[pic] Quaid-i-Azam University‚ Islamabad Submitted to : Dr. Rukhsana Submitted by : Bushra Nazir Semester : M.Sc. IR 2nd Department of International Relations INTRODUCTION In modern days a country is said to be developed if it is socially as well as economically revived. If any country is economically developed but socially lackxing behind it can’t cope up with the present standards. Same is the case with social development it alone cannot drive a country
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ISSN - 2249-555X Familial Relationships in Anita Desai’s ‘Cry‚ the Peacock’ Keywords Dr. Mrs. Asha Sharma Asso. Professor in English Law Faculty‚ M.D. University‚ Rohtak Pin-124001 ABSTRACT Anita Desai holds a significant place as modern Indian English novelist. Most of her critics have focussed their attention on the psychological and existentialist approach in her novels. For them ‘existentialism’ seems to be a favourite subject of Anita Desai where the characters recognize the world as
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The Indian Review of World Literature in English‚ Vol. 1‚ No. I – Jan‚ 2005 EXISTENTIALISM IN ANITA DESAI’S FIRE ON THE MOUNTAIN NAGAPPAN SETHURAMAN Existentialism as a philosophy is historically and culturally of European origin. Ever since it was recognised as the dominating philosophy of the West in the midtwentieth century‚ it has left “its impact on literature [which] has both been substantial and significant” (Chatterji 10). Existentialism does not offer a set of doctrines or a single philosophy
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contemporary Indian English novelists Anita Desai is‚ perhaps‚ the most perceptive and consistent explorer of the inner life‚ especially that of Indian women‚ convulsed by an acute sense of helplessness in the face of onslaughts of an unfeeling world and the resultant mental agony. Anita Desai in most of her female protagonists‚ by a variety of factors – the most prominant being the marital dischord. This paper puts forward the portrayal of marital dischord in Anita Desai’s Cry‚ the peacock. The
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Over the course of this five-day period I have gained much more experience than I thought I would. On the first day of this project I thought it would be easy and did not try to hard to complete my fasting feasting statement of fasting on complaining and feasting on appreciation. As I reflected on the day‚ I found that I complained even more than I thought. I didn’t realize it as it was happening but while reflecting‚ I realized how often I do it without noticing. At the end of the day I vowed to
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Home Is Where the Heart Is In the book Clear Light of Day‚ Anita Desai develops an extended metaphor of the Das family house to symbolize the entrapment of the Das children: Bimla‚ Tara‚ Raja‚ and Baba. Desai’s book follows each of the children as they grow up‚ but when the family gathers at the Das house for Raja’s daughter’s wedding‚ it is the first time the family had been at the house together since childhood. The house‚ kept the same through the years‚ then morphs into a prison‚ causing each
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PostColonial Literature Essay 3. With reference of at least two short stories from the course‚ consider in what ways either Desai‚ Munro‚ Galgut and Rushdie’s stories are Postcolonial texts. You may consider issues such as home and homelessness‚ absences in the text‚ place‚ positionality or anything you feel is relevant to your attempt at decoding postcolonial identities. Post-colonial literature can be considered as a body of literary writings that reacts to the discourse of colonization.
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Grasshoppers An Ordinary Person’s Guide to Empire English Books - Indian Writers Important English Titles by Indian Authors Name of the Book Author Train to Pakistan Khuswant Singh Autobiography of an unknown Indian Nirad C Chaudhary Kiran Desai The Inheritance of Loss Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard Name of the Book Coolie The Guide Swami and his friends Kanthapura Serpent and the rope Cry‚ the peacock The Artist of Disappearance The Village by the Sea Continent of Circe
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The post- independence period in the recent Indian history corresponds suitably with the ‘nodal period’‚ when a number of Indian writers of fiction in English try to explore and manifest Indian reality. In these writers‚ we do not find either the commitment of the earlier period or even the amused narration of the trials of middle class‚ trying to unite the past traditional outlook with the fast emerging realities of the modern living conditions. In this effort‚ the writers of the post independence
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novels by writers in India who write in the English language and whose native or co-native language could be one of the numerous languages of India. It is also associated with the works of members of the Indian Diaspora‚ such as V. S. Naipaul‚ Kiran Desai‚ Jhumpa Lahiri and Salman Rushdie‚ who are of Indian descent. It is frequently referred to as Indo-Anglian literature. As a category‚ this production comes under the broader realm of postcolonial literature-the production from previously colonised countries
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