Bøger af Ritu Sharma

Life style plays a pivotal role in development of psychological well-being. People spend their precious breaths in accumulating materialistic things with the hope for happiness and satisfaction. But all the things wouldn¿t give feeling of contentment, love, empathy, gratitude if provided at the cost of health. Throughout the life people remain unfamiliar with their own self which is the biggest pity. This book talked about the importance of self-connect and ways to achieve it along with the role of autonomy, self-growth, environmental mastery and purpose in life for well-being. Keys to successful life exists in self-contentment, unconditional love for others and compassion which can be attained through deep understanding of oneself. This book has critically examined how age, gender, education, living arrangement, marital status, physical activities, healthy diet and meditation contributes in healthy aging. This book discussed how people with severe depression can convert their negative thoughts into socially productive behavior. The psychological interventions discussed would enlighten readers with the ways through which they can bring marked positive difference in their life.

Edith Wharton contrived in her novels to sacrifice the portrait of ¿life in time¿ to ¿life by value¿. But even granting this, one can observe that the profound skill employed by Edith Wharton in moving specially her female characters through large areas and epochs is used not primarily in order to guarantee their ¿reality¿, but to suggest the essential rootlessness and restlessness that characterise woman¿s, nay man¿s existence in modern world. Her novels are not peripheral to the central facts of American experience. They are an integral part of the social world. Her fiction is nothing short of an ¿all over¿ picture, where every inch is charged with line and colour and the total metamorphosis of the surface presents textual and material canvass that depicts symbols of a larger reality. The considerable value of her novels as social documents cannot be denied. Like a great artist, Edith Wharton integrates her sense of the amoral individual into a carefully controlled moral context and her fiction can be viewed as ¿a telescope upon a tower¿ which seems to correct false social history and to provide meaning to social life.

Indian writing in English has achieved a significant place in world literature. Among the literary stars Indian talent is not only shining equal with British and American writers but shining more eloquently and in dignified way. It is evident in recent survey that nearly all prestigious awards are won by Indian writers. Anita Desai, Kiran Desai,, Arun Joshi, Vikram Seth, Khushwant Singh, Amitav Ghosh, Nayantara Sehgal, Bharati Mukherjee, Jhumpa Lahiri, Rohinton Mistry etc. are in the long list of award winners. Among all these intellectuals Amitav Ghosh is one who has dealt with Indianness in a totally different and new way. An Indian writer having Indian sensibility is not only in the race but at the high place of world genius. In his writings Amitav Ghosh amalgamates literature, science, philosophy, history psychology and sociology. This book is an endeavor to study the two famous novel of Amitav Ghosh ¿ The Glass Palace and The Hungry Tide --the theme of which echo the novelist's sentiments of the patient effort to weave a story of quest for identity.

33 women from 5 continents share their phenomenal stories of transformation.

Khushwant Singh is generally known for his achievements in journalism but his success in writing novel is proved by this novel Train to Pakistan. Khushwant Singh can be described as the man about town with a merry heart and a comic view of life, if he was ever upset by any tragic event; it was the mass killing that preceded the partition of the continent. This is well reflected in his outstanding work Train to Pakistan, which is rightly regarded as an epic of modern India. This novel is a study of anatomy of communal riots. This is a hallmark of Khushwant Singh's style that he shows exactly what happens in communal riots and how it affects people both physically and mentally. This novel attracts the interest of every kind of reader. It contains love scenes, sensual scenes, horror scenes, pathetic scenes, comic scenes, violence scenes and all these scenes together make a landmark in the history of Indian writing in English. Khushwant Singh wrote this novel from the very core of his heart. He was very much disturbed from the physical and mental violence at the time of partition. Even after so many years, this novel has same craze among its readers as it had at the very beginning.

Diasporic literature produced by the writers of Indian diaspora exposes problems and diasporic life. Writers like V.S. Naipaul, Salman Rushdie, Bharati Mukherjee, Rohinton Mistry, Chitra Divakaruni, Jhumpa Lahiri, Amitav Ghosh, Meena Alexandera and many others have tried to present India not of present time but the time they had spent in their native land. They present India of their imagination, its history, identity, culture and religious notions.This study is an attempt to highlight the love and attachment of the diasporic writers to their 'homeland' even after many years of resettlement. The nostalgia present in their life finds full way through their writings. Two famous writers of Indian Diaspora - Amitav Ghosh and Rohinton Mistry- present such feelings in their novels and to highlight the recreation of the India through their imagination 2 novels each of these writers have been discussed in detail. The Shadow Lines and The Circle of Reason are the two remarkable novels by Amitav Ghosh whereas Such a Long Journey and A Fine Balance are the ones by Rohinton Mistry. These are the representative novels of these novelists and with the help of these we can understand the feelings