LANGUAGE IN INDIA

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Volume 11 : 1 January 2011
ISSN 1930-2940

Managing Editor: M. S. Thirumalai, Ph.D.
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Arun Joshi and Eco Consciousness
A Study of The Strange Case of Billy Biswas

P. Bala Shanmuga Devi, Ph.D.

Arun Joshi and His Fiction

Arun Joshi excels as an outstanding Indo-English novelist and what strikes one most is that he could be viewed as a multifarious personality such as an eco-critic, evolutionist, environmentalist, naturist, eco-based aesthetic, a staunch supporter of ethno science, ethno-medicine and supernatural healing techniques of primitive people of various lands all over the world.

Arun Joshi as a post-colonial writer recognizes a reality beyond the mere phenomenal world. He captures it by giving a consistent form, to the shapeless facts of human existence. Restating experiences, in an impersonal cold scientific manner is not his forte but goes way beyond, to discover the hidden reality.

Fiction, to Joshi, is neither a source of entertainment nor an instrument for publicizing some set of ideas. His genius is not for propagating any political or social creed, or escapism from human endeavours and seeking resort in imaginary places as R.K. Narayan did.

Dhawan states that Joshi is very clear when he says: "My novels … are essentially attempts towards a better understanding of the world and of myself … If I did not write, I imagine I would use some other medium to carry on my exploration" (Dhawan 8).

Hence, we see that Joshi's venture into writing is an inborn call to express his ideals just like a liberal humanist who is "not politically radical and hence generally evasive and non-committal on political issues" (Barry 3). Joshi cannot be labelled only as Marxist, feminist, theoretical but as a believer in "human nature" endowed with a timeless and "universal significance" (Barry 193).

Ecology and Human-centred Living

Garrard speaks about deep ecology which insists upon a shift from a human-centered to a nature-centered system of values. He quotes from George Session's anthology Deep Ecology for the 21st Century thus:

Deep ecology is concerned with encouraging an egalitarian attitude on the part of humans not only toward all members of the ecosphere but even toward all identifiable entities or forms in the ecosphere. Thus, this attitude is intended to extend, for example, to such entities (or forms) as rivers, landscapes, and even species and social system considered in their own right. (21-22)

Barry states that, for ecocritics, "nature really exists out there beyond ourselves, not needing to be ironised as a concept by enclosure … but actually presents as an entity which affects us, and which we can affect, perhaps fatally, if we mistreat it." (252)

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Love and Language - A Socio-rhetorical Analysis of Love Texts on a Ghanaian Radio Network | Cross-Cultural Conflict in Bharati Mukherjee's The Tiger's Daughter | A Comparative Study of the Study Habits of the Students of The Islamia University of Bahawalpur in Pakistan | Analysis and Categorization of the Most Prevalent Errors of Intermediate and Elementary Iranian EFL Learners in Writing in Iran | Phonological Adaptation of English Loan Words in Pahari | A Study of Sexual Health Problems among Male Migrants in Tamilnadu, India | Arun Joshi and Eco Consciousness - A Study of The Strange Case of Billy Biswas | Code-Mixing as a Communicative Strategy among the University Level Students in Pakistan | Oatesian World of Violence and Female Victimization - An Autopsy | Importance of Practicum in Teacher Training Programme - A Need of the Hour | Mentoring Teachers to Motivate Students | Exploring the Preferences of Aesthetic Needs of Secondary School Students in Faisalabad in Pakistan | Affinity and Alienation - The Predicament of the Internal Migrant in Anjum Hasan's Neti Neti | Effect of Inquiry Lab Teaching Method on the Development of Scientific Skills Through the Teaching of Biology in Pakistan | Rate of Speech in Punjabi Speakers | A Study of Orthographic Features of Instant Messaging in Pakistan - An Empirical Study | The Call for Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) at the Undergraduate Level with Special Reference to Andhra Pradesh | Case and Case-like Postposition in Surjapuri | Rabindranath Tagore's Views on Education | A PRINT VERSION OF ALL THE PAPERS OF JANUARY, 2011 ISSUE IN BOOK FORMAT.
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