LANGUAGE IN INDIA

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Volume 9 : 11 November 2009
ISSN 1930-2940

Managing Editor: M. S. Thirumalai, Ph.D.
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P.S. Sri's The Temple Elephant: A Bestiary with
Socio-Political and Spiritual Message

Varun Gulati M.A., M. Phil., Ph.D. (Candidate)

Introduction

P.S. Sri, a scholar and researcher, is an Indian author, based in Canada, with a fresh-found voice in the realm of Indian English Literature. Sri lived in Chennai and obtained his M.A. English there. Later he moved outside India and received a degree of Ph.D. in Comparative Literature. Sri has wide-ranging experience of teaching and research on a variety of themes, and at present he is serving as a professor of Comparative Literature in the department of English at Royal Military College, Kingston, Ontario.

Sri has authored a book T.S. Eliot, Vedanta and Buddhism and also a collection of his short stories and poems appeared in The Blue Heron Press Anthology: New Voices from Kingston and Scapes. Sri is a recipient of many prestigious awards including the Canadian Federation of Humanities Grant.

The Temple Elephant

Elephant Worship

'The Temple Elephant', a novelette, is a median work of Sri expressing his close association to India including its religious, social and political milieu. One can sense that his agonies and exaltation are revealed in the form of metaphors and touching symbols used in the novel.

The story takes us back to the time of the British Raj, and is an odyssey from the ancient temple Guruvayoor, located at Trichur (Kerala), to South Indian forests including a visit to an ashram.

Kesava: An Emblem of Animal Intelligence and Wisdom

The story opens with a temple elephant named Kesava, who performs the greatest honour of carrying the stone image of bewitching child god Krishna as a ritual of daily procession in Guruvayoor temple. Kesava, the narrator of the story and a namesake of god Krishna himself, receives great love and tenderness from his mahout Madhavan, who decorates him with a tilaka, sandal paste, gem-encrusted gold plate and silver cups edged with the blue tassels.

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Attitude towards Mother Tongue - A Study of the Tribal Students of Orissa | Computer-mediated Communication in a Bilingual Chatroom | Compensation Strategies for Speaking English Adopted by Engineering Students of Tamil Nadu - A Study | Acquisition of English Intransitive Verbs by Urdu Speakers | Community, Culture and Curriculum in the Context of Tribal Education in Orissa, India | Auxiliary Verbs in Modern Tamil | Getting Around 'Offensive' Language | Noun Morphology in Kuki-Chin Languages | A Plea for the Use of Language Portals in Imparting Communication Skills | Advances in Machine Translation Systems | A Comparative Study of the Effect of Explicit-inductive and Explicit-deductive Grammar Instruction in EFL Contexts | Lexical Choice and Social Context in Shashi Deshpande's That Long Silence | The Voice of Servility and Dominance Expressed through Animal Imagery in Adiga's The White Tiger | Phonological Analysis of English Phonotactics of Syllable Initial and Final Consonant Clusters by Yemeni Speakers of English | Effective Use of Language in Communicating News through Political Emergency | Helping the Limited English Proficient Learner Learn the Second Language Effectively through Strategy Instruction | P.S. Sri's The Temple Elephant: A Bestiary with Socio-Political and Spiritual Message | Papers Presented in the All-India Conference on Multimedia Enhanced Language Teaching - MELT 2009 | A Phonological Study of the Variety of English Spoken by Oriya Speakers in Western Orissa - A Doctoral Dissertation | HOME PAGE of November 2009 Issue | HOME PAGE | CONTACT EDITOR

Varun Gulati
Department of English
S.A. Jain Institute of Management & Technology
Ambala City -134003
Haryana
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