A conversation with Anita Desai‚ and some notes on her work [Statutory warning: long‚ bifurcated post – some thoughts on Anita Desai’s writing followed by a Q&A. Apologies in case there’s some overlapping between the two elements. I wrote it as a flowing piece - a profile-cum-interview - for Business Standard Weekend but since there isn’t a word-constraint here I prefer to spread it out and play with the format.] Long before the publication of Midnight’s Children brought alive new possibilities
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Women will never equal to men in the workplace?? First of all‚ I find it imperative to emphasize the characteristics that make women and men so different. It’s more than obvious that by nature’s default‚ women and men were given different features. In fact‚ people are having their own particularities that make each individual unique. Only known facts so far‚ but what I need to say is that these natural differences can’t be allowed to be the reason of social discrimination. And if the education
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Carol Sheriff’s The Artificial River The Erie Canal and the Paradox of Progress‚ 1817-1862 APUS‚ Section 4
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Plato vs. Aristotle Socrates developed many theories in regards with the political issues. He passes these onto Plato and from Plato to Aristotle. Each time these political issues were passed on they changed. Plato and Aristotle lived in the fourth century‚ BCE. They were both great thinkers in regard to philosophy and both had wonderful views. They both had different views on politics and philosophy. Plato supports the higher forms (Gods) and Aristotle supports the natural science. Now Plato is
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Contractual and Non-contractual Liability I. Contract A contract is an agreement having a lawful object entered into voluntarily by two or more parties‚ each of whom intends to create one or more legal obligations between them. The elements of a contract are "offer" and "acceptance" by "competent persons" having legal capacity who exchange "consideration" to create "mutuality of obligation." Contracts may be bilateral or unilateral. A bilateral contract is an agreement in which each of the
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La Madonna dei Fusi: Two Lenses As any mere mortal gazes upon one of Leonardo Da Vinci’s pieces‚ a sense of divinity and wonder befalls him—visualizing those brush strokes exuding from his paintbrush as he gives life to a blank canvas is mesmerizing. Throughout history‚ this Renaissance man has intrigued many‚ and his legacy has been immortalized by his works and by his many biographers. The earliest Leonardo Da Vinci biographer was Giorgio Vasari‚ a fifteenth-century Italian artist‚ famous for
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Summary and comment on “Catherine Morland’s Gothic Delusions: A Defense of Northanger Abbey” Summary: Jane Austen’s success or failure when introducing the Gothic burlesque into her heroine Catherine’s life‚ in Northanger Abbey‚ has been long debated. Most of the critics agree that the author did not get to join the burlesque element with the protagonist experiences successfully. Many of them also claim that if she had analysed and revised it as much as she did with Sense and Sensibility and Pride
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Introduction A. “Zeal‚ Perseverance‚ Motivation and Effort.” The words that can describe any individual to become different! Explaining an individual task at hand on to completing or becoming anything is using mere “words”. But with GRIT‚ we can be the change. B. Grit is described to be “a positive‚ non-cognitive trait based on an individual’s passion for a particular long-term goal or end state‚ coupled with a powerful motivation to achieve their respective objective.” What seems to be easy‚ it’s
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Theory of Knowledge Essay (May 2013) Question Title Six: Can we trust our emotions in the pursuit of knowledge? Consider history and one other area of knowledge Mankind shares psychological phenomena known as emotion that is a natural state of mind deriving from a person.1 By means of this special ability‚ trusting our emotions in the pursuit of knowledge can be questioned‚ as it is a circumstance that involves only an individual‚ there might be an
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Ethical System Teleka Seh Gwynedd-Mercy College (PHL 2000) Encountering Ethics February 3‚ 2013 Joe Coleman Abstract There are many ways of viewing the ethical system and far too many to even explore. I will give a brief explanation as to how the ethical system is applied both negative and positive. Individuals share different ideas in reference to what is right or wrong and if communities differ and can’t seem to compromise then they have different ethical system and
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