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    due to the fragmentation throughout the country. Children and adults lost their homeland and the struggles they had in their homeland. The development of the colonizer’s land‚ made them to become confused with where their loyalties should lie. In Arundhati Roy’s novel ‘The God of Small Things’‚ the Kochamma family is a family of tragic situations and tragic people. It is their own cultural traditions that lead to the tragedy. However‚ the theme within the novel is of the people oppressed by the colonisation

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    In Francis Fukuyama’s book “The End of History and the Last Man” he demonstrates a positive outlook on Western liberal democracy by stating that no other type of human government will succeed it. Political ideologies throughout history have formed while some have disappeared‚ becoming more and less popular on an international scale. It is perplexing to me that Fukuyama ignored this and believed that there would be no progression from the liberal democracy government form. Fukuyama later on contradicts

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    Things”‚ written by Arundati RoyRoy talks about many things but one thing that stood out was her negativity of what the colonist had brought over into India. Her argument could be that the colonist brought materialism into their culture making the natives think that they need things that they really do not need. The colonist bring the thought that making money any way possible is acceptable and Roy points out that ritual dances are even being used as a way of profit. Roy is just pointing out what

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    Cultural shifts‚ women‚ and history in The god of small things Arundhati Roy’s God of Small things delves into experience of post-colonial India‚ exploring the lives of experiencing the cultural shifts‚. Using multi-narration to offer authentic insights into the worlds of characters‚ she plays with language intelligently to portray differing points of view Linguistic devices and techniques to delve into a number of themes but focusing on the loss of identity touching on familial relationships‚ history

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    The story reveals history’s cruel way of taking revenge at people who break the Love Laws. Arundhati Roy is gifted in the art of language. The book has its own unique language with rhythmical analogies to every situation that is a completely lyrical experience until the last page. Shifts in different places and times create suspense and keep readers attracted. The text is very poetic and descriptive. Roy mainly uses foreshadowing to tell her story. The reader knows — to an extent — what happened

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    1) The first woman president of India -- Smt. Pratibha Patil 2) The first lady to become "Miss World" -- Rita Faria 3) The first woman judge in Supreme Court -- Mrs. Meera Sahib Fatima Bibi ...4) The first woman Ambassador -- Miss C.B. Muthamma 5) The first woman Governor of a State in free India -- Mrs. Sarojini Naidu (1925) 6) The first woman Prime Minister -- Mrs. Indira Gandhi 7) The first woman to climb Mount Everest -- Bachhendri Pal The first woman to climb Mount Everest

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    Chief Justice of India: Mr. Altamas Kabir Governer of Reserve Bank of India: Mr. D. Subbarao Deputy Chairman Planning Commission of India: Mr. Montek Singh Ahluwalia Chairman of IRDA: Mr. T.S. Vijayan Chairman of GIC: Mr. D. Ashok Kumar Roy Speaker of Lok Sabha: Ms. Meira Kumar Chief Election Commissioner: Mr.V.S. Sampath Prime Minister of Pakistan: Mr. Raja Pervez Ashraf Head quarter of IRDA: Hyderabad Head quarter of National Insurance Co. Ltd: Calcutta Biggest private General Insurance

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    the purple leaders who took the flag to-day could describe what victory actually meant. The act of victory in such a stance of winning a battle is limited to the act of taking away a flag. It also points to the worldly act of hoisting a flag. Arundhati Roy in "The End of Imagination" toys with the word ’successful’.She echoes how the meaning

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    Salman Rushdie takes it as a positive experience while Arundhati Roy touches it very briefly. These writers basically talk about diaspora which involves the scattering of people. Bhabani Bhattacharyya has discussed identity in her So Many Hungers but in a different way she used it to describe the clash of social identities in her novel. Bapsi Sidwa’s has also used immigration but she has not played with identities like Lahiri. Arundhati Roy’s use of migration is also different her characters never

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    COLONIALISM‚ POST-COLONIALISM & POST-COLONIAL INDIAN ENGLISH LITERATURE ABSTRACT Colonialism is the building and maintaining of colonies in one territory by people from another territory. Colonialism normally refers to a period of history from the 15th to the 20th century when people from Europe established colonies on other continents. Collins English Dictionary defines colonialism as "the policy of acquiring and maintaining colonies‚ especially for exploitation." The Stanford Encyclopaedia

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