Aravind Adiga is an Indian writer and journalist. His debut novel‚ The White Tiger‚ won the 2008 Man Booker Prize. He is the fourth Indian-born author to win the prize‚ after Salman Rushdie‚ Arundhati Roy and Kiran Desai. (V. S. Naipaul‚ another winner‚ is of Indian origin‚ but was not born in India.) He has written many short stories‚ essays‚ and published 3 books so far; namely‚ The White Tiger‚ Between the Assassinations‚ and Last Man in Tower. Be it essays or novels‚ the ‘Indian’ setting
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courage to actually run away from it all and start a new life somewhere else. If the women escape‚ the entire family is against them‚ and after that‚ they will not be seen as a part of the family. “Good advice is rarer than rubies” is a story by Salman Rushdie. In overall it is about one of these women I just mentioned‚ who are forced into an arranged marriage. The main character in the story‚ Miss Rehana‚ is engaged to an Indian man who lives in Bradford‚ England. Like most of the women‚ Miss Rehana
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Moor’s last Sigh’‚ we witness a reeling pageant of mad passions and dark secrets‚ deep crimes and high art‚ poignant innocence and cruel revenge‚ hopping in a careful‚ calculated manner across four generations of a rich and demented Indian family. Salman Rushdie’s cynical post-modernistic novel The Moor’s Last Sigh’ laughs mischievously at the world and shivers from its evils. It is also‚ by analogy‚ one version of the history of India in the 20th century. Weaving a tale of murder and suicide‚ of
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why John Cleese and Graham Chapman were the writers who caused the universe to stand completely still every Friday night in the 1970s. Ironically‚ this bold insight‚ which I shall reveal later‚ came to me thanks to Salman Rushdie on page 42 of Midnight’s Children. (Quote) Rushdie however‚ like Lessing‚ Baldwin‚ Atwood‚ and all the British Post-Romanticists‚ Post-Realists‚ Post-Modernists‚ Post-Structuralists and the ad nausea post scripts to earlier British Literature‚ for all their awards fame
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Myths and cultural past of India has been a favourite choice of Salman Rushdie partly because he has a tenuous link with his land which gives tremendous leaps to his thoughts and fancy and partly because India asa major literary subject helps him win the favour of his western audience by catering to their devious curiosity about Indian ethos. As a literary strategy he mixes the fiction of his mind with the material picked up from the past for for giving such an account of life as may both relevant
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Censorship in China: A Western Issue & the Chinese Opinion “Free societies... are societies in motion… Free people strike sparks‚ and those sparks are the best evidence of freedom ’s existence”. So are the words of Salman Rushdie on the topic of freedom of speech and its censorship (Rushdie). Those words bring attention to many of today’s societies that disallow these sparks in many of its forms. The most prominent country forbidding those sparks is China. China is a nation that is noticeably powerful
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History of English language and literature in India starts with the advent of East India Company in India. It all started in the summers of 1608 when Emperor Jahangir‚ in the courts of Moguls‚ welcomed Captain William Hawkins‚ Commander of British Naval Expedition Hector. It was India’s first tryst with an Englishman and English. Jahangir later allowed Britain to open a permanent port and factory on the special request of King James IV that was conveyed by his ambassador Sir Thomas Roe. English were
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happen when a person decides to take control of something in his or her life. Whether it be good or bad‚ there will be consequences for every decision one makes. Both “Once Upon a Time” by Nadine Gordimer‚ and Haroun and the Sea of Stories by Salman Rushdie‚ use allegory to show the dangers of wanting and having control. “Once Upon a Time” shows the power and dominance of control through a real-life situation and a fairytale. Gordimer writes about apartheid‚ a situation going on in her life that
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characteristics and situatedness‚ at most as a symbolic structure. A space by contrast is a changing field of tensions and contradictions‚ where the physical is imbricated and competes with social‚ political and cultural dimensions" (206). Following Salman Rushdie‚ the author says that‚ “it is useful to conceive of "home" as involving some degree of both location (at least an imaginary one) and relations-thus constituting a social and physical "space" as opposed to simply a "place"” (206). These definitions
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