The Tiger’s Daughter | Summary and Analysis The Tiger’s Daughter is a novel by an expatriate female novelist. The novel has different layers. But the main layer it includes is the journey of a female from India to America and again its repetition. However if examined more strictly, the novel …

The Enigma of Arrival | Summary and Analysis V. S. Naipaul himself is an inheritor of colonial legacy. His grandfather was brought to Trinidad in the eighteenth century as an indenture labourer to work in a sugar plantation. It was not a dignified job to do but he was allured …

Burger’s Daughter | Analysis of Nadine Gordimer’s Burger’s Daughter Gordimer’s posthumous novel, Burger’s Daughter depicts the effects of apartheid in the life of the protagonist, Rosemarie (Rosa) Burger who is a South African white woman. Rosa Burger wants to locate he identify in the contemporary political situation in South Africa. …

The Satanic Verses | Summary and Analysis Rushdie’s texts are based on ambivalence of migrancy and hybridity because he portrays the postcolonial nations of cultural conflict. It is not merely the seemingly random juxtaposition of different discourses; it is also a representation of ambivalence of migrant people because cultural encounter …

The Reluctant Fundamentalist | Summary and Analysis Mohsin Hamid’s The Reluctant Fundamentalist aims at redefining Islamic Fundamentalism as a discourse shaped by the voice of political emancipation and strong anti-imperial spirit. The novel dismantles some of the formative principle of Islamic fundamentalism which is often taken as a discourse of …

Bye Bye Blackbird | Analysis of Anita Desai’s Bye Bye Blackbird Anita Desai’s Bye-Bye Blackbird is an exploration of the trauma of dislocation, an acute sense of loneliness and the pangs of estrangement suffered by the millions of ‘exiled Indians’ who try unsuccessfully to balance themselves between ‘home’ and ‘abroad’. …

Middle Passage | Analysis of Charles Johnson Middle Passage The researcher’s main finding is that Charles Johnson’s novel Middle Passage is the study of the slave narration and their disillusionment; and consciousness which is drawn from the real image of nineteenth century. Johnson reminds us of historical operation the African …

Patricia McCormick’s Novel Sold | Summary and Analysis Patricia McCormick’s Novel Sold presents ‘money’ and ‘men’ are the two powerful manipulators of the socio-economic ‘power’ in the outer patriarchal world. Here, most of the female characters suffer from the economic crisis. They are from poor lower class strata. Lakshmi is …

Performance Appraisal System Performance appraisal system is one of the prime components of Human Resource Management and Development. The major motive of performance evaluation system in an organization is to communicate information, reinforce strategies, norms and values of the local/municipal government and to integrate the individual and over all objectives …

Festivals in Kathmandu | Festivals of Nepal Kathmandu’s ancient and refined culture has been inspired by the convergence of the Hindu and Buddhist devotion of its inhabitants. The traditional customs, festivals, art and literature are all religious in character. The main fiestas the Kathmanduities observe with great pump and show …