Love

Collection of Poems

by Arbind Kumar Choudhary



ISBN 978-81-7977-418-2

Price: Rs. 60.00 and $ 5.00

This long contemplation of love spun out in short-line quatrains embraces eros, breath of life and the more high-minded idealization of human romantic love drawing upon western culture from ancient Greek mythology to the very contemporary aspects of torrid desire.

John. B. Lee, Poet Laureate of Brantford, Canada.

These quatrains are on diverse facets of love, including physical and metaphysical. Some quatrains define love and some love’s outgrowth. In some quatrains the first lines rhyme with the second and in some with the third or the fourth. This variance is to avoid monotony and also to suggest that love itself does not embody any set rules. These witty or satirical quatrains articulate the thoughts and observations of a sage on an epigrammatical landscape of a notable individuality. Where there is any need, the sage draws on French and Latin expressions.

Stephen Gill, Poet Laureate of Anstead, Adjunct Professor, E-A U Canada

What is real love? There are so many variations of this most beautiful phenomenon in life: a child’s love, motherly love, young love, the love of a married couple, the transcendental love, the love to animals and plants, the love to all beautiful things as such. Maybe love will even break if we try to define it precisely, because we can only approach love in concentric circles. Probably we can describe love only with the resources of poetry, as it is done in Arbind Choudhary’s sensitive and accurate way. He shows that love can only exist when it is not egoistical, when we have no eye to one’s own interest.  The poems, one truer than the other, one more beautiful than the other, implant love in our heart. So poetically described, love is never lost.

Kurt.F.Svatek, Austria

Arbind Kumar Choudhary’s poetry collection Love is a must for everyone who is emotionally involved, for all romantics, and most of all for those that enjoy alluring words that entice mind and body into a special state of well being.

In India, this book may not only have an aphrodisiac effect on lovers, it will be read and enjoyed for the sentiments expressed by the poet.

Les Merton, Editor/Founder of Poetry Cornwall & Bard of Gorseth Kernow, England

Dr. Arbind Kumar Choudhary (b 1965) is the founding father of International Association of Poets, Essayists and Novelists(2006) at Begusarai, Bihar and one of the founding members of World Literature Society, Agartala, cum editor of two reputed literary magazines Kohinoor and Ayush known globally amidst the creative milieu. Some of his poems are translated into Portuguese, German, Greece, Maltese, Mongolian and several Indian languages . He has been published in England, Greece, Malta, Mangolia, and Cyprus .There are one thousand poems in English on websites of many poetry societies including six poetry collections entitled 1. Eternal Voices(2007), 2. Universal Voices(2008), 3. My Songs (2008), 4. Melody (2009), 5. Nature Poems (2010) and 6. Love Poems (2010) to his credit. He is viewed, reviewed and interviewed globally. He has also interviewed prominent literary luminaries such as Teresinka Pereira, John .B. Lee, Stephen Gill, Kurt. F. Svatek, Joy Rainey King, Paul Curtis, Charu Sheel Singh, D.C.Chambial, M.Chaturvedi and many others known globally. He is included in the advisory board of Guild of Indian Writers, Editors and Critics and Poetcrit, and editorial board member of IJELL, literary journals of global repute. He is included in Cambridge Dictionary of International Writers in 2009, World Poetry Almanac, Ulaanbator, 2008 & 2009 and International Writers Dictionary, Seoul,2010.There are more than a dozen research papers published on his poetry collections in leading journals of India. Dr. Choudhary has been honoured with Life Time Achievement Award (2009) and Honorary Member (2010) by International Poets Academy, Chennai and International Writers and Artists Association, USA respectively for his grand service to literary world. Dr. A.K.Thakur, Associate Prof of English, D.S.College, Katihar, has edited a critical anthology on his works entitled Poetic Pigments of Poet Arbind Kumar Choudhary (2010). Presently Dr. A.K. Choudhary is heading the Deptt. of English at R.C. College, Majuli, Assam 785104, India.



TET (Teacher Eligibility Test) Question Bank

for TET exam coducted by CBSE (CTET) and States.

contains Practice Questions for both Paper I and II

in Hindi Medium


pp.: 270
Size: 8.5 x 11
Price: Rs. 212.00
ISBN 978-81-7977-442-7




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R.K. NARAYAN: The Guide

A Study

by: Som Deva, Girish Saxena

pp.: 140

Price: Rs. 50.00

ISBN 978-81-7977-417-5

This booklet, a guide on R.K. Narayan’s The Guide is an attempt to throw search light on Narayan and his The Guide. This booklet throws light on the art of R.K. Narayan and the various aspects of his The Guide. It explains the theme, the art, the characters, the society, the realism, the Malgudi, the marriage and the plot construction of The Guide in simple and lucid english.

List of Contents:
Growth of Indo-Anglian Fiction and Literature
Narayan’s Life and Works
R. K. Narayan as a novelist with special reference to The Guide
The Guide : An Introduction
The Guide : Detailed Summary
Theme and Background of The Guide
The Romantic Theme of the Novel
Realism in the Novel
The Social Issues in the Novel
An Economic Interpretation of the Novel
Typical Indian Scenes in the Novel
Narayan and the Regional Novel
The Guide : A Work of Art
Love, Sex and Marriage in the Novel
The Concept of the Tragic Hero : An Analysis
Characterization with Special Reference to the other Novels of R. K. Narayan
Characters of the Novel
Plot-Construction of the Novel
An Appraisal of the Novel
Narayan's Humour and Irony in the Novel
Critical Extracts
Question and Answers


THOMAS CARLYLE: The Hero as Man of Letters

Edited with Introduction, TEXT, Notes, Question-ANswers and Important Explanations

by: Manindranath Sinha

pp.: 140

Price: Rs. 110.00

ISBN 978-81-7977-404-5

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A classic of English literature, Carlyle’s Hero As Man of Letters deals with the concept of hero-worship, which is still a living phenomenon in all democratic countries. These hero-lectures hinge on the doctrine that it is the spiritual which determine the material, the doctrine on which the vast structures of all religious systems stand, and which holds the key to man’s true happiness and peace to this world. I have undertaken to edit this book mainly to meet the needs of the students who consider the book inaccessible to them. The reason why the students fail to understand these lectures is their unfamiliarity with Carlyle’s philosophy of life, his conception of hero-worship, and of history, and above all with the motive behind his use of the quaint ungrammatical expressions which have been denounced by Maculay as the “the half-German jargon of the present day.” The general introduction to Carlyle is meant to get the students acquainted with those things which will help them master the contents of the book, and lay to their heart its inestimable significance even to-day. The detailed summaries will give a fairly complete idea of the subject matter of the essays, and will be sufficient for those who want to enjoy a difficult author like Carlyle through proxy. 

List of Contents:


Life and works of Thomas Carlyle
Carlyle’s Concept of History
Carlyle as a Socio-Political Critic
Carlyle as a moral force
Carlyle as a Literary Artist
Carlyle as a Literary Critic
Carlyle’s Concept of Heroes
Carlyle’s Concept of Hero-worship
Carlyle’s Position and Influence
Introduction to Heroes and Hero-worship
Summary of The Hero as Man of Letters
Text of Carlyle’s The Hero as man of letters

Notes and Annotations

Questions and Answers

Explanations of Important Passages

NIRANJAN MOHANTY: The Man and His Poetry

by: Sudhir K. Arora


ISBN 978-81-7977-412-0

Price Rs. 80.00

pp.: 148


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Prof. Niranjan Mohanty authored the eight poetic volumes namely: Silencing the Words (1977), Oh This Bloody Game!(1988), Prayers to Lord Jagannatha (1994),On Touching You and Others Poems (1999), Life Lines (1999), Krishna (2003), Tigers and Others Poems (2008) and A House of Rains (2008). He was, indeed, a great poetic pilgrim who began his journey as an outsider and ended as an insider. He successfully developed his poetic idiom in English which was quite innovative. He was a critic and translator of repute. He translated from Oriya and Bengali into English and Bengali into Oriya. His Oriya translated work Nirjhar, a volume of sixty poems of Jibanananda Das was published by Sahitya Akademi, New Delhi. Sarup and Sons also published his translated work Sangram Jena’s Poems of Passion. He was the single largest contributor of articles (more than 25) on the poetry of Jayanta Mahapatra. His poetry breathed life in all its dimensions. Orissan landscapes, Contemporaneity, time, death, identity-question, absences, loneliness, memory, dreams, inner struggle, rain, devotion, respect for the family and home etc. were the different threads with which he weaved the texture of his poetry. As a poet and a man, he was human to the core.

LIST OF CONTENTS:


Preface
Acknowledgements
A Tribute to Prof. Niranjan Mohanty
Excerpt from Prayers to Lord Jagannath

Niranjan Mohanty : The Man
Silencing the Words: The Jungle of Obscurity
Playing the Game of Life: A Commentary on Oh This Bloody Game!
Prayers to Lord Jagannatha: An Epitome of Jagannatha Culture
Learning through Touches: A Critique of On Touching You and Other Poems
Reading Life Lines: A Critique of Life Lines
Celebrating Womanhood: A Feminist Reading of Niranjan Mohanty’s Krishna
A Peep into Niranjan Mohanty’s Tiger and Other Poems
A House of Rains: A Critical Study
Postcolonial Consciousness in the Poetry of Niranjan Mohanty

Conclusion
Bibliography
Niranjan Mohanty’s Four Poems

RUSKIN BOND Interpreter of Human Relationships

by: RAM KULESH THAKUR









ISBN 978-81-7977-411-3

Price: Rs. 80.00

pp.: 80


With his versatile, original and elegant writing style, Ruskin Bond has secured for himself a place among the most successful Indian short story writers.

The present study, a short literary monograph, seeks to highlight Ruskin Bond in a new perspective. He has been accredited with Nature writings and writings for the entertainment of children. Apart from a rich pictorial description of Nature, traveling experiences, supernatural elements, and nostalgic memories, Bond also presents a web of human relationships in his short stories. His stories depict such unexplored relationships as ‘Child-Stranger’, ‘Child-Child’, ‘Child-Parent’, ‘Male-Female’, ‘Male-Male’ and ‘Human-Nature’.

The text-centred study, besides assessing his position among the contemporary Indian English Writers, presents a detailed classification of his writings into several categories and further sub-categorizes the short stories on the basis of the human relationship they discuss. It analyses human relationships in terms of the characters’ psychological attitude, behaviour and defence mechanisms such as “Rationalization”, “Phantasy”, “Projection”, “Identification” and “Withdrawl.” This should help explain and appraise Ruskin Bond’s understanding and grasp of human mind, character, attitude, and behaviour on the one hand, and the social structure and milieu, on the other.

In brief, it provides a new dimension to the short stories of Ruskin Bond. No study has been carried out till date on the ‘human relationship’ in Bond’s short stories or the psychology at work in the human relationships depicted by Bond.

Ruskin Bond, already established as one of the most celebrated English short story writers, is included in the syllabuses of many Indian Universities at the Bachelor/Honors and Master’s Degree level. The book should help students understand the writer in fresh light, and also motivate some of them to explore Bond for higher studies.

(from the Preface)