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Table of Contents Articles: Modern Poetry and Cinematography: A Comparative Study of T.S Eliot's The Waste Land and Nissim Ezekiel's Selected Poems - Sasan Bazgir 5 Bleeding somewhere behind high Mountains: Contemporary Poetry in English from Tibetan and Chakma Refugee Poets - Nigamananda Das 11 Bhalchandra Nemade's Kosla: A Narrative of Revolt and Trapped Anguish - D.P. Digole 21 The End of Cages: Deconstruction of Marginal Institutions in Angela Carter's Nights at the Circus - Nozar Niazi, Sabrie Saedi 30 Writing Marginality and the Politics of Writing: Re-reading Representation of Women in Selected Assamese Short Stories - Sarangadhar Baral 38 Listening to the Id: Interpreting Shobha De's Snapshots - Naresh K. Vats 47 Ritual Suicide and the Paradoxical Nature of Regeneration: A Comparative Study of Tagore's Sacrifice and Soyinka's Death and the King's Horseman - Ujjwal Kr. Panda 55 Tiger Hills: Weaving A Tapestry of Fortune and Fortitude of Devi – 'The Tigress" - Neeta Puranik & Indira Javed 61 Interrogating the Self: Doris Lessing's The Summer Before the Dark - Supriya Agarwal 66 Indian Poetics as a New Dimension of Comparative Literature: Potential Possibilities and Pitfalls - Shalini Saxena 71 Subverting Gender Hierarchies in Angela Carter`s The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman and The Passion of New Eve - Shima Sadat Mirmousa 75 Juvenile Narratives and Environmental Concerns - Rajesh Kumar 82 Teaching English Drama in Indian Socio-Cultural Context - Madhukar Janrao Nikam 87 Gopinath Mohanty's Paraja: A Peep-hole to Tribal Life in Orissa - V. J. Chavan & R.T. Bedre 95 Confessionalism: Recent Trends in American Poetry - S. Barathi 101 T.V.Reddy The Poet – The True Son of Indian Villages - R. Venkataramana 107 Kalam's Academic Inspirational Reflections - A.Edwin Jeevaraj 112 Women's Sensibility and the Partition Trauma: An Analysis of Bapsi Sidhwa's Ice Candy Man - Shahnaz Begum 121 Revitalizing Folk Tales Of Rajasthan: Vijay Dan Detha's Chouboli and other Stories - Daisy 127 D. H. Lawrence's The Captain's Doll: A Rereading - Gagan Behari Das 134 Fetishizing 'Marginality': Contemporary Indian Academia and the Rise of Subaltern - Ajit K. Mishra 142 The Relevance of Dostoevsky to the Modern World - Poornima M 151 Postcolonial Gothic in Toni Morrison's Beloved - Arul Gaspar 156 Tagore's Critique of Imperialism and Nationalism: A Reappraisal in the Modern Day Context - Shyamali Dasgupta 160 Marginality in Things Fall Apart - Masoud Khosravi 169 Redefining Intertextuality - Sanjiv Kumar 175 Diasporic Psyche and Conflicts inBharati Mukherjee's The Tiger's Daughter - B.J. Geetha 181 From Englishness to Indianness: The Migrant's Experience in Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses - Judith Sebastian 187 Reconstruction of Black Woman's Image in the autobiographies of Maya Angelou - S. B. Bhambar 192 Book Review: Romancing with Life: Dev Anand - N D Dani 196 Postcolonial Ecocriticism : Graham Huggan and Helen - Bir Singh Yadav 199 Poetry: Albert Russo: Who Made Us The We Way Are? 202 Alienated 204 The Fate of A Brilliant Young Mind 205 Our Esteemed Contributors 206 Labyrinth: Volume-3, No.3 July-2012 ISSN 0976-0814; pp. 5-10 Modern Poetry and Cinematography A Comparative Study of T.S Eliot's The Waste Land and Nissim Ezekiel's Selected Poems - Sasan Bazgir Abstract: It is believed that two main inventions that entirely changed the West to a very modern-economical world were 'railway' and 'weaving machine'. Railway opened a new way for villagers and new cheap labours in the companies. It was the beginning for villagers' irregular immigration to metropolises to find a job in weaving companies or any other companies. Nevertheless, one more prominent event that chanced the world might be the invention of cinematography. Though, it is considered as the seventh art and so to speak the last among arts, but its inevitable effects on the world might not be disregarded. A modern poet like T.S Eliot seems to be one of the first progressive poets who used cinematography techniques in his poetry. In fact, Eliot and some others opened a new horizon to the world of poetry. Though 40 or 50 years later, but the same movement came to the East. In India, it was Nissim Ezekiel who first grasped the helm of Indian modern poetry in English. He led the ship to a new land, where a nation could sip the taste of new nectar that brought about a generation of modern poets. This paper aims to explore such techniques in the poetry of these two mentioned poets. The visual arts of Eliot and Ezekiel's poetry step in the same territory of cinema and photography. Different in tools, but they cover the same purpose. Once a click on camera plays the same role of a pen on a blank sheet. Keywords: Cinematography, modern poetry, T.S Eliot, Nissim Ezekiel. By the end of Nineteenth Century, the world direction was suddenly changing from its cliché, and some new dimensions were scattering over the age. Like any other art, poetry also was wrestling with its ancestors and looking for its destiny in the modern world. If in music, modernists responded to the lush symphonies of the nineteenth century with atonalism or in painting they undermined Realism by movements like Postimpressionism, Expressionism, Cubism, Symbolism, Imagism, Dadaism, Futurism and Surrealism; in poetry also the new way of responding the world was happening. Skepticism, modern images and ironies, depicting the real world as it was not the moral world of the Victorian and Romantic poets, sexual images, man's isolation, describing the World War's effects and many other new aspects were the imminent results of such a progressive movement. One good example in modern art might be Pablo Picasso's painting. During and after The Second World 5 Labyrinth: Volume-3, No.3 July-2012 ISSN 0976-0814; pp. 11-20 Bleeding Somewhere Behind High Mountains: Contemporary Poetry in English from Tibetan and Chakma Refugee Poets - Nigamananda Das Abstract: The paper seeks to assess poetry written in English by Tibetan and Chakma refugee poets. These marginal minor poets who struggle to voice the predicament of the subaltern, and the crises in their region have neither been encouraged nor solaced by anybody. But they have not stopped their poetic exploration of the exilic pain, predicament and the stark realities of life. Keywords: Exilic disappointment, nature, nostalgia, homeland, diaspora, solitude, chaos, hunger, primeval dreams, mysteries, terrorism, tribal ecology Contemporary Tibetan and Chakma refugee writers though a few in number have produced powerful poems in English, their other tongue, and have voiced their sorrows and sufferings. The minority literatures produced by them reflect the agonies of their souls in language of intense passion and sincerity. Tibet, a small mountainous country, is always in woes. About its writers who write in English we have not heard much and if asked perhaps it is difficult to name its writers. The present attempt is to examine select poems of some of Tibetan poets who write in English and who are mostly living as Tibetan refugees in various dispersed locations and such writers can be called Tibetan diasporas living abroad and are nostalgic of the experiences and emotions of their homeland. The paper attempts to introduce and explicate some of the concerns of these poets and as such it paves the path for furtherance of examining the works of such writers. The paper gives short introduction to such poets' and their sentiments. The selected poets discussed in this paper are Bhuchung D. Sonam, Tenzin Tsundue, Tenzin Dickyi, Tsamchoe Dolma, Gendun Choephel, K. Dhondup, Ngodup Paljor, Gyalpo Tsering, Tenzing Rigdol, and Tsering Dolkar. Poems of two Chakma poets-Niranjana Chakma and Jogamaya Chakma are also discussed with a background to the brief history of the sufferings of the Chakma refugees. Exilic disappointment and everlasting nostalgia are the major hang-over in the writings of these poets though nature is always a key to unlock their emotions. An iconoclastic monk scholar and poet was the first ever Tibetan to write verses in English which were published Mahabodhi journal in 1930s when Tibet was an independent country. Due to brutal Chinese aggression and occupation of Tibet, refugees entered into India and flooded in different 11 Labyrinth: Volume-3, No.3 July-2012 ISSN 0976-0814; pp. 21-29 Bhalchandra Nemade's Kosla: A Narrative of Revolt and Trapped Anguish - D.P. Digole Abstract: Nemade's debut novel Kosla (1963) is a brilliant tour de force which remains a trendsetter even today nearly 50 years after its first publication due to its open-endedness and immense potential for varied interpretations. The present paper interprets Bhalchandra Nemade's magnum opus Kosla (Cocoon) as 'a narrative of revolt and trapped anguish'. It highlights how a sensitive youngster rebels against the prevalent hypocrisy and hollowness of the established value-system represented by his family. Keywords: Marathi novel, new morality, revolt, anguish, hypocrisy Bhalchandra Namade (b. 1938) is one of the foremost and radically influential of the contemporary Indian novelists distinguished by his striking originality, dexterous handing of modernist techniques and nativist claims. He has to his credit six novels, two collections of poems, two volumes of critical writings and numerous essays on varied issues related to literary culture like Translation, Comparative studies, Linguistics, Stylistics and so on. He made an unparalleled impact on the Marathi literary scene with the publication of his debut novel Kosla in 1963 and attained the stature of an all – India writer through his writings like Bidhar (1975), Jarila (1997), Zool (1979), Teekaswayamvar (1990), Indo-Anglican writings (1991) and the latest novel Hindu (2010). He got the prestigious Sahitya Akademi Award for his critical work Teekaswayamvar in 1991 and honorary D.