The third-generation's Indian writings in English have enlightened the literature with its quality and vividness. The third-generation writers have concentrated their themes around sociolegical, ...diaspora elements, feminine subjects, science and technolegies, explorative writings, and much more. Love is the major theme of these writers. Vikram Seth is one of the important third generation Indian writers in English. His novel An Equal Music received the 1999 Crossword Book Award for Fiction. The story revolves around Michael, a professional violinist, and his love, Julia, a pianist. As the novel is not only about the love between Michael and Julia but also about the profession of Musician, it has been well received by musical fans, and appreciated for the accuracy of Vikram Seth's descriptions of music. It throws lights on Michael Holme's love for Music. Seth handles the theme of love and music very skillfully in the novel. This paper attempts to analyse how Seth has depicted Michael Holme's love for music, his attachment and affinity towards his friends and his love for Julia in An Equal Music. Keywords: An Equal Music, Music, love, loneliness, profession, musicolegy
Eco-centrism in the external world is not a new thing in Literature, it has been prevailing from times immortal. However, in Thomson’s The Seasons, nature, for the first time has been made the ...pivotal theme instead of remaining subordinate to man. Return to nature plays a very prominent role in the revival of the Romantic spirit of the Elizabethan age and it has contributed to a great literary era in English Literature. The Romantic Period English Litterateurs have never failed to express the aesthetic and invigorating life of the world of flora and fauna. The longing of the people for the freshness of nature to extricate themselves from the suffocating and crowding ambience of the urban and semi urban city have become the point of discussion in Eco-critic literary theses. The world of literature not only throngs with the works dealing with the beauty and power of nature, but it is also well known for reflecting the contemporary issues. With the continuous threat to our precious ecology, the zest, love and passion for nature among the literary writers have been progressing insistently into a matter of motherly concern which in turn has started reflecting in their works of art. This paper explores the eco-critical perspectives in Vikram Seth’s Poem The Elephant and the Tragopan -- precisely, it is this sense of concern towards the environment and its reflection in the works of literature that has given rise to a new branch of literary theory called Ecocriticism.
This article seeks to unravel how defining the concept of tarab or "enchantment,, in Arab popular culture is fraught with ambivalence by those who attempt to do so. I argue that the description of ...this concept as a "secret,, or "closed off area,, may in fact strategically act as a deterrent to fixing the definition of an aesthetic that is specific to the appreciation of artistic accomplishment in Arab culture. The subsequent discussion on Edward Said, Vikram Seth and Naguib's Mahfouz's invocation of tarab in their work shows to what extent this remains a concept that is central to any discussion of music and cultural icons and is a concept through which virtuosity is, often subjectively, measured.
There has been an almost celebratory air around Hinglish, a colloquial combination of Hindi and English, for quite some time now. It has been heralded by many as the language of millions, of the ...youth of India, of new India itself. A look at media sources over the years will show that Hinglish has come to occupy an illdefined, ambiguous sort of space bordered on one hand by Indian English, on the other by Hindi, English and other Indian languages and on a third by other hybrid languages such as itself, like Tamglish, Bonglish and Kanglish. Indeed, the number of ads and brands that use Hinglish as a means of communicating with the audiences has also risen sharply since the '90's. The objective of this dissertation is to understand the objectives behind the usage of Hinglish in brand communications by gathering and analyzing examples of Hinglish used by brands in India and placing them in a global context. It does so by building a socio-political context around the concept of Hinglish, or code-switching in linguistic terms, and uses this context to interpret and analyze a variety of TV commercials from the '90's onwards. The intention is to not only contextualize Hinglish in a social sense, but to also see it as a means for providing salience in terms of advertising and branding. The central focus of this dissertation remains the analysis of TV commercials which has helped the researcher to highlight ways in which brands have used codeswitching, or the mixing of two languages in a single utterance, in order to augment the message of the ad, create an impact and break clutter. It therefore places Hinglish in not just the linguists, but also in a marketer’s perspective.
Two Lives, Vikram Seth's latest book, is just out in England, and we're racing along the A36 somewhere near Frome to meet him for lunch at the Haunch of Venison. We're late and we're lost. I call to ...tell him that we're 20 miles away. My friend, Candace Bahouth, a mosaic artist from Pilton who's driving me to the interview, insists I clarify that we're 20 miles away and in a 1961 Morris Traveler. We arrive half an hour later and we're still there before Seth.
A reunion for Seth and Shinker Quinn, Judy
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Trade Publication Article
Vikram Seth's "An Equal Music" will be published by Broadway Books instead of HarperCollins in 1999. Seth has ties to Broadway's Bill Shinker, who published Seth's books at HarperCollins.
