Author’s Biography: Arun P. Mukherjee is currently a professor of English at York University in Toronto‚ Canada. She has researched and taught Canadian‚ Indian and South Asian literatures. She did her graduate work in English at the University of Saugar‚ India and earned a Ph. D in Canada at the University of Toronto. She has written many books‚ and she has translated a novel written in Dalit. Rhetorical Precis: In Arun P. Mukherjee’s chapter‚ “Ideology in the Classroom—A Case Study in the Teaching
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Maalouf and Mukherjee: The Path to Self-Identity The two articles "Two Ways to Belong in America” (Bharati Mukherjee‚ 1996) and "Deadly Identities"(Amin Maalouf‚ 1998) are two articles that are different in its own way. Although both the authors discuss about their experience as immigrants; their supporting points vary and Maalouf’s is organized better than Mukherjee’s article. Maalouf’s article is well organized and supports their argument using various justifications. Even though both Mukherjee’s
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Prasar Bharati is India’s largest public broadcaster. It is an autonomous body set up by an Act of Parliament and comprises Doordarshan television network and All India Radio which were earlier media units of the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting‚ Government of India. It was formed based on the model of BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation)‚ which is a British public service broadcaster. Its headquarters is at Broadcasting House in the City of Westminster‚ London. It is the largest broadcaster
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Duties Prasar Bharati (Broadcasting Corporation of India) is the public service broadcaster in the country‚ with Akashwani (All India Radio) and Doordarshan as its two constituents. It came into existence on 23rd November 1997‚ with a mandate to organize and conduct public broadcasting services to inform‚ educate and entertain the public and to ensure a balanced development of broadcasting on radio and television. Objectives The major objectives of the Prasar Bharati Corporation as laid
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It is important to read and discuss Mukherjee’s "A Wife’s Story" as an integral part of twentieth-century American literature and not as an "exotic" short story by a foreign writer. As the essay accompanying "A Wife’s Story" points out‚ Mukherjee identifies herself very strongly as an American writer writing about twentieth-century Americans. Although most of her stories are about South Asian-Americans (South Asia in the contemporary geopolitical arena usually consists of Bangladesh‚ India‚ Pakistan
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The poem ’Memories’ is by an Indian poet called Trilokesh Mukherjee. The poet grew up in India and this influences the poem‚ he brings his culture into the poem by using imagery and senses and other literary devices. Also‚ he refers to the Gods from the Hindu religion and mythology. Hindu religion‚ mythology and family are all very important to the Indian people and this is all shown in the poem when they are sitting around the fire at night. The theme of this poem is childhood memories and how they
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could not live without desires for their life. To have a happy life‚ first of all it has to be desired. There is another aspect of life that opposite desire‚ duty. Both of them create life. Jasmine is the main character of the same name novel of Bharati Mukherjee who struggle about what she should act to‚ desire or duty. She was born in a very traditional culture that supports duty while she really want to live a life that she can choose. The story begins with the appearance of an astrologer. The symbol
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How Women Have Been Repressed There are a lot of things that I have read and have influenced me. I think that reading an essay‚ book‚ or even just a poem can bring endless imagination. Reading opens endless worlds‚ and often time helps people in the real world. In “No Name Woman” by Kingston Maxine H.‚ “Two Ways To Belong In America” by Mukherjee Bharati‚ and “What If Shakespeare Had Had A Sister” by Woolf Virginia‚ the authors write about how women have been repressed through the years in different
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Pranab Kumar Mukherjee; born 11 December 1935) is the 13th and current President of India. Mukherjee was born to a Bengali Kulin Brahmin family at Mirati in the Bengal province of British India now in West Bengal. His father was kamada kinkar Mukherjee and his mother was rajlakshmi Mukherjee. Mukherjee attended the Suri Vidyasagar College in Suri (Birbhum)‚ and then affiliated with the University of Calcutta. His hobbies are reading‚ gardening and music. He is Master of Arts degree in Political
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In “American Dreamer” Mukherjee talked about coming to the US and becoming a citizen and how she had to find her own definition of a family culture. This was because she could not go back to live the way she did before her marriage. As an Indian student‚ she had a lot of restrictions imposed on her by her family. The culture she lived in was tightly controlling. There wasn’t a problem of culture and identity in her home: “In Calcutta in the ’50 s I heard no talk of identity crisis-communal or individual”
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