Shrinking Horizons, Rainbow on Rocks, Whirlpool of Echoes, Songs of Silence

Kulbhushan Kushal

Shrinking Horizons (1989, Reprint 2005), Rainbow on Rocks (2005, Rs. 100/150) and Whirlpool of Echoes (2006, Rs. 150, ISBN:81-902800-3-1) Songs of Silence (2008, Rs. 200,ISBN:81-902800-5-8) are collections of Kulbhushan Kushal's poems. These books show the poetic craft and richness of themes concentrating on contemporary social reality. The multi-dimensional nature of Kushal's poetry offers a very useful, novel and scholarly project for research in Indian-English poetry. The variety of themes, the use of fresh images and introduction of new perspectives in these poems, mark the emergence of a powerful poetic voice in the horizon of Indian-English poetry.

CONTENTSIntroduction Kulbhushan Kushal, N.K. NebPoint of View : A Narrative Strategy in Raja Rao's Kanthapura, The Serpent and the Rope, The Cat and Shakespeare and Comrade Kirillov “ R a t i o n a l i z a t i o n ” i n B h a b a n i Bhattacharya's He Who Rides a Tiger

Quest for Identity in Arun Joshi's The Strange Case of Billy Biswas and The Last Labyrinth Role of Narrator in Ruth Prawer Jhabvala's To Who She Will

Textual Strategies and Thematic Relevance in Baumgartner's Bombay

Dr. K. B. Kushal

Dr. Bindu Bedi

Dr. Adarsh Khanna

Dr. Vijay Kumar Sharma

Dr. Ramandeep Singh

A Spectrum of Indian-English Fiction : Critical Studies (Rs. 275, (2002) ed. K.B. Kushal, N.K. Neb The articles in this book address a wide variety of themes and the various experiments in technique introduced by India-English fiction writers. A sustained growth marking the shifts in the nature, study and understanding of Indian-English

Fiction at its various stages can be ascertained from a study of different articles in the collection. The study includes articles tracing the recent shift in the paradigms of understanding and the development of a new type of fiction.

The Rich Political Medley of Geeta Mehta's Raj

Portrayal of Diaspora Experiences in Jhumpa Lahiri's Interpreter of Maladies

Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things : A Semiotic Analysis

The God of Small Things : A Study in Contradictions and Constraints

Feminism at Crossroads : Images of Women in Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things

In An Antique Land : A Monumental Work in Shifting Paradigms

Dr. Rupinder Kaur

Dr. Tejinder Kaur

Dr. Parminder Singh

Dr. G.D. Barche

Dr. Sangeeta Handa

Dr. N. K. Neb

Emerging Modes and Metaphors : Perspectives on Indian-English Fiction

(Rs. 300) (2004) ed. Kulbhushan Kushal, N. K. Neb

The book traces the changing pattern of thematic concerns and narrative form at different stages of the development of Indian-English fiction. The book includes articles on the fictional works of the writers from the first to the second and the contemporary generation of Indian-writers in English. The papers included in the book exhibit the scholarly interests of different critics and the clarity of thought required to explicate literary works effectively.

CONTENTS

Reflections of Changing Values in Indo-Anglian Fiction

Structural Interplay In Kamala Markandaya's The Coffer Dams

Social Change in Mulk Raj Anand's Untouchable

Cultural Dilemmas And Displacements of Immigrants in Jhumpa Lahiri's The Namesake

Aesthetic And Thematic Structure of R.K. Narayan's The Guide And Arun Joshi's The Foreigner

Signification of Cultural Codes In Anita Desai's Fasting Feasting

Jhumpa Lahiri : The Interpreter of Migrant Maladies

Beyond Diasporic Imagination : The Existential Predicament of Mrs. Das In Jhumpa Lahiri's 'Interpreter of Maladies'

An Approach to V.S. Naipaul's Aesthetics of Marginality

Paradigms of Multiculturalism and Failure of Indentity-Existential Parameters in Naipaul's A Bend in the River and Half a Life

Fasting Feasting : An Exploration

Destabilsation of Woman's Identity in A Married Woman : A Feminist Perspective

Dr. Ramesh K. Srivastava

Dr. G. D. Sharma

Dr. K.B. Kushal

Dr. Tejinder Kaur

Dr. P. S. Ramana

Dr. Ramandeep Singh Sandhu

Dr. Yubee Gill

Dr. Rabinder Powar

Dr. Rajinder Singh Jhanji

Dr. Sangeeta Handa

Dr. Anita Kiran

Dr. N.K. Neb

Culture in Transition : A Study of Contemporary Indian English-Fiction (Rs. 300 (2004) N.K. NebThe book consists of ten different articles on contemporary Indian-English fiction writers. The study explorers multiple aspects of Indian-English fiction that mark a shift in the nature of its content and form. It involves the intervention of different theoretical perspectives used to study and analyse literature in general and fiction in particular. The major theoretical frameworks applied for the study include, the feminist, post-colonial, structural analysis, post-modernist, psychoanalytical and realistic. The detailed Introduction to the study provides a valuable overview of the emerging trends in contemporary Indian l i fe and the subsequent shift informing the nature of fictional works. The book, no doubt, is a useful tool to understand the evolving form of contemporary Indian-English fiction.

CONTENTS

Foreword : Dr. Gurupdesh Singh

Introduction

Amitav Ghosh's The Glass Palace : A Counter Narrative of Postcoloniality

Shashi Tharoor's Riot : Popular Expression to Contemporary History

Manju Kapur's Difficult Daughters : An Expression of Indian Feminism

Anita Desai's Fasting Feasting : A Submerged Iceberg

Author as an Amused Observer in Shobha De's Socialite Evenings

Construction of Narrative in Shashi Deshpande's Small Remedies

Naipaul's Half A Life : An Experience In Exile

G o k h a l e ' s G o d s G r a v e s a n d Grandmother : A Study in the Sacred and the Profane

Jhumpa Lahiri's Interpreter of Maladies : An Exploration of the Fictional Art

Rohinton Mistry's Family Matters : A Study of Contemporary Reality

Bibliography

Index

Perspectives on Diaspora Indian Fiction in English

(Rs. 300) (2005)

Dr. Manjit Inder Singh

Dr. Swaraj Raj

Dr. Manju Jaidka

Dr. Rama Kundu

Dr.Rajtinder Singh Jhanji

Dr. G. Manoja

Dr. Jasbir Jain

Dr. Jagroop Singh

Dr. N.K. Neb

Dr. P.S. Ramana

Dr. Poornima

Dr. Tejinder Kaur

Dr. Swaraj Raj

Dr. Sangeeta Handa

Dr. Rajesh Kumar Sharma

ed. Tejinder Kaur, N.K. NebThe present book undertakes the study of different thematic patterns and fictional art of diaspora Indian-fiction in English. The articles concentrating on the theoretical framework highlight major common aspects of diaspora experience and common diaspora concerns. The book includes papers that can be of great help to the students of literature and the scholars concentrating on research in diaspora studies and the emergence of new patterns of life with cross-cultural interaction. The variety of articles and the research oriented presentation by different scholars makes this book extremely useful.

CONTENTS

Contemporary Diasporic Discourse : Towards Understanding Cultural Dialogics

Theorizing Diaspora Poetics And Diaspora Literature

Travelling With Walls : The South-Asian Intellectual In The United States

G. Ramsay Muir or 'The Unbearable Lightness of [Diasporic] being'

Mimicry as Subterfuge : A Study Of The Mystic Masseur, The Suffrage Of Elvira And Miguel Street

War Within War

Stranger Come Home : Itwaru's The Unreturning And Karodia's Daughters of the Twilight

Socio-Political Concerns In Rohinton Mistry's A Fine Balance

Bharati Mukherjee's Desirable Daughters : An Exploration of Diasporic Life

Jhumpa Lahiri Problematising Marriage In Interpreter of Maladies

Changing Patterns of Human Relationships In Jhumpa Lahiri's The Namesake

Transformation Of The Female Protagonist's Subjectivity In The Diaspora Space In Kavita Daswani's For Matrimonial Purposes

Emergence Of New Identities In Bharati Mukherjee's Jasmine And Desirable Daughters

Hari Kunzru's Transmission : A Critique of New Global World Order

Diasporic Dialectics And The Politics of Cinematic Representation : Looking through American Desi

Contemporary Literary Criticism: A Select Study

(Rs. 150, (2006), ISBN:81-902800-2-3)

N. K. Neb,

The study concentrates on major critical essays by different critics that represent different critical approaches. The critical perceptions explained in simple and lucid terms, making minimum use of critical jargon, make this book a useful student-companion for beginners. The major points related to each critical essay are given to make the study effective and easily understandable. The use of cross references and meta-criticism makes this book extremely useful for the purposes of research :

CONTENTSIntroduction T. S. Eliot's “ Tradition and Individual Talent” : A Critique T. S. Eliot's ' The Frontiers Of Criticism' : An Attempt to Define The Scope of Criticism W. K. Wimset Jr. and Monore Beardsley's ' The Intentional Falacy' : A Study Northrop Frye's ' The Archetypes of Literature' : A Study Russian Formalism And Viktor Shklovsky's “ Art as Technique” Trilling's 'Freud and Literature': A Critical Study Terry Eagleton and Marxist Literary Criticism Toril Moi's Feminist Literary Criticism : A Critique Edward Said's ' Crisis In Orientalism Roman Jackobson 's ' Linguistics and Poetics' : A Study Barthes's Structural Analysis of Narratives and Structuralism Roland Barthes's ' The Death of The Author' : A Study Deconstruction and Christopher Norris's “ Jacques Derrida: Language Against Itself” Wolfgang Iser's ' The Reading Process : A Phenomenological Approach' : A Study Bibliography

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Perspectives on the Partition Fiction of

the Indian Sub-continent

, 2 0 0 7 ( I S B N : 8 1 -902800-4-X)

Ed. Tejinder Kaur, K. B. Kushal, N K Neb

The immense critical r e s p o n s e t o t h e literature on partition makes a broader study of this literature almost an imperative. The present book includes critical responses to the par t i t ion f ic t ion in different languages i nc lud ing Eng l i sh , Punjabi and Sindhi. Not only the number of articles but also the intensity with which they explore the partition fiction brings out the relevance of the fiction

CONTENTS

Introduction

Sanitized Silence : Towards a Theory of the Pa r t i t i on Nove l i n E n g l i s h

Literal History and Historical Literature : The Event and i ts Aftermath

Fate or the will of Men : Representation of the Partition in Ice-candy-Man

D r . Madhusudan Prasad, Alok Kumar

Dr. Jaya Chakravarty

Dr. K. Ratna Shiela Mani

Narratives of the Silence : An Analysis of the Partition Narratives

Two Facets of Partition : The Feminine and The Other

'Our Look ing-g lass Border' : A Critique of Partition Theme in The Shadow L ines

Par t i t i on F i c t i on : Between Madness And H u m a n i s m

Crisis of Identity and The Plight of the Refugees : A Study of Short Stories on The Partition

Vignettes of Partition in Two Short Stories

Partit ion of Mind : Conflicting Emotions in Amrita Pritam's Pinjjar

Political Fiction : A Reading of Manohar Malgonkar's A Bend in The Ganges

Partition Violence : A Study of A Bend in The Ganges

The Whirligig of Partition : Ideals and Their Counter in Manohar Malgonkar's A Bend in The Ganges

An Appraisal of Some Indian English Novels on The Partition of India

Chaman Nahal's Azadi : A Classic Novel on Partition

A River with Three Banks : A Partition Novel

Trauma of Partition in Khushwant Singh's Train to Pakistan

Dr. Sudip Minhas

Gurpreet Kaur (Cookie Maini)

Dr. Jagroop Singh

D r . Praveen Mirdha

Dr. Vinod K. Chopra

Dr. Jyoti Singh

Dr. Bhagyashree S. Verma

Dr. Ritu Parna

Dr. Manisha Gahelot

Dr. Monika Sethi

Dr. Ashok Mahashabde

Dr. N. S. Gundur

Dr. Samita Jha

Dr. C. L. Khatri

Two Facets of Train to Pakistan

The Theme of Partition in Bapsi Sidhwa's Ice-candy-Man

Tamas, Ice-candy-Man, Azad i A L i te ra ry R e s p o n s e t o t h e Partition of India

Fingering the Jagged Grain in Bapsi Sidhwa's Ice candy-Man

Manto and Punjabi Short Story Writers

Inversion of the Binary : Sani ty / Insani ty in Manto 's “Toba Tek Singh”

Mutilated Identities : Partition in the Stories of Sa'adat Hasan Manto

Beyond Boundaries : A Study of Sa'adat Hasan Manto 's Stor ies in M o t t l e d D a w n

Partition and Sindhi Short-story

Portrayal of the Trauma of Partition in Punjabi Fiction

Documentation of a Utopia Lost in Partition Frenzy

The Violence the Body Remembers : An Analysis of Shauna Singh Baldwin's What the Body Remembers

Partition in Retrospect a n d P r o s p e c t : Diaspora's Response

Dr. Bhaskar Roy Barman

Dr. Vandana Singh

Dr. Nivedita Maitra

Dr. J a s m i n d e r S i n g h Dhillon

Dr. Tejwant Singh Gill

Dr. Subhash Chandra

Dr. Rashmi Gaur & Shabnam Hamid

D r. Sangeeta Handa

Dr. Jagdev Singh

Dr. Gurdev Singh Chandi

Dr. Indu Singh

Dr. Swaraj Raj

Dr. Tejinder Kaur

INSIGHT: A Study of the Poetry of Kulbhushan Kushal

, 2008, Rs.300 (ISBN:81-902800-6-6)

N.K.Neb

The exploration of the thematic and the artistic features of Kulbhushan Kushal’s poetry, discussed in the book, relate to the emerging trends in Indian English Poetry. The study analyses how poetry sensitizes the readers to the existential problems of

CONTENTS

Evolving Nature of Kushal's Poetry: Shrinking Horizons to Whirlpool of Echoes

Progression of the Poetic Self : An Insight Into Kulbhushan

Kushal's Poetry

The Poetry of Kulbhushan Kushal: An Overview

A Conversation with Kulbhushan Kushal

Kulbhushan Kushal's Rainbow on Rocks: The Poetry of Psychic Concerns

The Poetry of Kulbhushan Kushal: An Existentialist Study

The Poetry of Kulbhushan Kushal: A Critique of Contemporary Reality and Concern for Values

The Poetic Art of Kulbhushan Kushal : A Critical Study

Conclusion

Bibliography

man and provides aesthetic pleasure through the magic of words. The perspectives applied to study the poetic art of Kulbhushan Kushal can go a long way in providing valuable insights for the study of this verbal art.

The Novels of M.G. Vassanji : A Study in Diasporic Experiences ( ,2009,Rs.600, ISBN:81-902800-7-4).Ajay Sareen

The bookexplores multiple aspects of diasporic life and its fictional presentation. It examines the implications of history, identity and memory in the life and experiences of the displaced and the rootless depicted against the background of multicultural societies and in different

CONTENTS

Introduction

A Collage of Memories: The Gunny Sack

Quest for Identity: No New Land

A Journey from Past to Present: The Book of Secrets

Uncertainties of Hybrid Identity: Amriika

Dislocations Across Time: The In-Between World of Vikram Lall

Conclusion

Bibliography

Index

political contexts. The book forms the study of thematic and artistic aspects of Vassanji’s fictional art along with a special emphasis on his depiction of diasporic life.

Reflections on Contemporary Indian English Fiction ,2011,Rs.1000)ISBN:81-902800-8-2)

(ed.K.B.Kushal,N.K.Nebcritically examines

diverse thematic paradigms in the redefined perspect ives of postcolonial thought perceptions and narrative techniques based on neoreal ism, social displacement and surrealism. This study demystifies the new narrative designs and examines the changes in the art of story- telling. In the process it brings out the intervention of different material, theoretical and philosophical elements that mark a

CONTENTSIntroduction

Lives of Loss : Travails of Diaspora Journey and Existence in Kiran Desai’s The Inheritance of Loss

Speech and Silence of a ‘Migrant Novel’: Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Namesake

Manju Kapur’s The Immigrant : A Counter Narrative to Diasporic View

Colonizing the Mind: Civilizational Imperialism and Amitav Ghosh’s The Glass Palace

Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things : A Foucauldian Reading

Dialogics of Novelisation in Amitav Ghosh’s The Shadow Lines

Resisting the Oppressions of Patriarchy through Female Bonding : A Study of Shashi Deshpande’s A Matter of Time

Contextualizing Desecration of Women : Gendered Violence in Sidhwa’s Cracking India

Rohinton Mistry’s Family Matters : Critique of Ethnic Discourse

The Polemics of Identity in Hari Kunzru’s The Impressionist : A Post-modern Perspective

Modernism / Postmodernism in Shashi Tharoor’s Riot

Interaction of Theme and Character in The Serpent and the Rope

Shifting Paradigms and The Fictional World of Shobha De

Beyond Illusions: An Existentialistic Appraisal of V. S. Naipaul’s Magic Seeds

Contributors and Editors

Index

Dr. Tejinder Kaur

Dr. P.S. Ramana

Dr. N. K. Neb

Dr. Jagroop Singh

Anand Bajaj

Seema Singh

Dr. Sunita Goyal

Manmeet Sodhi

Dr. Jagroop Singh

Dr. Rohit Phutela

Surekha

Dr. Kulbhushan Kushal

Dr. N. K. Neb

Surekha

Comprehensive English Grammar ( With Notes On Pronunciation )

(Rs. 220 ,2011)N. K.

NebSta r t i ng f rom bas ic grammatical concepts, the book includes different ru les and exerc ises related to almost all the a s p e c t s o f a p p l i e d grammar. The exercises o n t e n s e s , v o i c e , narration, parts of speech, p h r a s e s , c l a u s e s , identification and the use of different items of g r a m m a r p r o v i d e comprehensive practice. T h e c h a p t e r s o n prepositions, determiners, use of idioms, vocabulary, the words often confused in usage and punctuation make the book extremely useful for writing correct English. The chapter on Pronunciation has been designed to introduce s o m e b a s i c p o i n t s regarding pronunciation. The explorat ive and illustrative rather than exhaustive nature of the material used in the book is intended to make the book learner- friendly.

discernible shift in the nature of Indian English fiction and its study.

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