Sahitya Akademi Essays

  • See You Again Analysis

    970 Words  | 4 Pages

    “See you soon” is a common phrase used by people as a form of saying goodbye; some use this phrase to make a goodbye less sad. Saying goodbye to a person is difficult, especially when he or she is a loved one. In the story of Destino by Walt Disney and Salvador Dali, a loved one is lost and the story is told in a way of flashbacks. In the song “See You Again” by Charlie Puth, a loved one is lost, but the story is told as a way to say “thank you for all of the good times” waiting for the day where

  • Figurative Language In What Lips My Lips Have Kissed

    1287 Words  | 6 Pages

    Edna St. Vincent Millay’s “What lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why” encompasses a woman’s emotions regarding her lifetime of past lovers through figurative language as well as sonic and structural qualities indicative of the lack of fulfillment from which she quietly suffers. Millay begins her sonnet by revealing her dismay, saying “What lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why, I have forgotten.” In this, she sets up her audience’s understanding of her experiences. In plain language

  • The White Tiger By Gandhi Language Analysis

    1054 Words  | 5 Pages

    Non Existence of Gandhi words in India is portrayed in Aravind Adiga’s “The White Tiger” Suresh M Assistant Professor, Department of English, Scad College of Engineering and Technology, Tamilnadu, India.627414 Abstract: The objective of this paper is to analyse the existence of Gandhian words in India. In the novel “The white Tiger” Aravind Adiga pictures the non existence of Gandhian words in India. Bribes, Slavery, Prostitution are some of the vices pictures in this novel. This paper compares

  • Gendering Caste Critical Analysis

    1232 Words  | 5 Pages

    In India in particular, the seed of differences in the minds of man lay scattered in different forms and nourished by the ideological and religious patterns of behaviour in the society. Discriminations are man-made and they get legitimised in a patriarchal society. Since time immemorial, the country has been witnessing caste, class and gender playing its cardinal role of creating rifts and causing conflicts and dilemmas within the socio-cultural structure and simultaneously paving a place of its

  • Western Civilization Analysis

    1627 Words  | 7 Pages

    The Bronze Age collapse was followed by the Iron Age around 1200 BCE, during which a number of new civilizations emerged, culminating in the Axial Age transition to Classical civilization. A major technological and cultural transition to modernity began approximately 1500 BCE in Western Europe, and from these beginning new approaches to science and law spread rapidly around the world. The English word comes from the 16th century French civilise, from Latin civilis means civil, related to civis