Creative Flight: An International Half-Yearly Open Access Peer-Reviewed E-Journal in English, vol 5, no. 1, April, 2024 (Academic Section) (2024)

Anti Sikh Carnage through the Pages Stained with Blood by Indira Goswami

Creative Flight Journal. ISSN: 2582- 6158, 2021

Impervious R K Singh: A Critical Study of the Collection Against the Waves-Selected Poems

Creative Flight: An International Half-Yearly Open Access Peer-Reviewed E-Journal in English, 2022

The article is a detailed critical analysis of R K Singh's collection of poems AGAINST THE WAVES: SELECTED POEMS (2021)

When the East and the West Meet Indian Influence on T. S. Eliot’s The Waste Land

Creative Flight: An International Half-Yearly Open Access Peer-Reviewed E-Journal in English, 2023

“Oh, East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet” wrote Rudyard Kipling once. Ironically, T. S. Eliot’s magnum opus The Waste Land, one of the canonical texts of the Western modernism, ends with a direct reference to an Eastern scripture—the Upanishad. The poem abounds in references to Indian philosophy, spirituality, religion, and history. The titles of two sections in the poem—"The Fire Sermon” and “What the Thunder Said”—bear direct allusions to Indian religions, namely Hinduism and Buddhism. Eliot places together two great masters of asceticism—Lord Buddha and Saint Augustine—from the East and the West. The ultimate solution to the social ills, spiritual banality, religious bankruptcy, degradation of emotions, and predicament of human virtues in the modern Western world is found in the Indian principles of Datta (Charity), Dayadhvam (Compassion), and Damyata (Restraint). Taking into consideration Eliot’s formative years in oriental studies at Harvard, the present paper analyzes the influence of the Indian spiritual and philosophical traditions in The Waste Land.

POEMS AND MICROPOEMS : A Review

Creative Flight Journal, 2022

Chinua Achebe and Ngugiwa Thiong'o, both being postcolonial writes projects their female characters in completely contrasting manner. Achebe in his Arrow of God paints women characters with quite typical role, whereas Ngugiwa Thiong'o shows women as in equal to male characters in A Grain of Wheat. Achebe paints a male dominated society of Igbo community where women cooperate with the domination. While on the contrary, Ngugiwa Thiong'o carves women characters as freedom fighters. Ngugiwa Thiong'o tries to bring in the idea of ‘New Women’ through his novel by illustrating the role of women characters as freedom fighters who indulges into the Kenyan War along with the men’s of the country. Thereby, this paper aims to looking into the difference in the prescribed roles of the women that both the postcolonial writers demonstrate in their respective works.

Bangladesh Liberation War: Narrativization of Trauma in Tahamima Anam's Novel A Golden Age

Creative Flight, 2023

he 1971 Bangladeshi Liberation War is one of the most significant and phenomenal events in the twentieth-century Indian subcontinent. This blood-stained historical event constantly lingers in the minds of Bangladeshi people while constructing the Bangladeshi sense of nationalism. Tahamima Anam's A Golden Age is a novel that portrays the liberation war of Bangladesh. In war history, Anam has relocated the traditional presentation of women as exploited, tortured, raped, submissive, and passive. This paper explores the violence during the liberation war through the main characters Rehena, Maya and Sohail. During that period, Western Pakistan's Army vehemently oppressed, subjugated and repressed the Bengali-speaking people of Eastern Pakistan. The War was fought behind the Bengali ethnicity, culture and language. The people of Eastern Pakistan resisted the cultural Hegemony of Western Pakistan, and they chose Bengali over the Urdu language. Here, power is more akin to anything that behaves and operates in a particular manner; it is a strategy rather than a possession as Foucault considers it to be coextensive with resistance, as a constructive component, since it has positive effects such as the individual's self-making, and because, as aprerequisite of possibility for any relation, it is pervasive, present in every sort of social relationship.

Murders in Charles Perrault's "La Barbe Bleue" : Crime or Justice?

Creative Flight Journal, Vol. 3, No. 2, ISSN 2582-6158, 2022

Folk tales are more than just “happily ever after” stories. They can be gruesome and depict death and suffering in a variety of forms. Death in such a narrative, while deployed to build tension and mystery, also serves to increase the story’s focus on the justice sought. Folk tales are extensively read to and by children, despite the fact that it is debatable whether they are meant for young readers. Due to the modern notion of childhood in which children are expected to absorb a “sanitized” form of fairy tales, it is more important than ever for the texts aimed at young readers to do justice to the victim, in order to convey a moral lesson. Children are influenced by traditional beliefs that criminalize the deaths of “good” characters, while justifying that of the “bad” ones. The author of this research work argues that the distinction between crime and justice in folk tales and fairy tales is rather ill-defined, using the case of the centuries-old tale, “La Barbe Bleue”or“Bluebeard”, whose most prominent surviving version was penned down by Charles Perrault in 1697. The paper also looks at other stories based on the tale of Bluebeard, including Grimm Brothers’ “Fitcher’s Bird,” and Angela Carter’s “The Bloody Chamber” in order to examine how murder, the most heinous of all crimes, is justified for children in folk tales through social biases and rationales.

Monologues of Mohalakshmi review

creative flight, 2022

The Competence and Limitation of English Language Teaching: Methods and Techniques in Indian Classroom.

Akshara Multidisciplinary Research Journal, 2022

Methods and techniques for English language teaching have shed insight on particular philosophy of linguistic learning and preparation. Up till now, there have been brainstorming debates regarding their utility and applicability. To have a sound understanding and preparation for future usage of English language teaching, this research article analyses the competence and limitation in the field of English language teaching, some of prominent approaches and techniques as the Communicative English Language Teaching Approach, traditional Grammar - translation approach, Direct English Language Teaching approach, and bi-lingual English Language teaching approach in the Indian classroom. Keywords: English Language teaching methods and techniques; competence.

A Critical Study of Ecological Damage and Cultural Displacement in Amitav Ghosh's The Living Mountain:A Fable for Our Times

A Critical Study of Ecological Damage and Cultural Displacement in Amitav Ghosh's The Living Mountain:A Fable for Our Times, 2024

Environmental degradation is intricately connected with the destruction of indigenous lands. Colonial and capitalist exploitation of the natural environment leads to the subsequent displacement of indigenous communities. Amitav Ghosh"s The Living Mountain-A Fable For Our Times (2023), set in a remote village in the Himalayan region, delves into the interconnectedness of nature and culture, where damage to the land causes serious disruption in the lives of these tribes. Ghosh presents the landscape as a cultural symbol that transcends a geographical entity. The tribes experience cultural displacement as a result of ecological damage. This paper posits that the destruction of landscapes results in the erosion of traditional knowledge systems and cultural identities that are deeply rooted in the environment they inhabit. This paper asserts that the postcolonial concern for place, when read from an ecological perspective, insinuates that the loss of ecological balance that disrupts the living conditions of the native people, creates cultural displacement. The paper has adopted an interpretive and analytical approach to understand how Ghosh has represented ecological impairment and cultural displacement in his narrative. The study also shows the importance of biocentric development to preserve both ecological balance and indigenous culture.