Many Buddhists are vegetarians‚ though some include fish in their diet. Most do not eat meat and abstain from all beef products. The birth‚ enlightenment‚ and death of Buddha are the three most commonly recognized festivals for feasting‚ resting from work‚ or fasting. Buddhist monks fast completely on certain days of the moon‚ and they routinely avoid eating any solid foods after the noon hour. Hinduism. Hindus do not consume any foods that might slow down spiritual or physical growth. The eating
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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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adulthood. From these false accusations‚ we learn what is actually going around and fix our mistakes. Likewise‚ in the various short stories: “Sea Urchin‚” by Chang-rae Lee‚ “The Nothingness Forest‚” by Margareta Ekström‚ and “Games at Twilight‚” by Anita Desai‚ express the obstacles and morals from childhood. Throughout these stories‚ the authors try to explicitly explain childhood experience by going through a young or older child’s thoughts. Many of the children are trying something new because they
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Eid’s day will be celebrated by the Muslims after one month of fasting. For Muslims‚ Eid’s day is a special day to celebrate after we have gone through fasting for a month from food and drinks starting from Subuh until Maghrib. There are three synonymous Eid’s day symbols for me which include wearing traditional clothes‚ making many types of traditional food and baking cookies. For me the most synonymous symbols is wearing traditional clothes such as “baju melayu” and “baju kurung”. Some people
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Rushdie‚ Vikram Seth‚ Amitabh Ghosh and Anita Desai started popping upon the international literary map. The new breed of authors and writers who emerged in post reform era carried the initiative forward. These writers have created a niche for themselves among the readers across the globe and have given signal loud and clear that they are here to stay. The list includes the likes of Pankaj Misra‚ William Dalrymple‚ Chetan Bhagat‚ Anurag Mathur‚ Kiran Desai‚ Kamla Das‚ Hari Kunzuru‚ Jhumpa Lahiri
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Indo-Anglian Authors It’s the same Indian Curry – the spices are Indian‚ the flavours remain rural and the colours are still rich and earthy‚ except for the fact that it is savoured with a different spoon. That is Indo-Anglian literature or English literature penned by an Indian author. With the sudden surge of writers in this genre‚ its history is very recent‚ mostly limited to the last two centuries. As a category it owes its roots to the post-colonial era and today with almost three Nobel laureates
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three wives had died in childbirth)‚ a Hindu of the Pranami Vaishnava order. Growing up with a devout mother and surrounded by the Jain influences of Gujarat‚ Gandhi learned from an early age the tenets of non-injury to living beings‚ vegetarianism‚ fasting for self-purification‚ and mutual tolerance between members of various creeds and sects. He was born into the vaishya‚ or business‚ caste. He played a lead role in the freedom of India and henceforth came to be known as ‘FATHER OF NATION’ Sardar
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Post colonialism should be referred to as the legacies of colonialism and not the end of colonialism. British interests in Indian languages arose from the necessity to cultivate the medium of intercourse between the government and its subjects. Lord Macaulay minute on Education 1835 very clearly signifies his agenda that is the Dissemination of the English language and English culture. The Englishmen wanted a class of persons who can act as interpreters between them and their subjects. People
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protected childhood and adolescence which makes it difficult for her to face the realities of adult life‚ Oedipus complex for excessive love and dependence on her father which makes her seek his substitute in her husband and obviously could not succeed Anita Desai explores the tormented consciousness of Maya with stream of consciousness technique evoking both‚ the positive and negative images . All her moments of present are closely attached with her memory of the past and she appears to be eternally entrapped
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a guava‚ he is last seen being carried towards the sacred Himalayas by the hungry monkeys. HULLABALOO IN THE GUAVA ORCHARD is a lighthearted work told in the faux-naive style of the literary folktale. This story‚ by the daughter of novelist Anita Desai‚ works best when the pacing is as fast as the author’s touch is light‚ as it surely is in the final thirty or so pages. When it drags‚ stylistic tics become annoyingly apparent‚ the narrative too slender to support even a novel this short‚ and this
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