ISSN-L 0537-1988 57 THE INDIAN JOURNAL OF ENGLISH STUDIES An Annual Peer-reviewed Journal Vol. LVII 2020 Cosmos Impact Factor 5.210 Editor-in-Chief Dr. Chhote Lal Khatri Professor of English, T.P.S. College, Patna (Bihar) The responsibility for facts stated, opinions expressed or conclusions reached and plagiarism, if any in this journal, is entirely that of the author(s). The editor/publisher bears no responsibility for them whatsoever. THE OFFICIAL PUBLICATION OF ASSOCIATION FOR ENGLISH STUDIES OF INDIA www.aes-india.org 57 2020 THE INDIAN JOURNAL OF ENGLISH STUDIES Editor-in-Chief: Dr. Chhote Lal Khatri Professor of English, T.P.S. College, Patna (Bihar) www.aes-india.org The Indian Journal of English Studies (IJES) published since 1940 accepts scholarly papers presented by the AESI members at the annual conferences of Association for English Studies of India (AESI). 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Authors are advised not to infringe the copy rights of other authors, make due acknowledgement and ensure that their papers are free from plagiarism. They are asked to submit an undertaking for the originality of the paper. Their papers are also subjected to duplication-checking software. If a formal complaint is lodged, it is investigated and the author is denied publication in the journal in future. However, the disclaimer is published in the journal stating that the responsibility for data presented, opinion expressed or conclusions reached and plagiarism, if any, is entirely that of the author(s) and the editors/publisher bear no responsibility for them whatsoever. For submission, subscription, back issue and other information visit www.aes-india.org Contents Editorial xiii —C.L. Khatri Indian English Literature 1 —Prof. V.V.N. Rajendra Prasad Karnad’s Boiled Beans on Toast: An Exploration into the Dynamics of Emergent Indian Society 16 —Prof. R.N. Rai Is Gandhi Relevant Today?: A 150th Birth Anniversary Tribute 39 —Nibir K. Ghosh Un-English (Irish Elements) and Early Poetry of W.B. Yeats 53 —Dr. H.S. Lal Un(veiling) the Silence: A Psychological Study of Mahesh Dattani’s Thirty Days in September 62 —Binod Mishra (viii) Narratives of Gendered Subalternity: A Study in V.S. Naipaul’s Half-a-Life 72 —Mithilesh K. Pandey Reflection of Culture & Environment in Indian English Poetry 86 —Dr. K. Balachandran Tagore’s Journey from Rakta Karabi to Red Oleanders: Translations and Adaptations 97 —Dr. Vinita Jha Shobha De’s Strange Obsession and Meenu Mehrotra’s Lilacs Bloom in My Backyard: A Study in Self-exploration and Self-revelation 108 —Dr. Neeraj Kumar —Ms. Urwashi Kumari Archetypes of Gender Performativity 119 —Prof. Bhagabat Nayak Lady Lazarus: An Expression of Saddest Thought 134 —Dr. Samir Kumar Sharma Diasporic Space and Identity in Contemporary Hindi Movies: Namaste London and Patiala House 142 —Dr. Priya D. Wanjari Feminism in Anita Nair’s Ladies Coupe 151 —Dr. P.K. Singh Portrayal of Draupadi in Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni’s The Palace of Illusions and Pratibha Ray’s Yajnaseni 163 —A. Ramalakshmi —M. Narendra English Language and Teaching Practices 171 —R. Jyothsna Rani —Dr. K. Jayaraju (ix) Text to Screen: A Study of Khushwant Singh’s Train to Pakistan and its Screen Adaptation 182 —Dr. Karuna Pratap Deshmukh Voicing Black Consciousness: A Study of the Poems of Maya Angelou 189 —Dr. Vinita Kumari Self-Actualisation as a Tool for Survival in Chitra Divakaruni’s Arranged Marriage 200 —Dr. Venkata Ramani Challa Human Predicament in U.R. Ananthamurthy’s Samskara and Bharathipura 209 —V. Mallikarjuna Losing Roots While Discovering Routes: Diasporic Dilemma in Anita Rau Badami’s Can You Hear the Nightbird Call? and Uma Parameswaran’s Mangoes on the Maple Tree 218 —Sweta Kumari Jha Learner Centred Approaches: Improving English Communicative Skills of the Engineering Graduates 225 —Zynullabedin —Dr. Shabreen Sultana Shaik Kuntala Kumari Sabat’s The Dark Bride: A Feminist Intervention 236 —Dr. Mary Mohanty Aravind Adiga’s The White Tiger–A Satire on Democracy 244 —Manoj Kumar Jha A Comparative Study of Love Traditions in Vidyapati and few British Poets 249 —Madan Mohan Jha (x) Articulation in Feminine Voice in Anita Nair’s Lessons in Forgetting 257 —Arpana Choudhary Diasporic Consciousness: A Comparative Study of Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Namesake and Kiran Desai’s The Inheritance of Loss 269 —Tamkanat Mukhtar Shobha Rao’s Girls Burn Brighter: A Psycho Analysis of Women’s Inner World 277 —Dr. Beena Agarwal Jayanta Mahapatra as an Advocate of the Marginalized 287 —Mrs. I.M. Sheeba Alorcious —Dr. K. Balachandran Voice of Margin: Anita Desai’s Cry, The Peacock 295 —Dr. Susanta Kumar Sahu Jhumpa Lahiri: A Diasporic Writer 303 —Dr. K. Vijaya Bhaskar Gerontological Ethos in Karnad’s Yayati: Interrogating Ageing in Indian Culture 312 —Saurav Kumar The In-Betweenness of Postcolonialism and Postmodernism in Boman Desai’s Servant Master Mistress 323 —Dr. Chitra Jha Trends in African-American Literature 332 —D. Durga Prasad Rao —Prof. V. Ravi Naidu Gender Differences across Leadership Styles of Men and Women: An Explorative Study 340 —Dr. Asha Madhavi Pagadala (xi) Erotic Feminism in Khushwant Singh’s The Company of Women 350 —Dr. (Capt.) Rajesh Kumar Sinha A Green Reading of “The World is Too Much With Us” 356 —Dr. Rashmi Kumari Autobiographical Element in Amy Tan’s The Kitchen God’s Wife–A Critique 364 —Y. Varalakshmi —Dr. R. V. Jayanth Kashyap SHORT STORY Corridor Therapy 374 —Ramesh K. Srivastava POETRY SECTION Three Poems 381 —R.K. Singh Two Poems 383 —Susheel Kumar Sharma Awaiting Bapu In New Form! 387 —Dr. Kalikinkar Pattanayak Home is where… 389 —Pashupati Jha See the pic 391 —R.P. Singh BOOK REVIEW Greatest Short Stories of Premchand, Ram Bhagwan Singh & Chhote Lal Khatri 393 —Prof. Kumar Chandradeep (xii) The Sport of Allama and Other Plays, Basavaraj Naikar 395 —Dr. Chandrasekharaiah Susheel Kumar Sharma, Unwinding Self 399 —AsunLópez-Varela Intrigue at Ikkeri (A Historical Novel), Basavraj Naiker 408 —Dr. Samir Kumar Sharma Road Not Taken and Other Stories, Ramesh K. Srivastava 410 —Dr. Shipra G. Vashishtha Dr. K. Balachandran, For Whom Does It Rain? 413 —Dr. S.Z.H. Naqvi Editorial Folklore and Folkloric Studies in English Literature in English has witnessed a phenomenal change over the years widening its scope and ambit of studies.