Amitav Ghosh (born July 11‚ 1956)‚[1] is a Bengali Indian author best known for his work in English fiction Life : Amitav Ghosh was born in Calcutta on July 11‚ 1956 in a Bengali Hindu family‚ to Lieutenant Colonel Shailendra Chandra Ghosh‚ a retired officer of the pre-independence Indian Army‚ and was educated at The Doon School; St. Stephen ’s College‚ Delhi‚ Delhi University‚ India; the Delhi School of Economics and St Edmund Hall‚ Oxford‚ where he was awarded a D. Phil. in social anthropology under
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After seeing this house‚ Ila and the narrator qurrel about the importance of radical politics. Ila considers the death of Alan‚ Mike and Dan who raised their voices against war-mongering as sad because they were casualties of a ruthless nationalism. She also thought that Alan and his friends‚ who were witness to the war and the fight against fascism‚ must have been happy as she was in her political activism. The quarrel about courage and political activism continues between Ila and the narrator
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SUMMARY Amitav Ghosh can be seen as the flag bearer of the fearlessness and freedom that the contemporary Indian writer in English embodies. Although Salman Rushdie is the pioneer who put the post colonial scene on the literary map‚ yet Amitav Ghosh has become one of the central figures to emerge after the success of Rushdie`s Midnight`s Children. Yet when compared to Rushdie‚ published criticism on Ghosh is not very substantial. Most of the critical essays are limited to his more popular
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Advancement in technological development has made life easier and relationship complicated. The essence of humanity ‘humanism’ is lost in the name of partition‚ nation and borders. Ghosh attempts a revival for humanism in his The Shadow Lines. The novel portrays the futility of war‚ riots‚ violence and partition and also re-searches the lost humanism that has been thrown into the recesses of modern busy life. This paper attempts to prove that the concept of borders and boundaries are illusions.
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The Narrator’s Perception of Cosmopolitanism in Amitav Ghosh’s “The Shadow Lines” “The whole world is a man’s birthplace.” This quote by the Roman poet Publius Papinius Statius shows us the basic idea of cosmopolitanism. The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy defines it as “the idea that all human beings‚ regardless of their political affiliation‚ do (or at least can) belong to a single community‚ and that this community should be cultivated.” In other words‚ cosmopolitanism is the theory that
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led to the formation of the modern world as we know it. The process of othering‚ i.e. the creation of a certain sense of "us" and "them" has inevitably been created between nations and people due to the creation of boundaries or ‘Shadow Lines’ as Ghosh puts it. In this paper‚ I aim to analyze the feasibility or the desirability of these intangible lines that separate us historically‚ culturally‚ linguistically and racially and the role of language in the creation of such lines. Undoubtedly‚ language
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Post-Colonial Melancholy: An Examination ofSadness in Amitav Ghosh’s The Shadow Lines The article undertakes a study on melancholy and sadnessin Amitav Ghosh’s The Shadow Lines ‚ concentrates on theforlorn figures of Tridib and the narrator in an attempt to analyse and evaluate the melancholy atmosphere of the novel. Bearing inmind Freud’s own understanding of melancholy as the uncon-scious mourning for a lost love object‚ the article suggests themoments of gloom in Ghosh’s novel could be better
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The story of Tridib in ‘Shadow Lines’ remain incomplete without the influence‚ or rather we should say the contribution‚ of the women characters in the novel. Main women characters in the novel namely Ila‚ May and the grandmother of the narrator‚ have a great influence on the coming-of-age of the narrator. It is important to understand their influence on the narrator first before that on Tridib‚ because Tridib is narrator’s mentor here‚ his alter-ego and mirror image. Tridib’s correspondences
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someone else’s reality. Amitav Ghosh in his book The Shadow Lines (1988) dwells on reality as a construction‚ that is‚ reality as an individual creates it for him/herself. This paper will look at the construction of reality for us by the Author‚ narrator and the various other characters in the story and thus giving the reader the reality effect or realism. One of the ways in which reality is constructed in The Shadow Lines (1988) is by the use of detail. For one Amitav Ghosh naturalizes the text by
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world in the Literary Viewfinder” says‚ “Ecocriticism does enable the critics to examine the texualizations of the physical environment in literary discourse itself and to develop an earth-centered approach to literary studies” (1). In this way‚ Amitav Ghosh has examined the physical environment in his novel The Hungry Tide. As an anthropologist‚ he finds it easy to locate the problems encountered by the people living in an immense archipelago of islands‚ the Sundarbans. The Hungry Tide‚ a complex
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