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Foreword CLRI Annual 2013 Issue CLRI Annual 2013 issue comes out solely in print and includes a fine collection of poems, stories, research papers (criticism), and book reviews. We received huge submission to this print edition and our effort was to include as many pieces as possible. However we run out at the border of our limitation. The standard to the print edition being high, the selection was about 55% of all the entries submitted. To ensure we expose more writers we made a slight change in our selection process. We first made a long list of the entries and then we finalized the list. Some materials were well edited and it was easy for us to select such materials. Some other materials were well written and we wanted to include them yet they needed editing. We worked closely with the writers and finally they are in the anthology. This time we charged a reading fee from the writers. This was for two reasons. First we wanted to create a value to the writing of the authors themselves and second to cover the editing cost. However there is no charge to those writers and members who are paid subscribers to the CLRI online version. Paid subscribers are waived off the reading fee during their subscription period to all the print editions whenever they come out. CLRI print is planned to come out quarterly (Jan/Apr/Jul/Dec). Currently it comes out annually and will soon switch to its schedules as planned, as we succeed. Dear writers, we request you to support us in various ways as our success depends on your support. You can support us by buying additional copies, prompting our issues to your friend circles and networks, gift the copies to those who love reading your pieces, have some copies on your personal rakes to boast on. Always share your views on our issues and topics whether positive or negative. We believe positive comments keep us moving and negative comments keep us improving. Cheers!
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CONTEMPORARY LITERARY REVIEW INDIA – journal that brings articulate writing for articulate readers.
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CLRI Annual 2013
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Editorial Board Editor-in-Chief: Khurshid Alam is a writer by profession. He writes poems, stories, screenplays, and criticism. His poems, stories, and criticism have been published in various journals and anthologies in India and abroad. Fiction & Criticism Editor: Dr. G. A. Ghanshyam, M.A., Ph.D. is Head of the Dept. of English, Govt. M. L. Shukla College (Guru Ghasidas Vishwavidyalaya, Bilaspur, Chhattisgarh). He takes great interest in contributing to literature and literary activities. He is associated with many organizations of national and international repute such as F.R.A.S., Royal Asiatic Society (Great Britain & Ireland) among others, and serves as an editor to many other journals. Poetry Editor: Ketaki Datta, Ph.D. on Tennessee Williams, is an Associate Professor of English at Bidhannagar College (CU, Kolkata). She is a novelist, critic and translator. Her articles and translations have been published in various journals including Indian Literature, Harvest, Pratibha India and the Statesman etc. Criticism Editor: Dr. Itishri Sarangi an Assistant Professor in English in the Dept. of Humanities with KIIT University, Bhubaneswar (Odisha). She is a poet and musician and a social worker. She has various national and international publications to her credit.
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Editorial Self-Publishing is the Future Vanity Publishing versus Self-Publishing
Vanity publishing has been around us from a very long time and the publishing industry has rated it as a drab clichĂŠ. Books published by vanity publishers are bared from entering in most of the literary prizes and awards. Self-Publishing ostensibly had the same beginning and it was not far from now that it was regarded as a sad people's last resort. But there is a big difference between both vanity publishing and self-publishing. Vanity publishers are frenzied money making mongers, they demand money before they pick up your manuscripts, do not care what material your manuscript offers including poor or no editorial work and lackluster post publishing sales promotions etc. etc. etc. Self-publishing is different in more than one respect. That's why it is gradually gaining recognition. Selfpublishing draws the same parallel as distance education mode has. Once distance education was regarded as education of no worth but soon gained recognition and is now a very sought after medium among the academia and almost every third professional may be found feathered with a degree or diploma gained through distance education mode. Post the Internet era, self-publishing through digitization has razed the intermediary boundary of distributors and has the potentiality to permeate into the remotest markets where the books need not be sent physically, or open book stores with large investment, or face any inherent copyright issues. All hindrances razed down! To go digital is easier and faster. If you have your document ready, create an account with a digital publisher, upload the file and your book goes wild on CONTEMPORARY LITERARY REVIEW INDIA
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sale worldwide in a few hours. Self-Publishing authors can meet the demand of the readers who want the books at a reasonably low cost and everywhere they are on the go. The price factor in digital publishing is controlled by the authors, they can even offer their books for free. Thanks to Amazon and others' amazing services to the aspiring writers. Digital publishing is coupled with the offer of POD (print-on-demand) with many selfpublishing companies which makes the market of book more attractive and cost effective for everyone – publishers, authors, and readers. Publishing and its Future From "the dawn of e-books" in 2010 amid mixed reactions, digital publishing registered a steady growth through 2011 and 2012 which means it has grounded its foothold and is poised to high growth in 2013 and ahead. According to a report on sales growth worldwide in print and e-formats published by Association of American Publishers, 3.4 million eBook units were sold in 2011, which is a growth up 303.3% from 2010 and will continue to fast growth in future. Factors for significant growth are manifold. More and more traditional publishers are converting their books in hard copies into soft copies and making them available in digital formats. Along with the books that appear solely in digital formats, the e-book repository is getting voluminous day by day. This has brought the self-published authors at parallel with those authors who are published with traditional publishers. A gain of self-esteem. New markets are opening up to digital publishing fast like Asia and Middle East. China, Japan, and India have already taken the leads.
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Hand-held Devices Growing According to Mary Meeker’s report "Internet Trends" about 2.4 billion people or in other words one-third of the world population is integrated with mobile network. Also, 1.1 billion consumers are using smartphones which help the users access the internet on the phones. Added to the already wide use of smartphones, tablets and e-books reading devices integrated with SIM, is widening the possibility of online shopping on such devices. Kindle (Amazon), Kobo (Rakuten), and Reader (Sony), and tablet computers such as iPad (Apple), Nexus 7 (Google) are witnessing high sales in the US markets for reading of e-books. Self-publishing Authors Check Self-publishing is largely an affair of the authors so they need to learn certain skills in addition to writing a book. When manuscripts get rejected with a couple of traditional publishers think your manuscript may need revamp. I mean developmental editing in many cases. Get your manuscripts edited by some good editors, sometime by more than one editor. Hand-held Devices Growing According to Mary Meeker's report "Internet Trends" about 2.4 billion people or in other words one-third of the world population is integrated with mobile network. Also, 1.1 billion consumers are using smartphones which help the users access the internet on the phones. Added to the already wide use of smartphones, tablets and e-books reading devices integrated with SIM, is widening the possibility of online shopping on such devices. Kindle (Amazon), Kobo (Rakuten), and Reader (Sony), and tablet computers such as iPad (Apple), Nexus
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Khurshid Alam Editor-in-Chief
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Contents POETRY 1. CHANDRA KANTA Untouchable Stone 2. CHRISTINA MURPHY The Circumstances of Silence 3. DIBYENDU GHOSAL Absolute Liability Drinking the Day Rattling Past Calcutta No Escape Route 4. GOPAL LAHIRI Let Them Sparkle Debris Night Under Wrap 5. HEMA RAVI Leafless Tree 6. MADHURI MAITRA Urban Times [Haiku poems] 7. PAPRI SRI RAMAN Chat with Kŕsnā 8. SHAHNAZ SAMANTARA Is that you? Your City Chinar - E - Kasheer 9. SHAILENDRA CHAUHAN Myth Eccentric 10. VIDYA PANICKER
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STORY 11. ASHOK PATWARI Turquoise Tulips 12. KHURSHID ALAM The Pied Piper Revisits 13. ROONY NOOR My Immortal Uncle, the Celluloid Clown 14. SARANYAN BV That’s all they have to say CRITICISM 15. DR AFAF (EFFAT) JAMIL KHOGEER Globalization: National Identity, Cultural Hbridization and Displacement As Depicted in The House on Mango Street and Jasmine 16. ANITA SINGH Fear of the Politics of Noah's Ark: Technologies of Heterosexual Coercion and LGBTQIA Packaging in Bollywood Films 17. DR DALIP KHETARPAL Where Shall We Go This Summer? : A Psycho-Analytical Study 18. JAVAID BHAT Between Insurgent Reason and Repressed Feeling; The Idea of Masquerade in the Play King Lear 19. MONICA BALYAN Searching Woman Selfhood: A Case Study of Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights and Charolette Bronte’s Jane Eyre CONTEMPORARY LITERARY REVIEW INDIA
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20. DR NAZIR AHMED RESHI Concept of Absurdity and Its Relationship with Existentialism 21. DR PRATAP K DASH A Review of Anthropomorhic Content Configuration in Moby-Dick and A Whale for the Killing 22. DR VVB RAMA RAO Rabelaisian but not Ribald: A Study of Sundara Ramaswamy’s Tale of a Tamarind Tree BOOK REVIEW 23. BRUCE L DODSON Review on Bruce Dodson’s Lost In Seattle by Ghanshyam Iyyengar 24. VINAY CAPILA Review on Vinay Capila’s The Revolution and Other Stories by Meenakshi Chawla
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