English Lit

Pigeons at Daybreak

Dhowli

A Horse and Two Goats

The Wog

The Destination

Sketches from the cattle Shed

Kite Streamers

Regarding the Problem of Newborn piglets in the Winter

Magic Chalk

The Tomoshibi

The Moon on the water

The Silent Traders

Heart of Darkness

Return to certain Darkness

Crocidile

Goobooroo the silent pool

The Possum woman

White Fantasy Black Facts

Things Fall Apart

The book of sand

Papito's Story

clarisa

Death Constant beyond love

The Birthmark

Still I Rise

Abiku

The Tale Tell Heart

On the Road

Ruins of a great house

The Boy who loves Ice Cream

On seeing England for the First time

Return I

Cyotes go to Toronto

The cost of living

A story about character, Mr. Basu, who has been suffering for a number of years with a multitude of physical and emotional problems that often plague the asthma, depression, and failing eyesight. His wife, Otima, is the loving, understanding, but totally exhausted caregiver.

A sad story of an innocent young girl born in India with its caste system. The protagonist must follow the predetermined lifestyle of a Dusad untouchable.

A story about two individuals, an American and an Indian, trying to converse and communicate, but they can not seem to understand each other because of the lack of knowledge in the other’s language and culture.

The main character, Srijut Santosh Sen may be viewed as a snob for rejecting his Hindu heritage and embracing British culture. The theme is that people are victimized by the conflict created by wanting to remain loyal to one’s culture yet respecting or appreciating a different culture more.

This story focuses on the experience of a man, Chen Xin (pronounced "Chen Zin") who is returning to the city of Shanghai after an absence of ten years.

Story of the narrator who is placed in solitary confinement due to being a Communist, struggles through her everyday life to survive.

Describes two young lovers who have nowhere to go, nowhere they can meet undisturbed. Illustrates Communist oppression in China.

Based in China, during the time when Mao’s power was terribly great. Illustrates failures of bureaucracy.

Ideas from the perspective of a penniless artist, whose food comes from sieving for rice grains from a restaurant waste pipe. When he draws a meal on his bedroom wall with a newly found piece of chalk, the food becomes real, and immediately falls and splashes over the floor.

Story set inside a bar that has existed unchanged, and has since its opening. Even as time passes by it and the nearby city modernizes drastically. This exhibits the popular view of clinging to traditional values and traditions on the issue of modernization.

A story in which magic is produced by the mirror in which the first husband views the world. The mirror is not special, yet since it is the only way he is able to continue to see the world, it soon becomes special to him and and to his wife, Kyoko.

Tells the story of a woman's day-to-day life with her children and their adventures and the choices they have to make.  These choices and adventures are symbolic of the choice between staying behind in traditional Japese ways or moving with the tides and modernizing.

The story centers around Marlow's travels up the Congo to rescue a sick man named Kurtz. The narrative is told by Marlow who is now much older and escorting a group of people to England. In the heart of the Congo Marlow sees such atrocities that changes his perspective forever. Marlow discusses a duality that exists with men who peer into darkness. Kurtz loses himself to the wilderness while Marlow stradles a thin line between the two.

A Fiji Indian recalls his earlier life at his land of birth during a short visit to Fiji from Australia, where he emigrated after the political coups. The writer and former politician is saddened by the corrupt situation in Fiji and the continuing inferior political and social plight of Fiji Indians who are considered outsiders in their own country.

As part of this academic progression, ola spends her secondary school years in a new Zealand boarding school, where she encounters a severe, prim, over-confident school mistress.

The Possum Women (summary)Aboriginal tale of wife dying while hunting, and her husband taking revenge on her aggressor, a giant sheep.