LIFE AND LITERATURE

                                                         CHILDREN RIGHTS        Children's rights are the human rights of children with particular attention to the rights of special protection and care afforded to minors.[1] The 1989 Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) defines a child as "any human being below the age of eighteen years unless, under the law applicable to the child, the majority is attained earlier."[2] Children's rights include their right to association with both parents, human identity as well as the basic needs for physical protection, food, universal state-paid education, health care, and criminal laws appropriate for the age and development of the child, equal protection of the child's civil rights, and freedom from discrimination on the basis of the child's race, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, religion, disability, colour, ethnicity, or other characteristics. Interpretations of children's rig

                                          IRONY AS A PRINCIPLE OF STRUCTURE                                                                                            -CLEANTH BROOKS         Cleanth Brooks was an American literary critic and professor. He is best known for his contributions to New Criticism in the mid-20th century and for revolutionizing the teaching of poetry in American higher education. His best-known works, The Well-Wrought Urn: Studies in the Structure of Poetry(1947) and Modern Poetry and the Tradition (1939), argue for the centrality of ambiguity and paradox as a way of understanding poetry.       With his writing, Brooks helped to formulate formalist criticism, emphasizing "the interior life of a poem" (Leitch 2001) and codifying the principles of close reading. Brooks was also a prominent critic of Southern literature, writing classic texts on William Faulkner, and co-founder of the influential journal The Southern Review (Leitch 2001) with Robert P

  ROBERT BROWNING      Robert Browning was born on May 7, 1812, in Camberwell, England. His mother was an accomplished pianist and a devout evangelical Christian. His father, who worked as a bank clerk, was also an artist, scholar, antiquarian, and collector of books and pictures. His rare book collection of more than 6,000 volumes included works in Greek, Hebrew, Latin, French, Italian, and Spanish. Much of Browning's education came from his well-read father. It is believed that he was already proficient at reading and writing by the age of five. A bright and anxious student, Browning learned Latin, Greek, and French by the time he was fourteen. From fourteen to sixteen he was educated at home, attended to by various tutors in music, drawing, dancing, and horsemanship.       At the age of twelve he wrote a volume of Byronic verse entitled Incondita, which his parents attempted, unsuccessfully, to have published. In 1825, a cousin gave Browning a collection of Percy Bysshe Shelley’

  BRIDES ARE NOT FOR BURNING                                                                                                                         -Dina Mehta           Dina Mehta(born 1961) is a Parsi novelist and an award- winning dramatist, her play" Brides are not for Burning" received an international award from the BBC in 1979, "Getting away with Murder"(2000) and "Brides Are Not For Burning"(1993) are full of complexities of modern life. Dina Mehta and Manjula Padmanabhan seem to be engaged in a serious attempt to bring about a positive attitudinal change in women towards themselves as well as in society towards women. Dina Mehta is an accomplished Indian writer in English who raises her voice in protest against a host of crimes against women such as the evil of dowry, female foeticite, rape, child abuse, subjugation of women, and so on.             Domestic violence against women is certainly not isolated to India. The official rate of dome