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Image from Pinterest The image shows Shiva, an Indian Deity in the Ardhanarishwara form . He is the symbolism of ultimate masculinity, but you will see in the  Ardhanarishwara  form of Shiva, one half of him is a fully developed woman.  ‘Ardha ’ is half,  ‘Nari’  is women,  ‘Ishwara’  is lord Shiva. This is a mesmerizing portrayal that the masculine and the feminine are equally residing within oneself. This article is not written to sound like a bashful lecture on why women’s rights are important or asking people to pick up a banner and start marching on the road, or start posting on your social media accounts or get into a debate with strangers that might end up as a debacle. Though, these are some steps and efforts creatively employed to spread the voice, but I think we should start thinking past genders in our lives every freaking day-to-day moment. Hi, I am biologically a woman and I plunged into this omnipresent topic to better understand myself, and what I really want as a woman

The Fourth Daughter is a short story that focusses on the problem areas regarding the plight of girl child, patriarchal mindset and regressive traditions which have chained women in our society tightly and have prevented them to break those chains mostly unconsciously. The irony is girls have learned to accept discrimination and many embrace it and successfully transplant them in their own girl children to continue this inhumanely chain of inequality. The story was written by Indian English woman author, Subhdra Sen Gupta in 1992. The story focusses on the theme of the story or the propaganda than the characterisation. The idea behind writing this story was to bring a subtle inherent perspective inquisition and change in the minds of the readers.  It is a story about the rich, priviledged, affluent Seth family. Radha, the daughter-in-law have yet again gave birth to a girl child, this news have brought withered sadness and rain of gloom with it. On top of that newborn have took upon th

Sake Dean Mahomed (1759–1851), pronounced Sheikh deen mohammed was an Bengali traveller, surgeon, entrepreneur, and one of the most notable early non-European immigrants to the Western World . He has unparalled place in Indian English literature history, he was the first Indian author to publish in English language, “ The Travels of Dean Mahomed”, in 1794.            He was known as the man of several talents. He was the first entrepreneur who had gained popularity by building cultural connections between India and England as early as 1800s. Mahomed became most popular at the age of 25 when he had opened the first Indian restaurant in 1810 in UK named “Hindoostane Coffee House” in the George Street, near Portman Square, Central London. According to the early restaurant guide, the coffee house is described as “hailed it as a place for nobility to enjoy hookah and Indian dishes of the highest perfection”. Just after two years the restaurant declared bankruptcy but Mahomed was not dish

Photo credits: Navjot Malhotra The title, "Untouchable" is a revised titled from earlier one "Bakha." The intentional non usage of the definite article 'the', provides the touch of an ultimate symbolical catch to the name.  Untouchable, a powerful novel, can be regarded as quintessential Anand since it  projects most of his characteristic concerns and fundamental issues of life. The main  theme of the novel is untouchability as a problem in Hindu society. Untouchable, as also some other early writings of Anand, cannot be fully appreciated  unless studied in relation to the movement of the nineteen-thirties in Western Europe. Anand stayed in London for over two decades, from 1924 to 1945; he was therefore deeply influenced by the Progressive Movement in literature that flourished in the Thirties. In London, Anand came under numerous literary, political and social influences and it is in them that the sources of his synthesis of Marxist and humanist  thought c

  The Stone Angel - Introduction The Stone Angel is Hager Shipley’s personal account of the last few days of her life. The novel’s structure follows her imagination, it’s a full composition of her flashbacks occurring in a progressive chronological pattern and alternating with the present time. In the beginning of the novel, Hagar is blind, like the statue of the stone angel in the manawaka cemetery. Now, Hager lost her mother when she was born and since then the statue of the stone angel has been preventing the heritage in Manawaka, Manitoba. All her life Hager has been struggling in hiding her emotions from the world, she thinks that’s for someone weak. It’s a constant display of pride which drags her towards self-alienation, which is also one of the themes in the novel. Self sufficient isolation Hager didn’t had a matriarchal influence over her, rather she was under her father’s patriarchal influence, and in those times being materialistic and patriarchal went hand in hand w