Professor Garret

                Almost fifty years after independence Parbatpuri had spread itself in all directions. Yet, it still had not been able to climb the elevations on which the members of the civil administration lived. The DC bungalow of Parbatpuri was a legacy of those days when the British had administered the district from residences-cum-offices perched on hillocks nearest the DC bungalow. Beyond him lived the Civil Surgeon and on a slightly lower elevation lived the District Forest Officer. The view from the hillock was marvelous. The DC bungalow was itself creaky but spacious. Every window opened to heart-stopping views of the surrounding landscapes. To the north red river was flowing and Mahatma Gandhi road on the other side attracted everybody in and around. The Parbatpuri market place was a bustling, busy and a crowded area. In those days MG road had been called the Kings Way. MG Road was different from the Kings Way of the twenties and thir...

American Literature - Seminar Topics – II Semester – I M.A 1.        Eco-Centric Reading of “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloomed”.  2.       Symbolism in “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloomed”.  3.       Thanatos in “Because I Could not stop for Death”. 4.       Character study of ‘Silas’ from "The Death of the Hired Man". 5.        Representation of New York City in “To Brooklyn Bridge”. 6.        Racism, Double Consciousness, and Resistance in the poems of Langston Hughes. 7.        Idea of Learning from Nature in "The American Scholar". 8.        Ideas of Transcendentalism in "The American Scholar". 9.        Emerson’s Advice to the scholars to become “Man Thinking”. 10.    Influe...

Desmond L Kharmawphlang is a poet and folklorist. He has published books of poetry and collections of theoretical essays on folkloristics pertaining to North East India. He is on the Executive Board of the Belief Narrative Network of the International Society for Folk Narrative Research and is the Vice President of the Indian Folklore Congress. He lives in Shillong, Meghalaya where he is Professor and Head at the Department of Cultural and Creative Studies of the North-Eastern Hill University, where he teaches folkloristics.   In the poem “Last night I dreamed” the poet, folklorist Desmond. L. Kharmawphlang delineates the poetic tradition of North-East literature. The history and evolution of north-east poetic tradition is explained by the poet. As a folklorist, Desmond attempts to give the chronology of events which maketh the evolution possible. The evolution of north-east literature from oral tradition to written is described in an emblematic way which makes the poem in...