ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE

  UG First Year Notes -BY VIKRAM KUMAR MISHRA (ENGLISH, FOUNDATION COUSRE) National Education - by M.K. Gandhi Gandhiji has, in this essay ‘National Education; presented his views on that kind of   education which is most suitable for India. Their have been various kinds of reaction to his views  but he is firm in his opinion that the system of education prevailing in India is defective. It has  been introduced by an unjust government. Thoroughly unrelated to Indian culture this kind of  education is merely intellectual. It does not fulfill the needs of the heart.            In other words, it does not inculcate the virtue of sympathy, fellow-feeling, kindness and  compassion in the young pupils. It does not teach the virtue of physical culture. Secondly the existing education is imparted through a foreign language and in the India context  this is unreal. The text books prescribed for our students deal with matt...

                                              Preface to Mahabharata - by CHAKRAVARTI RAJGOPALACHARI. It would not be an exaggeration to say that the persons and events depicted in the great literature of the people affect the national character no less than the real heroes and events inherent in its history. It can be claimed that the former play an even more important role in the formation of ideals, which give the character the impetus for its development. In the dynamic history of our land, the creation and nurture of great minds and heroic deeds have been touched upon by Ramayana and Mahabharata from time immemorial. In most Indian homes, children first learned these immortal stories when they learned their mother tongue at their mother's knee. And the sweetness and sorrow of Sita and Draupadi, the valor of Rama and Arjuna and the loving loyalty of La...