http://10.9.150.37:8080/dspace//handle/atmiyauni/1444 2026-04-27T19:00:23Z 2026-04-27T19:00:23Z Dodia, Srushti Pratik http://10.9.150.37:8080/dspace//handle/atmiyauni/2275 2025-01-04T06:04:52Z 2022-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: From Life in a Metro to Ludo- Anurag Basu’s Hyper-Narrative Growth Authors: Dodia, Srushti Pratik

2022-01-01T00:00:00Z Dodia, Srushti P http://10.9.150.37:8080/dspace//handle/atmiyauni/2243 2025-01-01T13:33:35Z 2023-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: Moving beyond the Two-dimensionality of Self by Yann Martel Authors: Dodia, Srushti P Abstract: Yann Martel has four novels to his account Self (1996), Life of Pi (2001), Beatrice and Virgil (2010) and his latest work The High Mountains of Portugal (2016). Since time unknown ‘animal’ characters have caught the imagination of creative writers. Be it oral epics, fables or the modern fictional narratives in recent times. Martel, our contemporary, surprisingly comes up with ‘animal’ characters in all his works. Our preoccupation with the things around us (WIGO) keeps our abstraction process mostly at verbal levels; GS tries to make us aware of silent levels. Experiencing of these silent levels could be done through keeping one’s senses open for events to happen but labeling of these events should be delayed as far as possible, because language is not well equipped to convey all. Animals abstract at lower level and thus are at these levels. This paper will also attempt to study how Martel incorporates extended scenes on how human could become aware of sensual levels.

2023-01-01T00:00:00Z Khuman, Ashok http://10.9.150.37:8080/dspace//handle/atmiyauni/2242 2025-01-01T13:29:44Z 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: Manifestation of Self-realization in Raja Rao's The Serpent and the Rope Authors: Khuman, Ashok Abstract: Raja Rao is one of the three founding pillars of Indian writing in English, along with R. K. Narayan and Mulk Raj Anand. Rao‟s oeuvre was distinct from his contemporaries because he attempted incorporate Indian metaphysics and philosophy into his fictional work. Raja Rao‟s second magnum opus The Serpent and Rope, the Sahitya Akadamy Award winning novel, appeared in 1960. It is very complex and may-sided novel. The narrative closely mirrors Rao‟s own life. It has an autobiographic quality, the protagonist Ramaswamy, a young Hindu Brahmin narrates his own tragic triangle love story. The novel is too philosophic that it has become complex. There are lines very difficult to get meaning out of it at first reading. For instance two very important phrases: “Waves are nothing but water. So is the see” and “Meaning is meaningful to meaning” these prove how brilliantly and intellectually Rao has chosen his diction. The quest for the ultimate reality is a metaphysical quest, and it forms the heart of the novel. Rama constantly reasons about such metaphysical verities as illusion and reality. He exposes the significance of the journey towards self-realization. Thus, the world is the illusion and the self is the truth. Once the truth is known then sorrows and miseries do not affect the man.

2020-01-01T00:00:00Z Khuman, Ashok http://10.9.150.37:8080/dspace//handle/atmiyauni/2241 2025-01-01T13:26:22Z 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: Manifestation of Bhakti Yoga in Raja Rao's The Cat and Shakespeare Authors: Khuman, Ashok Abstract: One of the prominent pioneers of Indian English Fiction, Raja Rao makes a remarkable attempt to fictionalize the Indian philosophy. Raja Rao‟s oeuvre is absorbed in philosophy, and the author has immaculately chosen the way of creative writing to convey the spiritual understanding. Rao gradually constructs the holy grounds choosing India as the key backdrop. By making various experiments he has fictionalized Indian philosophy and myth. Traditions, legends, mythology, philosophical values and the contemporary social and political circumstances of his motherland make the ground of his novels. Raja Rao has made an experiment of humor in his third novel, The Cat and Shakespeare. It is also called „a metaphysical comedy‟. As a matter of fact, Raja Rao has made significant innovations. His familiarity with the western culture and mythical technique has made novels too complex. From the beginning of his career he was in search for the proper form for his writing. The way to the Absolute here is not Karma Yoga or Jnana Yoga of the two previous novels, but Bhakti Yoga or the path of devotion.

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