Naga Mandala by Girish Karnad is a play that blends mythology and reality. It is based on two oral tales Karnad heard about. The play explores the story of Rani, a neglected wife whose husband Appanna spends little time with her. Seeking his affection, Rani drugs Appanna but accidentally enchants a king cobra instead. The cobra visits Rani nightly disguised as her husband, and she becomes pregnant. When accused of adultery, Rani proves her fidelity by surviving a trial with the cobra. However, her husband discovers the truth and fights with the cobra, killing it. The cobra reveals the truth to Rani before dying, and App
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Shashi deshpandes' That Long Silence PPT By Rashmi VajpayeeRashmi Vajpayee
Abstract:
Shashi Deshpande is a famous Indian novelist who has won many awards for her magnificent writings.She is one of the most notable authors in Indian writing in English. Her famous novels are -The Dark Holds No Terrors (1980), if I Die Today (1982), Roots and Shadows (1983), Come Up and Be Dead (1983), That Long Silence (1988), The Binding Vine (1992), and A Matter of Time (1996). Her novel “Roots and Shadows” has won a prize for the best Indian novel of 1982-83. She is the recipient of the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1990 for her novel That Long Silence. She has also won ‘Padma Shri’ (2009) for the novel ‘That Long Silence’. Her leading ladies are married women and they are the true reflection of Indian women. Seeking for identity and self-liberation have become the most important themes of the contemporary novel. ‘That Long Silence’ (1988) is an expression of the Agony of housewives. The Story revolves around ‘Jaya’ an educated young woman lives with her husband Mohan and two children Rahul and Rati. Jaya is a sufferer of gender differentiation and patriarchy. After wedding she becomes speechless in order to be a good cultural wife. The novel questions the tradition-bound Indian society that treats women unkindly. My aim is to highlight how women are divided between traditional values of the society and her individuality. The essay analyses how the patriarchal domination and gender differentiation exist within the family.
A graphic presentation of the plot and characters in Thomas Hardy's novel The Mayor of Casterbridge. It is designed to facilitate the teaching of the novel to high school or community college students.
Shashi deshpandes' That Long Silence PPT By Rashmi VajpayeeRashmi Vajpayee
Abstract:
Shashi Deshpande is a famous Indian novelist who has won many awards for her magnificent writings.She is one of the most notable authors in Indian writing in English. Her famous novels are -The Dark Holds No Terrors (1980), if I Die Today (1982), Roots and Shadows (1983), Come Up and Be Dead (1983), That Long Silence (1988), The Binding Vine (1992), and A Matter of Time (1996). Her novel “Roots and Shadows” has won a prize for the best Indian novel of 1982-83. She is the recipient of the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1990 for her novel That Long Silence. She has also won ‘Padma Shri’ (2009) for the novel ‘That Long Silence’. Her leading ladies are married women and they are the true reflection of Indian women. Seeking for identity and self-liberation have become the most important themes of the contemporary novel. ‘That Long Silence’ (1988) is an expression of the Agony of housewives. The Story revolves around ‘Jaya’ an educated young woman lives with her husband Mohan and two children Rahul and Rati. Jaya is a sufferer of gender differentiation and patriarchy. After wedding she becomes speechless in order to be a good cultural wife. The novel questions the tradition-bound Indian society that treats women unkindly. My aim is to highlight how women are divided between traditional values of the society and her individuality. The essay analyses how the patriarchal domination and gender differentiation exist within the family.
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The US House of Representatives is deeply concerned by ongoing and pervasive acts of antisemitic
harassment and intimidation at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Failing to act decisively to ensure a safe learning environment for all students would be a grave dereliction of your responsibilities as President of MIT and Chair of the MIT Corporation.
This Congress will not stand idly by and allow an environment hostile to Jewish students to persist. The House believes that your institution is in violation of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, and the inability or
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The House of Representatives will not countenance the use of federal funds to indoctrinate students into hateful, antisemitic, anti-American supporters of terrorism. Investigations into campus antisemitism by the Committee on Education and the Workforce and the Committee on Ways and Means have been expanded into a Congress-wide probe across all relevant jurisdictions to address this national crisis. The undersigned Committees will conduct oversight into the use of federal funds at MIT and its learning environment under authorities granted to each Committee.
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Nagamandala by girish karnad
1. NAGAMANDALA BY GIRISH KARNAD
R.VEDHA
Assistant Professor of English,
Bon Secours College of Women,
Thanjavur
2. GIRISH KARNAD
Naga Mandala by Girish Karnad is a play where myth
takes over reality.
Girish Raghunath Karnad is a contemporary Indian
playwright, actor and movie director in Kannada language.
He is among the seven recipients of Jnanpith Award for
Kannada, the highest literary honor conferred in India. Girish
karnad wrote the play Naga Mandala in 1987-88.
The play is based on two oral Kannada tales he had
heard from his mentor-friend and well –known poet, translator
and philologist A.K.Rumanian, to whom Karnad also dedicated
the play.
Through the interesting blend of history and myth, he talks
about socio-cultural issues of the India.
3. PLOT SUMMARY
Rani is a young bride who is neglected by her
indifferent and unfaithful husband, Appanna.
Appanna spends most of his time with his
concubine and comes home only for lunch. Rani is
one of those typical wives who want to win her
husband’s affection at any cost. In an attempt to do
so, she decides to drug her husband with a love
root, which she mixes in the curry. That curry is
spilled on the nearby anthill and Naga, the King
Cobra drinks it.
4. Naga, who can take the form of a human being, is
enchanted with her and begins to visit her every night in
the form of her husband. This changes Rani’s life
completely as she starts to experience the good things in
life though she never knows that the person with her is
not her husband but the Naga.
5. One of these days, she gets pregnant and breaks the
news to Appanna. He immediately accuses her for
adultery and says that he has not fathered the child. The
issue is referred to the village Panchayat.
She is then asked to prove her fidelity by putting her
hand in the snake burrow and taking a vow that she has
not committed adultery. It is a popular belief that if any
person lies holding the snake in their hand, they will be
instantly killed by the snake God.
6. She does place her hand in the snake burrow and vows
that she has never touched any male other than her
husband and the Naga in the burrow.
She is declared chaste by the village Panchayat.
However, her husband is not ready to accept that she is
pregnant with his child and decides to find out the truth
by spying on the house at night. Appanna is shocked to
see the Naga visiting Rani in his form, spending time with
her and then leaving the house.
7. Appanna gets furious with the Naga and indulges in a
fight with him. Both of them fight vigorously and at one
point of time, the Naga takes the form of the snake and
escapes into the burrow. The villagers see the snake
escaping into the burrow and kill it. Before dying the
snake comes to Rani and reveals the truth to her.
8. However, after this incident Appanna realizes his mistake
and he accepts Rani along with the child she is carrying.
