LANGUAGE IN INDIA

Strength for Today and Bright Hope for Tomorrow

Volume 12 : 12 December 2012
ISSN 1930-2940

Managing Editor: M. S. Thirumalai, Ph.D.
Editors: B. Mallikarjun, Ph.D.
         Sam Mohanlal, Ph.D.
         B. A. Sharada, Ph.D.
         A. R. Fatihi, Ph.D.
         Lakhan Gusain, Ph.D.
         Jennifer Marie Bayer, Ph.D.
         S. M. Ravichandran, Ph.D.
         G. Baskaran, Ph.D.
         L. Ramamoorthy, Ph.D.
Assistant Managing Editor: Swarna Thirumalai, M.A.

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A Parallel Study on Amitav Ghosh’s The Shadow Lines and
Chethan Bagath’s The Three Mistakes of My Life

G.Baskaran, Ph.D. and P. Indu, Ph.D. Research Scholar

Abstract

An attempt has been done in this article to compare the two eminent contemporary novelists, Amitav Ghosh and Chetan Bhagath, who have taken India to the global scene through their narrative skills. The study is made to read their perceptions of reality, myth, history, politics, characters and related themes. The novels taken for comparison are Ghosh’s The Shadow Lines and Chethan’s The Three Mistakes of My Life. The religious riots of recent decades that broke the peace of the nation India are focused upon. This study focuses on how these riots were dealt with by Ghosh and Bhagat in their respective novels.

Parallel Study

Parallel study paves the way to examine the similarities and the dissimilarities of a work of art by two different authors of the same country. M. M. Enani defines “Parallel Study” as follows in the book Theories of Comparative Literature: “Any study of parallelism claims that there are affinities between the literatures of different peoples whose social evolution is similar, regardless of whether or not there is any mutual influence or direct relation between them.” (42) Spasmodically the two works of art may contain the same theme but the narration or the tone of characterization may differ.

This is only the beginning part of the article. PLEASE CLICK HERE TO READ THE ARTICLE IN PRINTER-FRIENDLY VERSION.

G.Baskaran, Ph.D. Associate Professor Faculty of English and Foreign Languages
Gandhigram Rural Institute
Dindigal – 624 302
Tamilnadu
India
rgbaskaran@gmail.com

P. Indu, Ph.D. Research Scholar
Research Centre in English,
VHNSN College Virudhunagar 626 001
Tamilnadu
India
tpvindu@gmail.com

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