post-colonial diasporic identity after Salman Rushdie and Bharati Mukherjee. Indian writing in English has derived inspiration from the wealth of material available in the form of stories from the great Indian epics The Ramayana and The Mahabharata and The Puranas and also local legends and folk-lore. Francesca Orsini
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The present paper deals with the plight of lower caste people so called Chuhras whose touch were considered to be polluting or contaminated. However the paper narrates many incidents related to Omprakash Balmiki lived in Birla Village‚ Muzaffarnagar District‚ but it shows or reflects how people of high class humiliated the low class people. Life of lower class people was made captivated‚ heinous and hell like due to inhuman behavior of the people higher in hierarchical order to the people lower
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Electronic International Interdisciplinary Research Journal (EIIRJ) Electronic Bi-monthly Reviewed Journal Nov/Dec 2012 ISSN 2277-8721 A STUDY OF MYTHOLOGY OF RAMAYANA IN RAJA RAO’S KANTHAPURA Dr. P.M. PATIL Member BOS in English‚ Shivaji University‚ Kolhapur Head‚ Department of English Arts‚ Commerce & Science College‚ Palus. Dist-Sangli . 416310.(M.S) ABSTRACT The most celebrated ancient heroic text of India is the ‘Ramayana’. It provided themes for important later literary works in Indian
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------------------------------------------------- Betel From Wikipedia‚ the free encyclopedia For the mixture of leaf and nut‚ see Paan. For the biblical place‚ see Bethel. The Betel (Piper betle) is the leaf of a vine belonging to the Piperaceae family‚ which includes pepper and kava. It is valued both as a mild stimulant[1] and for its medicinal properties. Betel leaf is mostly consumed in Asia‚ and elsewhere in the world by some Asian emigrants‚ as betel quid or paan‚ with or without tobacco
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Non- Brahmin perspective of Dr.BR. Ambedkar Introduction: “My social philosophy may be said to be enshrined in three words: liberty‚ equality and fraternity. My philosophy has roots in religion and not in political science. I have derived them from the teachings of my master‚ the Buddha.” – Dr. B.R.Ambedkar. Ambedkar was both a prolific writer and an avid reader and it was the ideas of Buddha‚ Saint Kabir‚ Jyoitba Phule and John Dewey that deeply influenced his thinking. It was Buddha’s realist
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Social Scientist Religious Symbols in Political Legitimation: The Case of Early Medieval South India Author(s): Kesavan Veluthat Source: Social Scientist‚ Vol. 21‚ No. 1/2 (Jan. - Feb.‚ 1993)‚ pp. 23-33 Published by: Social Scientist Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/3517836 . Accessed: 18/07/2011 09:22 Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of JSTOR ’s Terms and Conditions of Use‚ available at . http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/policies/terms.jsp. JSTOR ’s Terms
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Sanjay Parmanand Lalani Associate Professor English Department Shri Surat Jilla Sahakari Bank Commerce College & Shri Sayan Sahakari khand Udhyog Arts College‚ Olpad. Dist. Surat. Gujarat. E-mail ID: sanjay_lalani07@rediffmail.com Contact No. 98797 07046 8th September 2014 Urmila Pawar’s ‘Aaydan’ (The Wave of My Life: Dalit Woman’s Memoir): A New Feministic Movement of Dalit Consciousness Abstract: Indian women voices have been silenced for ages due to various reasons. The contemporary
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Tourist & Historical Places | | | | ------------------------------------------------- Qutub Minar About 15 km south of Delhi‚ in Mehrauli‚ this 238 feet and 1 inch high Minar has been referred to as "one of the wonders of world". This soaring tower of victory was built immediately after the defeat of the last Hindu Kingdom in Delhi. Qutb-ud-din Aibak laid its foundation in 1200 A.D. Iltutmish added three more storeys. After damaged by lightning in 1368 A.D. Firuz Shah Tughlaq rebuilt the
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Martial arts From Wikipedia‚ the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation‚ search The martial art of boxing was practiced in the ancient Thera. Martial arts are codified systems and traditions of combat practices‚ which are practiced for a variety of reasons: self-defense‚ competition‚ physical health and fitness‚ entertainment‚ as well as mental‚ physical‚ and spiritual development. Although the term martial art has become heavily associated with the fighting arts of eastern Asia‚ it was originally
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Translating Stanadayini: the Cultural Anxiety behind it When translation occupies a problematic space in the instance of translating from a colonized’s language to a colonizer’s‚ the debate over the representation of the colonized ‘other’ does not arise if the translator herself is rooted in the culture of the colonized. The Bengali story Stanadayini is composed by the well known writer Mahasweta Devi‚ and translated into English as Breast-Giver
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