Conference: ELTIS’ 4th National Conference on ELT – February 7-8, Pune, India,

ELTWeekly Vol. 5 Issue#43 | December 30, 2013 | ISSN 0975-3036

The English Language Teaching Institute of Symbiosis (ELTIS) is hosting 4th National Conference on ELT on February 7-8. The theme of the conference is “Cultivating the Skill of Reading: a Classroom Challenge”.

Tracks (Sub-Themes)

  • Silent Reading and Reading Aloud
  • Teaching the Reading of Poetry / Prose
  • Text Types and Apt and Effective Reading Strategies
  • Teaching Reading as a Comprehension Skill
  • Testing and Evaluating Reading Skills
  • Reading for Pleasure. (more…)

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Book Review: ‘Seven Steps Around the Fire’ by Mahesh Dattani

ELTWeekly Vol. 5 Issue#43 | December 30, 2013 | ISSN 0975-3036

This book review is submitted by Suman Yadav, Research Scholar, Dept.of English, JNU, Jaipur.

Seven Steps Around the Fire is one of the famous Radio plays of Mahesh Dattani. It was first broadcast as Seven Circles Around the Fire by BBC Radio 4 on 9 January, 1999. The play was first performed on stage at the Museum Theatre, Chennai, by MTC production and The Madras Players on 6 August 1999. The play uncovers the truth behind the murder of Kamala, a eunuch through Uma Rao, who is the daughter of the Vice Chancellor of Bangalore University and the wife of the Chief Superintendent, Suresh Rao. Uma teaches Sociology in BangaloreUniversity. She uncovers the reality behind the murder of Kamala during working on her research paper titled “Class- and Gender- Related Violence”. (more…)

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Seminar: ‘Narratives of Violence in Postmodern Literature’ – February 27-28, Sagar, MP, India

ELTWeekly Vol. 5 Issue#43 | December 30, 2013 | ISSN 0975-3036

Department of English & Other European Languages, Dr. Hari Singh Gour University, Sagar (M.P.) is organising a seminar on “Narratives of Violence in Postmodern Literature” on February 27-28 at Sagar, MP, India.

Theme Statement

All along their evolution and dissolution, various ancient and medieval civilizations– from the Indo Aryan regions of the East to the Middle Eastern to the Greco-Roman to the fuzzy Indigenous Americas on the other side of the Atlantic to the Australian continent and around and farther into the Pacific –have all seen, suffered and perpetrated violence of the most overt and crude forms. Many of these civilizations perished or metamorphosed under attack and threat of violence. Therefore, violence and its various manifestations have been the core issues in philosophical and religious and other cultural discourses ever since the ancient and medieval times, both in the East and the West. (more…)

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