A kakekotoba (掛詞) or pivot word is a rhetorical device used in the Japanese poetic form waka. This trope uses the phonetic reading of a grouping of kanji (Chinese characters) to suggest several interpretations: first on the literal level (e.g. 松, matsu, meaning “pine tree”), then...
Sobti insists of there being two aspects which constituted her background:her belonging to the middle-class and her ties to the rural Punjabi society (how-ever, one must keep in mind that this is in fact the class of the wealthy land-owners). She voices this for example in one of ...