ENGLISH LITERATURE Archives - Dr. Anju Gurawa https://dranjugurawa.com/category/english-literature/ Author | Blogger | Writer | YouTuber | Professor | Singer | Motivator | Social Activist & Innovator Mon, 30 Mar 2026 07:31:20 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://dranjugurawa.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/logo-dranju-2-150x75.png ENGLISH LITERATURE Archives - Dr. Anju Gurawa https://dranjugurawa.com/category/english-literature/ 32 32 Political Convergence and Theological Critique: The Ambedkar-Muslim Interplay https://dranjugurawa.com/political-convergence-and-theological-critique-the-ambedkar-muslim-dialectic/ https://dranjugurawa.com/political-convergence-and-theological-critique-the-ambedkar-muslim-dialectic/#respond Mon, 30 Mar 2026 05:27:31 +0000 https://dranjugurawa.com/?p=2227 Political Convergence and Theological Critique: The Ambedkar-Muslim Interplay The relationship between Dr. B.R. Ambedkar and the Muslim community in 20th-century India was a sophisticated interplay of strategic political alliance and rigorous sociological critique. Far from a narrative of “hatred,” Ambedkar’s engagement with Islam was defined by his commitment to annihilating caste wherever it existed—including within […]

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]]> https://dranjugurawa.com/political-convergence-and-theological-critique-the-ambedkar-muslim-dialectic/feed/ 0 The Architecture of Scarcity: A Critical Appreciation of M.R. Renukumar’s “Question Paper” https://dranjugurawa.com/the-architecture-of-scarcity-a-critical-appreciation-of-m-r-renukumars-question-paper/ https://dranjugurawa.com/the-architecture-of-scarcity-a-critical-appreciation-of-m-r-renukumars-question-paper/#respond Mon, 30 Mar 2026 05:26:06 +0000 https://dranjugurawa.com/?p=2225 The Architecture of Scarcity: A Critical Appreciation of M.R. Renukumar’s “Question Paper” This poignant poem by M.R. Renukumar, a significant voice in contemporary Malayalam Dalit literature, is a masterful exploration of poverty seen through the inquisitive, unshielded eyes of a child. By framing the narrative as a “question paper” of life’s hardships, Renukumar translates the […]

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]]> https://dranjugurawa.com/the-architecture-of-scarcity-a-critical-appreciation-of-m-r-renukumars-question-paper/feed/ 0 Subaltern Militancy and the Materiality of Labor: A Global Reading of Lal Singh Dil’s “The Outcasts” https://dranjugurawa.com/subaltern-militancy-and-the-materiality-of-labor-a-global-reading-of-lal-singh-dils-the-outcasts/ https://dranjugurawa.com/subaltern-militancy-and-the-materiality-of-labor-a-global-reading-of-lal-singh-dils-the-outcasts/#respond Mon, 30 Mar 2026 05:24:24 +0000 https://dranjugurawa.com/?p=2223 Subaltern Militancy and the Materiality of Labor: A Global Reading of Lal Singh Dil’s “The Outcasts” The Punjabi revolutionary poet Lal Singh Dil occupies a singular space in the global canon of resistance literature. A Dalit and a dedicated Naxalite activist, Dil’s “The Outcasts” (Beganiat) transcends local agrarian critique to offer a searing cross-cultural portrayal […]

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]]> https://dranjugurawa.com/subaltern-militancy-and-the-materiality-of-labor-a-global-reading-of-lal-singh-dils-the-outcasts/feed/ 0 A Manifesto of Defiance: Mohandas Namishrai’s “We Will Fight” as Radical Resista https://dranjugurawa.com/a-manifesto-of-defiance-mohandas-namishrais-we-will-fight-as-radical-resista/ https://dranjugurawa.com/a-manifesto-of-defiance-mohandas-namishrais-we-will-fight-as-radical-resista/#respond Mon, 30 Mar 2026 05:22:54 +0000 https://dranjugurawa.com/?p=2221 A Manifesto of Defiance: Mohandas Namishrai’s “We Will Fight” as Radical Resistance This poem by Mohandas Namishrai, a prominent figure in Hindi Dalit literature, is a powerful manifesto of resistance. Unlike the reflective or sorrowful tone found in many Dalit poems, “We Will Fight” is an assertive, historical, and defiant declaration of war against systemic […]

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]]> https://dranjugurawa.com/a-manifesto-of-defiance-mohandas-namishrais-we-will-fight-as-radical-resista/feed/ 0 The Aesthetic of the Ordinary: Labor, Caste, and Gender in Lal Singh Dil’s “The Outcasts” https://dranjugurawa.com/the-aesthetic-of-the-ordinary-labor-caste-and-gender-in-lal-singh-dils-the-outcasts/ https://dranjugurawa.com/the-aesthetic-of-the-ordinary-labor-caste-and-gender-in-lal-singh-dils-the-outcasts/#respond Mon, 30 Mar 2026 05:21:20 +0000 https://dranjugurawa.com/?p=2219 The Aesthetic of the Ordinary: Labor, Caste, and Gender in Lal Singh Dil’s “The Outcasts” This powerful poem, “The Outcasts” (Beganiat) by the revolutionary Punjabi poet Lal Singh Dil, is a searing portrayal of the intersection between labor, caste, and gender. Dil, who was himself a Dalit and a Naxalite activist, brings a raw, lived […]

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]]> https://dranjugurawa.com/the-aesthetic-of-the-ordinary-labor-caste-and-gender-in-lal-singh-dils-the-outcasts/feed/ 0 A Manifesto of Defiance: Mohandas Namishrai’s “We Will Fight” as Radical Resistance https://dranjugurawa.com/a-manifesto-of-defiance-mohandas-namishrais-we-will-fight-as-radical-resistance/ https://dranjugurawa.com/a-manifesto-of-defiance-mohandas-namishrais-we-will-fight-as-radical-resistance/#respond Mon, 30 Mar 2026 05:19:35 +0000 https://dranjugurawa.com/?p=2217 A Manifesto of Defiance: Mohandas Namishrai’s “We Will Fight” as Radical Resistance This poem by Mohandas Namishrai, a prominent figure in Hindi Dalit literature, is a powerful manifesto of resistance. Unlike the reflective or sorrowful tone found in many Dalit poems, “We Will Fight” is an assertive, historical, and defiant declaration of war against systemic […]

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]]> https://dranjugurawa.com/a-manifesto-of-defiance-mohandas-namishrais-we-will-fight-as-radical-resistance/feed/ 0 Nussbaum, M. C. (2019). The Cosmopolitan Tradition: A Noble but Flawed Ideal. https://dranjugurawa.com/nussbaum-m-c-2019-the-cosmopolitan-tradition-a-noble-but-flawed-ideal/ https://dranjugurawa.com/nussbaum-m-c-2019-the-cosmopolitan-tradition-a-noble-but-flawed-ideal/#respond Thu, 12 Mar 2026 05:26:43 +0000 https://dranjugurawa.com/?p=2187 The Cosmopolitan Tradition: A Noble but Flawed Ideal Martha Nussbaum’s The Cosmopolitan Tradition: A Noble but Flawed Ideal (2019) provides a rigorous historical and philosophical interrogation of the Stoic ideal of cosmopolitanism—the conviction that all human beings belong to a single community. Nussbaum explores the tension between local allegiances and global moral obligations, tracing this […]

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]]> https://dranjugurawa.com/nussbaum-m-c-2019-the-cosmopolitan-tradition-a-noble-but-flawed-ideal/feed/ 0 The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere: A Critical Inquiry https://dranjugurawa.com/habermas-j-1989-the-structural-transformation-of-the-public-sphere-an-inquiry-into-a-category-of-bourgeois-society/ https://dranjugurawa.com/habermas-j-1989-the-structural-transformation-of-the-public-sphere-an-inquiry-into-a-category-of-bourgeois-society/#respond Thu, 12 Mar 2026 05:23:22 +0000 https://dranjugurawa.com/?p=2185 The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere: A Critical Inquiry This inquiry examines Jürgen Habermas’s seminal thesis, The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere (1962), which delineates the historical rise and subsequent decline of the “bourgeois public sphere.” Habermas posits that the 18th century witnessed the emergence of a social space—distinct from both state authority […]

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]]> https://dranjugurawa.com/habermas-j-1989-the-structural-transformation-of-the-public-sphere-an-inquiry-into-a-category-of-bourgeois-society/feed/ 0 Romantics, Rebels and Reactionaries by Marilyn Butler https://dranjugurawa.com/romantics-rebels-and-reactionaries-by-marilyn-butler/ https://dranjugurawa.com/romantics-rebels-and-reactionaries-by-marilyn-butler/#respond Thu, 12 Mar 2026 05:19:59 +0000 https://dranjugurawa.com/?p=2182 Romantics, Rebels and Reactionaries by Marilyn Butler Marilyn Butler challenges the traditional view of Romanticism as a purely “inspired” or “solitary” movement. Instead, she argues that the literature of the period (1760–1830) was deeply embedded in the political, social, and economic tensions of the time. For Butler, writers were not “geniuses in a vacuum”; they […]

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]]> https://dranjugurawa.com/romantics-rebels-and-reactionaries-by-marilyn-butler/feed/ 0 The Age of Revolution: 1789–1848 by Eric Hobsbawm https://dranjugurawa.com/the-age-of-revolution-1789-1848-by-eric-hobsbawm/ https://dranjugurawa.com/the-age-of-revolution-1789-1848-by-eric-hobsbawm/#respond Thu, 12 Mar 2026 05:17:11 +0000 https://dranjugurawa.com/?p=2180 The Age of Revolution: 1789–1848 by Eric Hobsbawm In this foundational work of Marxist historiography, Eric Hobsbawm analyzes the transformation of the Western world through the lens of the “Dual Revolution”—the political French Revolution and the industrial British Revolution. He argues that these two events acted as a twin-engine that propelled Europe from a feudal, […]

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