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==Dr. Dominic Savio seeks critical
material… READ
=Shikha, a Hindi poet from India, writes
philosophically, using fresh imagery in a touching individual style… READ
==DISJUNCTIVE SOCIAL PROCESSES IN
STEPHEN GILL’S THE FLAME By Dr. G. Dominic
Savio And Mrs. S.J. Kala.
An approach to THE Flame from sociological point… DETAILS
==Year to break silence. Autobiographical
account of Stephen Gill’s visit to India in 1999… DETAILS
==The philosophy that Professor A.N. Dwivedi
touches in Beyond Borders is embedded in the culture of India. Most of the
thoughts of Dwivedi about life and death are Vedantic,” says Dr. Stephen Gill about his latest
collection of poems ..DETAILS
==”Frank Joussen,
like Schopenhauer or Max Muller, has a deep craving for India and his poetry
is the testament of this reality,” says Dr. Shaleen
Singh in this book review.. DETAILS
.
==Lathi, a short story by Jai Prakash Kardam, a celebrated
Hindi writer of India. Dr. Kardam catches the spirit
of the rural life of India where dalits (untouchable
class) still suffer. A tale of
suspense and reality from the pen of a master craftsman. DETAILS
==Impact of Culture in
Developing Countries by Charles Mercieca, Ph.D.
President,
International Association of Educators for World Peace… DETAILS
--Dr. Agarwal
interviews Dr. D.C. Chambial, a prominent poet from
India… DETAILS
=A good news for scholars, critics and creative writers to have
their material published in a journal from India. For details, click here… READ
==Melody of Wounds has been woven with figurative devices
to fabricate a rainbow of beauty. It is also without unnecessary fat, says
Dr. Stephen Gill in the review of this collection by .Nar
Deo Sharma. For DETAILS..
--Bilingual Poetic Voice:
An Interview with Mahendra Bhatnagar By Dr. Nilanshu Kumar
Agarwal.. READ
-- Dr Mohanty was a true erudite…
Read tribute by Dr. Shaleen Singh.. DETAILS
==Niranjan Mohanty, a respectable literary figure of India, has
expired. Read details from Prof. R.K. Singh… DETAILS
--Dr. Agarwal’s
interview with two prominent critics, Dr. Christopher Rollason
and Ludmila Volná DETAILS
--“Only ash knows the experience of burning” says
the prominent Dalit Writer Jai Prakash
Kardam to Dr. Agarwal… DETAILS
---Dr. Nilanshu
Agarwal interviews Rabindra
Swain, editor and prominent poet… Details
-- An Epistolary Interview with the
Scholar Poet A. N. Dwivedi by Dr. Nilanshu
Kumar Agarwal who finds an undercurrent of pain.
For this and other questions .. READ
--Haiku is a poetic form to enjoy in
moments of quiet solitude, when the soul is in need of reflection and
refreshment. Read further
what Patricia Prime, a prominent literary critic from New Zealand says… DETAILS
--Ten
poems from BUILDING BRIDGES, a collection of poems by Frank Joussen from Germany, to
be published by IDEAS, India. READ
-- The Twins, a poem by Frank Joussen from Germany. The poem is about the devastation caused
by war and other disasters:
‘who sings a song,/ a single song, / for the millions
of buildings / that earthquakes,
floods / and wars / have erased from / the face of the earth,… FULL
--Island of peace and
Stephen Gill. An evaluation in Hindi by Vaishali…DETAILS
--The class clown
the one who served
his fellow students
years of belly laughter
died last week
on sandy stage
performing heartstop act
to please a terrorist audience…
To read complete poem from
Peggy Fletcher, a prominent poet from Canada, click READ
--Shikha, prominent poet from India, evaluates
Stephen Gill’s Hindi poetry in this Hindi article translated as Pen and
Peace…READ
--Stephen
Gill as an iconoclast. Read what Professor B.D. Sharma from India says in this research paper… DETAILS
--A
view of Hindi poems of Stephen Gill by Deoyani
Gupta, a scholar from India.. DETAILS
--Protecting
Hindus of Pakistan… DETAILS
-- Workers kill a Hindu colleague for
‘blasphemy’ In Karachi, Pakistan.. READ
--Fusion of Journalism and
Poetry: An email Interview with Mamang Dai from Arunachel Pradeh, India,
by Dr. Nilanshu
K.Agarwal… DETAILS
--P. Raja, a versatile genius from Pondicherry, India, talks to Dr. Nilanshu
Kumar Agarwal about the nature of his poetry,
themes of his short stories, translation of literature, other literary voices
from his region and several other issues in a pedantic interview… READ
--Two beautiful
poems for peace by Bonita Summers from Canada…READ
--A letter from Prof. René Wadlow about the tragic situation in Tibet. He is
the Chief Representative to the United Nations… Details
--The Dalai Lama on Sunday called for an
international investigation into China's
crackdown against protesters in Tibet,
which he said is facing a "cultural genocide" … DETAILS
---Maryanne Raphael
from the United States tells what Mother Teresa taught her about writing when she told about a man who
wrote books explaining how to end world hunger. She asked him, “What do you do when you
meet a person who has not eaten for days?”… FULL STORY
-He left for war today dragging
my voice till the airplane
slipped earth… Read what Margaret Rutley from Canada says in this poem, “I can’t think”
READ
--Stephen
Gill’s Literary Sensibility, a scholarly paper by Dr. Nilanshu
Agarwal, has been
selected from his forthcoming book, titled Discovering Stephen Gill.
READ
HERE.
--Military
and power—a thought-provoking article by Dr. Ishtiaq
Ahmed—
READ
--An anti war poem by Maria Pia Marchelletta from Canada.. Read
---Dr. Nilanshu Agarwal interviews Kanwar Dinesh Singh, a
prominent and prolific poet of India. His poetry is known for simplicity, spontaneity,originality
and also gravity..… DETAILS
--Islamic,
Hindu and Buddhist fundamentalisms negate pluralism and are therefore the
contemporary protagonists of fascist ideas, says Prof. Ishtiaq
Ahmed… Details
--Karen Alkalay-Gut, a poet of high academic taste, was disturbed by displacement and dislocation in alien
USA. She is interviewed by Dr. Nilanshu Agarwal… Read
--9th
of January is for NRIS. The word Diaspora
has been hijacked by politician for their own ends. They also have hijacked the name of Mahatma
Gandhi. A transparent government does
not have to employ means to attract foreign capital by hijacking when
transparent means are available.
India is the land of Goatma and Gandhi, the apostles of peace ….
DETAILS
--A poem by Stephen Gill on the New Year:
What then
if it is a New Year!
This day is the same
as any other day of last
week
… FULL POEM
--Ann Iverson, Senior Academic Director of
Arts and Sciences at Dunwoody College of Technology in Minneapolis, USA ,
interviewed by Dr. Nilanshu Agarwal
from India…To read this thought-provoking interview, please click here…
--On This Night, a poem by Eric
Davison from Canada…. READ
--Be
Proud, an anti-war poem by Dr Bhaskar Roy Barman
from India
Read Here….
-Canada’s principled, yet pragmatic, leadership on human rights
and support for joint international action has made it a global human rights
champion. But recent positions adopted by the Canadian government risk undermining
this leadership.” says Alex Neve, Secretary General
of the English branch of Amnesty International Canada REPORT
---I am convinced that although some law
on blasphemy does exist in Sudan, and
it does mention that insulting the Prophet (PBUH) carries severe punishment,
including the death sentence, the Sudanese lawmakers, as also the original
medieval sources, could not have imagined that someone wanting to insult the
Prophet (PBUH) would do it by naming a toy after him. ..Read What Professor
Dr. Ishtiaq Ahmed from Singapore/Sweden has to
say…. COMPLETE TEXT
--Truth
is Beauty, a beautiful poem by
Rochelle L.Holt,
a
prominent poet from USA:
When you become wiser,
not necessarily older,
you realize nothing
is as or more important….
Read Full poem
--Notwithstanding the grave political crisis created by the imposition
of a state of emergency by President Pervez Musharraf on November 3, 2007 and the subsequent protests
and demonstrations of lawyers and political activists, an economic boom
currently pervades Pakistan. I can understand that
President Musharraf and his economic wizards who
wrought this economic boom have a great difficulty in understanding why
people are trying to bring them down instead of singing praise to them, says,
Dr. Ishtiaq Ahmed..
DETAILS
--A poem on peace by Alex Chornyj
from Canada. Read
--20th OF DECEMBER IS THE UNIVERSAL DAY
DEDICATED TO CHILDREN. THIS POEM IS
STEPHEN GILL’S FERVENT PRAYER TO THE
ALMIGHTY TO GUARD CHILDREN OF EVERY NATION… READ
--“If I were to say what is the best legacy
of General Pervez Musharraf,
it is undoubtedly the freedom of expression”, says Dr. Ishtiaq
Ahmed. We are running this article again because it is timely….Read
--Two
poems by Ada Aharoni, a
vibrant peace activist from Israel…Read
--Madhya
Pradesh (India) Minorities
Organize Protest Rallies Against Atrocities… Report
--DEADLINE
TO RECEIVE ANTI WAR POEMS EXTENDED Read
--Madhya Pradesh Govt. (India) told to Arrest Members of A Group Who Beat
Nuns… Report
-- SAD END OF MY DEAR
FRIEND---Dr.George Hines…Read
-- PAPERS/ARTICLES ON
DR. STEPHEN GILL SOUGHT… Read
--Endless
Journey, a poem by Dr. Sharma from India…
Read
--GANDHIAN
WAY TO CELEBRATE THE
INTERNATIONAL DAY OF PEACE ON 21ST OF
SEPTEMBER, STEPHEN GILL SUGGESTS… Read
--Christians become a target for terrorist groups
in North West Frontier Province of Pakistan : An overview by NCJP…Read
-- Having just read the piece on your
Gazette site (about Dr. Agrawal’s interview) that talks about Western publishers
encouraging their writers to sensationalize events in stories about India, I
wonder what you might think of…. Details
--Dalit woman beaten
to death, man burned to death, second woman allegedly raped in India…Report
--Prof.
Dr. Nilanshu Agrawal asks Dr. Stephen Gill: What are the psychological problems of Indian diaspora in Canada? Like
Ruth in Keats' 'Ode to a Nightingale', Indian diaspora must be "in tears
amid the alien corn", as they harbour the memories of Indian past and
are not completely acclimatized to new culture. What are your ideas about
this traumatic experience of Indian diaspora in Canada?
Answer … Details
(agree
to disagree…
comments
invited)
--The
Shuddering Stones, a romantic and social novel with Canadian and Indian contents
by Jay Gajjar, a prominent Canadian fiction writer
of Indian origin released… Details
--ALLURING
BOMBAY BAR is a poem based on
the real story of a 22 years
Dalit who is in sex work. For a while, she worked in a
bar in Bombay, India. She is the
only earning member in the family of six brothers and three sisters.. Read
--No
one can buy
nor
sell
the
freedom of the winds
the
grace of the lakes
Stephen Gill.. Read
--Peace Around by Maria Cristina Azcona (Argentina)
I dream of a world without roars
from the deadly killing machine
I dream of lands far from the shadows
where rain is made of heartfelt ink...
Full…
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==A
Comparative Study of Shelley’s Triumph of life and Stephen Gill’s The Flame by Dr. G. L. Gautam… DETAILS
==Dr. Kalpna
Rajput evaluates the prefaces of the collections of
poems of Stephen Gill… DETAILS
== A voyage across The Ocean Of Existence
with Meher Baba-- DETAILS
==To Stephen Gill
hope is a constant companion in the seasons of pains and pleasures and it
symbolically ‘sings lullabies/ in the morning’ and welcomes him ‘with a
flower of dreams.’ ‘The Maid of Hope’ remains with the poet day in and day
out…says Dr. Shaleen Singh, a prominent literary
critic of India. For details, READ
==Several poems by
Nilanshu Agarwal
from India with
Indian symbols and imagery. Dr. Agarwal is a poet,
and also a critic. READ
==Stephen
Gill will be in India in the later part of November to preside over the inaugural session
of the Fourth
International
Writers Festival in India. He will also receive LIFE
ACHIEVEMENT WRITERS CLUB INTERNATIONAL AWARD
DETAILS
==An anti-war poem from John B. Lee, a
prominent poet of Canada. John is Poet Laureate of Brantford, Canada… POEM
=Kamla
Kapur, a sensitive poetic voice of India and USA, interviewed by Dr. Agarwal….. Details
= Parnassus: An Innovative Journal of Literary Criticism invites contributions from scholars from every area and nation
for its first issue, says Dr. N.K. Agarwal, Chief
Editor. DETAILS
=On the feathers of harmony
I soar silently as
the dove
to chant a psalm for
peace
while nursing wounds
with an olive leaf.
Read this
beautiful lyric from Chitra, a poet from India. READ
-- You lay your
healing hands
Upon my back
I breathe out my sorrows.. .
a poem by Saskia Maddock
from Canada. READ
--The
light of the flame of the world of letters has dimmed, says RK. Bhushan about Dr. Niranjan Mohanty… For more READ
--Member of Canadian parliament and
Privy Council, Dr. Malhi, comments on The Flame of Stephen Gill… Details
--The
Speaker of Canadian House of Commons enjoys the poetry of Stephen Gill…. Details
--Stephen Gill’s poem the Flame gives
every reason for peace, says Helen Bar-Lev, a prominent poet from Israel
who edits Voices Israel
Anthology,,, DETAILS
--The Flame is an
epic poem in the composition of which the author has invested all his skills
as a poet, a thinker and a philosopher… Read what Professor Ishtiaq Ahmed from the University of Singapore says…DETAILS
--A Note on Stephen Gill’s The Flame: “While editing my recent book on Stephen Gill, I
found a note of feverish anxiety
running through his creative works,” says
Dr. Nilanshu Kumar Agarwal….DETAILS
--While
browsing through Dr Stephen Gill’s 152-page poetry book, The Flame, I am
stuck in a unique way, says Dr.
Bhaskar Roy Barman… READ
--The Flame is a
unique, subtle and absorbing poem that reminds me…Read what the author of An Armless Hand Writes, and also of Ineluctable Stillness
says.. DETAILS
--A
different message in THE FLAME grabs my attention and
forces me to write, says Steve Almas, a poet, from Canada… READ
--The
Flame is the longest poem on
terrorism in the last two or three decades. I have checked all the
other available sources… Read what Dr. Savio from Madurai Kamraj University says… READ
--Stephen Gill condemns terrorism in his
poetic way in the Flame, a long
poem of one hundred and fifty-two pages, says Nikola
Dimitrov from Bulgaria… READ
--a unique experience to read the longest poem ever written on
terrorism. The poem illustrates the ultimate solution towards peace,
says Dr. Bhatti
about Stephen Gill’s poem The Flame. Dr. Bhatti
is chief editor of Pakistan Christian Post….READ
--
Read what poet Carol Hollands from Canada says in her poem TIME : A time for peace, not debate….READ
-- Images and Symbols in the poetry of Jayant
Mahapatra by Dr. Ram Sharma… READ
--On the surface, Stephen Gill seems a perfect
candidate for postmodern status…
To
read this full introduction of Daniel Bratton to Dr. Nilanshu
Agarwal’s book Discovering
Stephen Gill, click HERE
--On the 25th of January I thought of phoning Lino Leitao to pass on
a piece of information. Instead, I received an email from Lino’s wife, to
give me the sad news about this flower of passion. On February 2nd, I was at his memorial service to present a eulogy… READ
--Debbie Ouellet,
a poet from Canada,
presents her inner peace while on an
early morning flight to Chicago… READ
---Dr. Nilanshu K. Agarwal interviews Smita Agarwal, a prominent poet of India who is known for
the lyrical intensity of her poetry. … Read here
--Two
anti-war poems by Kathryn MacDonald from Canada. Kathryn has worked as a ghostwriter,
editor, and article writer. When she
isn’t writing or offering online and weekend workshops, she transforms
stones into amulets and pendants. Click here to Read her poems
--How to Win a Nobel Peace Prize, Al Gore did
it--you can too!... DETAILS
--Two poems about X’mas by Shiela Gujral, a
prominent poet from India..
Click here to READ
----Here is a research paper by O.P. Dwivedi to be included in Discovering Stephen Gill by Dr.
Nilanshu Agarwal.
Research scholar Mr. Dwivedi says that Immigrant , a thought- provoking novel
by Stephen Gill, who is an Indian by birth and who is now settled in Canada,
touches on a very real problem, a
facet of Kipling’s “East is East, West is West / And ne’er the twain shall
meet”. It is a psychological study of the love-hate relationship the
immigrants experience in a totally new country and opens a new vista for
prospective immigrants leaving behind their native land and settling in Canada… COMPLETE PAPER
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Stephen Gill wishes a happy Christmas and every imaginable
happiness to every reader of The Gazette
although the birth of Jesus and the birth of the New Year will
not be easy to celebrate in the true spirit of peace because of
the obvious clash of
cultures. It is a time to expect
the culture of understanding and harmony in 2008 to
save the citizens of the global village from torture in the name of God
that no one can claim to have seen.
PLEASE READ
--December 1 is
the World Day to generate greater public awareness to the horrific epidemic
of Aids that kills millions of children or their parents every year. Here is a
poem, Mother of an Aids-Ridden Son, by Stephen Gill to participate in this
awareness:
She
constantly comforted him
as they
discussed
flowers for
funeral
with tears in
their eyes--
carrying a
pain
that tore her insides… . READ FULL
--Benvolio
Fascination, a poem by Karen Cole
Peralta from the United States…
READ
--A ten-day Agartala Book Fair, organized by Tripura
Publishers Guild, Tripura, India, was inaugurated by His Excellency Dinesh Nandan Sahay, the Hon’ble Governor of Tripura. The Honourable
Anil Sarkar, Minister and Mr
Kalyanbrata Chakraborty,
an eminent poet, graced the occasion as special guests.. Details.
-- Poem on war & peace by David Allen Stringer
from the UK. He edits Phoenix New Life Poetry International…
READ
--In Pakistan, Elections on Jan 9th
2008, emergency would
continue. APMA lauds election
schedule but demands General to drop ff
his uniform.. READ
--Nikola Dimitrov is an author of
three books and a translator in Bulgaria. This is a letter from him that I find hard to ignore… Read
--THREE POEMS BY Stephen Gill to celebrate International Day of Democracy on October 18. Read..
--Happy, Healthy and Prosperous Teacher mean
happy, healthy and prosperous Pakistan. ROD surveys... Details
--Sikhs Temple Taken Over By Hooligans in Pakistan…
Details
--Article 41(2) bars
non-Muslims from assuming the president’s office in Pakistan, says ROD Secretary
Mr. Jawad Mazhar… Report
-- Carol Helen Clarke from Canada
talks about achieving peace in her poem… Read
-- The best legacy of
General Pervez Musharraf
is the freedom of expression, says Dr.
Ishtiaq Ahmed while assessing democracy in Pakistan…
Read
--A
poem to seek peace by Renée von Paschen from Vienna / Austria…. Read
--two poems about peace by Helen Bar-Lev from Israel..
Read
--Whale, a poem by Dave
Haskins, Canada… “we set out upon the
northern sea
as
though….
Read
-- The white dove glides on patient winds…,
a poem by Josephine Stone…Read
--Dog Day Afternoon
in India…Read
--Hindu Extremists Target Christian Dalits in a
hospital in Uttar Pradesh, India,
says Vishal Arora… Details
-- Escape of Pastor
Arthur from Pakistan…NOTABLE PANJABI CHRISTIANS, No.2… Details
---In a non-descript office in an
undisclosed location in the United States,
a group composed of Muslims and non-Muslims recently came together because of
their shared conviction that radical Islam is…Details
---NOTABLE PANJABI
CHRISTIANS. Every now and then, online Stephen Gill Gazette will publish
articles about contemporary prominent Panjabi
Christians. The first in the series is Barkat. Read…
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==Possible motives for the Bombay
attack by terrorists. An analysis by Dr. Ishtiaq
Ahmed… Read
==Dr. Choudhary,
editor of KOHINOOR and author of several collections of poems, interviews
Stephen Gill to present his views on the art of writing also…DETAILS
== We are the lost ones, the
shattered ones
The ones who have no power, no strength left….
A poem by Saskia Maddock from Canada.. DETAILS
==”Ghosh’s
writings do not occupy discrete cultures but dwell in ‘travel’ in cultural
spaces that flow across borders the ‘shadow lines’ drawn around modern nation
states” says Dr. Joydeep Banerjee
in his article DETAILS.
==”Beyond Borders declares
a theme of stylized emptiness: a place that is out of bounds, distant and
perhaps not easily attainable, says
Patricia Prime about the latest collection of poems by Professor A.N. Dwivedi. DETAILS
==”Despite this very personalised relationship with the Flame, Gill’s main
concern is to restore humanity to its true autonomy, creativity and value, as
we see in the final poem”, says Patricia Prime, a respected poet and
perceptive critic from New Zealand in
her evaluation of The Flame by
Stephen Gill…. DETAILS
== “FACES OF FEAR AND FEROCITY IN THE FLAME”, an epical poem by Stephen Gill. A research paper by R. Anandam and G.
Baskaran from the department of English of VHNSN College in Virudhunagar, India… DETAILS
==A mathematician from the
University of Delhi,
India,
Dr. Rita Malhotra, presents her four poems. Though
a mathematician, she knows how to use
some suitable tools to please the Muse. See the evidence here… READ
==Rescue Plan for Planet Earth is a serious book by a serious anti-war writer and a peace
activist Jim Stark who has been crusading for years for a democratically
elected world government. He has been
and is still obsessed, rather with more vigour,
with peace because of the growing fear of complete self-extinction.
Whether one believes in the
strategy of Jim Stark or not, Rescue
Plan for Planet Earth is a must read book because peace concerns every
citizen of the world. ..
For DETAILS
==attack
on a Hindu Dharam Shalla
(Asylum for marginalize Hindu Women) by unidentified Muslim miscreants in Pakistan. Extremists ransacked the Dharam Shalla and beat several
Hindu Women who were busy in their morning religious rite “Satt Sung” (Hindu ritual) two days back. In this
regrettable episode, which took place in a Hindu Sanctuary situated near Shirri Krishan Temple just off the Quaid-E-Azam
road in Jacobabad, several Hindu women received critical injuries and some of
them were found blood-soaked and left with broken teeth.., READ
--Stephen Gill in his poetry appears as a pacifist and a champion of
peace and harmony. Prof. Dr. B.D. Sharma asks that ”What a victim of wrongs
should do in order to stop the hand of wrong-doer.” Click here to read details from a professor
and prominent literary critic from India… READ.
--A
poem by Walter Keyombe from Nairobi, Kenya:
Yes!
I
have a poem for peace to the world
A poem!
Like
Martin Luther King had
A
Dream. READ
--The latest book from Jim Stark, a celebrated anti-war writer
from Canada. DETAILS
--Patricia Gallant, a poet from Canada, writes…
Where has the love gone?
Hurtful words
drop like mud
smudging the
soul.
Why so cruel?
To read the complete poem, click HERE
--Dr. Shaleen Singh,
a poet, editor and literary critic, is editing a book on Stephen Gill,
tentatively titled Essays on the
Poetry of Stephen Gill. Contributions (only unpublished material)
for this book are invited on any aspect of his poetry before the end of
September 2008, and …DETAILS…
--This is the final installment in a four part series about the
ongoing persecution and ethnic cleansing of the millions-strong Bangladeshi
Hindus. Previous installments
established the historical roots of this relentless and racist attack, the
deadly combination of the Islamists’ incessant attacks and government’s tacit
agreement, and the shockingly abusive reaction by their co-religionists in West Bengal, India.
Part Four focuses exclusively on what the West can do to prevent
genocide before it occurs. What a
novel thought! Read what Dr. Richard Benkin says… DETAILS
--In this third installment, Dr. Richard Benkin discusses further about ethnic cleansing of the
Hindus who are rightless
and vulnerable in Bangladesh where
Muslims are in majority… READ
--This is the second installment of a four-part series
about the ongoing persecution and ethnic cleansing of the millions-strong
Bangladeshi Hindus. Most of the direct
attacks come from Islamist radicals who are assuming an every prominent role
in Bangladeshi society, Government, and police. Read this eye-opening article
by Dr. Richard L. Benkin…DETAILS
==A QUIET CASE OF ETHNIC CLEANSING IN BANGLADESH (Part One) BY Dr. Richard L. Benkin.
Horrifying
account of the Hindus in Bangladesh--- READ
--A Hindu murdered brutally in Pakistan. if the
purpose of the blasphemy laws is to terrorise
non-Muslims to either convert to Islam or force them out of the country, then
the question is..Read what Professor Ishtiaq Ahmed says..
DETAILS
--I
do not often think now
of
the first boy that I kissed
He
was killed when he
went overseas to war….
To read this lovely lyric by Norma West Linder, a prominent poet from Canada,
Click here.. READ
--Taslima Nasreen is a victim of
inverted secularism.
India gave refuge with honour to all
those people who were persecuted in their own country; be it Jews, Parsis or Tibetans.
Many of them were given land and other liberal relief by Indian
kings. Perhaps, Taslima is the only
exception. She was first hounded out by the West Bengal Government and then
by the Centre…DETAILS.
-----TIBET:
UNIVERSAL RESPONSIBILITY, says
Rene
Wadlow*, editor of transnational-perspectives-- Details
-New Beginnings in Pakistan By Ishtiaq Ahmed…DETAILS
--A Web of “Langue”
and “Parole” in Amitav Ghosh’s The Hungry Tide by Dr. Nilanshu Kumar Agarwal … READ
---Benazir Bhutto in her book, Reconciliation: Islam, Democracy and the West, published
posthumously, freely boasts and
exaggerates her paternal ancestors'
landed property and high station in Sindhi feudal society, says Dr. Ishtiaq Ahmed.. READ DETAILS
--An Armless Hand Writes, Srivastava’s second collection
of poems, are suffusd
with lyrical elements. Read Details
--
Mel Sarnese, a poet from Toronto,
Canada, presents My Soldier Dan…. READ
HERE
--THE REASON
I am the cancer wanting more.
I fill my gasoline tank with war…. A
beautiful poem about peace from Dave Haskins from Canada.
FULL POEM
--Internationally known journalist Shoaib Choudhury was
arrested and tortured by Bangladeshi authorities after exposing the rise of
radical Islamists in that country, urging relations with Israel, and advocating genuine interfaith dialogue
based on religious equality.. DETAILS.
--I don’t know
how many times we who write in the public domain feel it is time to wind up and
do something else -- perhaps start a career in buying and selling stocks, or
float some……Read what Dr. Ishtiaq Ahmed from
National University of Singapore says in Role of Intellectuals…. FULL STORY
--Dr. Soophia Ahmad, a lecturer in the Department of English at
Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh (UP), India, edits The Journal of Children's Literature, published biannually by the
Children's Literature Association of India. She seeks insightful and well- researched articles on
children's literature in India for its June 2008 issue.
DETAIL
--INDIA
AND PAKISTAN.
Please read this article to know what a democratic nation can achieve. This
was sent by someone and is being reproduced for our readers to assess if it makes any
sense. … DETAILS
--Sociation and Reghu Nath in Gill’s
IMMIGRANT: A Scholarly study by
Dominic Savio and
S.J. Kala…
READ HERE
--In his novel, Stephen Gill, an India born
Canadian writer, has successfully
portrayed the diasporic consciousness of a newcomer
who came to Canada in search for greener pastures and in the process
physically and culturally alienates himself from his native place. His
cultural affinity with India makes him an
alien in Canada where he makes
repeated attempts to transmute and transform his identity…, says Nilofar Akhtar in this research
article on Stephen Gill’s novel IMMIGRANT.
… FOR DETAILS
---A
research paper on Stephen Gill’s poetry and novel by Professor A.N. Dwivedi, Head, Department of English, Taiz
University, Yemen…. READ
---A Hindi research paper by Vaishali, a
scholar from India. This paper, “Island of Peace
and Stephen Gill,” is to be included in Dr.Nilanshu
Kumar Agarwal’s forthcoming book Discovering Stephen Gill: A collection of papers and
articles. … Read
---Surfeit of critical materials on Stephen
Gill’s poetic oeuvre calibrate the poet behind the poems as an apostle of
peace, a harbinger of love and a propagandist of universal harmony.
Naturally, Stephen Gill, originating from that part of Punjab merged with
Pakistan after 1947, having witnessed in close quarters the atrocities caused
during the Partition period in the Indian sub-continent, and sandwiched
between Indo-Pak pangs, advocates peace, love, and harmony through his
poems. Yet, the excess of criticisms
that focus on these overt aspects fail to highlight other subtly significant
features of Gill’s poems.
Particularly, a much-ignored feature that is very much embedded in
these aspects is the poet’s concern for nature, environment, and ecological
balance. This paper attempts to
illustrate the point that the predominant motif underlying all of Stephen
Gill’s poems is essentially ecological.
Read in detail what Dr. T. Ravichandran
says….Click here
--MALABAR, INDIA (ANS) -- A church of Salem
Voice Ministries was demolished by Muslim extremists at Sunnam
Potty in Malabar, India… REPORT
--The India
born diasporic writer Stephen Gill, well known as
the author of several novels, short-story collections, poems and prose
writings, is concerned with the dialectics of the immigrants' experience in
the Canadian soil. His novel, Immigrant,
spins around the plight of the Asians, particularly an Indian, who enters Canada,
‘the land of his dreams', to pursue higher studies. To read this research
paper of Dr. Parameswari, a scholar, please click DETAILS
---The
partition fury filled the heart of Stephen Gill with compassion and pity for
the humanity and it resulted in the creation of works like Shrine and Songs Before Shrine,
where his mission is to bring peace to the world. About this poetic process
Gill had told me in an interview that “Poetry is a spiritual and psychic
experience. To give shape to this experience, poets need special knowledge in
order to use images, tones, economy of words and other techniques. To weave a
rainbow of beauty, poets select and adjust words in different
combinations.”…This molding of Gill’s poetic voice out of an emotional
experience is somewhat akin to sage Valmiki’s
transformation into an epic poet…
For
complete text of this research paper by Dr. Nilanshu
Agarwal,
PLEASE READ
--Morrison’s
approach in interpreting black experiences is quite innovative. The novels of Toni Morrison : A study in
Race, Gender and Class by Dr. Ram
Sharma from India--- Full Text
--TWO ANTI WAR POEMS OF MUHAMMAD IQBAL
FROM PAKISTAN: Read
--THE ROMA DESTINY, A PROJECT
from Bulgaria
concerning human rights… Read
---STEPHEN
GILL is self-avowedly a committed poet, who wishes to convey the message of
harmonious co-existence to the strife-torn humanity and soothe its bruised
soul. Thus the Angst of alienation in Gill’s poetry acts as a catalyst in
catapulting him on his journey in search of a meaningful and spiritually
fulfilling existence, says Shweta Saxena in her research paper to be included… DETAILS
--NASREEN SYED is a poet of truth and
beauty, says Dr. Stephen Gill . I
enjoyed getting into the skin of her
soul-stirring poetry. There is
flow, control and beauty of an unknown flower that is cared by a gardener of
sincerity. In this age when poetry is in the hands of novices, she emerges as
an archetype… Full.
--This
is the time to reflect over the real reasons that compelled General Musharraf to impose the state of emergency in Pakistan. It is also the
time to remember why and how he
came to power. Which are those forces
that made him come to power? It is also the time to reflect and do something
to destroy the divisive and undemocratic seeds that have been sown in the
land of peace. Just to say that
President Gen. Musharraf should go or lift the
state of emergency is not going to solve the deep-rooted ailments. One ailment
is…READ What Stephen Gill Says
--Dalit Woman (untouchable) Tied to a Tree,
Beaten and Forced to Drink Urine … Report
--Two women from an untouchable class of India die After being thrown out of Hospital
for failing to pay bribe
… Report
--Hands
and Words are Not for Hurting, Read what Dr. Rohila
says… Details
--United Nations Secretary says: Christians are good allies
in the fight… Details
--Indian Governor Blocks Anti-Conversion Bill… Details
--Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury, Star of Peace from Bangladesh, Returns to US
October 19…Details
--Christian schools attacked in India for not declaring holiday on Hindu festival… Details
--SUMMARY OF THE
BLOODSHED IN MYANMAR… Read
-- Act now to protect lives of Buddhist monks in Myanmar… Details
--Christians are gravely concerned about the escalating
violence in the state of Karnataka, writes Dr. George Sajan
in his letter to the President of India… Read
--
Christians Priests Ignorant Of Yoga', says Father John Ferreira, an Indian
Catholic Priest from India... Report
-- Pakistan’s minister for minorities
appreciates the work done by the human rights activists from minority groups…
Read
-- US based Pakistani evangelist Joseph K Din shot dead in Lahore---Details
--Dr. H.T Sangliana, an Indian Member of Parliament and former
Police Commissioner of Bangalore City, has condemned the
recent attacks on Christians in the
state of Karnataka.. Report
-- Christian
trader held for 'vandalizing' Hindu idol in Andhra Pradesh, India…Details
--At least
34 people killed in blasts in Indian city of Hyderabad ---Details
--Chhattisgarh (India) anti-conversion Bill runs into trouble… READ
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