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Taken from: Contested Grounds Essays on Nature, Culture, and Power Edited by Amita Baviskar Insightful analysis of the significance of natural resources in contemporary life Empirically rich research on the politics of the environment Eminent contributors include David Gilmartin, David Ludden, Michael Thompson, Lyla Mehta among others About the essay:  beauty of the area and humanity's impact on it floating junk brought in by the tide element of hope - children taught environmental awareness (by Sunita Rao) and how to make the most of all the garbage the island receives Things like shampoo, aftershave, styrofoam chair, clothes basket - also, lobsters, coconuts and fish - come from the sea These are useful, or made useful - however the "stream of manufactured objects" they (ships using Bombay-Penang  trade route) leave behind is also a great inconvenience bottles of water, juice cartons, beer bottles, cans as common on the beach as sea-shells nobody knows ab...

SECTION A - 6x5 7 questions - answer 6; question on Riders to the Sea is compulsory SECTION B - 3x10 4 questions - answer 3; question on The Pianist is compulsory SECTION C - 4x10 Prepositions Email Precis-writing Conversational Strategies

http://www.arvindguptatoys. com/arvindgupta/well-english. pdf http://www.ijells.com/wp- content/uploads/2012/04/April- Issue-IJELLS.pdf http://literarism.blogspot.in/ 2013/11/dalit-literature.html http://ccrss.org/dalitautobio. htm These links should help if you want to read up on A Corpse in the Well by yourself; I will post notes soon. And here they are: Page 136: About the Author and the Extract: "The above extract serves to emphasize the difference in power that exists in villages, and how the Mahars , or Dalits, who loyally served their village, were not respected and treated the way they deserved. The unfair manner in which they are bossed around, and the bravery and sense of duty exhibited by Anna , serve to highlight a broken system and ideology." Possible question: Describe the theme of injustice that runs through the story. Answer: dangerous duty, "father was crushed flat by (it)" near-fatal experience in this situation, duty was to guard ...

how a localized tragedy affects the whole world speaker appears to have lost faith in God pain and time - ideas intentionally placed together contrast of death and youth pain of separation through death physical description pain is eternal no peace even after death physical to metaphysical grief then becomes immeasurable tangible to intangible Concentric circles progression from 30 cm, 7 m, two hospitals and one graveyard, 100 km, across the sea, whole world, "circle with no end and no God"

Guys here's the text for  Riders to the Sea I'll post notes on it once we discuss in class. Cheers!

http://www.ohio.edu/people/hartleyg/ref/fiction/pov.html http://www.enotes.com/homework-help/what-effect-does-use-first-person-pov-bring-story-280953 http://classroom.synonym.com/analysis-effects-first-person-narrative-point-1783.html This might help with tomorrow :P

Themes: Man up Ideal = docile, submissive, polite (in formative years) but counterproductive as an independent adult Be kind, sensitive, Romantic etc but still get your work done exploring and analyzing gender roles Have an opinion Transformation: From a weakling to a man who does what needs to be done, by himself Role of Boy: (Pothuraju) Spark, inspiration Role of Grandfather: keeps saying "you can't do it" until, in the end, he does do it, and then he's like "I knew he could do it", i.e. " Sabaas " Purushottam means ideal man, but he was not lacked resolve, and decision-making ability

Key words/ phrases: holocaust narrative relocation to the ghetto survival dominating living W.R.T. VISUAL NARRATIVE minimum dialogue - relies on visuals Click here to read synopsis Richard Schickel of TIME Magazine lauds the film, saying, “We admire this film for its harsh objectivity and refusal to seek our tears, our sympathies.” The Pianist is NOT a cookie-cutter tear-jerking holocaust film. It is silencing, shocking, horrifying, quiet, truthful, hopeful, objective and riveting and will permanently alter your notions of people of the Holocaust. This film is an ode to pure chance, as is explained by the tagline of the film, “Music was his passion; Survival was his masterpiece” which fits Wladyslaw Szpilman’s life story perfectly. Just as in a symphony a number of separate runs contribute to a harmony, numerous truly fortunate and random series of events led to his continued survival. Szpilman is not a conventional hero. He is not a knight in shining armor to a...

Themes: Poverty Frustration about poverty Hunger (seen through all the detailing about vadais ) embarrassment * guilt about buying perfectly good human food for a rat * what goes around comes around - Ganesan knows the rat will return - "not the gutter this time... off to the maidan... at least a week..." (page 113) * you miss the inconveniences too, when they're gone * author playing with brevity and conciseness of form while portraying complexity of character * poverty and one's inability to do much about it

QUICK REVISION Themes: fate destiny no control over circumstances finality time everything ends grief end of a relationship trinity Tone Progression: numbness clumsiness, shakiness desperation closure indifference Use of Nature: cold autumn (separation, death) darkness (no hope) * feminist, war, random Soviet perspectives * reference to real-life situation  CONTEXT: (She met a young poet, Nikolay Gumilev , on Christmas Eve 1903, who encouraged her to write and pursued her intensely, making numerous marriage proposals from 1905. At 17 years old, in his journal Sirius, she published her first poem which could be translated asOn his hand are many shiny rings, (1907) signing it "Anna G." She soon became known in St Petersburg's artistic circles, regularly giving public readings. That year, she wrote unenthusiastically to a friend, “He has loved me for three years now, and I believe that it is my fate to be his wife. Whe...

QUICK REVISION: Casabianca - Ayyappa Panicker Themes:  challenging established ideas because impractical questioning blind obedience rational thinking and logic filial piety is overrated self-glorification (by father) outdated ideals, morals, standards (esp. those of respect toward elders) necessity for scientific temper * through the poem, our perceptions about the father and the son evolve and become more tangible and less open to interpretation * twist in storyline, attitude * responsibility toward future generations to encourage wiser ideals * press in the poem - criticized for sensationalizing and being purveyors of gossip - emphasis on 'human element' (p.s. this is a euphemism) rather than cold hard facts Literary devices: satire irony subversion  intertextuality Ayyappa Panicker is challenging a celebrated poem which symbolizes filial piety and obedience He does this using inter-textuality - referring to one text while writing another (here, Feli...

Hi guys! Since I am a dweeb who studies in the vacations, and thought you would also benefit from a headstart on the hell they're going to throw our way this semester, here is the syllabus: BRIT LIT: http://www.christuniversity.in/uploadimages/English%20Studies%20syllabus%202013-14(1).pdf And expect notes (topic by topic, not chapter by chapter) the day they are taught, henceforth. Bibliography of Required Reading (EST 231) Abrams, M.H. A Glossary of Literary Terms. 8th Ed. New York: Wardworth, 2005. Print. Corcoran, Neil. The Cambridge Companion to Twentieth-Century English Poetry. Cambridge: CUP, 2007.Print. (on flipkart this costs you Rs. 2,555) Davis, Alex, and Lee M Jenkins. The Cambridge Companion to Modernist Poetry. Cambridge: CUP, 2007.Print. > We already know the syllabus for Additional and General English, but here are the links nonetheless: GENERAL ENGLISH: http://www.christuniversity.in/uploadimages/First%20Year%20English%20syllabus%20fo...

<3 <3 <3 Focus. They're both convinced Meaning perhaps what they're convinced about is wrong That a sudden passion joined them. Self-explanatory - saw her/him needed her/him loved her/him Such certainty is beautiful But uncertainty is more beautiful still. This uncertainty is what the whole poem is about, as we shall see: Since they'd never met before, they're sure that there'd been nothing between them. The two lovers are under the impression that in their whole loves, they have never once met before, and so could not have had any kind of association or relationship with each other. But what's the word from the streets, staircases, hallways - perhaps they've passed each other by a million times? Now Wislawa points out that they could have met a million times and not known it - on the streets, staircases, hallways. I want to ask them if they don't remember - a moment face to face in some revolving door? perhaps a 'sorr...

About the author: 1.  http://www.thehindu.com/books/a-simple-book-of-reason/article3466719.ece 2.  http://www.vraghunathan.com/home.html To begin with, this guy is awesome. He's dabbled in and mastered such varied fields as banking, CSR, academics and is a prolific writer, having recently authored the book, 'Ganesha on the Dashboard' the link for which is above. The conclusion we need to draw from the essay is that we must have a rational, questioning but not skeptical approach to the issue of religion, rituals, God and faith. Raghunath discusses scientific temper and religion, scientific temper in everyday life, how to develop scientific temper, the convergence of religions, the responsibility of ushering in scientific temper, and proposes a more evolved religion. In the section ' Marrying Religion with Scientific Temper ' the author wonders whether it is possible for religion, based on faith, to be consistent with science, based on reason. Either way, ...

:P Okay, let's begin with the portion: POETRY: Requisites: context - content - form (format of answering questions) Notes 1. My Grandmother's House (Kamala Das) http://www.projectcctvnotes.blogspot.in/2014/06/notes-on-my-grandmothers-house-by.html 2. Love at First Sight (Wislawa Szymborska) http://www.projectcctvnotes.blogspot.in/2014/09/notes-on-love-at-first-sight-by-wislawa.html PROSE: Requisites: Patience Common sense Notes Ability to answer questions after text 3. Lajwanti (Rajinder Singh Bedi) http://www.projectcctvnotes.blogspot.in/2014/08/notes-lajwanti-by-rajinder-singh-bedi.html 4. Childhood (Ismat Chugtai) 5. Umpiring! (Moti Nandy) 6. South Indian Filter Coffee with Amma (Julie Sahni) (even the title is so long) http://www.projectcctvnotes.blogspot.in/2014/08/notes-south-indian-filter-coffee-with.html 7. A Scientific Religion (V. Raghunathan) http://www.projectcctvnotes.blogspot.in/2014/09/notes-on-scientific-religion-by-v.html SELF-LEARN...

This chapter of our textbook appears to be written for non-Indian people, as we see when the authors writes the English version of the word before the Hindi one, as in "elixir 'amrita'", "creamy pudding kheer", "jaggery gur", "mother, Amma" and the unfunny joke: "form an asana (in my language it means twist into a pretzel!)" She tries too hard to get the reader to relate to the magic of the milk-related memories of her childhood, and her attachment to her mother, but for reasons I can't place my finger on, fails, and fails miserably at that - succeeding only in getting us mildly irritated. Perhaps it is the pretentious Nigella tone of the text, or the occasional lapses in meaningful sentence-formation: "She just isn't fond of it, but obsessed with it." Also, there is the issue of her over-zealous description of everything. One question that caught my attention: Examine the interconnected themes of memo...

Here is my write-up (assignment) (imperfect) (scored 15 on 20) (done for the sake of doing it) (many apologies) : The chapter Lajwanti by Rajinder Singh Bedi is set in the wake of the India-Pakistan Partition – specifically, the abduction of women on either side of the border. During the Partition, tens of thousands of Hindus and Muslims were forced to pack and leave, because suddenly, allegiance to one’s country was based on religion. Families who had been living on the “wrong” side of the border since generations had to migrate, at moment’s notice, to their “homeland”. In the midst of all this pain, anguish, separation and large-scale identity crises, displaced people began attacking the “enemies” – through thefts, violence and abductions, as was the case with the protagonist Sunder Lal, and his wife Lajwanti, who was abducted. In brief, the story Lajwanti is as such: Sunder Lal, after losing his wife Lajwanti to abductors, and abandoning all hope of finding her again, pu...

The poem My Grandmother's House has taken many, many classes, with varying levels of productivity, to complete. To begin with, there was a brief discussion about the poet herself - her life, background, style etc. In the next class, to "set the mood," we shared our memories of our grandparents, and the lessons we've learnt from them. In the last class, owing to the fact that not everyone had their textbooks, Sir briefly discussed (again) the poet, and the poem. There was a depressing reading-out in class, as well. Now for the notes. free verse house changed by death of grandmother: "The house withdrew into silence, snakes moved among books" "blind eyes of windows" = nobody inside? "frozen air" "Darkness" Author changed by death of grandmother: "my blood turned cold like the moon" Otherwise change in author: "once/ I received love" "was proud, and loved" "... I ...