Life is life

                    US base study has found out that Goans are losing 1.5 years of their life expectancy due to poor air quality in the state. According to WHO standard air quality is 10 micrograms per cubic metre (µg/m3) for fine particulate matter (PM2.5). The study also showed that there has been 9.3 per cent increase in particulate pollution in the state from 1998 to 2016 and by 2016 average life expectancy had increased to 1.6 years.   The main causes leading to such harsh environmental crisis are air pollutants emanate from construction and demolition actives, secondly vehicle emission and burning of waste in open.            It is not a new and unique problem, many countries like UK, US and China in past has faced it. It is a high time for India, and we should learn a lesson from these countries and should start working towa...

          Manga is comic originated in Japan, which is quite different from any other western comic. This paper aims to explore the origin of the term ‘Manga’; some of its essential components. Lastly we’ll study what gives Japanese literature to show such explicit imageries and to explain all the above points I will be using Osamu Tezuka’s Buddha series (1972-83).           Let’s start by understanding the meaning of Manga. Although it is difficult to identify the exact date when manga was first created, many credit the beginning of sequential art in Japan with the creation of scrolls of illustrations by Buddhist monks in the twelfth century. The most famous example of this art is the Choju Giga, or “animal scrolls” created by a monk known as Bishop Toba.                     Artist Hokusai Katsuhi...

         In this paper I will be discussing how different cultures depict Snakes. How this connotations attached to it shows it as a god in culture and how it is believed to be satanic in other.             Starting with Naga; in Hinduism, Buddhism and Jainism, the nāga is divine, semi-divine deity, or a semi-divine race of half-human half-serpent beings that reside in the netherworld (Patala) and can occasionally take human form. They are principally depicted in three forms: wholly human with snakes on the heads and necks; common serpents, or as half-human half-snake beings. A female naga is a nagini . Nagaraja is seen as the king of nāgas and nāginis. They are common and hold cultural significance in the mythological traditions of many South Asian and Southeast Asian cultures.           Similarly we have Bakunawa who is a serpent-l...

Here I am presenting a paper on critical work on select poems by Pablo Neruda, where I have selected two poems from Neruda’s first collection of poetry; “Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair”. Though this work I will try to put forward my views on Neruda’s poems, and will also work on the themes and the stylistic feature used by Neruda in constructing these poems. Finally I will also try to study the background of the poem and the poet, so that by the end of this work one can create or have an opinion on Neruda’s poetry.   Introduction:  Ricardo Eliécer Neftalí Reyes Basoalto born on 12 July 1904 and died on 23 September 1973 is better known by his pen name Pablo Neruda was a Chilean poet-diplomat and politician. Neruda became known as a poet when he was 10 years old, and wrote in a variety of styles, including surrealist poems, historical epics, overtly political manifestos, a prose autobiography, and passionate love poems such as the ones in his collection Twe...

Through this essay I’m try to discuss the reason why Jorge Luis Borges uses Mathematical shapes and references from Mythologies or from Religious text.  Introduction Jorge Luis Borges, the Argentine writer was one of the most beloved Latin American storytellers of the twentieth century. He was also an early contributor to magical realism, a genre of literature in which the abnormal is presented to readers alongside the mundane. Jorge Luis Borges most famous works include Universal History of Infamy (1935), Ficciones (1944), The Aleph (1949) and The Book of Sand (1975).  All of them deal with fictional places and toy with the idea of infinity and mythical creatures that immerse the reader in magical worlds. The stories have been influenced by all genres of literature; from ancient Greece through the 20th-century vanguard movements. Change in Style In 1938, with his father gravely ill from a heart ailment, Borges obtained an appointment in a municipal library ...

Pride and Prejudice is a 2005 romantic drama film directed by Joe Wright and based on Jane Austen’s 1813 novel of the same name. The film depicts story of five sisters from English family of landed gentry as they deal with issue of marriage, morality and misconceptions.   In the film Pride and Prejudice there are countless example of societal roles place on women of 18th cent. During this time class and states carried lots of wait in society. Even in these classes men were superior to women in number of ways. One can see this in movie, where Bennet belongs to upper middle class family, but the only problem family faces is that they lack a son and so their property will be transferred to their male cosine Mr. Collins, who ensuring that the property stays in the family line, while disinheriting Elizabeth and her sisters. This is also one of the reasons why Mrs. Bennet is so desperate to get her daughters marry off to respectable men with good fortunes. The girl’s only p...

In many cultures of the world, women are victims of socio-cultural suppression. In their struggle for women‟s freedom, feminists have argued that the plight of women in modern society cannot be attributed to natural or biological factors. Feminists are convinced that women are not inferior to men, and are advocating for autonomy and self-actualization for women in a male dominated society. Base on Gayatri Spivak’s Can Subaltern Speak?, combine with my Islamic Study on Woman, this thesis analyzes how society tries to maintain its control over minorities, here taking the case of women, secondly how one can help them get their get voice, and will look into the representation of women in Islamic history.  Starting with Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak who is an Indian scholar, literary theorist, and feminist critic. She is a University Professor at the Columbia University and a founding member of the establishment's Institute for Comparative Literature and Society. In her work "...

  Myth come from Greek word Mythos which means "words" or more significantly "story", but it's a special kind of story that has two purposes that is to carry significance and staying power. Archetype on other hand comes from Myths or history that is archetypes are action, characters, objects carrying a significant meaning to it. Like using Sita's example as ideal wife, in another situations using her as good example of a feminist woman, who prayers to earth goddess to swallow her, rather then going with her husband. Now coming back to the topic of the topic of how these archetypes are still affect our society. My answer to this, is people use these myth and archetype by distorting it and presenting the part which benefits them to prove their point mostly to show how knowledgeable they are and secondly to maintain power over the "other". Indian literature is ancient and so is vast, It has talked about different aspects of life and d...

This article is study the concept of Antihero, in context with And Then There Were None a novel by Agatha Christie and further explores how the character of an antihero affects the story and finally checks if Philip Lombard fits the title of “Antihero”.      Antiheroes are a quintessential element of Modernism, postmodernism and existentialism. Although the breed of anti heroes came into focus and entered the main stream of literature in large numbers roughly during and after the period of Modernism, the concept was present even before. A hero is a main character of a literary work that perform great deeds for the common good, whereas an antihero is someone with some of the qualities of a villain, up to and including brutality, cynicism, and ruthlessness, but with the soul or motivations of a more conventional Hero. The spice of a story, the element that makes it more than a simple traditional story of heroes and villains, lies within the char...

Literature is a body of written works. The name has traditionally been applied to those imaginative works of poetry and prose distinguished by the intentions of their authors and the perceived aesthetic excellence of their execution.  The purest literacy form is the lyrical poem, and after it comes elegiac, epic, dramatic, narrative, and expository verse. Most theories of literacy criticism base themselves on n analysis of poetry because the aesthetic problems of literature are there presented in their simplest and purest form. Writing this paper make me feel very special as through this paper I would like to introduce my readers to one of the best Insta-Poet, who has a beautiful ability to write generation together. He is fine poet who likes to put himself in the category of metaphysical poets and likes to call himself Artist in Asylum, even through his real name is not known till now, but is famous by his pen name Shaayan Mir.  The name Shyaan means Intelligent...

The aim of this essay is to explore the Hindi literature of 15th century, which was the era of Bahkti Movement in Hindi Sahitya and check hoe it is still relevant to us by comparing two different translation produce in two different centuries. Here our representative of this movement is Sant Kabir Das, who has produce some of the incredibly soul touching short poems known as Doha. This literary work is still actively kept alive firstly by Rabindranath Thakur and secondly by Arvind Krishna Mehrotra. Yes it’s a fact that many have attempted to translate the works of the legendry Kabir Das, by these two have played a crucial role by being pioneers to translate Kabir in the language which was spoken by the masses at different times, respectively.     Poet & Translators Kabir was a 15th-century Indian mystic poet and saint, whose writing has influence Bhakti movement. Many Hindu sects consider him as a reformer and great Bhakt. Kabir's verses are found in Sikhi...