitchen” captures the harsh reality of a male dominated society where women are suppressed and ruled upon.2. The poem is a heartfelt plea for freedom by a young girl who is shackled to the kitchen and sings of her longing to be rescued by a knight in shining armour from the drudgery of cooking and tradition-bound...

The Professor - Nissim Ezekiel

Posted on 05:41 by  with 4 comments
Poem: Remember me? I am Professor Sheth. Once I taught you geography. Now I am retired, though my health is good. My wife died some years back. By God's grace, all my children Are well settled in life. One is Sales Manager, One is Bank Manager, Both have cars. Other also doing well, though not so well. Every family must have black sheep. Sarala and...

The Golden Boat - Rabindranath Tagore

Posted on 05:31 by  with 2 comments
The poem: Clouds rumbling in the sky; teeming rain.I sit on the river bank, sad and alone.The sheaves lie gathered, harvest has ended,The river is swollen and fierce in its flow.As we cut the paddy it started to rain. One small paddy-field, no one but me -Flood-waters twisting and swirling everywhere.Trees on the far bank; smear shadows like inkOn...

Bhopal Lives - Suketu Mehta

Posted on 04:59 by  with 2 comments
***This one is a Pretty big Chapter!!!! But have made it more precise (i.e Short :p) for you*** They will think about what happened the night of December 2 and the early morning of December 3, 1984, when an accident at the chemical plant owned by Union Carbide of Danbury, Connecticut, led to history's worst industrial disaster. December 3, the International...

An Indentured Spirit - Tejaswi

Posted on 03:57 by  with 2 comments
++++ Add Notes 1. Comment on the title of the essay. 2. Write a charactersketch of Maara. 3. Discuss the relationship between man and nature, as in the narrative, "An Indentured Spirit." 4. Discuss the relationship between the author and Maara. 5. How does the wordly-wise Maara outwit the intellectually superior narrator? What does it tell you about...

In Custody - Anita Desai

Posted on 10:11 by  with 7 comments
You can watch the full movie : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ZDbaqGC7k8 About the Author: Anita Desai was born in Mussoorie in 1937, educated in Miranda House, Delhi. She was prominent amongst the post - independent writers in India. As a novelist Desai looks at India and the Indian social scenario from an outsider’s perspective. It is this...
Subscribe to: Posts (Atom)