Model Expansions by Ananta Charan SuklaExpansion What is it and how to write itExpansion means detailed explanation of an idea with illustrations and examples It means amplification The ideas given are generally moral maxims or epigrammatic expressions In amplifying one should Read it with care and find out its inner meaning Write the literal meaning first in a few words then the inner meaning Exemplify it with appropriate illustrations showing especially its application to human life Try to use the exact number of words asked Schools and colleges have fixed 150 words with a margin of 5 10 words Make the paragraphs compact the lines of which must be coherent Recapitulate the whole thought in the last one or two lines Take care of grammatical and spelling mistakes Do not try to comment upon the idea simply expand it showing its wide or narrow application Ananta Charan Shukla 6 Nov 1942 30 Sep 2020 was an eminent literary critic aesthetician and philosopher of art religion and language He retired as a Professor of English from Sambalpur University in 2002 He had an MA degree in three subjects English Philosophy and Sanskrit and earned his PhD in comparative literature from Jadavpur University He was a comparative literary scholar of global repute He specialized in comparative aesthetics Sanskrit and Western He founded Vishvanatha Kaviraja Institute and the Journal of Comparative Literature and Aesthetics in 1977 to promote studies and research in comparative philosophy and edited and published the journal single handedly for 40 years His works have been published by Praeger Bloomsbury Brill Rubbettino Rupa and Sahitya Akademi His books The Concept of Imitation in Greek and Indian Aesthetics 1974 and Contemporary Indian Aesthetics 1994 are seminal works in the field His edited volumes Art and Representation 2001 Art and Experience 2002 Art and Essence 2003 Art and Expression 2011 Fiction and Art 2015 and Imagination and Art 2020 are a solid contribution in the area His monograph Classical Indian Tradition and the Philosophy of Art Essays in Comparative Aesthetics and Literary Theory 2016 is taught in Indian universities He was a visiting professor at the Universities of Liverpool Cambridge Cardiff Lampeter Uppsala Siena and Helsinki He was also a noted translator and had translated Aristotle s Poetics and some Greek plays into Oriya He had also published short stories and poetry collections in Oriya He had also translated into Oriya select songs of Rabindranath Tagore and Bhupen Hazarika which were recorded and released in the form of studio albums