The Namesake byJhumpa Lahiri

“That's the thing about books. They let you travel without moving your feet.”

― Jhumpa Lahiri, The Namesake

The novel describes the struggles and hardships of a Bengali couple who immigrate to the United States to form a life outside of everything they are accustomed to.

The story begins as Ashoke and Ashima leave Calcutta, India and settle inCentral Square, in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Through a series of errors, their son's nickname, Gogol, becomes his official birth name, an event that will shape many aspects of his life in years to come.

The Namesake is a novel by Pulitzer Prize winning author Jhumpa Lahiri. The novel follows the life of Gogol Ganguli from birth until middle age, chronicling his struggle to discover who he is as a second-generation immigrant. 

The Hairy Ape by Eugene O'neill

The central character of Eugene O'Neill's The Hairy Ape is Yank, a fireman (someone who stokes the coal furnace of transatlantic ships). He is brutish and opinionated. Yank is leader of the firemen and the play opens with him hanging out with his coworkers in the forecastle of the ship. Though he is able to command their attention easily, they don't hesitate to make fun of how he speaks. Yank mocks a fellow fireman when the fireman stands up to make a speech about how they are in a hell created by the upper class.

He leaves the ship and wanders into Manhattan, only to find he does not belong anywhere—neither with the socialites on Fifth Avenue, nor with the labor organizers on the waterfront. Finally he is reduced to seeking a kindred being with the gorilla in the zoo and dies in the animal's embrace.

Toni Morrison's "The Bluest Eye"

Toni Morrison's "The Bluest Eye"

Toni Morrison was born Chloe Anthony Wofford on February 18, 1931. Her birthplace was Lorain, Ohio, which also serves as the setting for The Bluest Eye.

Toni Morrison's "The Bluest Eye" is an inquiry into the reasons why beauty gets wasted in this country. The beauty in this case is black; the wasting is done by a cultural engine that seems to have been designed specifically to murder possibilities; the "bluest eye" refers to the blue eyes of the blond American myth, by which standard the black-skinned and brown-eyed always measure up as inadequate.

 The Bluest Eye is a harsh warning about the old consciousness of black folks' attempts to emulate the slave master. Pecola's request is not for more money or a better house or even for more sensible parents; her request is for blue eyes — something that, even if she had been able to acquire them, would not have abated the harshness of her abject reality.

Ghashiram Kotwal by Vijay Dhondopant Tendulkar

Ghashiram Kotwal by Vijay Dhondopant Tendulkar

Vijay Dhondopant Tendulkar was born on January 6, 1928 in a Bhalavalikar Saraswat brahmin family in Kolhapur, Maharashtra. Vijay Tendulkar was a leading Indian playwright, movie and television writer, literary essayist, political journalist, and social commentator primarily in Marāthi.

Ghashiram Kotwal is a landmark in the history of Indian Drama in English Translation. It is a work in which there is a fine blending of both theme and style, thoughts and language. In this play, the playwright has taken the help of Indian history to expose the reality of the contemporary time. It deals with power politics, ambition, sexual hunger and revenge. It exposes the latent savagery of human being e.g., treachery, violence, sexuality and power-politics between Nana Phadnavis and Ghashiram Kotwal- the former is hungry for sex and the latter, for power. Ghashiram progresses from a common man to more than a beast in order to grab the power of state. Through these two characters, Tendulkar has shown the moral degradation, social degeneration and spiritual regression. The present book is specially meant for students who want to be fully familiar with the various aspects of the play. 

Introduction to Education and Technology

1) Today's world is fully depends on the Technology .each and every fields we may see there is requirements of Technology. It affects how we shop, connect, play, and most importantly learn. Technology is a magical key that can open up a door previously locked tight. Technology helps the teachers prepare students for the real world environment. Technology in the classroom the teacher becomes the encourager and adviser. New technologies for education like portable laptops and internet allow students to learn and participate while out of the classroom. According to Holly Clart “ Today education must help student authentically learn important digital citizenship lessons”



2) “Using technology” it means, Teacher is used to teaching with the use of different web tools like Google drive. Gmail, and other social media tools in class, it is called Use of technology. It is only used for giving instruction to students that how to use technology.
Integrating technology means  use of technology, computers, mobile devices like smartphones and tablets, digital cameras, software applications, the Internet, etc. In daily classroom practices, and in the management of a school also. It is also helps to developes students's ability of learning with various way . Successful technology integration is achieved when the use of technology is supporting the curricular goals, and helping the students to effectively reach their goals.

3) Integration of technology means what  students are doing with the use of different  technology tools like BLOG Task, Online discussion, Online Quiz etc, In integration of technology students learn from SOLE means SELF ORGNISED LEARNING ENVIORNMENT

The White Tiger

How far do you agree with the India represented in the novel The White Tiger?

In the novel Arvind Adiga  represents real India and also presented is salve mentality of Indian peoples. And also talk about the certain  cash, Satire on Education System, great Socialist, Marriage, and Lesson breaking coals and also talk about the Bronze statue of Gandhi leading the people from darkness to light.  Pollution, prostitution, unemployment, poverty, dirty politics , corruption, changing morality etc presented here.

In this story Balram talks about the darkness of India by saying that India is two countries in one

India of Light
India of Darkness

Do you believe that Balram's story is the archetype of all stories of 'rags to riches'?

In this we can give the example of movie Slumdog Millionaire in this we can find this type of similarities. In India all young generation dream of every one to get success.

Example of prime minister of India

• • "Any boy in any village can grow up to become the prime minister of India. That is his message to little children all over this land. . . Even a boy working and self-educating at tea-stall, breaking coals and wiping tables . .

• Working in a tea shop. Smashing coals. Wiping tables. Bad news for me, you say? To break the law of his land—to turn bad news into good news—is the entrepreneur's prerogative.”

3. "Language bears within itself the necessity of its own critique,
deconstructive criticism aims to show that any text inevitably undermines
its own claims to have a determinate meaning, and licences the reader to
produce his own meanings out of it by an activity of semantic 'freeplay'
(Derrida, 1978, in Lodge, 1988, p. 108). Is it possible to do deconstructive
reading of The White Tiger? How?

 “ Any of several theories of literary criticism, as deconstruction or reader response that use post structuralist  methods but argues against the results of structuralism and hold that there is no one true reading of text”

One post struturalist said that language doesn’t but just reflect or record of world. When we go to deep into foundation of that thing we can deconstruct, subvert, undermine, blast it.

Yes, it is possible to possible to deconstructive reading of The White Tiger. help of some words like, in this book author himself uses this word like, “This book is Auto-Biography of half-baked Indians”. So how can we rely on the narrator who himself is half baked. It deconstructs the entire narrative.

Far From the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy

Far From the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy

Hardy is primarily a storyteller and should be viewed more as a chronicler of moods and deeds than as a philosopher. Yet a novel such as Far from the Madding Crowd, which raises many questions about society, religion, morals, and the contrast between a good life and its rewards, is bound to make the reader curious about the author who brings them up.

The story of independent, beautiful and headstrong Bathsheba Everdene  who attracts three very different suitors: Gabriel Oak  a sheep farmer, captivated by her fetching willfulness; Frank Troy a handsome and reckless Sergeant; and William Boldwood , a prosperous and mature bachelor. This timeless story of Bathsheba's choices and passions explores the nature of relationships and love - as well as the human ability to overcome hardships through resilience and perseverance.

Smart and educated, Miss Everdene enchants one man after the other, sheep farmer, well-to-do bachelor, and a broken-hearted young sergeant. She denies her feelings, rejects the safety a marriage would bring and maintains independence in order to keep managing the farm she has saved from ruin. But she is never alone. Hardy lets us know the politics of being a woman in 1870 England through his characters' actions, opinions and privileges. Life, it seems, is never easy, but once in a while it is fun.

In Victorian England, the independent and headstrong Bathsheba Everdene attracts three very different suitors: Gabriel Oak, a sheep farmer; Frank Troy, a reckless Sergeant; and William Boldwood, a prosperous and mature bachelor.