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Dr. Arun Singh

University of Rajasthan, Jaipur, Department of English, Adjunct

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working as assistant professor
Supervisors: Sanjit Mishra, Professor in English, Dept of HSS, IIT Roorkee, Dr. Arun Soule, Associate Prof. in English, University of Rajasthan, and Jaipur.
Phone: 9887129759
Address: Assistant Prof. in English, Department of English, University of Rajasthan, Jaipur. 302004

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Displaced or Doubly Placed? Memory, Nostalgia and the Digital in Garth Davis's film Lion

Drishti : The Sight , 2023

Colour Leads to Kinship: Routing of Roots in Buchi Emecheta's The New Tribe

Dibrugarh University Journal of English Studies , 2022

Their Eyes Were Watching God and Waiting to Exhale are placed in different times. The context, mo... more Their Eyes Were Watching God and Waiting to Exhale are placed in different times. The context, mood, and thematic content of the two novels are widely different. Though both novels have women as protagonists, their road map barely has any resemblance. However, interestingly love, marriage, relationship, and marriage are the evident points of discussion in both works. But it is certainly not a coincidence that such visible aspects of the novels accentuate the larger issues of self-definition, resilience, and agency through romance. The black romance allows a more luxurious, privileged, kind of connection to love that is both erotic and yet romantic, that does not deny collective identity yet allows black people to see themselves as individuals. (Edmondson 206

Patheykan.com-बेचारगी का विमर्श और द केरल स्टोरी

Patheykan

Tending the Native, Subverting the Materialist: The Ecological Sacred in Amitav Ghosh's The Living Mountain: A Fable for Our Times

RAJASTHAN UNIVERSITY STUDIES IN ENGLISH, 2022

In these times of apocalyptic pandemics, Amitav oeuvre constantly raises questions about the envi... more In these times of apocalyptic pandemics, Amitav oeuvre constantly raises questions about the environmental crisis. His recent work, The Living Mountain insinuates the horrible realities of the sheer collapse the ecosystem , which is steadily being wrecked by the human world. By virtue of a short fable Ghosh expresses his serious apprehension about the pervasive omens of environmental blight. In his insightful narrative, making use of allusions, he perturbs the human world about the excessive and irrational use of natural resources. Ghosh questions the validity of European meta-discourses of modernity and globalization in the light of this indigenous fable. Underpinning the native belief-system and the ecological sacred, which sustains the ecosystem and nurtures human life, he implies that the colonialist binaries are still relevant in different forms, and need to be discussed ad infinitum. The capitalist and materialist systems of thought precipitate the indigenous lives into destruction. This The Living Mountain and seeks to establish that the ecological sacred has the power to subvert capitalist and hegemonic transgression.

Film review : Patheykan.com-परतें खोलती फिल्म : लॉस्ट

patheykan.com, 2023

गांधी गोडसे : एक युद्ध (फिल्म समीक्षा)

Patheykan, 2023

Patheykan.com-बागेशवर धाम सनातन और मीडिया

Humanity Wounded: Trauma Travails in Temsula Ao's These Hills Called Home

Prasakthi Book House, 2015

समीक्षा : पंचायत सीजन 2

Patheykan.com, 2022

Film review

Film review : मानव जनित अमानवीयता हयूमन टीवी सीरीज

Patheykan.com

Film Review: Sardar Udham

November, 2021

आर्द्रता कहानी

Film Review : Pagglait (पगलैट)

Pathey.com, 2021

FILM REVIEW

Book Review चातुर्य और धैर्य के उत्कृष्ट उपमान : नाना फडनवीस

Patheykan, 2020

बॉलीवुड और आभासी दूरियाँ : पर्दा हटने लगा है

Patheykan, 2020

The Empire is Resurfacing: Rapacious Neocolonial and Bounteous Primitive in Buchi Emecheta's The Rape of Shavi

Drishti: The Sight, 2020

कहानी अंतस्

लमही, 2021

Published in Lamhi

RESISTANCE TO STEREOTYPES: GENDER PERSPECTIVES IN KETAN MEHTA'S MIRCH MASALA AND GOVIND NIHALANI'S SANSHODHAN

Research Scholar, 2020

Gender is a social and ideological construct and ideology is a shrewd veneer over the surface of ... more Gender is a social and ideological construct and ideology is a shrewd veneer over the surface of reality. The New Indian Cinema or the Indian New Wave emerged as an artistic practice for uncovering such realities in the 1970s and 1980s. It was a resurgence of the parallel cinema of the 1940s, which had received remarkable prominence with Satyajit Ray. It penetrated into the reality of such stagnant ideologies through its counter-discourses and enabled its audience to interrogate these 'seemingly truthful' stereotypes. The hypocritical charade of society is brought forth on the cinematic screen. Ketan Mehta's film Mirch Masalaaims to question such ideological stereotypes in the light of gender inequalities. The protagonist Sonbai is a self-esteemed, poor village woman, who for the sake of her self-respect as a woman stands as a powerful challenge to the inequitable advances of the Subedar, the native colonial agent. Set in the pre-Independence Kutch of Gujarat, the story visualizes a vivid spectacle of the colonial rule in India. Colonialism was always a patriarchal enterprise and the Subedar is one of its arrogant (native) agents, but this strait-laced patriarchal agency is valiantly confronted and splintered by Sonbai. She does not succumb to the unfair intentions of the Subedar and the luring conciliations of the villagers. On the whole, the film ".. . hits out at a whole value system and ideology which legitimizes the subordinate position of women" (Mazumdar WS-83). For the Subedar, woman is merely a means of sexual gratification. He victimizes poor women of the village and threatens the men by extorting heavy 'lagaan' from them. Poor village women succumb to his masculine overtures, but Sonbai turns down his inequitable advances and stands as a powerful challenge to the patriarchal orthodoxies in pre-Independence India. Mukhiya's wife also questions the patriarchal orthodoxy and masculine chauvinism in the film. When the schoolmaster asks her about sending her daughter to school, she retorts saying, "Yaharivajkahahailadkiyokopadhaneka" (There is no cult of sending girls to school here). The schoolmaster tells her that cults are changed with the course of time, but she answers saying, "Pahle log tohbadalnechahiyena" (First of all people must change). Unlike other people of the village, Sonbai does not feel intimidated or frightened of the threats of the Subedar. She says, "Khathode hi jayega. Aadmihi tohhai, koi hauwatohnahi"(He will not gulp me. He is a human being only, not a ghost).Ketan Mehta also attacks the conservative and submissive propensity of the village women. Poor and illiterate village women hold a view that a girl child cannot and should not go to school. The director aims to foreground the mental setup of the contemporary rural India. He puts a question mark on the stagnant orthodoxies.

Blackness Matters: The Problematic of Race in Buchi Emecheta's Second-Class Citizen

Research Review, 2017

Home and Belonging in Buchi Emecheta's Kehinde

Research Review, 2018

Displaced or Doubly Placed? Memory, Nostalgia and the Digital in Garth Davis's film Lion

Drishti : The Sight , 2023

Colour Leads to Kinship: Routing of Roots in Buchi Emecheta's The New Tribe

Dibrugarh University Journal of English Studies , 2022

Their Eyes Were Watching God and Waiting to Exhale are placed in different times. The context, mo... more Their Eyes Were Watching God and Waiting to Exhale are placed in different times. The context, mood, and thematic content of the two novels are widely different. Though both novels have women as protagonists, their road map barely has any resemblance. However, interestingly love, marriage, relationship, and marriage are the evident points of discussion in both works. But it is certainly not a coincidence that such visible aspects of the novels accentuate the larger issues of self-definition, resilience, and agency through romance. The black romance allows a more luxurious, privileged, kind of connection to love that is both erotic and yet romantic, that does not deny collective identity yet allows black people to see themselves as individuals. (Edmondson 206

Patheykan.com-बेचारगी का विमर्श और द केरल स्टोरी

Patheykan

Tending the Native, Subverting the Materialist: The Ecological Sacred in Amitav Ghosh's The Living Mountain: A Fable for Our Times

RAJASTHAN UNIVERSITY STUDIES IN ENGLISH, 2022

In these times of apocalyptic pandemics, Amitav oeuvre constantly raises questions about the envi... more In these times of apocalyptic pandemics, Amitav oeuvre constantly raises questions about the environmental crisis. His recent work, The Living Mountain insinuates the horrible realities of the sheer collapse the ecosystem , which is steadily being wrecked by the human world. By virtue of a short fable Ghosh expresses his serious apprehension about the pervasive omens of environmental blight. In his insightful narrative, making use of allusions, he perturbs the human world about the excessive and irrational use of natural resources. Ghosh questions the validity of European meta-discourses of modernity and globalization in the light of this indigenous fable. Underpinning the native belief-system and the ecological sacred, which sustains the ecosystem and nurtures human life, he implies that the colonialist binaries are still relevant in different forms, and need to be discussed ad infinitum. The capitalist and materialist systems of thought precipitate the indigenous lives into destruction. This The Living Mountain and seeks to establish that the ecological sacred has the power to subvert capitalist and hegemonic transgression.

Film review : Patheykan.com-परतें खोलती फिल्म : लॉस्ट

patheykan.com, 2023

गांधी गोडसे : एक युद्ध (फिल्म समीक्षा)

Patheykan, 2023

Patheykan.com-बागेशवर धाम सनातन और मीडिया

Humanity Wounded: Trauma Travails in Temsula Ao's These Hills Called Home

Prasakthi Book House, 2015

समीक्षा : पंचायत सीजन 2

Patheykan.com, 2022

Film review

Film review : मानव जनित अमानवीयता हयूमन टीवी सीरीज

Patheykan.com

Film Review: Sardar Udham

November, 2021

आर्द्रता कहानी

Film Review : Pagglait (पगलैट)

Pathey.com, 2021

FILM REVIEW

Book Review चातुर्य और धैर्य के उत्कृष्ट उपमान : नाना फडनवीस

Patheykan, 2020

बॉलीवुड और आभासी दूरियाँ : पर्दा हटने लगा है

Patheykan, 2020

The Empire is Resurfacing: Rapacious Neocolonial and Bounteous Primitive in Buchi Emecheta's The Rape of Shavi

Drishti: The Sight, 2020

कहानी अंतस्

लमही, 2021

Published in Lamhi

RESISTANCE TO STEREOTYPES: GENDER PERSPECTIVES IN KETAN MEHTA'S MIRCH MASALA AND GOVIND NIHALANI'S SANSHODHAN

Research Scholar, 2020

Gender is a social and ideological construct and ideology is a shrewd veneer over the surface of ... more Gender is a social and ideological construct and ideology is a shrewd veneer over the surface of reality. The New Indian Cinema or the Indian New Wave emerged as an artistic practice for uncovering such realities in the 1970s and 1980s. It was a resurgence of the parallel cinema of the 1940s, which had received remarkable prominence with Satyajit Ray. It penetrated into the reality of such stagnant ideologies through its counter-discourses and enabled its audience to interrogate these 'seemingly truthful' stereotypes. The hypocritical charade of society is brought forth on the cinematic screen. Ketan Mehta's film Mirch Masalaaims to question such ideological stereotypes in the light of gender inequalities. The protagonist Sonbai is a self-esteemed, poor village woman, who for the sake of her self-respect as a woman stands as a powerful challenge to the inequitable advances of the Subedar, the native colonial agent. Set in the pre-Independence Kutch of Gujarat, the story visualizes a vivid spectacle of the colonial rule in India. Colonialism was always a patriarchal enterprise and the Subedar is one of its arrogant (native) agents, but this strait-laced patriarchal agency is valiantly confronted and splintered by Sonbai. She does not succumb to the unfair intentions of the Subedar and the luring conciliations of the villagers. On the whole, the film ".. . hits out at a whole value system and ideology which legitimizes the subordinate position of women" (Mazumdar WS-83). For the Subedar, woman is merely a means of sexual gratification. He victimizes poor women of the village and threatens the men by extorting heavy 'lagaan' from them. Poor village women succumb to his masculine overtures, but Sonbai turns down his inequitable advances and stands as a powerful challenge to the patriarchal orthodoxies in pre-Independence India. Mukhiya's wife also questions the patriarchal orthodoxy and masculine chauvinism in the film. When the schoolmaster asks her about sending her daughter to school, she retorts saying, "Yaharivajkahahailadkiyokopadhaneka" (There is no cult of sending girls to school here). The schoolmaster tells her that cults are changed with the course of time, but she answers saying, "Pahle log tohbadalnechahiyena" (First of all people must change). Unlike other people of the village, Sonbai does not feel intimidated or frightened of the threats of the Subedar. She says, "Khathode hi jayega. Aadmihi tohhai, koi hauwatohnahi"(He will not gulp me. He is a human being only, not a ghost).Ketan Mehta also attacks the conservative and submissive propensity of the village women. Poor and illiterate village women hold a view that a girl child cannot and should not go to school. The director aims to foreground the mental setup of the contemporary rural India. He puts a question mark on the stagnant orthodoxies.

Blackness Matters: The Problematic of Race in Buchi Emecheta's Second-Class Citizen

Research Review, 2017

Home and Belonging in Buchi Emecheta's Kehinde

Research Review, 2018

पुस्तक समीक्षा : सूखा पत्ता

पाथेय कण, 2022

भोंसले : फिल्म समीक्षा

Bhonsle : film review

Patheykan.com-वेब सीरीज समीक्षा अवरोध द सीज विदिन

Avrodh : the seige within

Patheykan.com-बंदिश बैंडिटस

Bandish Bandits : review

गुंजन सक्सेना : द कारगिल गर्ल फिल्म समीक्षा

Gunjan Saxena : the kargil girl Film review

अपना अपना आसमान नब्बे के दशक का जनप्रिय टीवी धारावाहिक समीक्षा

Apna apna aasman : TV Serial review

राम सिंह चार्ली : फिल्म Review

Ram Singh Charlie : film review

डॉली किटी और वो चमकते सितारे : महानगरीय कुंठाओं का महिमामंडन फिलम समीकषा

Film review

सीरियस मैन : वंचित समाज पर विमर्श सथापित करने का दिशाहीन प्रयास

Patheykan.com, 2020

Serious Men : film review

कसाई : फिल्म समीक्षा

कसाई : फिल्म समीक्षा

Patheykan.com लव जिहाद की रील : ए सिंपल मर्डर वेब सीरीज समीक्षा

A Simple Murder : film review

वामपंथ का छद्म चेहरा : नकसलबाडी टीवी सीरीज समीक्षा

Patheykan.com, 2020

Film review : Naxalbari

इमरजेंसी के भ्रष्ट नौकरशाही तंत्र का चेहरा : कागज

patheykan.com, 2020

Film Review : Kaagaz

मिर्ज़ापुर सीजन 2 वेब सीरीज समीक्षा

patheykan.com, 2020

Film Review : Mirzapur Season 2

वेब सीरीज "तांडव" समीक्षा

Patheykan.com, 2021

Film review : Tandav

Film Review : Ajeeb Daastaanz

patheykan.com, 2021

Film Review : Ajeeb Daastaanz

सीक् रे स ऑफ िसनौली: मनगढ़ं त इितहास पर तमाचा (डॉ यू म ट् री समी ा

Patheykan.com, 2021

Film review : Secrets of Sunauli