Samir K. Dash

Postcolonialism has been defined as: A description of institutional conditions in formerly colonial societies. An abstract condition of the global condition after the colonial period. A description of discourses informed by psychological and...

Edward Said's Orientalism can be summed up in three following points: first he talks of the distinction between pure and political knowledge, shows the power relation of any text to political, cultural, intellectual and moral domain; secondly...

Science fiction is a narrative (usually in prose) or a short story, 'novella' or novel length. As to what it is about, is not easily classificable. Such stories are about an amazing variety of things, topics and ideas.

Responses to statementsIn most speech sessions we use some special response words, though they are not demanded by the speaker of the statements to which these are made.These type of responses include: Oh! Mm Good Oh dear! I see.These are made...

The English of speech tends to be different from the English of writing some fairly obvious ways. For instance: We have time to plan our message in writing, but that is not possible while using the spoken form of English. We often use words like...