LIFE AND LITERATURE

                 Queen Elizabeth II Britain's longest-serving monarch may have inherited the crown, but her global admiration was earned.   “Queenhood”, it is called: “A priceless burden for a young lady, But, dressed and dressed, an emperor proceeds In the lateral climate of the next few years. and heavy shipments of church and state Lighten with each step, syrupy old gold Converted to Platinum, Alchemy Redefined. Queenhood: It’s Law and Tradition, the Life of Dreams And the documentary, a true fantasy. For generations we will not know such glory.”

KINDLY ADJUST TO OUR ENGLISH                                                                                     -Shashi Tharoor         He is the Indian national Congress MP Thiruvananthapuram. He is the Author of 23 books, Ex- minister of stat e, government of India and Former under Secretary General, United Nations. He outlines the key of elements of a possible peace in Ukraine and urges UN Secretary-General to give a call to the warning nation to stop the war. He plays his part in bringing the needless suffering and destruction to an end. His ideas on the way English is used in this country are helpful to the English learning persons.            Indian English is a result of the British colonization of India which lasted more than 200 years. Officially, Indians follow the rules of British English grammar but there are a lot of differences in the way Indians speak English. A little over 108 of Indians speak English. There is diversity among Indian English speakers due to cultu

 

                                                         METHODS AND PRINCIPLES       ELT in India today That is one side of the picture. The other side is that in educationally backward families, success in learning English has been elusive. Every year, thousands of students fail at examinations in English. In spite of years spent learning English, fluency and accuracy elude the learner. This has adversely affected the morale of many learners and their dissatisfaction with the official sector in ELT has given rise to a huge private industry. That the private sector has also failed is a different story. In a community where success in life depends upon success in learning English, here is a challenge for ELT.       Several studies, for example, Sawhney (1980), Parashar (1979) and Chaudhary (1981) have found that many factors contribute to the learning of English in India. Of these, the more important appears to be motivation and the extent of availability of the language around the lea

  THE LAST LABYRINTH                                                           -ARUN JOSHI             Indian English Fiction is now being studied and discussed in the entire English speaking world by those interested in the Indian sub-continent or in non-native Englishes, and by linguists for its thematic and stylist Indianness, At least half a dozen Indian English novelists have created a small but slowly increasing international reading public for themselves, e.g. Mulk Raj Anand, Anita Desai, Manohar Malgonkar, Kamla Markandaya, R.K.Narayan, Raja Rao, Khushwant Singh and Nayantara Sahgal. The writers express themselves through various themes, culture, tradition, myths, images, symbols and indigenous language.             Arun Joshi is one of the most distinguished Indian English novelists. His novel The Last Labyrinth is unrivaled in the treatment of Indian ethos based on Hindu philosophy as told in the pious scriptures of the Upnishads and the Gita. The novel deals with a man

  THE HARP OF INDIA                                                                                                             -HENRY DEROZIO Introduction: “ The Harp of India ” is a  well-known patriotic poem by Derozio  who is known as the first  Indian poet in English . It is in the form of a  Shakespearean sonnet  which has three quatrains and a couplet at the end of the poem. It deals with the pathetic plight of the people of India who were under the clutches of the cruel and callous administration of the British rule. It is a poem written at the time when the poets never expressed their  patriotic views  in a direct way. Perhaps this is why the poem, right from the beginning, up to the end, tacitly airs the views of  patriotism  through the medium of some beautiful metaphors and connotations. Metaphor: The  poem begins with the  metaphor  of a withered flower on a withered bough. The poet imagines the wretched and miserable condition of India to a withered bough. The

      IDGAH                                                                                            - PREMCHAND             Idgah was written by Premchand. His original name was Dhanpat Rai Shrivastava. He was born on 31st July 1880 in Lamhi,Varanasi. He was died in 8th October 1936. He was better known by his pen name Premchand. He was an Indian writer famous for his modern Hindustan literature. MunshiPremchand was a pioneer of Hindi and Urudhu social fiction. He was the novel writer, story writer and dramatist. He published his first collection of five short stories in 1907 in a book called "SOZ-e-aWatan". His notable works Godaan, Bazaar-e-Hush.           It is the story of Hamid, a four year old poor orphan boy and his day on Id . The story is in a typical Premchand style. It was something which was a hallmark of his writing. He used to describe human conditions and emotions in such a real and heart-touching way that readers would feel that they are a part of the event