Multiplicity of voices in Indian English novels:A Postcolonial study A foundational text in the discussion of postcoloniality is Edward Said’s Orientalism. Said identifies how the western world “spoke” for and represented the Orient‚ while the Orient was kept silent to maintain and allow this position of power for the westerner. In Said’s Orientalism‚ he gives a brief history of these phenomena he identifies and describes. He says‚ [t]aking the late eighteenth
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Chetan Bhagat Chetan Bhagat (Born 22 April 1974) is an Indian author who has written five points someone‚ one night @the call centre‚ the 3 mistakes of my life and 2 states: the story of my marriage. He has also written the script of Hello‚ the Hindi movie based on one night @the call centre. Bhagat was born in New Delhi in a Punjabi family and attended the army school (1978-1991)‚ Dhaula Kuan‚ New Delhi. He studied Mechanical Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi‚ and
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topic) Household male India and China Namesake(Random) Iskon (somewhat related to my name) One In Hand Two In Bush (Cos I got placement offers from 2 companies) bubbles in the air Rouble (was on Russian project) Art of Living (unrelated) Salman Rushdie (had questions about his books in the interview) Rural Sector (Related to SOP) Slumdog Millionaire The properties of sun women should remain at home (for the topic) Politics as a career Global warming Dressed to kill (was asked last year
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categorized in the group of deliberating domestic stories. R.K. Narayan’s omnibus‚ most of the novels of Raja Rao‚ Bharati Mukherjee are the well known examples of this category. Domestic realism has been the main theme of those ones excepting some of Salman Rushdie etc. Some novelists have also emerged there with feministic views. The last decade experienced a new trend - Partition Fiction. Bapsi Sidhwa’s Cracking India (or Ice-Candy-Man)‚ Shauna Singh Baldwin’s What the Body Remembers‚ Mukul Kesavan’s Looking
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The Multicultural Society Today we have multicultural societies all over the world. Some say multiculturalism is a failure‚ while others think the opposite. Is multiculturalism really a failure? What are the positive aspects and what are the negative aspects of a multicultural society? The UK is a classical example of how a multicultural society is formed. In the UK‚ diverse groups of immigrants have disembarked over the last 200 years. Jewish people escaped from Russian and Polish pursuit‚ Irish
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Kiran Desai is the daughter of Indian author‚ herself short-listed for Booker Prize on three occations. Her first novel Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard which was published in 1998 and won the Betty Trask Award was given by the Society of Authors for the best new novels by citizens of the Commonwealth of Nations under the age thirty five. Her second novel The Inheritance of Loss (2006) was widely praised by many critics around the world such as‚ Asia‚ Europe and United States. And also she was awarded
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Theme: Diaspora Dr Jamaluddin Bin Aziz PPBL‚ FSSK‚ UKM Definition Greek = ‘to disperse’ Refers to any people of ethnic population forced or induced to leave their traditional ethnic homelands‚ being dispersed throughout other parts of the world‚ and the ensuing developments in their dispersal and culture migration‚ sojourning and colonisation. Definition Hebrew ‘exile’ Refers to the populations of Jews exiled from Judea in 586 BC by the Babylonians‚ and Jerusalem in 135 AC by the Roman Empire
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Degenerescence [2009] The Rat Veda [2010] Qurratulain [2012] James Chapman- American The Overlook 2007 The Brass Verdict 2008 9 Dragons 2009 The Reversal 2010 The Drop 2011 The Black Box 2012 The Gods of Guilt 2013 Michael Connelly- American Book of the Dead (2007) Scarpetta (2008) The Scarpetta Factor (2009) Port Mortuary (2010) Red Mist (2011) The Bone Bed (2012) Dust (2013) Patricia Cornwell- American Eclipse (2007) Breaking Dawn (2008) The Short Second Life of
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occasion were Mr. Salman Khurshid ‚ Honourable Minister of State for Corporate Affairs and Minority Affairs . The Guest of Honour for the occasion was Mrs. D Purandeshwari‚ Honourable Mininster of State for human resource development. The celebrations began with the bhajan ‘O Palan Hare’ sung by Shivani Singh of S6A. And a group song ‘Purane Din Purane Pal’ sung by the S7 students of the School Choir. After this‚ it was time to officially begin the proceeding for the day. Mr. Salman Khurshid‚ along
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XLRI(HR)Batch of 2013-2015: the xlri interview I cam across ‚ this guy really worked hard ‚ here is his interview: How I went about the interview preparation. 7 April 2013 At the outset‚I am going to warn you that this post is going to be long and tedious.I am writing this piece not for my personal satisfaction‚but for thousands of aspirants who are mediocre like me;who ruined their high school/graduation academics‚and did not achieve anything significant in last 20 odd years of existence
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