Rassundari Debi Biography Life and Literature Rassundari Devi is among the earliest woman writers in Bengali literature. Her autobiography ‘Amar Jiban’ (My Life) is known as the first published autobiography in Bengali language. Rassundari Devi lived in times when social reform had barely touched the lives of upper class/caste women in India. Education … Read more
Bliss Summary by Katherine Mansfield An Introductory Note : Bliss is a modernist short story by Katherine Mansfield first published in 1918. The story “Bliss” was first published in The English Review in 1920. Later that year, it became the title story for Mansfield’s second collection, Bliss, and Other Stories. The story (and the … Read more
Draupadi Summary by Mahasweta Devi An Introductory Note : Draupadi is a short story of around 20 pages originally written in Bengali by Mahasweta Devi. It was anthologised in the collection, Breast Stories, translated to English by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak. It was published in the collection called Breast/ Stories in 2010. Mahasweta Devi’s … Read more
The Unknown Citizen Questions and Answers The Unknown Citizen by W.H.Auden BROAD QUESTIONS- 10/15 1. Give a critical appreciation of the poem. The Unknown Citizen, first published in the Listener on August 1939, and later included in the Collected Shorter Poems, 1950, is a satire, not on the citizen, but on the way in … Read more
The Unknown Citizen Summary by W.H. Auden Summary : “The Unknown Citizen” by W.H. Auden describes, through the form of a dystopian report, the life of an unknown man. The poem begins with the speaker stating the fact that throughout his life there was never one “complaint” against the citizen. No one thought badly of … Read more
A Testimony of Our Inexhaustible Treasure Questions and Answers Marks -2,5,10/15 1. Central Theme [Q. Discuss the themes presented in the autobiography of Ramabai. Or, Q. What is the lesson of A Testimony of Our Inexhaustible Treasure by Pandita Ramabai? Discuss.] Ramabai (1858-1922) was an extraordinary woman of her time an educator, scholar, … Read more
