The English word ‘Symbol’ owes its origin to the Greek word‚ ‘Symbolon’ meaning ‘a sign’ by which one knows or infers a thing. Swami Swahananda‚ in one of his articles states that‚ “a symbol‚ typifies‚ represents or recalls something by possession of analogous qualities or by association in the fact or thought”1. Human beings use symbols so much so that it has become an innate tendency in them. In due course‚ symbols began to be used to interpret more and more abstract things‚ thoughts‚ human
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someone else’s reality. Amitav Ghosh in his book The Shadow Lines (1988) dwells on reality as a construction‚ that is‚ reality as an individual creates it for him/herself. This paper will look at the construction of reality for us by the Author‚ narrator and the various other characters in the story and thus giving the reader the reality effect or realism. One of the ways in which reality is constructed in The Shadow Lines (1988) is by the use of detail. For one Amitav Ghosh naturalizes the text by ample
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and that this community should be cultivated.” In other words‚ cosmopolitanism is the theory that a person belongs to no country or nationality and that they only belong to humanity and the world as a whole. In the novel The Shadow Lines by Amitav Ghosh this controversial idea is a major theme. Many of the characters believe in cosmopolitanism in different forms. The unnamed narrator takes his own stance on cosmopolitanism which in his own way‚ directly relates to the theory defined by the Stanford
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led to the formation of the modern world as we know it. The process of othering‚ i.e. the creation of a certain sense of "us" and "them" has inevitably been created between nations and people due to the creation of boundaries or ‘Shadow Lines’ as Ghosh puts it. In this paper‚ I aim to analyze the feasibility or the desirability of these intangible lines that separate us historically‚ culturally‚ linguistically and racially and the role of language in the creation of such lines. Undoubtedly‚ language
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Savitri- Book One: Canto Two –The Issue. Prof.S.Jayaraman. Sri Aurobindo‚ the great saint –poet and philosopher began writing ‘Savitri’ in the closing years of the 19th century and concluded it about the mid-point of the 20th century. It is a great epic comprising 3 parts‚ 12 books‚ 49 cantos and 24‚000 lines. The conquest over Death is the thematic principle of Sri Aurobindo’s ‘Savitri’. The original story appears in the epic Mahabharata as well as in the Puranas. In short‚ it tells the story
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three MIRRA THE OCCULTIST by Sujata Nahar INSTITUT DE RECHERCHES EVOLUTIVES 32‚ avenue de 1 ’Observatoire 75014 paris Already published in the series: Book One: MIRRA Book Two: MIRRA THE ARTIST To be published: Book Four: MIRRA AND SRI AUROBINDO Book Five: MIRRA IN JAPAN Book Six: MIRRA THE MOTHER Mother ’s Chronicles-Book Three: MIRRA THE OCCULTIST. (c 1989 by SuJma Nahar. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduted in any manner whatsoever without written permission
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Eco-socialists have revisited Marx’s writings and believe that he was the main originator of the ecological world view. William Morris‚ the English novelist and poet is credited for developing key principles of Eco-socialism. Metabolic Rift is a recent ideology introduced by John Bellamy Foster. This is an extension of Marx’s view on ecological crisis that occur under capitalism. The concept of the Metabolic Rift is the dynamic interchange between human beings and nature‚ resulting from human labour
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in the Literary Viewfinder” says‚ “Ecocriticism does enable the critics to examine the texualizations of the physical environment in literary discourse itself and to develop an earth-centered approach to literary studies” (1). In this way‚ Amitav Ghosh has examined the physical environment in his novel The Hungry Tide. As an anthropologist‚ he finds it easy to locate the problems encountered by the people living in an immense archipelago of islands‚ the Sundarbans. The Hungry Tide‚ a complex novel
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Post-Colonial Melancholy: An Examination ofSadness in Amitav Ghosh’s The Shadow Lines The article undertakes a study on melancholy and sadnessin Amitav Ghosh’s The Shadow Lines ‚ concentrates on theforlorn figures of Tridib and the narrator in an attempt to analyse and evaluate the melancholy atmosphere of the novel. Bearing inmind Freud’s own understanding of melancholy as the uncon-scious mourning for a lost love object‚ the article suggests themoments of gloom in Ghosh’s novel could be better
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