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Language Games

Devika Panikar - February 24, 2021

Language learning is a hard task that can sometimes be frustrating. Constant effort is required to understand, produce and manipulate the target language. Well-chosen...

A Satire Against Racism

Devika Panikar - February 21, 2021

Telephone Conversation is a poetic satire against the widespread racism still prevalent in modern western society. As the title suggests, the poem depicts a...

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Preparing a Curriculum Vitae

Devika Panikar - February 18, 2021

A curriculum vitae or CV (and sometimes called a vita) is an academic resume that highlights your scholarly accomplishments. A CV provides the employer...

Homer’s Epics

Devika Panikar - February 13, 2021

Homer, the earliest poet in Western culture, composed two major works Iliad and Odyssey. In conjunction with Hesiod, Homer acts as a great pool...

Learner Oriented Teaching

Devika Panikar - February 10, 2021

In the traditional approach to teaching, most class time is spent with the professor lecturing and the students watching and listening. The students work...

A Challenge to Fate

Devika Panikar - February 9, 2021

Belonging to the period of pre-independence, Sarojini Naidu attracted the younger generation of India through her genuine verse. Her poems tell us of her...

Homer

Devika Panikar - February 8, 2021

T S Eliot said that genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood. Homer is perhaps the greatest of all epic poets and his...

Shelley Calls for Action

Devika Panikar - February 7, 2021

Percy Bysshe Shelley once gave up sugar in tea. It was not because he was diabetic, but for a cause. He not only gave...

Basics in Language Learning

Devika Panikar - February 5, 2021

Language is a system of communication. A system comprises a set of signs or symbols arranged in a particular pattern and has some meaning....

PROSE

Sparrows

Devika Panikar - February 4, 2021

Sparrows by Kwaja Ahmed Abbas draws the portrait of a man with a large and gaunt frame but a poor soul; a person hardened...

Imagery

Devika Panikar - February 2, 2021

Imagery is a very common term in Modern criticism. It stands for all the objects and qualities of sense perceptions referred to in a...

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The Origin of Drama

Devika Panikar - February 1, 2021

Drama is a form of literature intended to be performed by actors and written as prose or verse dialogue. In Western culture, it is...

Language Games

Devika Panikar - February 24, 2021

Language learning is a hard task that can sometimes be frustrating. Constant effort is required to understand, produce and manipulate the target language. Well-chosen...

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Psycholinguistics

Devika Panikar - January 27, 2021

Language is an integral part of our society and the way we live our lives. It is an irreplaceable aspect of every culture, and...

LITERATURE

Homer’s Epics

Devika Panikar - February 13, 2021

Homer, the earliest poet in Western culture, composed two major works Iliad and Odyssey. In conjunction with Hesiod, Homer acts as a great pool...

POETRY

A Satire Against Racism

Devika Panikar - February 21, 2021

Telephone Conversation is a poetic satire against the widespread racism still prevalent in modern western society. As the title suggests, the poem depicts a...

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Types of Drama

Devika Panikar - February 27, 2021

From the earliest times drama has been divided broadly into two kinds, Tragedy and Comedy, the one dealing with the dark side of life,...

PROSE

Sparrows

Devika Panikar - February 4, 2021

Sparrows by Kwaja Ahmed Abbas draws the portrait of a man with a large and gaunt frame but a poor soul; a person hardened...

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Studying Classics

Devika Panikar - January 28, 2021

Classic literature is an expression of life, truth, and beauty. In classic literature, work is usually considered to be a representation of the period...

LINGUSTICS

Psycholinguistics

Devika Panikar - January 27, 2021

Language is an integral part of our society and the way we live our lives. It is an irreplaceable aspect of every culture, and...

The Classics

Devika Panikar - January 25, 2021

Classics or classical studies is the study of classical antiquity. It encompasses the study of the Greco-Roman world particularly of its languages and literature....

Writing Advertisements

Devika Panikar - January 20, 2021

If you're in business you know that to attract customers and get results, you have to advertise. A great ad attracts attention, generates interest...

Govinda’s Disciple

Devika Panikar - January 19, 2021

The poem Govinda’s Disciple by Rabindranath Tagore beautifully highlights the traits of a true master and his disciple who has not been able to...

Devika Panikar - January 18, 2021

An advertisement is a kind of public notice asking for or offering services or buying and selling property, goods etc., or providing information about...

Literature and Life

Devika Panikar - January 16, 2021

Literature is composed of those books which by their subject matter and mode of treating it are of general human interest and in which...

Essential Components of Communication

Devika Panikar - November 26, 2020

In order to better understand the communication process, we can break it down into a series of eight essential components. ...

Writing an Agenda

Devika Panikar - November 25, 2020

An effective agenda sets clear expectations for what needs to occur before and during a meeting. It helps team members prepare, allocates time wisely,...