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Contribution of Rohinton Mistry

 Rohinton Mistry is an Indian born Canadian short-story writer and novelist. He has become one of the preeminent writers of the post colonialist writing movement. He sets his novels primarily in his native Bombay, combining a natural, direct style with simple description to present an honest and loving image of India. With attention to the detail of his characters' everyday lives, his book often explore the tragic circumstances of India's desperate poor even as he balances his misery by presenting the dignity and the joy they feel in simple pleasures and their extended families. Critics have praised Mistry's growth as a writer and his transparent style, commonly drawing comparisons to Charles Dickens and Thomas Hardy. Mistry's first book " Tales from Firozsha Baag" , is a collection of short fiction that was published in 1987. This collection of eleven linked short stories concerns the inhabitants of an apartment compound in Bombay. His first novel, " Suc

Issues in teaching English Pronunciation

 All around the world, there are lot of people with strong desire to learn English with correct pronunciation. However, there are many barriers to hinder the, to speak with good English pronunciation. The learners face problem in the pronunciation of sound with which they are not familiar.  The main problem of the speaker of the other language who speaks English, is substitution of sounds i.e.; they substitute the sounds that they don't have in their native language, with other sounds which are close to them in the place of articulation. Other common problem is intonation. It refers to the paralinguistic vocal feature such as : pitch, loudness, quality, resonance and flexibility. Speakers vary these to show intent and emotion. English is a phonetic language, so it is often hard to know how to pronounce a word by its spelling. Pronunciation in English is based on sounds, not spellings. Some sounds in English don't exist in other languages. One of the common problem faced by the

Contribution of Vikram Seth

 Vikram Seth is an Indian poet, novelist, and travel writer, best known for his epic novel ' A Suitable Boy '. He has been in the field of writing for more than three decades and is regarded as one of the most influential writers of the modern era. His first book, a collection of  poems, titled 'Mappings', did not get much attention but he came into attention with his second book 'From Heaven Lake' which chronicled his journey from China to India. The novel ' The Golden Gate ' made him one of the most highly acclaimed novelists of his time and the book won him plenty of accolade from readers as well as critics. However, it was his novel ' The Suitable Boy ' that really captured him into the league of the most well-known novelists of his time and remains his most famous work. The novel is one of the most longest novels written in the English language and is regarded as a modern classic due to the range of topics that it touched upon. He published