LIFE AND LITERATURE

  THIRTY DAYS IN SEPTEMBER                                                                         Mahesh Dattani              A play about love and betrayal, ‘Thirty Days’ treats the sensitive and generally taboo issue of child sexual abuse. ‘Thirty Days’ endeavours to lift the veil of silence which surrounds child sexual abuse and addresses the issue unflinchingly. It builds on the trauma of Mala who lives with the haunting memories of her abused past.             Her abuser – her uncle “subconsciously lives with her all the time, as par...

                                      LANGUAGE GRAMMAR AND PEOPLE        Language is the common means of human communication . Language includes all the words by the speaker as well as grammar. Grammar refers to the rules for making use of the words to produce meaningful sentences. Human language has developed from which terms serve many useful purposes for humanity. Grammar Grammar is the way we arrange words to make proper sentences .At the word level grammar lovers verbs and tenses, Noun and Adverb.      At the sentences level grammar includes phrases clauses and reported speech determinants preposition, pronouns, conjunction are also important arrest of grammar. The rules of grammar help us make meaningful sentences .It linguistic grammar is the set of structural rules governing the composition of clauses, phrases and words in a normal language.  ...

                                                                             DUSK                                                                                       -   H.H MUNRO INTRODUCTION TO THE AUTHOR:                          Hector Hugh Munro, better known by the pen name Saki and also frequently as H. H. Munro, was a British writer whose witty, mischievous and someti...

  Romeo and Juliet                                                                                 - William Shakespeare Introduction William Shakespeare was a renowned English poet, playwright, and actor born in 23 April, 1564 in Stratford-upon-Avon . Shakespeare was a prolific writer during the Elizabethan and Jacobean ages of British theatre. During his time in London, Shakespeare’s first printed works were published. They were two long poems, 'Venus and Adonis' (1593) and 'The Rape of Lucrece' (1594). He also became a founding member of The Lord Chamberlain’s Men, a company of actors. He remained with the company for the rest of his career, during which time it evolved into The King’s Men under the patronage of King Ja...

  COLONIAL WRITERS        The title of the 'Post/Colonial' section of the Great Writers Inspire website is intended to gesture towards a blurring between colonial and postcolonial, eradicating any reductive conception of the two as simple dichotomies or binary oppositions. Included within this subsection, 'Colonial Writers', are authors that embody this complexity. Though there are many writers whose work can be described as distinctly colonial, perpetuating racial stereotypes, social hierarchies, and the cultural and technological superiority that justified the colonizing force - we might think of the imperial romances of Henry Rider Haggard (1856-1925), for example - the writers included in this subsection present richer understandings of exactly what it meant to be a 'colonial', to be writing from a 'colony'. If it is the short stories of Rudyard Kipling, with their subtle critiques of Anglo-Indian society, the bleak ambivalence of Joseph Conrad's...