Journal of Scientometric Research, 2020, 9, 1, 85-87.
DOI: 10.5530/jscires.9.1.11
Published: May 2020
Type: Book Review
Bidyarthi Dutta
Department of Library and Information Science, Vidyasagar University, Kolkata, West Bengal 721102, INDIA.
Abstract:
In Beckett’s[1] Waiting for Godot, Estragon and Vladimir waits for the arrival of a stranger named Godot who never arrived. During waiting they were engaged in so many discussions and faced three other characters. This waiting perhaps conveys the crux spirit of optimism aroused out of hope to meet Godot, which is sparkled at times through the apertures of countless despairs of the two characters, Estragon and Vladimir. Just like Beckett’s Godot, Haider and Sundin’s Searching emerged as a ubiquitous, but apparently indiscernible, entity which is all-pervading in current era radiating continuously ray of hope in people’s mind. Whenever anybody starts a search, the first thing s/he probably bears in mind is hope or optimism. Read more . . .