CULTURAL EMERGENCY IN INDIA Is India facing what author Salman Rushdie calls a "cultural emergency" with writers‚ painters and filmmakers being targeted by the mob? Consider the events that have made the front pages this week. Leading academic Ashis Nandy is threatened with arrest after he makes controversial remarks about corruption and disadvantaged groups at the popular Jaipur literary festival. Sir Salman himself is asked to stay away from a film promotion and a literary festival in Calcutta
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Haroun and the Sea of Stories by Salman Rushdie uses the text containing stories that aren’t true as masks and allegories of stories that are true involving symbolic people‚ places or ideas that exist in the author’s life and provide a manner of communication for Rushdie to publicize his opinions about his standpoint on cultural identity and experiences of hiding in secrecy just for writing a book encompassing his views leading to the conflict between censorship and the freedom of speech. The general
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has known to be familiar is destroyed‚ and all of the people and technology are new and more advanced than what he has known his entire life. were away from home‚ they both have taken their homes with them. is an alien‚ not entirely dissimilar to Rushdie‚ who is living away from his home country in a different culture. are both far from their home‚ and deal with this physical issue differently. Fry’s idea of utopia and dystopia are the polar opposite. Fry is unable to go back in time and go back to
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draft due Wednesday‚ 22 October 2014‚ 12:00 pm DESCRIBING MEANING OF SHORT STORIES Please write a persuasive essay that focuses on either or both of The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas by Ursula LeGuin or At the Auction of the Ruby Slippers by Salman Rushdie (both stories are found on the course website under “readings for homework”. You are encouraged to create your own argument that pertains to the story you choose but‚ if you need assistance in finding a topic‚ you may take and defend a position
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In this tutorial I question the ideas of ‘language’ and ‘othering’‚ removing any preconceived notions from my mind‚ starting a fresh research and pondering process to form an opinion. I debate both sides of the coin‚ fully cognizant of the fact that it is more like a multi-faceted dice and that only two perceptions are not enough to discuss such an extensive issue. In Ghosh’s fiction‚ space is not merely remembered as an imaginative construct but is represented as a domain of political and cultural
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Midnight’s Children essay Salman Rushdie’s creation‚ Saleem Sinai‚ has a self-proclaimed "overpowering desire for form" (363). In writing his own autobiography Saleem seems to be after what Frank Kermode says every writer is a after: concordance. Concordance would allow Saleem to bring meaning to moments in the "middest" by elucidating (or creating) their coherence with moments in the past and future. While Kermode talks about providing this order primarily through an "imaginatively predicted
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lurking within our flesh like a parasite‚ flourishing when we flourish‚ and dying when we die.” (Rushdie‚ Salman “In the South.") The impact‚ of a human wanting to obtain some sort of higher level of being‚ through literature‚ acting as an outlet of interpersonal need for transcendence. The phrase “It is always astonishing to learn that your beloved is not as attractive to others as she is to you.” (Rushdie‚) A person’s perception may always reflect his or hers own personal experiences. Being that perception
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international market. Not only are the works of Indian authors writing in English soaring on the best-seller list‚ they are also receiving a great deal of critical acclaim. Starting from Mulk Raj Anand‚ R.K. Narayan‚ Anita Desai‚ Toru Dutt to Salman Rushdie‚ Vikram Seth‚ Allan Sealy‚ Amitav Ghosh‚ Jhumpa Lehri‚ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni‚ Arundhati Roy‚ Vikram Chandra‚ Kiran Desai‚ Raja Rao‚ Kamla Das‚ Arun Joshi; the parade of fine Indian writers is long‚ lengthening and becoming
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India is poised to be the worlds next superpower with sound and transparent financial system‚ flourishing IT industry and a well-regulated stock market .It has been active politically and economically in the past decade as well. Indians. Its core institutions from independent judiciary and free press to military are secured by its more than half century old roots. India is on the verge of becoming a permanent member of the United Nations Security Council. Its scientists are planning to launch
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conversations with one another they express what they want the receiver to understand. This expression can be used with context clues‚ allusions‚ and other literary elements. Without these elements‚ the receiver is unable to gather extra information. In the Salman Rushdie’s text‚ Haroun and the Sea of Stories‚ readers view how the author utilizes a plethora of allusions to well-known children’s books. It can be argued that
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