her earlobe‚ grazes her cheek‚ and disappears down the front of her low-cut blouse — where she usually keeps her stash of hash — to confuse her even further‚ with its mildly narcotic but very distracting fragrance. Arun Kolatkar An Old Woman An old woman grabs hold of your sleeve and tags along. She wants a fifty paise coin. She says she will take you to the horseshoe shrine. You’ve seen it already. She hobbles along anyway and tightens her grip on your
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INTRODUCTION The poem narrates a common experience. At every tourist place you will meet a self-appointed tourist guide like the old woman in the poem. They need money and will pester you. They even promise to give you some service in lieu of the money you give them. Generally tourists give them something to get rid of them. SUMMARY The poem begins with a commonplace experience‚ but ends in a revelation. The old woman is not an ordinary woman. She is the representative of the degradation of
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An Old Woman- Arun Kolatkar A modern Indian poet ‚ Arun Kolatkar comments on contemporary society through this poem. The poem is simple in language and theme. The poet uses a very simple common image-a beggar‚ in this case‚ an old woman‚ who is found begging outside the horseshoe shrine . In India this is a common sight as common as our reaction to a beggar besieging us pleading for alms. This sight is particularly common around holy places and pilgrim spots.hey can be extremely persistent
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woman do? ’ ’We know where we belong ’ These two quotes‚ the first from An Old Woman by Arun Kolatkar and the second from Nothing ’s Changed by Tatamkhulu Afrika‚ both seem to show a sense of abandoned protest and although the poems are from two very different cultures the theme of protest is clear in both. An Old Woman is about an old Indian woman who follows a man just for a fifty paise coin. Kolatkar depicts the old woman ’s protests with poverty and age. In Nothing ’s Changed Afrika writes
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political and ideological forces. In this latter trend‚ comes the poetry of Arun Kolatkar who through his postmodern classic Jejuri tried to search for an identity conducive for the man who belonged to the age of mechanization and globalization. Arun Balkrishna Kolatkar (1932-2004) is
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Arun ice-cream Chandramohan started its business into ice-creams from a small room in 1970 next to his uncle’s textile shop. As it was situated in a busy market place and delivering the customer’s fresh ice-cream from the factory Arun banged the profit of 40‚000 in the first year of its business. Than Chandramohan though an expansion and for Arun he went for three fold expansion. Eventually the business began stagnant where expansion increased cost with sales not increasing in the ice cream. Arum
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Linguistic Perspectives and Existential Anxiety in Arun Kolatkar’s Poems This paper focuses on the linguistic perspective and existential anxiety in Arun Kolatkar’s poems. Arun Kolatkar is not a familiar name for many of us‚ in fact until he was included in the undergraduate syllabus of English Honours by West Bengal State University two years ago he was not known to us. Arun Balkrishna Kolatkar (1932 –2004) was a poet from Maharashtra‚ wrote in both Marathi and English. Radically experimental
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in which Arun Joshi lived and worked for the expression of artistic genius was marked by rapid changes in economic‚ social‚ cultural‚ educational and political set up of the country. Arun Joshi began his literary career in the fifties‚ just after the independence of India. His life covers the two important ages after independence – the age of Jawaharlal Nehru and the age of Indira Gandhi. The period from 1950 to 1984 was dominated largely by Jawaharlal Nehru and Indira Gandhi since Arun Joshi was
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(January 2000: Mitra O Ghosh) Arun Mitra pointed out that there should be a clear line of demarcation between creative literature and literray criticism. For him‚ critical literature can never be considered as creative‚ nor it should ever have any impact on the mutual bond between the reader and the writer of creativer literature. Criticism should be enjoyed as a separate genre. How much misunderstood has Arun Mitra’s poetry been! How a totally wrong suggestion about Arun Mitra’s poetry has incited
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Work from home new mantra for IBM employees The last time Kumar‚ a sales executive working with IBM India‚ visited his company’s registered office in Bangalore was some six months ago to get his broken attendance card replaced. Kumar‚ 35‚ is among nearly 50‚000 IBM India employees who are working from anywhere‚ but the office. "I do not have to show my face to my boss anymore‚ well at least for a few weeks or months at a stretch‚" says Kumar‚ who requested that his first name not be revealed. "I
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