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    need to write this paper. When I first met up with my host‚ Devi‚ I noticed her garments right away. She had her hair down with silver earrings a shirt that looked like Indian garb. It was White with golden inlay. It was beautiful! She wore beige leggings and dark flats. Devi had bracelets on both of her wrists too. On her left wrist‚ there was a thick bracelet‚ and the right wrist had multiple thin bangles. All together‚ Devi was very shiny. This was quite a sight because I usually see her

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    R .BRINDADEVI Ph.D. Research Scholar Sri Sarada College for Women (Autonomous) Salem – 16 Mail Id:steel.ssk@gmail.com Mobile No:8883686035 Struggle for survival in Githa Hariharan’s The Thousand Faces of Night Literature has always been a means of reinforcing cultural and social values. The present day world is a changed world because of the development in education and modernization. But in spite of this fact‚

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    The Thousand Faces of Night was structured around the sexual and marital experience of Devi‚ Sita‚ and Mayamma. The strategy adopted by Gita Hariharan was to highlight Devi’s experience by interspersing it with events related to Sita’s and Mayamma’s personal life. These alternative points of view explored the position of woman entrapped in typical male power structures. It portrayed women as vulnerable individuals craving for love and understanding‚ while all the time being victims of their own gender

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    resources of the forests and disturbing the whole ecological balance. It was first started in the Chamoli district in the year 1973 and from there it spread to the other parts of the country. There is one very famous story about the girl‚ Amrita Devi‚ who died while trying to save the trees grown in her village. The village was under the rule of the local Maharaja‚ who desired to built a palace for his family. He ordered his servants to bring wood from the nearby village. When the wood cutters

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    Bibliography: Devi‚ Mahasewta. "Dhowli." Modern literatures of the Non-Western World. Harper Collins College Publishers‚ 1995. Devi‚ Mahasweta. "The Hunt." Imaginery Maps. Routledge ‚ 1995. Marks‚ Elaine and Isabelle de Courtivron. "New French Feminsims." Harvester 1981‚ 1981. Mies‚ Verdana Shiva & Maria. "Introduction

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    is the Creative Aspect or Lakshmi that is adored. And‚ on the last three nights‚ the knowledge aspect‚ or Sarasvati is invoked. The tenth is the Vijaya Dasami Day or the Day of Victory. There is a special significance in this arrangement. When the Devi is worshipped by a devotee‚ She first destroys the evil propensities that lurk in his mind; then She implants therein‚ the Daivi Sampat or the divine qualities conducive to spiritual unfoldment; then She bestows true knowledge on him; lastly the

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    AMAR JIBAN- RASSUNDARI DEVI Q) How far is the narrator in ’Amar Jiban’ critical of patriarchal practices/ social oppression of women in the 19th Century. Most of the works of Women Writing in India date from the late nineteenth century‚ when reform movements awarded the ‘condition of women’ top billing among the various social and moral concerns of the day. During the social reform movements cultural critics brought many of

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    Intro ;lThe Chipko movement or Chipko Andolan is a movement that practised the Gandhian methods of satyagraha and non-violent resistance‚ through the act of surrounding trees to protect them from being felled. The modern Chipko movement started in the early 1970s in the Garhwal Himalayas ofUttarakhand‚Then in Uttar Pradesh with growing awareness towards rapid deforestation. The landmark event in this struggle took place on March 26‚ 1974‚ when a group of peasant women in Reni village‚ Hemwalghati

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    J.‚ Mary Bly‚ and S. E. Cerasano. "Setting The Stage For Revenge: Space‚ Performance‚ And Power In Early Modern Revenge Tragedy." Medieval & Renaissance Drama in England 25.(2012): 62-82. Literary Reference Center. Web. 12 Apr. 2015. Devi‚ P. Indira. "Tragic Flaw In Shakespeare ’s Hamlet." IUP Journal Of English Studies 9.4 (2014): 93-97. Literary Reference Center. Web. 12 Apr. 2015. Domínguez-Rué‚ Emma‚ and Maximilian Mrotzek. "Shakespearean Tragedies Dynamics: Identifying

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    Trip to the Queen of Hill Stations 23rd December-30th December 2012 Delhi-Mussoorie-Rishikesh-Haridwar ITINERARY Date | Plan of the Day | 23rd Dec | Arrive at DelhiCheck-in at Hotel Airport Runway | 24th Dec | Day at leisure in Delhi | 25th Dec | Depart for Mussoorie via roadCheck-in at Hotel Vishnu Palace | 26th Dec | Day at leisure in Mussoorie | 27th Dec | Depart for Rishikesh via roadCheck-in at Hotel Green | 28th Dec | Depart for Haridwar via roadCheck-in at Hotel Ganges

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