Post colonialism should be referred to as the legacies of colonialism and not the end of colonialism. British interests in Indian languages arose from the necessity to cultivate the medium of intercourse between the government and its subjects. Lord Macaulay minute on Education 1835 very clearly signifies his agenda that is the Dissemination of the English language and English culture. The Englishmen wanted a class of persons who can act as interpreters between them and their subjects. People
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The Corrupted Society Of Mankind Nothing in life is fully guaranteed‚ however all we wish for is to be treated equally in a normal society. When people begin to mistreat others is truly when society beings to corrupt. In Aravind Adiga’s‚ ‘The White Tiger’‚ the author begins to exploit the main reasons why people are treated so differently in our community today. Through many incidents that Balram encounters‚ each one portrays the human inequality rights around the world. Balram establishes three
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Chetan Bhagat Chetan Bhagat (Born 22 April 1974) is an Indian author who has written five points someone‚ one night @the call centre‚ the 3 mistakes of my life and 2 states: the story of my marriage. He has also written the script of Hello‚ the Hindi movie based on one night @the call centre. Bhagat was born in New Delhi in a Punjabi family and attended the army school (1978-1991)‚ Dhaula Kuan‚ New Delhi. He studied Mechanical Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi‚ and
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Kiran Desai is the daughter of Indian author‚ herself short-listed for Booker Prize on three occations. Her first novel Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard which was published in 1998 and won the Betty Trask Award was given by the Society of Authors for the best new novels by citizens of the Commonwealth of Nations under the age thirty five. Her second novel The Inheritance of Loss (2006) was widely praised by many critics around the world such as‚ Asia‚ Europe and United States. And also she was awarded
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First of all‚ since a summary only provides paraphrased explanations of the events that happened in the story‚ the student who reads a summary fails to experience the way that the author used words to create a story. For example‚ Aravind Adiga writes his novel The White Tiger‚ which details the corrupt rise of a lower caste Indian boy from being a servant to being a private business owner in a big city‚ in email format addressed to the former Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao‚ and sprinkles
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India has gone from eminent past to degeneration; from profound authority to shared conflicts; from imprisonment to freedom; from agrarian upset to digital innovation. More than 380 novelists are there in our India. Indian English Fiction is classified into 2 extensive categories such as pre-Independence groups of novelists and post-Independence groups of novelists. The Indo-English literature has introduced the social‚ cultural and political emergencies in India. Social hypocrisies‚ revolting social
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Indo-Anglian Authors It’s the same Indian Curry – the spices are Indian‚ the flavours remain rural and the colours are still rich and earthy‚ except for the fact that it is savoured with a different spoon. That is Indo-Anglian literature or English literature penned by an Indian author. With the sudden surge of writers in this genre‚ its history is very recent‚ mostly limited to the last two centuries. As a category it owes its roots to the post-colonial era and today with almost three Nobel laureates
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Aravind eye care hospital in India Framework/description of the situation In 1992‚ over 30 million cases of blindness existed all over the world‚ with more than 90% in Asia and Africa. Of this‚ India had ~20mn cases of blindness with additional 2mn cases added every year‚ of which upto 80% were cataract related. With an infrastructure that could handle only 1.2 million cataract cases annually‚ the situation is expected to get worse. The rural areas of the country were particularly exposed as
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INTRODUCTION Indian English novels refer to the various novels by writers in India who write in the English language and whose native or co-native language could be one of the numerous languages of India. It is also associated with the works of members of the Indian Diaspora‚ such as V. S. Naipaul‚ Kiran Desai‚ Jhumpa Lahiri and Salman Rushdie‚ who are of Indian descent. It is frequently referred to as Indo-Anglian literature. As a category‚ this production comes under the broader realm of postcolonial
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were sleeping” (Adiga 191). Balram is justifying his actions by implying that he has lived a hard and tiring life‚ fighting his way to top of the social ladder. Secondly‚ he says‚ in a tone that is conceited and arrogant:
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