www.thecontour.org EDITORIAL BOARD Dr. Linda Sherwood Wesley Dr. Atanu Bhattacharya American English Institute Chairperson, Centre for English Studies The University of Oregon School of Language, Literature and Culture Studies Central University of Gujarat, Gandhinagar Dr. Himadri Lahiri Professor of English Hemendra Chandalia The University Of Burdwan Professor, Janardan Rai Nagar Rajasthan Vidyapeeth, West Bengal, India UdaipurVice President of Rajasthan Association Dr. Terry Nadasdi for Studies in English Professor, Dept. Of Linguistics University Of Alberta Dr. Binod Misra Edmonton, Alberta, Canada Associate Professor of English, Dept. of HSS IIT Roorkie, Editor-in-Chief, Dr. Anand Mahanand Editor-in-Chief, Indian Journal of English Studies Department of Materials Development Assistant Editor, Creative Writing And Criticism English and Foreign Languages University Hyderabad - 500 605, India Dr. Arijit Ghosh Department of English, Dr. Ms. Bhagyashree S. Varma VIT, Madras, India Associate Professor in English University of Mumbai Mumbai - 98, India Dr. Vijay Kumar Roy Department of English Jai Singh Northern Border University, KSA Department of Commonwealth Literary Studies The English and Foreign Languages University, Dr. Ramprasad B.V Hyderabad, India Department of Studies & Research in English, Kuvempu University, Karnataka. Dr. Prashant Mishra Professor and Head, Department of English Apurba Saha Government S.V.P.G. College, Neemuch Department of English Madhya Pradesh - 458 411, India Sidho-Kanho-Birsha University Dr. Ramesh Dhage Dr. Amit Chakrabarty School of Language and Literature Swami Ramanand Teerth Marthawada University, Principal, Turku Hansda Lapsa Hembram Mahavidyalay Nanded, Maharashtra - 431 606, India Dr. Mala Sharma Nabil Salem Associate Professor & Head of Department of English Assistant Professor, Ramkrishna Nagar College, Assam Ibb University, Yemen Goutam Buddha Sural Professor of English, Bankura University Dr. Debashis Bandopadhyay Professor of English Editor-in-Chief Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Commerce Vidyasagar University, Midnapore Dr. Susanta Kumar Bardhan Principal, Rampurhat College Santanu Bannerjee Rampurhat, Birbhum Department of English West Bengal, India Kazi Nazrul University 1 VOLUME 5 || ISSUE 3 & 4 For Push Notification: The Contour powered by Telegram January & April, 2019 To download the Lite version for the Android Click Here. www.thecontour.org © The Contour Volume 5, Issue 3 & 4 ISSN: 2349-6398 Website: www.thecontour.org E-mail: [email protected] Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TCJournal2014 Twitter: twitter.com/thecontour2014 January & April, 2019 Editor-in-Chief Dr. Susanta Kumar Bardhan Cover Designing & Formatting Suman Saha Publisher Dr. Susanta Kumar Bardhan, Suri, Birbhum, 731101, West Bengal, India 2 VOLUME 5 || ISSUE 3 & 4 For Push Notification: The Contour powered by Telegram January & April, 2019 To download the Lite version for the Android Click Here. www.thecontour.org CONTENT EDITORIAL BOARD ..................................................................................................................... 1 CONTENT ........................................................................................................................................ 3 EDITORIAL ..................................................................................................................................... 4 From the Desk of the Editor-in-Chief ......................................................................................................... 4 Susanta Kumar Bardhan....................................................................................................................... 4 ARTICLE ......................................................................................................................................... 5 The New Poetry: Tagore, Whitman and Sri Aurobindo ............................................................................ 5 Dr. Goutam Ghosal ................................................................................................................................ 5 When Detective seeks the Ghost: Exploring the Paranormal in Saradindu Bandyopadhyay’s Baroda and Byomkesh Stories ............................................................................................................................... 15 Raj Raj Mukhopadhyay ....................................................................................................................... 15 Absence of the Real from the Reel: Politics of Exclusion and Cinematic Aloofness for the Dalit Cause in Popular Bengali Films of Recent Decades .......................................................................................... 23 Probhat Chandra Hazra ....................................................................................................................... 23 Destruction of Nature’s Unfettered Playground: Coaxing Subversions in Prodigal Summer and Aranyak ..................................................................................................................................................... 37 Soumi Bandyopadhyay ......................................................................................................................... 37 The Republic of Gilead: The Dystopia of Cultural Feminism and Environmental Devastation ........... 46 Arusharko Banerjee ............................................................................................................................. 46 Contextualizing English language instruction through descriptive writing tasks.................................. 58 Sonalika Praharaj & Pravin Shinde .................................................................................................... 58 Revisiting racism in M. G. Vassanji’s The Magic of Saida ..................................................................... 66 Arup Chandra Das . .............................................................................................................................. 66 Consciously of a Multiple Outsider: Exploring the Indian Diasporic Identity in Jhumpa Lahiri’s Interpreter of Maladies with Reference to Two Short Stories ................................................................. 74 Manisha Bhattacharya ......................................................................................................................... 74 Fictional Revisit of the Early Nineteenth Century Bengal: A Critical Reading of Keri Saheber Munshi by Pramathanath Bishi ............................................................................................................................. 85 Ritam Sadhu ......................................................................................................................................... 85 Translation...................................................................................................................................... 92 Karl Marx .................................................................................................................................................. 92 Saadat Hasan Manto ............................................................................................................................ 92 translated by Sumbul Nasim ................................................................................................................ 92 Report............................................................................................................................................ 106 Two-day National Seminar on Gandhi in Indian English Literature ................................................... 106 Philosophy of Gandhi and Marx Together can meet the Challenges of our Time ............................... 106 Prof. H.S.Chandalia ............................................................................................................................ 106 Photography ................................................................................................................................. 109 Vineet Soneji ........................................................................................................................................ 109 3 VOLUME 5 || ISSUE 3 & 4 For Push Notification: The Contour powered by Telegram January & April, 2019 To download the Lite version for the Android Click Here. www.thecontour.org EDITORIAL From the Desk of the Editor-in-Chief Susanta Kumar Bardhan The Editorial Board feels happy by publishing Volume 5, Issue III & IV (January 2019 & April 2019) of our journal The Contour (ISSN: 2349-6398). It has become possible only because of the constant and enduring support and encouragement we have received from its well-wishers. We also express our sincere gratitude to the reviewers and advisers for their critical perspectives and suggestions much needed for upkeep of the sound health of the journal. For several technical reasons we have not been able to accommodate all the papers submitted for the present issue. The readers and the well-wishers of the journal are earnestly requested to give their valuable suggestions for the improvement of its future issues. It is also declared that the views and observations presented in the writings are solely of the respective authors, not of the editor/editorial board of the journal. Special thanks should go to Suman Saha who with his expertise in computer have been working strenuously and sincerely since its very inception for giving the shape