Carol by Farrukh Dhondy, Drunkard Of The River by Michael Anthony and The Exercise by …. have seemed to share a very strong theme in the relationship between father and son I will be going to compare and contrast the ways in which fathers, sons and the relationship between them are presented in three of the stories I have studied. All of the stories I have read have had shared a common background in one-way or another. However, in particular, Kiss Me Carol by Farrukh Dhondy, Drunkard
(albeit very inexplicitly) on screen while Devi was alive – despite the fact that Devi had given her express consent. Roy's hyper-sensitive Indian sexual mores dominated the larger debate on caste. "But gender and caste could not be separated," says Farrukh Dhondy, who wrote the film. "The fact is that Devi was raped because she was lower caste and those men thought they could get away with it. A woman's life in India is very much defined by caste." After 60 years of Indian democracy, lower castes have
From the onset of the twentieth century there has been an ongoing debate on context and text. Literary theorists all over the world propounded many theories that either divorced the two or made their bond stronger. From the 1920s there came a wave of critical theories, the New Critics pleaded for critical monism. The New Criticism took the poem as a work of art, a structure having an independent existence. They completely divorced the work of art from the biographical, sociological context; removed