Papers by Satyanarayan Tiwari
Humanities and Social Science Studies, Vol. 12, Issue 1, Peer-Reviewed, Bi-annual, Interdisciplinary UGC CARE List Journal , 2023
South Asian authors of the twenty-first century have gained impetus from the creative works of Ru... more South Asian authors of the twenty-first century have gained impetus from the creative works of Rushdie, Mistry, Adiga, Vikram Chandra, and Suketu Mehta, among others. These writers have discovered the palimpsest histories of Indian metropolises like Bombay, Kolkata, Delhi, etc. One of India's most prominent writers, Jeet Thayil, portrays Indian culture in “hard focuses” in his debut novel Narcopolis (2012), which further trivializes Bombay, a global city with its postcolonial quandaries. Thayil claims that opium khanas, brothels, and slums are where you may find the true India instead of the “mangoes and monsoons”. The intentional celebration of exoticism in the book and the propagation of colonial stereotypes are linked to the idea of Orientalism, which postulates how the image of the East grew inferior to the West throughout time. Using the idea of Orientalism as a framework, the research looks at how Bombay in the novel, portrayed as the city of “Opium”, differs significantly from Bombay in reality, which is renowned as the city of dreams. Additionally, despite highlighting India's urbanity, the research paper draws attention to how Bombay's portrayals in English literature concurrently disparage India's stature.
in Humanities and Social Science Studies (ISSN: 2319-829X), Peer-Reviewed, Bi-annual, Interdisciplinary UGC-CARE List Journal, 2023
South Asian authors of the twenty-first century have gained impetus from the creative works of Ru... more South Asian authors of the twenty-first century have gained impetus from the creative works of Rushdie, Mistry, Adiga, Vikram Chandra, and Suketu Mehta, among others. These writers have discovered the palimpsest histories of Indian metropolises like Bombay, Kolkata, Delhi, etc. One of India's most prominent writers, Jeet Thayil, portrays Indian culture in "hard focuses" in his debut novel Narcopolis (2012), which further trivializes Bombay, a global city with its postcolonial quandaries. Thayil claims that opium khanas, brothels, and slums are where you may find the true India instead of the "mangoes and monsoons". The intentional celebration of exoticism in the book and the propagation of colonial stereotypes are linked to the idea of Orientalism, which postulates how the image of the East grew inferior to the West throughout time. Using the idea of Orientalism as a framework, the research looks at how Bombay in the novel, portrayed as the city of "Opium", differs significantly from Bombay in reality, which is renowned as the city of dreams. Additionally, despite highlighting India's urbanity, the research paper draws attention to how Bombay's portrayals in English literature concurrently disparage India's stature.
Mittal Publication , 2022
andhi returned to India on January 9, 1915, from South Africa and since then he actively particip... more andhi returned to India on January 9, 1915, from South Africa and since then he actively participated in and led various movements, protests, and marches and even fasted to mark his protest peacefully and non-violently to set our nation free from the British subjugation. Because of his pacifist civil disobedience and leadership, the British Government always took him as a threat to its throne. Gandhi's political activism began in 1917-1918 when he took up the issues of Champaran farmers, the Ahmadabad textile workers, the Kheda peasants, etc. These struggles witnessed his specific mode of agitation, widely known as Satyāgrah, which he had earlier developed in the South African context and through which he was successful in achieving his socioeconomic and political goals. Dr. S. Radhakrishnan calls him "the supreme religion, the essence of all religions and a symbol of communal unity and universal humanity." On a similar note, Shri Ram Nath Kovind, the Hon'ble President of India, once said to commence the 150th Birth Anniversary of Gandhi that, "[H]e was the inspiration for our largely non-violent, inclusive and democratic freedom struggle." Gandhi's thoughts, words, and activism, thus, continue to inspire and influence various forms of epistemologies and augment several streams of ontological tools. Many branches of the Humanities and Social Sciences are taught under the rubric of Gandhian theory and his philosophy of satyā and ahimsā. Thus, we see that Gandhi has permeated himself into many disciplines of knowledge and the younger minds too need to be kindled by the veteran Gandhi scholars which is the need of the hour. We, the editors of the volume, strived to bring both of the generations to a single dais by organising a two-day National We shall be failing in our duties if we forget to thank our parents, teachers, colleagues, and family members for their peerless perseverance and cherubic love and trust in us.
IUP Journal of English Studies (Indexed in Scopus) , 2022
IUP Journal of English Studies, 2022
Migration and Diasporas: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2020
The contemporary Indian English (diasporic) writers, by tracing the roots and routes of the colon... more The contemporary Indian English (diasporic) writers, by tracing the roots and routes of the colonial discourses, fabricate the 'diasporic imaginary' to disseminate truth and testaments about their 'homelands'. The global reception of such lopsided projection functioning in post-colonial Indian terra firma, linked to the common Western premises on the Orient-philistine, cantankerous, and unprogressive or the 'other'-promulgates that the West still seizes authority of representation over the excolonies like India. Frantz Fanon's Black Skin, White Mask (1952), Aimé Césaire's Discourse on Colonialism (1955) in general, and Edward Said's Orientalism (1978), in particular attempt to divulge the latent leitmotif of Europeans' use of stereotypes on the African, South Asian and Middle Eastern countries. Delving deep into South Asian territories (especially the Indian subcontinent), Salman Rushdie's cutting-edge novel Midnight's Children (1981), which dismantles the entire discourse of Indian writing in English, is considered to be the first seminal text, popularly known for peregrine projection of India. The use of exoticism in the novel not only invites the attention of global scholars but also paves new paths for emanant authors. Consequently, the inclinatory ideas of India after the post-1981 ‘Rushdie affairs’, reinforces the practice of ‘colonial stereotypes’. Thus, the present paper, conjoining the ideas of Said, intends to extrapolate colonial stereotypes in Indian English fiction with special reference to two novels—Kiran Desai’s The Inheritance of Loss (2006) and Aravind Adiga’s The White Tiger (2008) as both the works, embracing substrata of India, reanimate the use of colonial image.
The contemporary Indian English (diasporic) writers, by tracing the roots and routes of the colon... more The contemporary Indian English (diasporic) writers, by tracing the roots and routes of the colonial discourses, fabricate the 'diasporic imaginary' to disseminate truth and testaments about their 'homelands'. The global reception of such lopsided projection functioning in post-colonial Indian terra firma, linked to the common Western premises on the Orient-philistine, cantankerous, and unprogressive or the 'other'-promulgates that the West still seizes authority of representation over the excolonies like India. Frantz Fanon's Black Skin, White Mask (1952), Aimé Césaire's Discourse on Colonialism (1955) in general, and Edward Said's Orientalism (1978), in particular attempt to divulge the latent leitmotif of Europeans' use of stereotypes on the African, South Asian and Middle Eastern countries. Delving deep into South Asian territories (especially the Indian subcontinent), Salman Rushdie's cutting-edge novel Midnight's Children (1981), 158 Migration and Diasporas: An Interdisciplinary Journal which dismantles the entire discourse of Indian writing in English, is considered to be the first seminal text, popularly known for peregrine projection of India. The use of exoticism in the novel not only invites the attention of global scholars but also paves new paths for emanant authors. Consequently, the inclinatory ideas of India after the post-1981 'Rushdie affairs', reinforces the practice of 'colonial stereotypes'. Thus, the present paper, conjoining the ideas of Said, intends to extrapolate colonial stereotypes in Indian English fiction with special reference to two novels-Kiran Desai's The Inheritance of Loss (2006) and Aravind Adiga's The White Tiger (2008) as both the works, embracing substrata of India, reanimate the use of colonial image.
The present paper is a modest attempt to map the nuances of the politics of literary prizes and t... more The present paper is a modest attempt to map the nuances of the politics of literary prizes and their reception in pan-global [literary] market. The discrimination in awarding the prizes is explicitly perceptible when any cultural text produced by the writers of the 'third world' is shortlisted for the prize in general, and the Man Booker in particular. It has been studied and observed that the texts which satiate the exotic lens of 'Orientalism', or carry colonial legacies, are brought to the fore to mollify the western academia. As a result, affirmative responses for a distorted picture of India portrayed by Indian/diasporic writers, has not only attracted young writers but also paved a shortcut way for them who intend to be famous overnight in the international literary firmament. Therefore, the politics of the Man Booker prize in this regard are discernible, as it not only masquerades, but also marques a writer, a celebrity.
Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities, 2018
The present paper is a modest attempt to map the nuances of the politics of literary prizes and t... more The present paper is a modest attempt to map the nuances of the politics of literary prizes and their reception in pan-global [literary] market. The discrimination in awarding the prizes is explicitly perceptible when any cultural text produced by the writers of the 'third world' is shortlisted for the prize in general, and the Man Booker in particular. It has been studied and observed that the texts which satiate the exotic lens of 'Orientalism', or carry colonial legacies, are brought to the fore to mollify the western academia. As a result, affirmative responses for a distorted picture of India portrayed by Indian/diasporic writers, has not only attracted young writers but also paved a shortcut way for them who intend to be famous overnight in the international literary firmament. Therefore, the politics of the Man Booker prize in this regard are discernible, as it not only masquerades, but also marques a writer, a celebrity.
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