international journal of english: literature, language & skills

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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENGLISH:
LITERATURE, LANGUAGE & SKILLS

IJELLS, ISSN 2278 0742, www.ijells.com
VOLUME 3 ISSUE 3, October 2014
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Founding & Chief Editor Profile

Dr. Mrudula Lakkaraju, Department of English, Osmania University is
trained from EFLU and a Doctorate from Osmania University. She prefers the
designation of a trainer and a writer. She has presented several academic
articles to international and national seminars, conferences, journals, and
magazines. She also renders voluntary services as an editor to another
International Journal. Casual and creative writing is also her forte. She is a
prolific reader and writer. Her areas of interest are Post colonial Literature,
Feminist Studies, Film Studies, English Language Teaching, Contemporary
Literature and Communication Skills.
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Board of Editors

Dr. G. Venkata Ramana,
Head of Writers Division
English Writers and Software Solutions

Dr. George Kolanchery,
Multimedia Language Lab Supervisor,
Dhofar University, Sultanate of Oman

Dr. Thirunavukkarasu Karunakaran
English Language Teaching Centre,
University of Jaffna, Sri Lanka.

Dr. Deepti Gupta
Professor, English
Panjab University
Chandigarh

Dr. Asha Choubey
Associate Professor of English
Head, Dept. of Humanities
MJP Rohilkhand University
Bareilly

Dr. Mohammad Shaukat Ansari
Associate Professor of English,
M.L.S.M. College,
Darbhanga, Bihar

Dr. Hareshwar Roy
Assistant Professor, English
Govt. Autonomous P.G. College Satna
Satna, Madhya Pradesh

Dr. Ravi Bhushan
Assistant Professor of English
Bhagat Phool Singh Mahila Vishwavidyalaya
Khanpur Kalan, Sonipat, Haryana

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EDITOR’S NOTE
Dear Readers and Contributors,

Welcome to the October 2014 issue of International Journal of English: Literature,
Language & Skills. This is our 11 issue, i.e., one issue from our third anniversary. It has been a
tremendously growing experience for our contributors and us.
The articles published this time hold the same fascination of diversity like each time.
Literature section holds articles about writers such as Orhan Pamuk, Margaret Atwood,
Bama, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Alice Walker and Virginia Woolf. R.K. Narayan still
fascinates the academicians and his writings hold the promise of further academic study.
The Language section holds articles from Listening, Translations, Grammar, Dogme
ELT AND Meta-cognitive areas of research.
Communication Skills section is a compilation of articles of Gender differences, net
savvy generation among the others.
This collection of articles, though broadly sectioned into English Literature, English
Language Teaching and English & Communication Skills for our convenience are
increasingly overlapping onto each other attempting to turn into the natural unifying whole.
Read through and draw your conclusions. We are happy to receive your comments on
our web site.
Happy Reading!

Dr. Mrudula Lakkaraju
Founding Editor

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CONTENTS

Editorial Board ..........................................................................................................................02
Editor’s Note ..............................................................................................................................04
Contents ....................................................................................................................................05
ENGLISH CREATIVE SECTION

Life in death
Jita Phukan…………………………………………………………………………………………………………................................................………..08
E-Mail
Rajani Priya. S………………………………………………………………………………………………………...........................................…………….11
Hazarat Mahal’s “Lament on Loss”
Prof. Kum Kum Ray………………………………………………………………………………………………........................................……….………13
Impossible
Dr. Mallika Tripathi……………………………………………………………………………………………....................................………………….…15
On Cancer
Mohammed Shafeer K. P. …………………………………………………………………………………………………....................................………16
The Triangle with a Spirit.
Rimni Chakravarty…………………………………………………………………………………………………...............................…………….…….….17

ENGLISH LITERATURE
“Neurotic Wives”: A Study of Shashi Deshpande’s That Long Silence and Bharathi
Mukherjee’s Wife
Dr. S. Ambika …………………………………………………………………………........................................…………………………………………….19
Identity Redefined in Orhan Pamuk’s The Black Book & The White Castle
S. P. Anuja & Dr. K. Pramila…………………………………………………………...............................................……………………………….24
Post colonialism as Instrument of Partition
Asad Mehmood, Ghania Khan & Summaiya Ali ……………………………………………………………........................……………………28
Silence and Helpfulness: the Construction of Femininity in Margaret Atwood’s the Blind
Assassin
K. S. Balaji………………………………………………………………………………………………..............................................……………………….35
Theorizing Dalit Metaphor: The Impact of Contemporary Social Protest Movements in India
Dr. J. Bheemaiah …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………...................................…….40
A Critical Study on the Themes and Techniques of Kiran Desai’s Fictions
Bipin Bihari Dash……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..................................….47
Subverting the Various Layers of Oppression and Struggle for Identity in Bama’s Sangati
Darshan Lal & Dr. Mukesh Ranjan …………………………………………………………………………………………….....................……………55
Treatment of love in The English Teacher by R.K. Narayan
Dr. Deepa Tyagi…………………………………………………………………………………………………………….....................................………….62
Renaissance Humanism: Problematizing the Concept and Its Understanding
Dhurjjati Sarma……………………………………………………………………………………………………………….................................……...….65
Exploring the Realm of Rhetoric
Dr. Gurpreet Kaur…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..................................…….70
The Trial: Possibility of Art
S. Habeebunisa Begum ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………........................………..….76
Feminist Ideologies of the West and the East
Dr. S. Henry Kishore…………………………………………………………………………………………………………….............................…….…….80
Submissiveness in Shashi Despande’s That Long Silence
P. Hiltrud Dave Eve & G. Santhiya………………………………………………………………………….......…………………………………………….84
Expatriate Sensibility in Bharati Mukherjee’s Wife
Ishita N. Patel…………………………………………………………………………........................................…………………………………………….88
Sagas of Globalization: A Reading of Aravind Adiga’s Fiction
Kiran Mathew ………………………………………………………………………………………………….......................................…………………….93
(Re)writing Postcolonial Bildungsroman in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Purple Hibiscus
Nilima Meher……………………………………………………………………………………………........................................………………………….101
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Facts, Fiction and Fabrication as a Fabulating Device Unravelling the Fractured Identity in
Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children
Dr. Nidhi Sharma………………………………………………………………………………………………………..................................……………….108
Sexism, Racism and Subjugation in Alice Walker’s Works
E. Kumar, R. Ragupathi & Dr. Mummatchi ………………………………………………………………..............……………….…………………113
Illusion or Reality? The Conflicting World of Calvino in Invisible Cities
Sambit Panigrahi……………………………………………………………………………………………..................................………………………….122
Amorphous Lahore: Questions of Location, Culture, Fiction and Reality
Dr. Shahid Imtiaz………………………………………………………………………….................................…………………………………………….128
Postmodern Logic in Virginia Woolf’s The Waves: A Bakhtinian Reading
Dr. Shibu Simon………………………………………....................................……………………………………………………………………………….143
Influence of the Bhagavad Gita on R.W. Emerson’s essay “Conduct of life: Consideration by
the way”
(The Conduct of Life, 1860, rev.1876 Good of Evil, Civil War)
Shiva Durga & Prof. Dr. Anoop Gupta…………………………………………………………………..........……………………………………………149
Epistemology of Poetry
Dr. K. Venkatramana Rao………………………………………………....................……………………………………………………………………….157

ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHING
Listening: A Step to Language Acquisition
D. Ambika…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………...................................................160
Role of Teachers in Value-based Education
Aravind Babu Chilukuri……………………………………………………………………………………………………............................……………165
Translation for Interactive Learning
Dr. G. Venkata Ramana…………………………………………………………………………………………………….............................……………170
The Tones of Assamese English
Dr. Mridumoni Dhekial Phukan…………………………………………………………………………...............………………………………………174
My Reflections on Teaching Grammar in the ESL Classroom
Nalina Singh……………………………………………………………………………………………………...............................................……………181
Dogme Elt: A Tool to Promote General Communicative Competence
Dr. Priti Bala Sharma……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..…….……184
Fostering a Constructive Culture in ESL/EFL Classrooms
A. Ramesh & J. John Love Joy………………………………………………………………………………………………………....................….………188
The Use of Language in Native American Literary Tradition
Dr. Rizwana Banu…………………………………………………………………………………………………………….......................................……193
Learner-centered Methodology and Teacher Performance
Dr. Salma Al-Humaidi……………………………………………………………………………………………………………................................……197
Effective classroom techniques in the use of Idioms- A study
Grace Shanthi , Prof. Annie Pothan & Prof. Ramakrishna………………………...............….................................….…………206
Enhancing Speaking Skills of Undergraduates: A Learner-Centered Approach
Sher Muhammed Khan ……………………………………………………………………….............................................................…….……212
Metacognitive Awareness In Reading Among Higher Secondary Students
Dr. J. P. Vandhana …………………………………………………………………………….....................................................................……218
English for Public along the Haryana Belt of National Highway I
Dr Varalakshmi Chaudhry………………………………………………….........................................................………………………………224

ENGLISH & COMMUNICATION SKILLS

Gender Differences in Communication
Dr. Archana Kumari…………………………………………………..................................................................………………………………229
Effective Classroom Communication: A General Semantics Approach
Bibhuti Bhusan Dash……………………………………………...............................................................……………………………………235
‘Netspeak’ as a New Communication Medium for N-Gen Learners
Dr. J. John Sekar……………………………………………….........................................................................…………………………………241
Promoting students’ English Speaking Skill in classroom through a balanced activities
approach- A case study
R. Latha…………………………………………………………………………......................................................................................………250
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A Study on Improving Listening Proficiency of Students Majoring in English Literature
C. Shanmugapriya & Dr. S. Mekala……………………………………………………..........................................……………………………257
Effects of Toastmasters Club on Teachers’ English Communication Skills
Shashi Rekha M…………………………………………..........................................................................………………………………………262
Self Empowerment through Continuous Professional Development
B. Sreekanth Reddy………………………………………………....................................................................…………………………………268
The Role of Communication and Technology in the Indian Parliamentary Election-2014
Dr. Sushil Kumar…………………………………………………………….......................................................................….…………………271
Contemporary Learning Technologies and Thinking Skills (CLTs & TS): In the Context of
Underachievers…………………………………………………....................................................................………………………………276
Venkata Ramana Sabbavarapu

BOOK/MOVIE REVIEW

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo – A Review
Dr. Mrudula Lakkaraju………………………………………………………………………………………………………………281

INTERESTING READ
Frozen are the days....
Jayanthi. R Rathinavelu……………………………………….............................................................…………………………………………284

Author Profiles...................................................................................................................285

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ENGLISH CREATIVE SECTION

Life in death
Jita Phukan

4 o’clock in the evening.

Arrival of his close friends and buddies enlightened Kaushik’s house. The calm
atmosphere and peace of mind of the inhabitants of the house, that seems inevitable part of
their life, is a gift of destiny after three years. The prevailing silence of the house is like the
aftermath of turmoil, or the Tsunami in the Indian Ocean. Kaushik is 38 years old. But his
health and circumstances imposed maturity in him of a person in the door-step of his
sixties.

“Before you came here, it was decided in the club, you know that?”

Rajat is just pulling Dipen’s leg. Trying to break the ice, he continued, “Let me
announce, the treat of Dipen’s fatherhood, will be celebrated in Kaziranga National Park”.

Kaushik revealed that he was not unaware of the deal, saying “I know, Manas, our
Narad Muni, used to share all the information he knew, particularly that you people conceal
thinking it unnecessary, when I was in Hyderabad.”

“Hum…….” Dipen has thrown a staring-gaze at Manas.

Manas frowned at Kaushik as he is annoyed to be revealed in front of Dipen and
Rajat. But all laughed aloud, in a second expressing their joy of the home coming of their
dear friend Kaushik after 6 months of his treatment.

Kaushik had been suffering from kidney problem for the last three years, now got
recovered after the Kidney transplantation in Hyderabad. And that is a great relief to his
friends and family member.

Many trivial jokes captured in the conversation of the four close friends. They are the
best friends forever. Kaushik seems trying to feel the life he had left behind ….the life
celebrated earlier in a fashion. He was a rich man, not for his money, but for the peaceful
life, he owned, had maintained a good family life, with parents and an adorable younger
sister. He had profitable business in his hand, sharing with his three friends. The huge
‘bamboo’ project they started is nothing but a brainchild of Kaushik. He is always thankful
to his friends because of the commitment they have to their business. Kaushik cannot forget
the most valuable person in his life, who is above all, in one’s youth, Sibani, his love. He
dreamt a conjugal life with his beloved, to love, to fight, to travel distant places in
honeymoon…..and to have an ‘issue’ as a token of love of their conjugal life. Time, the cruel
judge of life destroyed his dream like a small insect smashed away by giant human footsteps.
His dream was broken as his life was.

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A youth of a small village ‘Rongoti’ that belongs to the middle part of Assam ‘Darang
District’ and now shifted to Guwahati , Kaushik had excellent spirit, energy and
entrepreneuring skill, to place him among the notable businessmen of Assam, who had
settled in his life, with his own courage and intellect. He had never owned a toy car in his
childhood, which he wanted, but had purchased many real cars of different brands by his
own earnings. When an individual has money in his lap, he is tend to surround by friends of
all sorts, most of them in search of their own advantage. Kaushik too found many friends in
life, when he had started doing well in his business. But, he had never lost his own identity
in the midst of hallucination of the world full of those false friends. He always kept a safe
distance except with those three friends.

Rajat, Dipen, Manas and Kaushik with Sibani.

All of them were tied up by an unseen bond. Kaushik fell ill, one day, which
compelled him to be admitted in GNRC hospital in Guwahati. It was disclosed that one of
his kidney failed to its assigned function in the body and gradually started affecting the
other one. There he started backward journey in life, deteriorating in health as well as in
business. Had there been no friends like Rajat, Dipen & Manas, Kaushik would be destroyed
like anything. He is living in business field only because of his friends. Now, the ‘bamboo
project’ situated in ‘Sunapur’ is in full swing and started exporting its product to other parts
of India.

The family members, friends and Shibani seemed realizes the frivolity of their
existence without the center, when its life was in danger. They are the planets that revolve
round the sun like Kaushik, the source of their energy; not only from economic perspective
but also for the emotional attachment they carried with the central person. Though Kaushik
started avoiding his beloved, yet Sibani was determined not to go a step back from his life.
She couldn’t imagine a life without Kaushik. Human life is all futile in front of destiny. It’s
like a sand house in the sea-shore.

Rajat feels sad because, he is the one who convinced Sibani of Kaushik’s honest love
towards her. And he was also appointed to carry the message that Kaushik would not mind,
if she gets married to some suitor, the family of her proposes to marry.

It is not that Kaushik can forget his love, the first love of his life. Love made his life
paradise in true sense. When he was in that fit, he would suggest anybody, if somebody likes
to experience heaven; he or she should fall in love. Love for him was eternal beauty of
nature, or rainbow, or the breeze of the wind in the sea-shore, or the comfort of a mother’s
lap or faith of a true friend.

Coming to reality, Kaushik thinks that the commitment he made to Sibani will make
him unhappy for life, and it is more than any grief under the sun.

Kaushik gets an alarm, when Dipen rushed in to his room. His face indicates some
danger ahead.

“It’s Sibani in your door-step…….. I beg you please be kind to her and to yourself”.

“It’s is ……….” Kaushik mumbles trying to say something.
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“Kaushik … I know you cannot help loving her. It’s useless, yaar, to evade from the
issue, other than having easy and normal relation with the girl….’ Rajat sitting beside
Kaushik tries to make him normal for the probable situation. Emotions are often fueled by
its suppression, exposure relieves, it helps in purgation of feelings, even Kaushik is aware of
that.
Sibani came staright to Kaushik's room. Good disposes, what man proposes? He
always tried to avoid Sibani, after his disease disclosed. But shadow does not go away from
one’s body, even though a person runs faster than anything.

“How are you? Got the news of your new job, enjoying...”

Both of them know all these are beating in the bush. Their friends escaped from the
room, showing some reasons for going out.

Sibani kneeled down in front of Kaushik as soon as she realized that they were left
aside with each other to have their own time. Tears rolled out from her eyes, like a beggar in
strive.

“I beg you, Kaushik, if you force me to go away from your life……..”

She couldn’t finish, just broke down in his lap, with tears. It’s a hard time for him, to
decide, how to react and act upon, which he always feared off. An extensive war between life
and death is visible in his eyes.

Turning aside entire world, Sibani breeds un-surmountable desire in him to live the
lost life again.

Kaushik holds tights his love promising, without words, to live till death.

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