Sri Aurobindo Ghose Little Aurobindo Ghose •Sri Aurobindo Ghose was born on 15th August‚ in the year 1870 at Calcutta. •At the age of 7‚ he was sent to England for his formal education. •He graduated from Cambridge‚ here he distinguished himself as a student of European classics. •Aurobindo was an accomplished scholar in Greek and Latin. •His early life and education in England‚ gave him an insight into the modern scientific mind and brought him into close touch with western civilization. •In
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of mind of the defendant‚ the jury have to determine the state of mind of the defendant at the time of the appropriation whether he was dishonest or not. The court of appeal laid down a test for dishonesty in R v Ghosh 1982 which is upon the jury to apply. The test is known as the Ghosh test and involves two stages‚ both subjective and objective. The first stage is where the courts ask the question of whether the defendant had been dishonest by the ordinary standards of reasonable and honest people
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her to be cremated alive with her husband’s funeral pyre. Meanwhile‚ a low-caste Oxen-driver‚ Kalua‚ who has secret affection towards her‚ rescued‚ and fled away. Sea of Poppies is a historical novel‚ densely packed and wonderfully written. Ghosh skillfully crams in as much information as possible without sinking the story under its own weight. The main subject is migration‚ of indentured servants. The forces that propel their lives the British occupation; the opium trade; the caste system
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The post independence decades were largely dormant with only few names such as Nirad C Chaudhuri and R K Narayan inciting curiosity if any. It was as late as early eighties that the new breed of writers such as Salman Rushdie‚ Vikram Seth‚ Amitabh Ghosh and Anita Desai started popping upon the international literary map. The new breed of authors and writers who emerged in post reform era carried the initiative forward. These writers have created a niche for themselves among the readers across the
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In Amitav Ghosh’s‚ "In an Antique Land"‚ the author compares his life with that of a slave named Bomma. He reveals that both men live in antique lands‚ foreign to their culture and surrounded by very different people. Ghosh also relates the book to Percy Bysshe Shelly’s poem Ozymandias‚ a piece on mankind’s hubris and the insignificance of the individual. Ghosh effectively juxtaposes Bomma’s life with his own as he tries to find himself and unlock the slaves past through the ancient papers of the
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IN AN ANTIQUE LAND BY AMITAV GHOSH In An Antique Land is a very capturing and an educative chronicle of a traveler‚ Amitav Ghosh‚ who perfectly weaves Indian and Egyptian history into one single story spread across various time periods. As the contents of the book suggests‚ the novel is divided into six parts namely‚ the Prologue‚ Lataifa‚ Nashawy‚ Mangalore‚ Going Back and Epilogue. The story begins with the Prologue where Ghosh reads a “short article by the scholar E. Strauss‚ in the 1942 issue
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conversation with Amitav Ghosh‚ he said in a clear ringing voice- “When it happens‚ I hope you will write something for me.” The writer could think of nothing to say on such a topic. At last‚ he had to promise‚ “I’ll do the best I can.” From that day‚ the writer started keeping a record of all the conversations and meetings he had with Shahid. This record helped him to fulfill his promise. The character sketch of Agha Shahid Ali in the lesson the Ghat of the only world written by Aithav Ghosh.
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other view of hybridity it shows the overall loss of identity‚ or the process of identifying oneself among a different culture. Each of these definitions of hybridity is expressed through the writings of Amitav Ghosh’s The Glass Palace‚ Robert J.C. Young’s Postcolonialism‚ and Gandhi. Amitav Ghosh expresses hybridity in The Glass Palace through characters who adapt to the mixture of culture‚ and to those who experience the loss of their identity because of this mixture. In Robert J.C. Young’s Postcolonialism
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Indian English Literature * Top English Writer & Their Famous Creations * R.K. Narayan: R K Narayan is one of the best known Indian authors of all time. An Indian author of very high repute‚ he is best known for his works of fiction. The setting for most of R K Narayan works is the fictional town of Malgudi‚ first introduced in his semi autobiographical book ’Swami and Friends’. Creations: The Dark Room‚ Malgudi Days‚ Talkative Man‚ The English Teacher. * Kiran Desai: Kiran
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Rushdie: Picador‚ Rupa‚ 1983 5.(Rushdie: Shame Picader‚ Rupa‚ 1983‚ p.283). 6.(An Area of Darkness London: Andse Dentseh‚ 1964‚p 11.(Mehta‚ Suketu‚ Maximum City Viking‚ Penguin‚ 2004‚ p. 13) 12.(Amitava Ghosh‚ The Ghost of Mrs 13.(Bhabha‚ Homi‚ The Location of Culture‚ Lodon‚ 1994‚) 14.(Ghosh‚ Amitav‚The Hungry Tide Delhi:Ravi Dayal Pub.2004)
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